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Our Missions Work

The Work Area on Missions is responsible for the year round program of mission education, to discover the needs of the community and engage the congregation in missions and service projects which address these needs, to be aware of opportunities for mission service through the church, and to expand the benevolence budget of the church.  To this end, the work area has actively engaged in many church-wide and community projects.  Among these are:
  • Missionary Support
      • Currently we are supporting Daniel and Lisa Godwin, missionaries to Equador. Click on their first names to see their biographical sketches. Much of our support to them is provided by the Easter Offering. The following link will take you to their latest news article: Godwin Report

    • Society of St. Andrew - Potato Project
        Each fall, usually after the second worship service one Sunday in September, we have a Potato Luncheon. This meal consists of a salad, a baked potato with assorted toppings, a potato pie (or tart) and a piece of potato candy. It is funded by donation. Monies raised are then contributed to the Society of St. Andrew to help with the cost of getting gleaned and contributed food products to where they are needed to help feed the hungry.

      • Thanksgiving Food Boxes
        • are filled and delivered each year to the needy. A list of fifty families is obtained from
          Social Services and contributions of food from the congregation and community are solicited. Church volunteers pack the boxes with enough food to feed the fifty families of four or five for a week. Other volunteers then deliver the boxes to each family on the list.

        • Project Link
          • We support Link's Port project which provides housing and food to the homeless in the winter months.
          • We send food to the Food Cupboard
          • We make soup monthly to send to the Soup Kitchen


          • United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)

              • First United Methodist, Newport News, supports UMCOR in their efforts to provide disaster relief around the world. Click on the following link to read about current projects: UMCOR


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          Last update: June 2010
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