Missions

Local

Sack Lunch Program - A dedicated crew of volunteers, under the leadership of Delores Grier, prepares and serves sack lunches to anyone who comes to our door Monday - Friday, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., from Labor Day through the end of June. During the winter months, we usually also offer a cup of hot soup or chili. This past year we served 6,175 lunches.

Global

Eiguliai United Methodist Church in Kaunas, Lithuania

We have committed $350 each month in support of our partner church, Eiguliai Methodist Church. On the fourth Sunday of each month we take up a "Noisy Bucket" offering with one hundred percent of that offering going to Eiguliai.

Our Lithuania Mission Team has gone to Lithuania in 2001 and 2004 to explore the various ministries of the United Methodist church in Lithuania, worship with our partner church, and help to put on Bible camps. In the summer of 2006 we brought the first Youth In Mission group from Eiguliai to the United States, so that they could spread the word about the work of the United Methodist Church in Lithuania as well as participate in some mission opportunities in the Metropolitan Detroit area. Through various fundraisers throughout the year we are currently helping raise money to build a permanent church structure for the Eiguliai church.

For more information on the United Methodist Church in Lithuania, visit www.lithuaniaumc.org.

Fundraisers for the Eiguliai United Methodist Church Building Fund:

Scrap Metal Collection

Scrap metal will be collected on the first Saturday of each month. Someone will be available in the parking lot from 9 a.m. – noon to receive your donations. Any metal is acceptable with the exception of refrigerators and freezers containing freon and engines with oil or gas in them. For pick-up of large items, contact Mark Lowman or Paul Kremer.

Missions Work Area

The Missions Work Area has chosen to direct some mission dollars to the following projects in 2010:

Joy-Southfield Community Free Health Clinic – volunteer health care practitioners and laypersons providing primary and preventative health care to residents with inadequate health insurance. It is recognized by the Federal government as a medically under-served area with abnormal rates of communicable diseases.
Cass Community Social Services – serving aging, homeless and hungry men, women and children and those with mental illness and developmental disabilities.
Baldwin Avenue Church and Center – to feed, clothe, educate and empower men, women, and children in Pontiac.
Bread for the World – Christians working toward seeking justice and ending hunger by recommending shaping United States policies that address the root causes of domestic/world hunger and relief.
Young Leaders Initiative – provides transformative, intercultural, Christian experiences which nurture young people as Christian leaders for their churches and communities.
Wesley House Campus Ministries – Wesley House is a place where students at Northern Michigan University come to be challenged and supported as they grow in their faith. It provides students a welcoming place that offers sanctuary from confusion and conflicting calls of university life with a homelike, supportive atmosphere.
Looking Glass Community Service – serving isolated elderly, at-risk children and youth, and low income families seeking to break the cycle of dependence on public assistance in the Laingsburg area, west of Flint.
Hot Lunch Program - Haiti – one nutritious meal per day for primary school children.
Water for Life - Liberia – constructing wells to provide clean water and bring dignity and life to communities.

First United Methodist Church
320 W. Seventh St., Royal Oak, MI 48067 USA
Telephone: (248) 541-4100
Fax: (248) 541-0192
E-mail: office@rofum.org