Missions
CURRENT MISSION OPPORTUNITIES:
Serve a meal at the Ronald McDonald House of Pittsburgh!
On Friday June 1st a small group from First UMC will serve dinner the the RMH connected with Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. We will leave the church Friday afternoon and prepare dinner in their kitchen. There will be time to interact with some of the families at RMH. If you are interested please see Erin. If you cannot serve dinner but would like to help please consider donating food for Breakfast Bags. Breakfast Bags are pre-made brown bags filled with breakfast foods such as granola bars, poptarts, raisins, etc. We will collect food for these bags all throughout May and the children will decorate the brown bags and pack them for our group to take them on the 1st.
Fall Mission Trip
There will be a mission trip for flood recovery in the Susquehanna Area. They will depart Wed. Oct. 3rd @ 5pm and return Sun. Oct. 7th. Rosella Ealy, Washington District VIM coordinator, will lead the group. Anyone interested should contact Rosella at 724.931.5496.
CAN YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW POSSIBLY HELP A CANCER PATIENT GET TO LIFE-SAVING TREATMENTS?
For more information please contact Senior Health Initiatives Representative, Kathleen Row at your American Cancer Society at 412-919-1085 or at kathleen.row@cancer.org.
Timmy's Fund is a local non-profit helping families who have children battling cancer. They are looking for people who are willing to volunteer ANY amount of hours to work out of their Morgantown office on mutliple projects available to help families during a time when they need it most. Contact Tiffney Batton at 304-288-4877 or Joe Quigly at 304-694-0497.
On-going Mission Activities:
The Mission Committee, using a special Faith Promise giving program, provides funds for mission outreach activities spanning from international to national to local. Our current Faith Promise supported mission activities include the Embassy of Love church in Russia, the Good Neighbor Lunch, the West Waynesburg Jesus Distributor, and adult and youth mission trip support.
We partner with the Embassy of Love United Methodist Church in Syktyvkar, Komi Republic. Their pastors are Pavel and Olga Shishkin. As part of the Western Pennsylvania Conference Russia Initiative, we provide mission team members to travel to Russia to work with our partners as well as providing spiritual and financial support to them.
