Missions Work
New Futures Homeless Shelter
Besides coming to volunteer work days at the New Futures Homeless Shelter, they are still in need of a few items to help get the kitchen in working order: 1 refrigerator, cook stove (40 inch with double oven), exhaust hood over the stove, freezer, deep-well stainless steel sink, base cabinets and countertop, tile back splash, 1 washer, bathroom mirror. Contact Roger Crowson at 256-539-2388 or 256-337-3014
Mission Trip to Choctow, Mississippi
The group composed the North Alabama United Methodist Native American Task Force Mission Trip to spend a week working on the 35,000-acre Choctaw Reservation in Mississippi last month. Read more:
http://blog.al.com/living-times/2011/04/mission_report_north_alabama_m.html
If you would like to go on the mission trip this summer of 2011, please fill out the following form:
Choctaw Mission Trip 2011 Permission Form.
Be careful, if you get involved in missions work, it may enrich your life as well as benefit others. You can join the action by supporting our monthly mission projects, participate in a mission trip, or help with our pancake breakfasts to raise money for missions. Many in our congregation volunteer with local agencies which provide services for the needy. Some of our ongoing ministries include: providing snack packs for the homeless in Huntsville, Crisis Services through Hopeplace, and Help Line, collecting food for the needy through Food Line, health kits for disaster survivors through UMCOR, Our Missionaries, John and Suzanne Funk serving through the General Board of Global Ministries in Bolivia, providing Malaria Nets in Africa, Supporting the United Methodist Children’s Home, Providing Gifts for the elderly through TARCOG at Christmas, Making Baskets for residents of Todd Towers, The Upper Sand Mountain Parish, Inter-Faith Mission Service, CASA (Care and Assistance for the Aging), Supporting Pastors in Lithuania and Camp Wesley in Latvia, Camp Sumatanga, Mission Workers: Ben and Jasmine Seidel in Berlin, Friends, Inc., Falling Whistles—David Lewis working in Congo, HEALS clinic and Disaster Relief Trips after a tornado or hurricane.