MPUMC: Outreach Programs

Programs

Age-specific activities to surround your child with Christian values.

	Children News Get the very latest, up-to-the-week news on all children's activities ongoing at MPUMC.
	Children's Missions From Change for Children to Food for FISH, get the latest on our children's missions.
	Nursery When and where to bring your infants and toddlers—and how to volunteer to help!
	Sunday School for 3 yr olds to pre-K Find out what your 3 and 4 year olds are learning (so you can study ahead and look really smart!).
	Sunday School for K thru 4th grades Rotation Sunday School makes church fun for K thru 4th grades. Really!
	Sunday School for 5th grade Our 5th graders are "The Followers" and following this leader is good for the soul!
	Memory Challenge A Bible verse game for K–5th graders! Click here to start memorizing!!
	Bible Detective Test your detective skills and see if you can solve these Bible challenges!
	Vacation Bible School Get the latest on the next VBS session. It's never to early to plan!
	Children's Choirs Fa-la-la-la-la. If that makes sense to you, click here for info on all children's choirs and handbells.
	Parent's Night Out Escape is near! Find out what nights you can entrust us with your kid(s). Register online!
	Safe Sanctuaries MPUMC implements the UMC policy for keeping children safe at church. Find out more here.
	CEP We would love to watch your pre-K child on Tuesday and Thursday! Check out our Children's Enrichment Progam.

Youth Programs Active programs that give youth alternatives to hanging out at the mall—or worse!
Adult Programs A wide range of programs to keep your faith fresh or to help others with theirs.
Outreach Programs Opportunities to make our community and world a better place.
Music Programs Choirs, bands, and bells for all ages! Help us make a joyful noise!

Outreach Programs

Fish Food Program

Working daily through twenty-nine community churches and the FISH Hospitality Pantries, FISH volunteers responded to some 82,000 calls for help last year by delivering food to the needy. MPUMC answers calls for food on the fourth Friday of each month. Volunteers are needed to answer calls, pack food, and deliver the food to the callers.

If you have found this page and are in need of food,
call FISH at 523-7900, Monday through Saturday, from 9:00 to 4:00.

Missionary Support

Claire Lovelace is a church and community worker assigned to the Knoxville District by the Board of Global Ministries. She assists churches in doing outreach in their communities. Claire's work includes congregational-based community organizing and resourcing local outreach ministries. Our church helps supplement her salary.

Care and Share

A fund used to provide one-time assistance to those who call or come by the church needing immediate aid. Offerings left at the altar rail during Holy Communion go to this project.

Contact

A confidential telephone helpline and crisis intervention program staffed by volunteers from various denominations. Needed: Financial assistance and phone volunteers. Fifty hours of training is required. New classes begin each fall and spring.

Inner City Ministries

Emerald Avenue United Methodist Church and Lynnwood United Methodist Church offer spiritual, educational and recreational opportunities to urban children, teens and adults. Volunteers are needed for a variety of jobs, ranging from renovating Sunday School rooms to tutoring students.

Habitat For Humanity

A Christian-oriented ministry that helps low-income families in need of permanent housing to build a home. The home is sold to the family at no interest. Needed: Financial assistance for our church to be a covenant partner and volunteers to provide the labor to build a house. For information on any current Habitat activities, click here!

Short-Term Missions

Domestic and foreign short-term missions (7-14 days) are available to interested individuals. Our church has sent volunteer teams to Mississippi to aid in Hurricane Katrina relief, Costa Rica, and many areas in and around East Tennessee. Home and building repair, medical assistance, and providing a children's Bible school are a few of the services these teams have provided.