ANSWERING THE CALL TO DO JUSTICE, LOVE KINDNESS & WALK HUMBLY WITH GOD
MISSION THEME: MANNA & MERCY IN OUR COMMUNITY & WORLD
SILVER CREEK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HAS DECIDED TO SUPPORT THREE MAJOR & MAIN MISSION PROJECTS TO BE ABOUT SERVING & TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITY.
OUR THREE MAIN MISSION & MINISTRIES ARE:
(1) LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES (Benton Harbor, MI): This was formerly know as Harbor Harvest Urban Ministries. This is a ministry transforming lives in Benton Harbor through a mentor/tutoring program after school and an all day summer program. This ministry also works with parents and families to address the social justice issues within the heart of Benton Harbor.
(2) FIVE STAR LIFE @ DOWAGIAC MIDDLE SCHOOL: Realizing a need to offer youth trained adult coaches and mentors to help them achieve their vision of a Five Star Life. Five star program and coaches offer support for academics while also playing games and building team together. We are teaming up to help more youth experience success in life and academics. This is achieved through the teaching of Five Star core values: Respect, Integrity, Sacrifice, Courage, Responsability
(3) DASAS: Domestic & Sexual Abuse Services working with women, children and families in harmful environments/situations in the Van Buren and Cass County areas. Members of our congregation particpate through hands on volunteering. We also
participate by doing drives for soap, laundry detergent, toilet paper essential
items when relocating women, children and families. In addit
OUR THREE MAIN MISSION & MINISTRIES ARE:
(1) LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES (Benton Harbor, MI): This was formerly know as Harbor Harvest Urban Ministries. This is a ministry transforming lives in Benton Harbor through a mentor/tutoring program after school and an all day summer program. This ministry also works with parents and families to address the social justice issues within the heart of Benton Harbor.
(2) FIVE STAR LIFE @ DOWAGIAC MIDDLE SCHOOL: Realizing a need to offer youth trained adult coaches and mentors to help them achieve their vision of a Five Star Life. Five star program and coaches offer support for academics while also playing games and building team together. We are teaming up to help more youth experience success in life and academics. This is achieved through the teaching of Five Star core values: Respect, Integrity, Sacrifice, Courage, Responsability
(3) DASAS: Domestic & Sexual Abuse Services working with women, children and families in harmful environments/situations in the Van Buren and Cass County areas. Members of our congregation particpate through hands on volunteering. We also
participate by doing drives for soap, laundry detergent, toilet paper essential
items when relocating women, children and families. In addit
In the desert places build a highway so that God can get through! --Isaiah 40:3
Silver Creek is proud to be a Six Lanes Congregation
A Mission Highway connects The West Michigan Conference with millions of people and places around the world. It’s a highway that leads to peace, justice, hope and freedom in Jesus Christ. As we travel this highway and meet our neighbors, we move beyond ourselves and into a global community.
Through our Ministry Shares, our First Mile Giving, we help "build the highway" that allows us to travel into God's world. We support a vast network that organizes outreach and shares resources that make a difference in the lives of millions of people. Our Ministry Shares support The United Methodist Church as it tells God’s Story and lives out God’s Love around the globe.
There's a map that helps us travel the Mission Highway. It's called the "Six Lanes of The Advance" and it deals with Second Mile Giving above and beyond our basic responsibilities for outreach. This map helps us remember that everyone--close by and far away--is our neighbor in Jesus Christ. Our Conference adopts "Advance Special Projects" in these Six Lanes and then encourages congregations to become "Six Lanes Churches" by supporting at least one project from each of the lanes
Silver Creek is proud to be a Six Lanes Congregation
A Mission Highway connects The West Michigan Conference with millions of people and places around the world. It’s a highway that leads to peace, justice, hope and freedom in Jesus Christ. As we travel this highway and meet our neighbors, we move beyond ourselves and into a global community.
Through our Ministry Shares, our First Mile Giving, we help "build the highway" that allows us to travel into God's world. We support a vast network that organizes outreach and shares resources that make a difference in the lives of millions of people. Our Ministry Shares support The United Methodist Church as it tells God’s Story and lives out God’s Love around the globe.
There's a map that helps us travel the Mission Highway. It's called the "Six Lanes of The Advance" and it deals with Second Mile Giving above and beyond our basic responsibilities for outreach. This map helps us remember that everyone--close by and far away--is our neighbor in Jesus Christ. Our Conference adopts "Advance Special Projects" in these Six Lanes and then encourages congregations to become "Six Lanes Churches" by supporting at least one project from each of the lanes
SILVER CREEK HELPS HUNGER through monthly collections for the FEED MY SHEEP FOOD PANTRY.
While the "Feed My Sheep Food Pantry" is our main food pantry,which we support. We also support the A.C.T.I.O.N Food Pantry located at 301 Main Street in downtown Dowagiac. This food pantry is open from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturdays.
