Missions

St. Paul-Calvary UMC Missions

Community Dinners

            St. Paul-Calvary sponsors a free monthly dinner for the community. Meals are scheduled at the end of each month. See the church calendar for this month’s date. Come, get a hot meal, and a bag of bread to go!  

 

 

 

Habitat for Humanity

            Some gifted members of St. Paul-Calvary often volunteer for Habitat for Humanity projects. These projects entail building new homes and doing some major home renovations for others. 

Helping Hands Ministry

            This group’s ministry is to aid members of the church family and community with small work projects, such as painting, decorating, lawn care, etc. See their link on this site for more information.

Family Promise

            St. Paul-Calvary has just joined with 10 other churches to help plan and implement a Family Promise network in the Williamsport area. Family Promise is an ecumenical effort to provide housing for the homeless on a weekly rotational schedule. Room and board are provided along with listening ears and caring hearts.

Food Pantry

            Located in the church, our small food pantry helps community members with emergency food supplies. See the church secretary for more information.

Missionaries – The Hoovers

            We prayerfully and financially support the work of Dr. J. Jeffrey Hoover and his wife Dr. Ellen Titus Hoover. The Hoovers are teachers of History and English in an English speaking school in Zambia, Africa.

Missionaries - The Madisons

     We prayerfully and financially support the work of Dan Madision, his wife Talicia Madison, and children Connor and Sophia. The Madisons teach at a Christian School and work to spread God's love all over Lima, Peru.  Click Here to read the latest news from the Madisons.

Mission Central

            Mission Central is a mission collection and distribution agency within the Central Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church. It is located in Mechanicsburg, PA. We financially support this ministry, and often collect various items for health kits, school kit bags, flood buckets, etc. We also send volunteers to work at Mission Central and its Williamsport Hub at Sojourner Truth Ministries.

Shut-In Ministry

 

            St. Paul-Calvary has a home visitation team which regularly checks in with our homebound members in homes and nursing facilities. Each team member has also been trained to celebrate home Communion as well as offer prayer support. The team also surprises the shut-ins with care packages from the church.

 

Sojourner Truth Ministries

            Sojourner Truth Ministries is a benevolent ministry sponsored by the Williamsport District of United Methodist Churches. It provides daily hot meals, weekly spiritual formation and worship, plus a host of other services for the hungry and destitute in our area. St. Paul-Calvary financially and materially supports this ministry along with volunteers to help serve meals.              

West End Community Center

            The West End Community Center is primarily the work of St. John’s Newberry UMC in the West End of Williamsport. The community center provides clothing, some meals, and other support for the needy. St. Paul-Calvary has helped fund this ministry in the past and hopes to become more involved with it in the future.