Volunteer Opportunities
After
School Program
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School Program!
Food
Pantry
Contact Katie Jones, 792-4758 for more information.
Prayer
Chain
Contact Katie Jones, 792-4758 for more information.
Mitchellville
Prison Ministry
Contact Katie Jones, 792-9062 for more information.
Vacation Bible School - There are many opportunities to help with
this successful program. Preparing crafts, teaching, acting in skits,
furnishing snacks and supervising recreation are just some of the jobs that
need filled each year. Vacation Bible School has co-directors this
year: Co-Directors - Jenni Patty, 641-791-7545 pattys4@pcpartner.net and
Pat Patty, 641-236-3541, rppatty@iowatelecom.net.
Special music, both instrumental and vocal, is always welcome.
For instance a Clarinet Choir plays occasionally during Worship; as does a
Chime Choir. The Praise Team and Chancel Choir sing monthly. It’s a joy
to hear musicians praise the Lord!
Mission Opportunities and Special Offerings: Mission
opportunities abound at St Luke. Special Offerings of United
Methodists around the world are received at St Luke. They include World
Communion Sunday, One Great Hour of Sharing, Peace with Justice and others.
This year's Easter Offering was over $600 which will be given to the Iowa
program of Justice for Our Neighbors which helps to provide legal advice
for immigrants.
We have been able to pay our apportionments in full by year's end in
the past. This year we are especially grateful for generous gifts
that allowed us to remit our first quarter apportionments by the end
of the first quarter! Congratulations St Luke UMC Family!
Apportionments support the Iowa United Methodist Conference structure, The
world-wide United Methodist Church, as well as provide administrative costs
for mission projects and programs so that all monies designated to
particular mission projects or programs is used directly for that mission.
Each Spring and Fall we support United Methodist Builders by
giving to United Methodist Churches in Iowa to help them remodel or build
their facilities. Spring 2008 recipient is LIving Water's UMC in
Marion. Fall of 2008's recipient will be the McCallsburg United
Methodist Church.
Locally, we have pledged to be members of the Habitat for Humanity 2X4
Club. Each person or family that donates at least $10.00 to
Habitat, signs their name to the 2 x 4 wall stud in the entryway.
When it's time to build, the 2 X 4 is taken to the new house, this year in
Baxter, and included in a wall in the home.
We support our own, such as Amy Spaur serving as a mission intern in
Texas, with Justice for Our Neighbors, and Abby Clark participated
in a Wartburg College work trip to help homeless in Colorado. The
youth, UMYF, raise funds while they have fun, so they can travel on a work
trip each summer. In 2007, they worked on Habitat for Humanity houses in
Benton Harbor, Michigan. On July 30-August 3, 2008, youth
travel to Minneapolis to work with the Urban Servants Agency and lodge at a
nearby United Methodist Camp.
The Sunday School, with an adult class that meets year-round, has a
quarterly Mission Challenge. For example, Challenges have
supported former Pastors Jon and Leila Disburg at their mission churches in
Anchorage, Alaska, and Heifer Project for families-in-need to receive
livestock to become self-supporting. Recently, gifts were collected for
Nothing But Nets. Each $10 will provide an insecticide-treated bed net
for a Nigeria, Africa family, so malaria-infested mosquitoes are repelled
during the night. The May-June-July-August 2008 Sunday School
Challenge is again for Heifer International.
Church World Service Kits: In the summer and autumn, items are
collected for Church World Service Kits, i.e. health, school, sewing. These
items are placed in appropriate bags and taken to the Iowa United Methodist
Ingathering the first Saturday in November for distribution in the U.S. and
around the world. Every February, a sea container is packed with gifts,
including these Kits, to be shipped to Nigeria where Iowa United Methodists
will arrive in June to unpack and deliver them. Ingathering Kit
changes for 2008: Give $1 instead of a tube of toothpaste in the Health
Kits. Give a third notebook instead of colored construction paper.
Other opportunities: Volunteer opportunities also include serving
as assistants for Worship, on boards and committees, building maintenance,
and others as needs arise.
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