St. Luke’s United Methodist Church has a mission heart! It is the goal of Outreach Ministries to involve every member and visitor into each aspect of missions: local, domestic, foreign and missionary support. There are many fun ways to get involved; see the opportunities listed below on this page.
We would love for you to get involved in helping others in Jesus’ name.
Upcoming Opportunities to Serve:
Christian Community Service Center's
Back to School Drive
Give:
$45 gives a child in need new school supplies, shoes and
uniform for the coming school year.
We'll be collecting in the Connections Center
Sundays, July 20 - Aug. 3 or you can mail your check.
Please make checks payable to St. Luke's with "Back to School" on the memo.
Volunteer:
You can either sort and set up the donations (Saturday, Aug. 2 7:45-1:00) or
help with the distribution (Friday - Saturday, Aug. 8-9 7:45-1:00).
Both events are hosted at Faith Lutheran Church, 4600 Bellaire Blvd.
Commit2Care Food and Blood Drive
Sunday, August 3
Mark your calendars to give food and blood later this summer!
Blood supplies always run low in the summer, and the non-perishable food donations will go towards stocking the food pantry shelves at CCSC's new food pantry at Gethsemane UMC, opening in August.
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Through our partnership with Kids' Meals, St. Luke's members can help make sandwiches to go in sack lunches for preschool children in need living in Houston's Second Ward. Groups meet in the kitchen every Monday to make 500 meat-and-bread sandwiches that go in to the lunch sacks that Kids' Meals delivers to these children. It only takes a little over an hour to assemble, bag the sandwiches and clean up.
Funding for this very special program is in need! Please consider donating a portion of what you spend on your own lunch weekly to St. Luke's Kids' Meals.
Industrious men and women from St. Luke’s and the community meet in the Woodshop (on Edloe behind Cokesbury Bookstore) on Mondays and Tuesdays to work on various projects. Their main task is to make classic-style wooden toys for area churches and agencies to be given away at Christmas. In 2005, they made over 9,700 toys that were given away at agencies, churches and schools all over the county, part of Texas and into Mexico!
Recently the group received emails and photos from servicemen in Ghana where the toys were distributed to youngsters following medical treatment.
Click here to email Katie Fields for more information on how to become a part of this creative group.
Local Service Projects
The Local Missions Service Team at St. Luke's has on-going, seasonal projects that benefit those who help those less fortunate in our city.
The second Saturday of each month is our service day - we call it Second Saturday Serving (SSS). Each month we will have a variety of projects from which you can choose to work on. We'll meet in the church parking lot at 1:00 and work until 4:30. Contact Lynda Isensee (lisensee@stlukes-hou.org or 713.402.5155) to sign up or stop by the Connection Center on Sunday mornings.
Second Saturday Serving will resume Saturday, Sept. 13.
Each year, St. Luke's Outreach Ministry sends our missioners out into the world to spread the good news of our faith and
help those in need.
Remaining trips for 2008:
Reynosa, Mexico October 10-13 (accepting applications)
Downloads:
Mission trip application: click here
Newgate Connection is St. Luke's Restorative Justice arm. Volunteers pray with, write to and mentor prisoners at the tri-prison Visitor's Center in Dayton. 5,251 visitors went through the Visitor's Center doors in 2006 as they waited to see a friend or family member. The Visitor's Center provided appropriate clothing for the visitors, toys and books for children and an air-conditioned, relaxing environment in which to wait for their loved one.
Project Hope of Houston serves to provide a support system designed to assist "at-risk" high school students by providing trained mentors to encourage and discuss their concerns, achieve their goals, achieve graduation and pursue higher education. St. Luke's is in partnership with Project Hope by providing mentors to Lee High School (HISD) students. Contact Katie with inquiries as to how you can be involved in Project Hope at kfields@stlukes-hou.org.
Spanish Alpha
Spanish Alpha is an on-going course in Christianity that is offered in Spanish for day-laborers in the Gulfton area. It meets in a local Pizza Hut on Tuesday mornings where there is a video and follow-up discussion on issues such as:
Who is Jesus? Why did he die? Does God answer prayer?
If you speak Spanish and are available on Tuesday mornings, please contact Alan Nash at alanwnash@sbcglobal.net.
The Gift of Life can only be given by a donor. There is no replacement for blood except by what is freely given by others. If there is not enough blood on the shelves surgeries have to be postponed and those who need regular transfusions may not receive what they need. Please give so others may live.
At the same time, you can bring non-perishable food items to fill the shelves of a local food pantry.
Commit2Care Blood & Food Drives for 2008
August 3rd Ocotber 5th December 14th
To sign up and reserve your time go to www.giveblood.org The code for St. Luke's is 4301.
