EUMC-Missions Participation

Missions We Support

Because we follow Jesus who served "the last, the least and the lost", we serve Jesus by serving others in our community and around the world.

Since the United Methodist church is a connectional system, we join other congregations throughout the world to support many mission projects here at home, throughout Central Pennsylvania, nationally and around the world through our "first-mile giving" regular offerings.

While monetary support of mission is extremely important, we also believe that as Jesus "got his hands dirty" serving others, so do we. Hands-on mission is a special emphasis at EUMC, expected of all able-body professed members. Here are some ministries in which we "get our hands dirty."

Red Bird Mission - We send work teams from EUMC every odd-numbered year as part of the Volunteers in Mission ministry of the United Methodist Church. The mission begun in 1921 in one of the most poverty-stricken areas of the United States: southeastern Kentucky. EUMC has had a long historical relationship with the mission as one of our members, the late Almeda Brandt, served on the financial staff at Red Bird for a number of years. Evangelical also provides partial salary assistance to Marilyn (Ruth) Brock (Advance no. 773116), a visiting nurse with the Red Bird Mountain Medical Center, as one-half of our offering to the Advance for Christ and His Church "second-mile giving" mission ministry of the United Methodist Church.

Sierra Leone Wells and Sanitation Project - A ministry first limited to well-drilling and later expanded to include latrine builidng and cleaning in the African nation of Sierra Leone (Advance no. 181000). Part of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) diasaster ministries, the Sierra Leone project receives the other half of our second-mile giving through the Advance.

Middletown Area Meals-on-Wheels - We help deliver food for persons who are physically unable to leave their residence to go grocery shopping

Middletown Area Food Pantry - We gather food every second and fourth Sundays of each month and deliver them to the area food pantry. We also assist in staffing the pantry and distribute food each Tuesday.

Middletown Care-a-Van - One of our EUMC members oversees a special van we drive for persons in the greater Middletown area who need transportation to medical and dental appointments

Middletown Thrift Shop - We help staff the town thrift store for lower income persons.

Ronald McDonald House - We help supply food, cook meals and collect aluminum can tabs for the Hershey branch. Families with children as patients in the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital reside there while visiting their child in the medical center.

God's Clothes Closet - Just begun this past August, we collected good quality clothing from the community and gave it away to nearly 400 needy persons.

Robert G. Reid Elementary School Homework Club - Begun by one of our EUMC teachers, the homework club meets in the elementary school each Wednesday of the school year beginning in October at 3 p.m. We tutor children and help them with their homework projects. A public school teacher is always on hand to assist the tutors and children.

Neighborhood Center of the UMC, Inc - We help provide meals on occasion for the center in inner city Harrisburg children.

Bethesda Mission - Our young people help staff the soup kitchen at this men's homeless shelter in inner city Harrisburg.

Mission Central - We travel across the Susquehanna River into Mechanicsburg the third Tuesday morning of each month to pack items stored at the Mission Central ministry of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. Projects included preparing flood buckets for hurricane-ravaged areas, toiletry kits for overseas delievery, and similar projects.