Outreach News and Events
| West Side UMC Energy Audit | ||
| August 1 | Communion Offering - One Great Hour of Sharing | |
The August Communion offering is designated to support One Great Hour of Sharing. Your offering allows UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) to work efficiently and effectively in disaster response, hunger and poverty ministries, and refugee ministries around the world. Please give generously – your gift makes a world of difference! – West Side Outreach: Missions and Social Justice Committee |
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| Growing vegetables – and hope! | ||
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| Community Kitchen Shifts Available | ||
The members of West Side continue to provide 3 to 5 volunteers to help with dinner the third Tuesday and fouth Thursday of each monthat the Food Gatherers Community Kitchen. The kitchen, located in the Robert J. Delonis Center in Downtown Ann Arbor, provides breakfast for shelter guests and lunch and dinner for anyone in need. Volunteering at the Community Kitchen is a rewarding activity. The dinner shift involves serving and clean-up and runs from 5 pm to 7:15 pm. The kitchen is run by the staff of Food Gatherers. All necessary training is provided “on the job.” Volunteers need to be 14 or older. Individuals, families, and church groups (committees, youth, Christian Home Groups, UMW/M, etc.) are welcome to participate. You may volunteer just once or as often as you prefer. Please contact Barb or Jim Behm 665-7942, (or aamooseboy@comcast.net) for more information or to sign up. If you would like to learn more about Food Gatherers and the Community Kitchen, please visit: http://www.foodgatherers.org |
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This summer, members of West Side will be participating in “Faith and Food,” a partnership between Food Gatherers and the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice that aims to reduce hunger and provide a healthier diet to those in need in our community. The Outreach Committee has reserved a plot at Greenview Garden (on Greenview Rd., near Scio Church Road) and already enlisted the help of a handful (bushelful?) of gardeners, but to guarantee the success of the initiative we need a few more gardeners. No expertise is necessary, just a willingness to contribute a little time and get your hands dirty. The gardening team will begin work in late May. For more information or to signup, please contact Whitney Prince (429-5779 or cwjprince at comcast dot net). It should be fun and it’s for a good cause – please come join us!