Mission Opportunities

Offerings marked for Advent or Christmas will be sent to MDS Community Action Agency's Walk for Warmth.  All money donated stays in Delta County for our friends and neighbors with heating insecurities. 

The Christ Tree, located in the Narthex, is available for donations for a family/person in need during Christmas.  Simply follow the instructions located on the table by the tree.  We will be taking donations from December 1-14.  

The Clothes Closet accepts donations of gently used clothing of every size and type along with shoes and boots.  People from the community can visit Monday through Thursday from 9 – 2 and Wednesday evening from 6 – 8.  Brown Elmer’s handle bags, Elmer’s plastic bags, and 13 gallon garbage bags are useful for our shoppers.

Peggy Richter and JoAnn Gudwer are the current keepers of the Closet.

Our "noisy offering" in the cow cans on the 3rd Sunday of the month is for Heifer Project, International.  This project gives farm animals and training to struggling farmers around the world.  These farmers, in turn, give the first female off-spring to a struggling neighbor who then does the same.  The gift keeps giving for generations.

"Backpack Buddies" on the first Sunday of the month helps feed hungry students on the weekends and during holidays when schools are closed.  This program is coordinated by the Gladstone/Rapid River Kiwanis Club.

Donate your GFS points and/or Elmer's points:  MUMC uses these points to offset grocery costs for projects like Bay Campus Ministries meals and other events at the church.