Loving God - Creating Hope - Changing Lives
SERVICE
The Service Committee is an exciting group that works on the outreach and missions efforts for our Church. Missions includes projects we do in our nation and our world. The committee is helping to better integrate outreach and missions into all of our ministries.
The Service Committee is an exciting group that works on the outreach and missions efforts for our Church. Missions includes projects we do in our nation and our world. The committee is helping to better integrate outreach and missions into all of our ministries.
ONGOING MISSIONS
- Path Fund - short term financial help for individuals from outside our congregation who contact St. Paul's asking for assistance.
- BUMMP - Boulder United Methodist Mission Partners.
- Bridge House and Community Table - St. Paul's regularly sends volunteers to serve dinner to Boulder's homeless and hungry at Boulder's Bridge House To volunteer to help serve, contact Melanie Muckle at mjmuckle@aol.com.
- Community Food Share - Food drives to collect food for shelters.
- Wesley Foundation at University of Colorado
- Love Wreath Ministry at Christmas - provide gifts to Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA) families.
- Easter Egg Hunt Ministry and the Love Wreath for families with EFAA.
- Hats and Mittens Ministry at Christmas - kits for the homeless of Boulder
- STEMrev - a community program incubated here at St. Paul's. Last year STEMrev offered a hugely successful program at Columbine Elementary, a Family Resource School where 80% of kids get free and reduced lunches.
- Special Offering Sundays - United Methodist Church special offerings
- Thanks Giving in the Park - A cooperative effort involving St. Paul's UMC, Mountain View UMC, & First UMC - Lafayette that offers resources needed by the homeless in our community.
Worldwide Ministry
Covenant Ministry - Mozart works as the Africa Regional Coordinator for UMCOR's Sustainable Agriculture and Development Program. He started this program in 2001. His main focus is providing leadership in training families in better nutrition, hygiene, and sustainable crops to add income for their families. His teams are teaching the farmers to plant moringa trees and start bee hives to improve their health and add an income source for the families. Crop and pest management and adding soy as a crop are new focus points for training that have been added in the past three years. His work has already improved the lives of over 3,000 destitute families in Africa over the last 7 years of service. We look forward to helping Mozart further God's mission of feeding the hungry and poor.
Mission Trip to Ghana with Ghana Children's Fund - Caitlin Batch Small has gone in mission to Ghana to work at the Good Shepherd Orphanage. She hopes to replace rotting wooden beds with metal beds for the children. As a literacy specialist for a Boulder non-profit she will be tutoring students at the orphanage. She can use financial help and asks for prayers for the project too.
Christina Wedell is a member of St. Paul's UMC in Boulder. After serving in the Peace Corps in 2007, Christina returns each year to Paraguay to continue to focus on the education of the children. The cost per student to start high school each year is about $80. Our generous donations have helped further her work with bicycles, construction of an elementary school, construction of a church, laptop computers, high school scholarships, college scholarships, glasses, doctor's visits, rural health education and much more. Paraguay Hope is supporting 9 college students and 13 high school students. Before this special assistance only 2 villagers from Monte Rosario had ever gone to high school. The school year runs from February to December. Their summer break is in January. To view her site or to make contributions to this project go to her web site www.paraguayhope.org
Mission Trip to Ghana with Ghana Children's Fund - Caitlin Batch Small has gone in mission to Ghana to work at the Good Shepherd Orphanage. She hopes to replace rotting wooden beds with metal beds for the children. As a literacy specialist for a Boulder non-profit she will be tutoring students at the orphanage. She can use financial help and asks for prayers for the project too.
Christina Wedell is a member of St. Paul's UMC in Boulder. After serving in the Peace Corps in 2007, Christina returns each year to Paraguay to continue to focus on the education of the children. The cost per student to start high school each year is about $80. Our generous donations have helped further her work with bicycles, construction of an elementary school, construction of a church, laptop computers, high school scholarships, college scholarships, glasses, doctor's visits, rural health education and much more. Paraguay Hope is supporting 9 college students and 13 high school students. Before this special assistance only 2 villagers from Monte Rosario had ever gone to high school. The school year runs from February to December. Their summer break is in January. To view her site or to make contributions to this project go to her web site www.paraguayhope.org