Local Missions
Local Community Missions
PB&J Ministry
PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY MINISTRY--Wednesday Lunch
Bag lunches for children of several Gibsonville communities are packed an delivered every Wednesday morning.
Your donations of the following items will help with this project:
Creamy peanut butter
Grape jam (spreads better than jelly)
Single serve packages of fruit cups, juice boxes,
potato chips
Place all donations in the bins marked “PB&J” in the Welcome Center and Narthex.
Make a monetary donation earmarked as “PB&J”.
PACKING: Volunteers are invited to come to the church fellowship hall on TUESDAY night at 6:00pm to fill bags with everything except the sandwiches.
Then, WEDNESDAY morning at 9:00am, volunteers are invited to come to the church kitchen to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cheese sandwiches.
DELIVERY: Volunteers deliver starting at 10:00am via the bus. JOIN US!!!
Mission Collections
FRUIT COLLECTION SUNDAY
The first Sunday of every month, the church collects canned fruits for the Greensboro Urban Ministries food pantry. This collection of hundreds of cans of fruit help those in need balance their diets.
FOOD PANTRY
Collection every third Sunday, Gibsonville UMC supports the food pantry at
First Baptist Church, Gibsonville. Donations of food and monetary donations go through Gibsonville UMC and are delivered to First Baptist.
The Food Pantry at First Baptist Church is open on Wednesdays, 9:00am - 11:00am.
~ Bring donations to the Welcome Center at Gibsonville UMC and place in the appropriate bin.
FEED THE HUNGRY - Food Drive for SAFE Elon: Thank you to everyone who donated food
for SAFE st Elon’s opening this week. Opening day was a great success, and GUMC
has contributed 245 pounds of food to help stock the shelves. We will continue
collecting donations throughout October. The most-needed items at this point
are breakfast foods, such as cereal and oatmeal. They have plenty of orange
juice but could use apple juice and other fruit juices. Please continue to
bring items and place them at the altar. We will make sure they are delivered
to SAFE. Thank you for your continued support of this project!
Volunteer at SAFE at Elon: SAFE will be opening its fourth food
pantry and community resource center at Fairview United Methodist Church (3128
Osceola Road) on Tuesday, Oct. 13. The pantry will be open weekly from 5 to 7
p.m., and volunteers will be needed to fill a variety of roles during that
time. Volunteers will also be needed one another day a week – day and time
still TBD – to help restock the pantry and prepare it for neighbors. All
interested volunteers must sign up through SAFE at https://www.safealamance.org/volunteer-at-safe-at-elon or by using the QR code. For more
information, contact SAFE at Elon Site Manager Michelle Rash at 336-212-3424 or
michelle@safealamance.org.
5th SUNDAYS: Collections and Delivery
Every 5th Sunday and at other times of the year, church members bring in items for a local mission.
Collections Include (but not limited to):
- Book bags & school supplies for Blessing of the book-bags & Back To School Bash
- Individual chips, cookies and supplies for Allied Churches Bag Lunches
- Monetary contributions and filled boxes for Operation Christmas Child
- Fruit cups, chips, juice boxes, peanut butter, jelly, lunch bags for PB&J Ministry
(May - August)
- Individually wrapped candy for the community Truck-or-Treat event
- Monetary donations for the Community Christmas Party
- Healthy snacks for Out of the Garden Backpack Ministry for Gibsonville Elementary School
- Hats and Gloves for the Allied Church's Homeless Shelter
- Children's underwear for Allied Church's Shelter and Gibsonville Elementary School