How We Do Ministry... Faith In Action
with love and service
With in the Congregation
- Teachers, Shepherds and other assistants in classes.
- Lay people participate as Greeters, Ushers, Lay Readers, Altar Guild, and Communion Assistants.
- Worship services are recorded.
- Lay Eucharist Ministers take Holy Communion to our homebound and people in nursing homes.
- Volunteer drivers take others for appointments, etc.
- Special luncheons and communion services for our homebound and nursing home members.
- Good Samaritan Program provides support within our congregation and community to those suffering events of a catastrophic nature.
- Get Well, Birthday, Sympathy, and Baby congratulations cards are mailed.
- Telephone calls are made to people living alone for friendly chats.
- Meals are delivered to people in certain circumstances.
Within the Community
- Ecumenical food bank donations and volunteers--donations are received the first Sunday of each month.
- Happy Quilter's Group meets Tuesday mornings, September through May at 9:00 a.m. Beautifu knot quilts are lovingly made for baby and young children's baptism, for Lutheran World Relief and for a homeless shelter. The Happy Quilter's Group also make lap robes for residents living at the County Home and Slate Belt Nursing & Rehab Center.
- Missionary Sponsorship Program--currently the congregation is helping to sponsor a missionary from Mexico.
- Children's Christmas gift project--participate through the ecumenical food bank.
- Infant clothing and furniture--collected and given to a local pregnancy crisis center.
- Annual Ingathering--Christmas gifts and money--collected for distribution to nursing homes in cooperation with other churches in the Pocono Mission District.
- Boy Scout and Cub Scout Troops
- Campbell's labels--collected for an Indian reservation.
- Collect soda tabs for people needing Dialysis.
- Participate in the Blood Bank Program.
Within the wider church
- Support the ELCA
Through committees
- Congregation Council
- Jim Jennings, President
- Charmaine Collins, Vice President
- Carolyn Leidy, Council Secretary
Standing Committees
- Christian Education
- Evangelism Committee
- Finance Committee
- Fun & Fellowship Committee
- Mutual Ministry Committee
- Property Committee
- Social Ministry Committee
- Health Ministry
- Stewardship Committee
- Worship and Worship Committee
