Each month we focus on a particular cause or mission to support. 

 

Mission for May is the MN United Methodist Annual Conference Love Offering.

This year’s offering will be divided between 4 organizations which help our neighbors both at home and abroad heal from trauma and find safety.  (% of gift directed to each organization.)

 

A Trauma Care Center in Ukraine (30%) has been selected in response to the massive mental health impact of war. Through a collaboration with UMCOR, the money will be used to purchase and develop a ministry center for trauma care which currently operates from a hotel near the city of Uzhhorod.  The center will be able to immediately house displaced persons suffering from PTSD.  Located near one of the strongest Ukrainian United Methodist Congregations, it is hoped that the church will provide a convenient population to recruit volunteers.

 

Legal Clinics partnering with the Volunteer Lawyer Network (VLN) (30%) are selected to help those facing problems with immigration, citizenship, asylum and humanitarian relief.  The VLN will offer legal clinics in Methodist churches sprinkled around Southern/Central Minnesota and Minneapolis.  The work will help provide support to Hispanic / Latino Affinity groups by lawyers and para legals offering individual consultation and legal education in group settings.

 

The Emma Norton Services’ Restoring Waters housing development (30%) has been selected to promote their housing project scheduled to open May 14.  Creating a home- like calming environment for 60 individuals/small families, the Love offering will provide funding for new programming aimed at reducing trauma through art creation, cooking, gardening, meditation and yoga/movement.

 

Finally, Volunteers in Mission (10%) has been selected to offer scholarships to United Methodist Volunteer participants who serve in all 50 states and 100 countries.  Most 2-week team projects provide hands on support in construction, disaster response, teaching, health care and packing supplies for overseas shipments.  The Love offering will help offset the cost to first-time participants with scholarships of $200 – $400 per volunteer.  

 

With so much turmoil in the world, we need access to the restorative presence of nature, community and spirituality to enable healing from life’s traumas. Please consider donating to the Love Offering to support these worthy causes.

 

We are so grateful and appreciative of your continued support of FUMC missions.  Your gift can easily take place using the “Give Online” button on the FUMC Website and then select Missions.  Or you can send a check marked May Missions directly to FUMC, 680 Mississippi St., Fridley, MN 55432. Thank you for your generous support of Our United Methodist Conference’ Love offering.

 

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Family Table is a free meal for those in need in the surrounding community and are looking for fellowship.  All are welcome.  It is held on the 4th Saturday of the month: Dine in is from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, and Drive Thru is 12:00 –12:30 PM.  

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Rainbow School and Daycare is a church owned ministry.  It was specifically created to be open to all children and respects persons of all faiths and those with no religious faith.  Provides DayCare to the public from infant through Pre-K.  Rainbow’s phone number is 763-571-7521.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drivers are always needed.   We drive one week per month during the lunch hour.

To volunteer, contact: Impact Services, Meals on Wheels at 763-236-8718, ask for Laura Fanucci. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We serve at Feed My Starving Children. When we serve there we pack meals for children all over the world. This is a way you can make a difference for hungry kids. There are sitting jobs as well as standing jobs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the globe. UMCOR’s work includes programs and projects in disaster response, health, sustainable agriculture, food security, relief supplies, and more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will be supporting a new missionary, Rev. J. Park.

 

Rev. J. Park is a United Methodist missionary serving as the Country Director of the Southeast Asia Mission Initiative, based in Ho Chi Minh City.  Rev. Park felt a call to ministry early in his life and has served as a pastor for 20 years, including starting multiple church plants.  His family came to the Christian faith through Methodist missionaries in Korea which inspired many of his family members to become pastors and missionaries.  His wife, T. Park, is also a missionary.  They are excited and happy to serve in Southeast Asia and hope to spread the Christian message in that part of the world.   The Minnesota Conference has a partnership with the Parks, and we can look forward to hearing more about them in the future.