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For more information about any of the community outreach initiatives listed below, please contact Pastor of Student Ministries, Mitch Pollic

 

Volunteer Opportunities: 

Local, Regional, National and International  

Local

• Community Care Food and Clothing Ministry
• United Methodist Centers
• St. Paul UMC
• St. Vincent's
• Baby Shower Project
• Assist with Children's and Student Ministry mission projects
• Support and Organize the English as a Second Language training and housing for Mexican Methodists, for the Dayton Area
• Training - Volunteer in Mission (VIM) Team Leader Training
• Spring Missions Saturday Conference- invite other mission-minded churches to speak to a gathering; have Una Jones (GBGM) here to speak on missions; have a church input meeting to determine what kind of mission efforts they want to do
• Champion a mission - need for people to "adopt" a mission (be its champion), facilitate it and promote that mission

 

Regional

Camp Wesley, Bellefontaine, OH

 

Christ Church adopted the Fireside Room at Camp Wesley some 15 years ago. Each Spring we depart from our church parking lot (usually on a Saturday at 8:30 a.m.), drive to the Camp, get the Fireside Room ready for the camping season, dust the chairs in the dining area, and perhaps do a little outside work before heading back to Kettering. We're usually back by 4 p.m.
It's a one-day commitment annually with good fellowship.

 

Festival of Sharing

Roberts Convention Center, Wilmington, OH

Purpose: to alleviate hunger and homelessness, to increase our awareness of the needs of our brothers and sisters wor1dwide for food and shelter, to come together in fellowship for education, and to rededicate ourselves to share God's blessings with others.

 

Good Works, Athens OH

Good Works began in 1981 when Keith Wasserman, a student at Ohio University started housing the homeless. Their Mission Statement is: "A community of hope which provides biblical hospitality through our shelter for the homeless." Good Works serves the widow, the orphan, and the stranger. In the past, teams from Christ Church have helped with yard work, painted, planted flowers, washed curtains, cooked, carried firewood, and worked at the homes of two widows (Samaritan Project). We also had a drive through. The United Methodist Women delivered a van full of supplies later. Keith's motto that states, "Love is a verb" tells it all.

Good Works Hannah House	Good Works Painting Greenhouse

 

School of Christian Missions, Ada, OH

 

United Methodist Children's Home, Columbus, OH

 

National

McCurdy School, Espanola, NM

Our efforts have included working on various construction projects, preparing a video about McCurdy and delivering projects prepared by the After School Program and the CUMC Sunday School.   

Find out more about the McCurdy school: www.mccurdy.org

Henderson Settlement, Frakes, KY

Past trips have included projects such as building an office, preparing apples for making apple butter and helping in the clothing room, coupon room, and food distribution area. The next trip to Henderson Settlement is planned for September 2009.

Red Bird Mission, Beverly, KY

The Redbird Missionary Conference has 23 churches and 4 outreach centers in 8 southeastern Kentucky counties. They offer 12 years of schooling, medical facilities, mobile meals, clothing, and a large outreach program. In the past, our Volunteer in Mission Team (VIM) built a deck and ramp for a handicapped man. We have also worked in clothing and Christmas stores, the kitchen, sorted lumber, worked in the clinic and cut Campbell soup labels. Lack of sufficient funds is affecting the school so, hopefully, churches will give to the Redbird Advanced Specials (773724, 773726 and 773728).

Red Bird Chapel Beverly, KY	Red Bird Mission VIM Team 2004
Red Bird Mission Door Deck Ramp		Red Bird Work Project

 

Other National Opportunities

• Hurricane relief efforts
• Earthquake relief efforts

International

Russia - VIM:

• Advance Special Covenant relationship with Volga, Russia

Bolivia - VIM:

• Advance Special Covenant relationship with Walter Henry
• Educational Complex, Santa Cruz; summer 2008

Mexico - VIM:

• Advance Special Covenant relationship with Oriental Conference
• Tijuana: building houses & constructing new orphanage
• Changing the Tijuana orphanage into a school, small businesses and church
• Constructing a new orphanage in Tijuana

Congo - VIM:

Advance Special Covenant relationship with Gaston Ntambo.

The Flying Missionary, North Katanga Province. Gaston provides travel for missionaries in central Africa, especially to and from areas without safe road access. Gaston also does emergency evacuation for people with medical crises.

Cambodia - Advance Special Covenant relationship with Esther Gitobu. A United Methodist missionary from Kenya, Africa, currently stationed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She administers the finances for UM mission work in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Much of Esther's work involves seeing that the monies allocated to various mission endeavors are being spent effectively. Esther is an articulate, dedicated missionary and mother of three children who are in Cambodia with her and her husband.

Cambodia - Church sponsorship - a commitment of $1200 to provide half the pay for a United Methodist parish minister in Cambodia. The country is exceedingly poor, and very few congregations can support a minister. We are helping one church have an effective and vibrant ministry.

We sponsor both Esther and Gaston as they have more trouble raising the money to support their missions than missionaries from the United States tend to have.

To Read More About Jeanne and Gaston Ntambo:  Wings of the Morning

The Ntambo's Thanks the West Ohio Conference:  Ntambo Letter

Other International Opportunities

• Israel and Palestine - Mission. Education and Advocacy VIM trip, Jan. 2007
• Rwandan refugee speaker
• Bethlehem Bible College
• Israel and Palestine
• Sudan, Haiti, Bethlehem - Mission, Education and Advocacy VIM trip
• Nigeria, mission trip with Olu Daniels
• Heifer Ark project - provide animals that continue to give eggs, milk, honey, clothing, transportation, etc. over the long term
• Alternative Giving - medicine, animals, food, shelter, etc
• Dr. Walt Hartel, eye doctor for medical trip, 2009
• Haiti trip organized by Reynoldsburg