Buddy Back Packs
Contact: Phyllis Blake 910.686.9843 or 910.470.6521
The Buddy Back Pack program at Wesleyan Chapel UMC serves students at Topsail High School. We work with the school nurse and the counselors.
Members donate food and money to the Buddy Back Packs. Volunteers prepare the bags and deliver them to the school nurse each week on Thursday or Friday. We use the school calendar to make the schedule.At Christmas break and Spring break we prepare two bags and also include homemade goodies. At Christmas we also include a $25 gift card to Food Lion. At the end of the school year we give each graduate who is part of the program a $50 gift card to Walmart. We also empty the cabinets of all food and divide it between the students.
From the donations we purchase the needed food and gift certificates. We include fresh fruit and a variety of foods each week.
Community Holiday Assistance Program (CHAP)
Contact: Beth Sanders 910.686.4127
This is an eastern Pender County initiative in which we participate that provides an opportunity for churches and groups from our area to provide a food box at Thanksgiving and a food box and gifts for the children to families in the Topsail communities who are struggling financially.
At Christmas our church also adopts angels from the Methodist Home for Children and provides gifts for these children as well as providing a gift bag to residents of an area nursing home.
Good Samaritan House
Contact: Beth Sanders 910.686.4127
The Good Samaritan House is a thrift shop started by Wesleyan Chapel in 1993 and is located across the street from the church and just before the stop light headed towards Hampstead. Clothing and household goods at very affordable prices are available to the surrounding community. It provides assistance to people in our area with clothing when disaster such as a fire strikes and proceeds are used to contribute to the 4 C’s Food pantry in Hampstead, and also to assist individuals experiencing financial difficulties with prescriptions.
The Good Sam is operated entirely by volunteers. Its hours are Friday 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, and Saturday there are two shifts, 9:00 AM -12:00 PM and 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM. We need 6 volunteers each week, 24 most months, or 312 for the year.
How can you help:
Donations: People can donate gently used clothing, household items and some small furniture items (please check before bringing furniture items as space is limited).
Challenge: You can challenge your Sunday school class or fellowship group to volunteer one three hour shift on a Saturday.
Volunteer: Need people to sort through donations, price household items, stock and straighten clothing, conduct sales. Also need individuals with trucks who can carry trash to the Pender Recycling Center approximately once a month, must have sticker for center.
Good Shepherd Center
www.goodshepherdwilmington.org
Contact: Kristin Dunn 910.763.4424 ext. 101
Good Shepherd was established as a modest soup kitchen in 1983. Over the years, we have grown to be the largest provider of homeless services in the tri-county area. Our mission is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and foster transition to housing. Good Shepherd transitions upwards of 150 homeless men, women, and children back to permanent housing each year.
International Outreach
Wesleyan Chapel is committed to serving others and sharing God’s word to those stateside and abroad. Fundraising and mission trips are all a part of this wonderful ministry. In 2010, Wesleyan Chapel, sent our first mission team to Costa Rica. In 2011 & 2012, several missioners returned to Costa Rica to continue aiding the churches there. Learn more about Costa Rica Missions through their website at http://www.costaricamissionprojects.com/
In 2013, several members participated in a Medical Mission Team with Dr. Ken White to help Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. The Missions Committee is currently prayerfully considering options for our next overseas mission team. If you are interested, there are always teams going from our area through UMVIM to places all around the world.
Kairos Prison Ministries
Contact: Charles Busby 910.681.0047
Members from the church help those in prison find their faith and worship. Please contact the church office 910.686.4041 for more information about this life transforming ministry.
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard
Contact: Michelle Pearsall 910.200.9909
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard is a wonderful community mission’s opportunity open to all who attend Wesleyan Chapel. On the first Sunday of each month we gather to distribute food and toiletries to the hungry in Wilmington. Some of our members also participate in purchasing and stocking food for the cupboard.
Meeting time and location: First Saturday of each month from 12:45PM - 3:15PM downtown at the Cupboard on 2nd & Grace at 401 Grace Street.
Operation Christmas Child
Contact: Beth Sanders 910.686.4127
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, a Franklin Graham ministry which provides shoe box filled gifts to children throughout the world who have suffered because of war, natural disasters, poverty, illness, and neglect. The National Collection week is usually around the third week in November.
Project AGAPE Christmas Boxes
Contact: Beth Sanders 910.686.4127
Project AGAPE is an outreach ministry of the Western and North Carolina Conferences of the United Methodist Church that works with the Armenian Apostolic Church to provide humanitarian support to the people of the Kashatagh region. One of their projects is to provide Christmas boxes to the children of the region and they are usually due around the first of October.
Sandwich Making - Good Shepherd Center
Contact: Tammy Southerland 910.228.8005.
The Good Shepherd Center helps the homeless and others in need with food and shelter. They are located at 811 Martin Street in Wilmington. The first Monday of each month Wesleyan Chapel supplies 50 bag lunches to Good Shepherd to help with their ministry to others.
International Seaman's Center
www.iscwilmington.org
Contact: ISCWilmington@gmail.com 910.762.3792
Interested in learning more about Wilmington’s Port and meeting folks from all over the world bringing goods through our city? Want the opportunity to share Christ’s love with someone whose language you can’t speak? Say welcome and Jesus loves you with the gift of your time and a home-baked cookie. Wesleyan Chapel regularly collects items that are needed to help the seamen. Drop off boxes are located in Lee Hall and our Sanctuary.
Rise Against Hunger
www.riseagainsthunger.org
Contact: Carrie Dixon 910.620.1114
Rise Against Hunger is an International hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision to end world hunger and a mission to provide food and life-saving aid to the world's destitute in the most efficient and effective manner.
