Youth Events
Churches United for the Homeless
Dorothy Day House
Extra Yarn
Caring Closet
UMCOR Kits
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We have a weekly bulletin and annoucement page given out at each service, you can download the PDF version of both pages before or after each weekly service.
View the church newsletter online -March Messenger
Also, to remind you that with the beginning of Lent, the downtown churches hold a Lenten Worship services at 12:00 noon for the 4 middle weeks of Lent. Soup and sandwiches are served from 11:30 to12 noon. The worship service is from 12:00 noon to 12:30 and soup and sandwiches are available again from 12:30-1:00. This makes it possible to have lunch AND worship over the noon hour. This year it is at Elim Lutheran Church 321 9th St N. The noon time worship and lunch begins on Wednesday February 24th . Our own Pastor Rich Zeck will be doing the first service on the 24th.
Looking for “techies”. If you are knowledgeable about sound boards, projecting, recording, etc. and would be willing to volunteer a Sunday or two occasionally, we would greatly appreciate your gifts! Our own Jef Curfman, who handles a lot of that is in the Air Force National Guard and is gone at least once a month. We do have one or two other faithful volunteers, but sometimes their schedules don’t always match. We also have another volunteer opportunity available. We need someone to help input our weekly worship attendance here at the downtown church which takes about an hour each week. Please give the church office a call 232-4416 if you think you would be interested in helping us.
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CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMLESS First Church is responsible for serving the evening meal at Churches United for the Homeless (1901 1st Ave. N – Moorhead) the second Saturday of every month. If you would be willing to give about 4 hours of your time in helping to feed those less fortunate, you may either call the church 232-4416 to add your name to the list, or stop by the Welcome Center and write your name on the list that is hanging on bulletin boards.
DOROTHY DAY HOUSE (714 8th St S)– First Church is responsible for providing the evening meal the first Saturday of each month. This meal is prepared off site and brought to the shelter. Contact Char Koll 232-5457 for questions and offers of help.
EXTRA YARN ? A former First UMC member is now a resident of one of our nursing homes in town. She has been knitting stocking caps for little ones for our Caring Closet and is nearly out of yarn. If you have extra yarn that you no longer need, you may drop it off at the church office and we will see that our “knitting-buddy” gets it to make more caps for “Kids without Kaps.”
Caring Closet: Children’s Clothing Needed for CARING CLOSET First Church’s CARING CLOSET- The new ministry started last fall at First Church, that furnishes gently used (and sometimes new) clothing free of charge for children, has been such a tremendous success, that it is running short of clothing. If you would check through your closets for children’s clothing you no longer use (infants-teen sizes) and would be willing to donate them to the Caring Closet, we will give you a receipt for tax purposes.
UMCOR Kits This year the focus will be putting together items for Health Kits and School Kits. You will find lists of what is needed for both kits at the Welcome Centers at both downtown and The Gathering. If you don’t want to put together a whole kit but just bring in items, that can be done as well.
Health Kits contain: 1 hand towel ( not a kitchen towel) 1 wash cloth
- 1 comb (large & sturdy, not pocket sized)
- 1 nail file or fingernail clipper ( no emery boards or toenail clippers0
- 1 bath size bar of soap ( 3 oz and up)
- 1 adult toothbrush ( single brushes only in original wrapper no child size brushes, please)
- 6 band aids
- $1.00 to purchase toothpaste.
Only new items, please. Please items inside sealed one gallon plastic bag.
School kits contain:
- 1 pair blunt scissors ( round tipped)
- 3 pads or loose leaf (8 ½ x 11 ruled paper)
- 1 30 centimeter ruler
- 1 hand held pencil sharpner
- 6 unsharpened pencils w/ erasers
- 1 eraser, 2 ½”
- 1 box of 24 crayons ( only 24)
Place these items inside a sealed one gallon bag
