Wesley United Methodist Church

COMMUNITYOUTREACH

The outreach committee members want to be like Jesus and be the hands

and feet of Jesus and go out into the community and world at large to serve those in need.

The Outreach Committee Plans

& Attends Fields Trips of Service

In the past we have gone to Feed My Starving Children to make food packs to go to feed families in poor countries in Africa and Europe. We have gone to Northcott Neighborhood house in Milwaukee, a Methodist funded mission to serve those who need help in Milwaukee. While we were there, we scrubbed the tiles of the floor and sorted donated clothing. We helped the ELCA in Kenosha by taking off wallpaper to prepare a couple rooms for painting, as examples of some field trips.

We maintain a partnership with Curtis Strange Elementary School, our neighborhood school which is 80% in poverty.

We have monthly partnership meetings with members of the school leadership and determine the need for the children and help support the school in any way we can. We collect winter gear every year, underwear for Undie Sunday, school supplies before the school year starts and we adopt families at Christmas time and collect food and gifts for several families in need.

Saturday Academy

We organize and support the school for Saturday Academy which is a voluntary partial school day for children who sign up from 9am-12pm and includes cooking breakfast and lunch, providing life skills and teacher support for the students for 1 month at a time twice a year, once for the month March or April depending on Easter and then again in October. The teachers come in and teach supplementary skills. This has

helped the students with enrichment which has helped the students bring up

their grades in school.

SOUP KITCHEN

The outreach team is also responsible for our volunteers who help at the Shalom Center Soup Kitchen on the first Saturday of the month. The volunteers serve food, and they also help prepare sandwiches for the meal

for dinner.

The outreach committee also picks the Melodies of Compassion (loose plate) recipients for the year. The Melodies of Compassion uses donations and the

loose change that is given in the offertory plate. We pick one local, state, national and international organization for the donations per year, one per quarter.

Our committee meets on Thursday evenings at 6 pm and we pick the next meeting date at the end of the meeting, usually every 4-6 weeks depending on the activities that we have going on.

This is just what we currently do, the outreach committee is open to any other service projects in the future. If this sounds like you, we would love to have you join our committee.

Feed My Starving Children:

Every year, millions of children die from preventable causes

such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and undernutrition. Hunger is still

causing nearly half of deaths in children under 5 years old. From this data, we

estimate at least 6,200 children die each day from causes related to

undernutrition. This is heartbreaking.

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) believes hope starts with

food. As a Christian nonprofit, FMSC is dedicated to seeing every child whole

in body and spirit. FMSC works with food distribution partners that stay with

communities for the long haul, empowering them to move from relief to

development.

FMSC meals are developed by food science and nutrition

professionals to supplement nutritional needs and reduce problems with

malnutrition. Nutrition allows children to grow, thrive and develop to their

full potential.

4600 60th St. | Kenosha, WI 53144 | Phone: 262-654-8122 | Email: wesleyumc@kenoshawesley.org