Contact: Phyllis Blake 910.686.9843 or 910.470.6521
The Buddy Back Pack program at Wesleyan Chapel UMC serves students at Topsail High School. We work with the school nurse and the counselors.
Members donate food and money to the Buddy Back Packs. Volunteers prepare the bags and deliver them to the school nurse each week on Thursday or Friday. We use the school calendar to make the schedule.At Christmas break and Spring break we prepare two bags and also include homemade goodies. At Christmas we also include a $25 gift card to Food Lion. At the end of the school year we give each graduate who is part of the program a $50 gift card to Walmart. We also empty the cabinets of all food and divide it between the students.
From the donations we purchase the needed food and gift certificates. We include fresh fruit and a variety of foods each week.
Community Holiday Assistance Program (CHAP)
Contact: Beth Sanders 910.686.4127
This is an eastern Pender County initiative in which we participate that provides an opportunity for churches and groups from our area to provide a food box at Thanksgiving and a food box and gifts for the children to families in the Topsail communities who are struggling financially.
At Christmas our church also adopts angels from the Methodist Home for Children and provides gifts for these children as well as providing a gift bag to residents of an area nursing home.
Good Samaritan House
Contact: Beth Sanders 910.686.4127
The Good Samaritan House is a thrift shop started by Wesleyan Chapel in 1993 and is located across the street from the church and just before the stop light headed towards Hampstead. Clothing and household goods at very affordable prices are available to the surrounding community. It provides assistance to people in our area with clothing when disaster such as a fire strikes and proceeds are used to contribute to the 4 C’s Food pantry in Hampstead, and also to assist individuals experiencing financial difficulties with prescriptions.
The Good Sam is operated entirely by volunteers. Its hours are Friday 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, and Saturday there are two shifts, 9:00 AM -12:00 PM and 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM. We need 6 volunteers each week, 24 most months, or 312 for the year.
How can you help:
Donations: People can donate gently used clothing, household items and some small furniture items (please check before bringing furniture items as space is limited).
Challenge: You can challenge your Sunday school class or fellowship group to volunteer one three hour shift on a Saturday.
Volunteer: Need people to sort through donations, price household items, stock and straighten clothing, conduct sales. Also need individuals with trucks who can carry trash to the Pender Recycling Center approximately once a month, must have sticker for center.
Good Shepherd Center
www.goodshepherdwilmington.org
Contact: Kristin Dunn 910.763.4424 ext. 101
Good Shepherd was established as a modest soup kitchen in 1983. Over the years, we have grown to be the largest provider of homeless services in the tri-county area. Our mission is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and foster transition to housing. Good Shepherd transitions upwards of 150 homeless men, women, and children back to permanent housing each year.
International Outreach
Wesleyan Chapel is committed to serving others and sharing God’s word to those stateside and abroad. Fundraising and mission trips are all a part of this wonderful ministry. In 2010, Wesleyan Chapel, sent our first mission team to Costa Rica. In 2011 & 2012, several missioners returned to Costa Rica to continue aiding the churches there. Learn more about Costa Rica Missions through their website at http://www.costaricamissionprojects.com/
In 2013, several members participated in a Medical Mission Team with Dr. Ken White to help Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. The Missions Committee is currently prayerfully considering options for our next overseas mission team. If you are interested, there are always teams going from our area through UMVIM to places all around the world.
Kairos Prison Ministries
Contact: Charles Busby 910.681.0047
Members from the church help those in prison find their faith and worship. Please contact the church office 910.686.4041 for more information about this life transforming ministry.
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard
Contact: Michelle Pearsall 910.200.9909
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard is a wonderful community mission’s opportunity open to all who attend Wesleyan Chapel. On the first Sunday of each month we gather to distribute food and toiletries to the hungry in Wilmington. Some of our members also participate in purchasing and stocking food for the cupboard.
Meeting time and location: First Saturday of each month from 12:45PM - 3:15PM downtown at the Cupboard on 2nd & Grace at 401 Grace Street.
Operation Christmas Child
Contact: Beth Sanders 910.686.4127
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, a Franklin Graham ministry which provides shoe box filled gifts to children throughout the world who have suffered because of war, natural disasters, poverty, illness, and neglect. The National Collection week is usually around the third week in November.
Project AGAPE Christmas Boxes
Contact: Beth Sanders 910.686.4127
Project AGAPE is an outreach ministry of the Western and North Carolina Conferences of the United Methodist Church that works with the Armenian Apostolic Church to provide humanitarian support to the people of the Kashatagh region. One of their projects is to provide Christmas boxes to the children of the region and they are usually due around the first of October.
Sandwich Making - Good Shepherd Center
Contact: Tammy Southerland 910.228.8005.
The Good Shepherd Center helps the homeless and others in need with food and shelter. They are located at 811 Martin Street in Wilmington. The first Monday of each month Wesleyan Chapel supplies 50 bag lunches to Good Shepherd to help with their ministry to others.
International Seaman's Center
www.iscwilmington.org
Contact: ISCWilmington@gmail.com 910.762.3792
Interested in learning more about Wilmington’s Port and meeting folks from all over the world bringing goods through our city? Want the opportunity to share Christ’s love with someone whose language you can’t speak? Say welcome and Jesus loves you with the gift of your time and a home-baked cookie. Wesleyan Chapel regularly collects items that are needed to help the seamen. Drop off boxes are located in Lee Hall and our Sanctuary.
Rise Against Hunger
www.riseagainsthunger.org
Contact: Carrie Dixon 910.620.1114
Rise Against Hunger is an International hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision to end world hunger and a mission to provide food and life-saving aid to the world's destitute in the most efficient and effective manner.