GIFTS OF SERVICE

We are called to use the many gifts God has given us to fulfill what the Holy Spirit has placed in our hearts. In serving God's community locally and in the world beyond our own neighborhood, we involve our congregation in activities that address peace, human dignity and rights, social, economic, and environmental justice.

We invite you to share your hands and hearts with others who need what we can offer.

To request more information about our community service activities, please call the church office: 925-934-4208.

Our quilt-a-thon brought together people from several Bay Area churches to sew quilts for Hurricane Katrina survivors. Winter 2006

Earth Day is Every Day
We are responsibile for being committed caretakers of God's gifts in the natural world each and every day. Each day presents a new opportunity!

4 Local Resources for Recycling
4 Learning to be greener in our church community

Christmas Dinner: Co-hosted by our church and the Walnut Creek Host Lion's Club, this dinner is provided for homeless families and comes complete with presents and Santa Claus.

Extended Family Program: Church members and friends help
to serve homeless people in Contra Costa County by providing furnishings for families who are newly housed by the Shelter, Inc. organization. The families can choose from a supply of good quality, used furniture and household items for their home. The items are then moved for the family into their new home.

Family Emergency Shelter: A week-long committment to cook meals for the homeless takes place during the winter months.

Staffed by volunteers, meal preparation is shared by many of the churches' ministry work areas.

Homeless Cooking: Throughout the year, volunteers plan menus, cook, and deliver the meals to the local homeless shelter once a month.

 

Great Decisions: A national program of dicussion groups that runs for 8 weeks. By reading, watching professionally prepared videotapes, and discussing a variety of topics, you form your opinions. These opinions and concerns are then transmitted to officials of the U.S. State Department.

Project Share: The church collects food every week and delivers it to the SHARE office (local food pantry for hungry people) in Concord.

Sierra Service Project: Supported by the church youth, this annual service project involves working on construction and site improvement projects in Native American communities.

Sarajevo Youth House Project: Children who witnessed the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina are trying to heal their lives in a society that offer them few resources. The Sarajevo Youth House Center provides educational, cultural, and sporting activities for children in a safe and emotionally supportive environment. Our church helps to support the ongoing construction of the new facility.

Volunteers in Mission: Through the United Methodist Church Volunteer in Mission Program, volunteers from our church participated in education missions to Sarajevo, Bosnia. Several on-going projects evolved from those trips.