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Local Missions' Ministries

Adopt-A-Highway
Angel Tree Camping
Angel Tree Christmas
Christmas in April
Food Drive
Furniture Donation Program
Gabriel Project
Love Fund
Mitten Tree
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers)
Ramp Building
School Supply Drive

If you are interested in learning more about Local Missions at KIUMC, please contact Krista Pettit at 410-643-3316 or send an email to localmissions@kiumc.org.

Those helped: The local community

Adopt-A-Highway program allows volunteer groups to pick-up litter along non-interstate roadways as a community service.

KIUMC has adopted a stretch of highway from the corner of Hwy 18 and Dominion in Chester extending one mile east.

Hands on Opportunities:
Pick up trash

Contact Person:
Krista Pettit 410-643-3316

Those helped: Local children of prisoners

By every measure, prisoners’ children are the most severely at-risk children and youth in America. Studies indicate that children of prisoners are five times more likely to end up in prison themselves.

Angel Tree Camping provides children of prisoners the opportunity to attend a local, Christian camp during the summer months. Church members provide support by purchasing camping items, such as a flashlight, backpack, and suntan lotion. Local Missions, with the help of the Angel Tree program, provides monetary assistance.

Hands on Opportunities:
Purchase camping items
Deliver and pick up children from camp programs

Contact Person:
Suzanne Ponds 410-643-1047

Those helped: Local children of prisoners

By every measure, prisoners’ children are the most severely at-risk children and youth in America. Studies indicate that children of prisoners are five times more likely to end up in prison themselves.

For some 20 years, Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree® has been reaching out to the children of prisoners at Christmas time. “The Angel Tree Christmas program has been tremendously successful, reaching millions of at-risk kids across the country, but we realized that more needed to be done because the need and the hurt of children of prisoners goes so deep,” said Prison Fellowship Founder and Chairman Chuck Colson.

Angel Tree Christmas collects and distributes presents to children of prisoners during the Christmas holiday. People are asked to choose a name from several displayed on a Christmas tree and purchase age appropriate toys and clothes. The items are then wrapped and delivered to the children of prisoners requesting assistance.

Hands on Opportunities:
Adopt a child and purchase toys and clothes
Deliver items to local children around Christmas time

Contact Person:
Bobbi Bell 410-827-5345

Those helped: Local families in need of major home repairs

Christmas in April selects several area homes in need of repair every year in our local community. Area churches then adopt homes and volunteers spend one Saturday in April fixing up the residences. Most of the materials are donated and a majority of the work is done by volunteers.

KIUMC works on families homes, doing general carpentry, plumbing, painting, cleaning, laying carpet, and many other tasks. There is something for every skill level, even the unskilled!

Hand on Opportunities:
Help with home repairs, all skill levels are desired

Contact Person:
Christopher Pettit 410-643-3316

Those helped: Local people in need of food

The food drive is held the first Sunday of each month. Non perishable food items are collected and delivered to Living Waters Food Bank. The “Special” of the month include peanut butter and jelly, spaghetti and sauce etc.

Hands on Opportunities:
Donate food
Volunteer at Living Waters Food Bank

Contact Person for food donations:
Krista Pettit 410-643-3316

Those helped: Local families in need

Due to an overwhelming need for furniture, used home furnishings are collected and distributed to families in need of such items.

Hands on Opportunities:
Donate home furnishings
Use of pick up truck
Pick up and deliver furniture

Contact Person:
Krista Pettit 410-643-3316

Those helped: Families in crisis pregnancies

The Gabriel Project is a grass-roots, faith-based, non-profit organization which meets the practical, emotional, and spiritual needs of women and families facing crisis pregnancies in the spirit of Christian solidarity. Kent Island United Methodist Church currently assist three to five families every week with material goods, such as bassinets, cribs, strollers, high chairs, toys, clothing, and diapers etc. Angel friends is an outreach of Gabriel Project where two women are assigned to befriend a woman in a crisis pregnancy.

Hand on Opportunities:
Donate gently used maternity, infant, baby, and toddler items
Use of a truck to deliver goods
Deliver items to families
Angel friends

Contact Person:
Krista Pettit 410-643-3316
Gabriel Project Help line 1-800-533-0093

Those helped: Local residents facing financial hardships

The Love Fund is a resource available to local residents and church members that are facing tough times financially. The fund is designed to help individuals or families by paying a bill for an essential service that they currently are unable to pay.

Contact:
Church Office 410-643-5361

Those helped: Local school age children

At the beginning of the fall season, a tree is displayed on which to hang hats, mittens, gloves, and scarves. At the end of the collection period, these winter items are given to elementary school guidance counselors to be distributed to children in need of these winter items. Winter coat donations are also accepted.

Hands on Opportunities:
Donate winter clothing items
Deliver clothing to local schools

Contact person:
Krista Pettit 410-643-3316

Those helped: Mothers of Preschoolers

MOPS is a program designed for mothers of young children (conception through kindergarten age) to foster relationships and share Christ with other moms who are trying to be better moms, wives, homemakers and friends. The meetings are held at Safe Harbor Presbyterian Church.

Hands on Opportunities:
Attend enjoyable meetings
Group leader
Financial recorder
Communications
Craft committee
Hospitality
Special events coordinator

Contact Person:
Michelle Tuttle, Safe Harbor Church
410-249-0154

Those helped: Local residents who require a ramp to enter their residence

Ramp building projects are headed by Steve Walters. They determine the ramp configurations, materials and labor. A team of skilled and unskilled laborers is then compiled to build the ramp.

Hands on Opportunities:
Ramp building, skilled and unskilled laborers
Project coordinators

Contact Person:
Krista Pettit 410-643-3316

Those helped: Local children in need

At the beginning of each school year, hundreds of school supplies are collected and donated to area elementary schools. Items include scissors, glue, notebook paper, folders, back packs, and pencils etc. Guidance counselors distribute the items to needy children.

Hands on Opportunities:
Donate school supplies
Deliver school supplies to area schools

Contact Person:
Krista Pettit 410-643-3316