Local Outreach

 

Outreach Events and Local Missions Work

Service Saturday - annual service day for Christ UMC which allows participants to select from a number of different service projects, including gleaning, Helping Hands, blanket making, card making for service men & women, work for Gift Bazaar, landscaping for local women's shelter, etc.

Mission Sundays - Bi-annual Sundays of celebrating all that God is doing through our mission ministries here at Christ Church

Angel Tree - annual Christmas gift tree helping local families in need to have a brighter Christmas.  Contact person: Sarah Cameron, 225-2780

MLK Celebration - annual celebration & service event honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; examples of past projects include blanket making for children in need, gift bag assembly for troops stationed oversees; scarf making to benefit orphans in Russia.  Contact person: Debbie Cusick (; 967-0549).

Christmas Gift Bazaar - annual gift extravaganza which generates support for a wide array of missions with every dollar spent.  Occurs Friday through Sunday on the weekend prior to Thanksgiving.  This year, the Bazaar will be held November 20-22nd.  Includes unique and hand-crafted items, a silent auction, a Kid's Corner, and a BBQ dinner on Friday.  We are currently seeking donations, helpers, and shoppers.  For more information about how funds raised are distributed to local, national, and international mission projects, click on "Christmas Gift Bazaar" above.  Contact person:  Cynthia Wheaton, 969-9199; .

Blankets for Children - group that works to organize blanket making events; past recipients of blankets include orphans in Brazil, children of fallen soldiers, local children in need or suffering loss of a loved one.  Contact person: Debbie Cusick (; 967-0549).

Youth Mission Trip & Local Missions Each summer we take two trips, one for high school and the other for middle school, and seek to have a cross cultural immersion experience that allows us to be transformed through service and ministry. We have served in West Virginia, Massachusetts, Georgia, Alabama, Illinois, Washington, DC, Tennessee, and here in North Carolina.  Contact person: Shay Hall, 969-8820,

Benevolence

Chapel Hill, Carrboro and surrounding communities in Orange and Chatham counties are blessed with many good gifts of education and employment opportunities. Yet, there are many people right here in our home communities who suffer terribly from the effects of poverty. There are entire families who go to bed hungry every night because there is not enough money left over to buy food. There are moms who have jobs and want to be at work every day, but they can't because they have no money for gas or because the busses don't run at times that can get them to work early enough. Sometimes families run out of money because the parent has fallen ill and can't get back to work soon enough to pay the  bills that so rapidly pile up.

From a place of compassion, Christ Church provides assistance to families in need by providing food cards to area grocery stores and financial assistance with utility and rent bills. The funds for this ministry come from grocery gift cards donated by people from our Christ Church family and from monetary gifts designated for the Pastor's discretionary fund. Families who receive this assistance call the church office with their needs. A pastor interviews them, assesses their needs, prays with them and then assists them as the funds and situation of the person in need allows.

If you would like to participate in this ministry by your gifts of monetary assistance or through the gift of your time please contact Pastor Shay Hall.