Local and Connectional Missions
The Local & Connectional Missions (LCM) team is focused on outreach ministries in the Brunswick - Golden Isles area. Our Hearts 'n Hands approach to mission work is inclusive, for giver and receiver. We encourage individual worshipers as well as church groups e.g., United Methodist Men, United Methodist Women and others to use their natural gifts to serve God by helping people in our community.
LCM initiates, promotes and coordinates mission projects among individuals. For example, we have made Thanksgiving and Christmas “happen” for a 20-something divorced mom of three who works two jobs to provide for her three children and her parents that live with her. We respond to emergencies e.g. when a Darien, Ga., grandmother found herself logistically unprepared for full and complete custody of two grandchildren whose parents were jailed; or the Canadian family that suddenly found themselves stranded in Brunswick without funds following a serious traffic accident.
For several years, we have helped ensure that more than 50 Glynn County School system special-needs families have school supplies at year's start. We work with Sunday School classes and other groups in their missions efforts for organizations such as the International Seafarer’s House, a not-for-profit center for weary multicultural sailors, or Amity House, a shelter for battered women.
Throughout the year, we support -- through service and offerings -- simple, effective projects such as “Soap Gets In Your Tithes,” a soap and shampoo ministry that benefits Safe Harbor, a temporary shelter for youth, and other programs such as Operation Christmas Child, Love Loaves, and The Potato Project. We also work to make sure that our military men and women have reading material and other necessities while deployed overseas. And after disasters, we have sent -- in conjunction with Volunteers in Mission (VIM) and the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church -- volunteer teams led by Rev. George Herndon and others to Mississippi and other locations to help with the cleanup.
Volunteering is on a project-to-project basis in small groups or as individuals.
If you would like to join our team or have a mission idea, project or know of someone in need of assistance contact Billy Zeh at 912-265-0121.
Meet some of our volunteers representing the spectrum of the congregation.
Winnie Adamson
Randy & Gail Ashurst
Ralph Bennett
Ernst Bisanz
Tom Bullock
John Carter
Judy Chambless
Dusty Dowdy
Russell & Ann Clarke
Shelba Davies
Dan & Reba Fisher
Sharon & Dennis Folsom
Victoria Glenn
Brent & Kay Hampton
Carol Henderson
George and Cora Herndon
Tina Herring
John Hitt
Ginny Howell
Andy Hutchinson
Trudy Jones
Ray King
Jim Kowalchuk
Carolyn McCollum
Miriam Madison
Barbara & Richard Moon
Rex Moon
Carlton & Beth Morrison
Charlotte Petty
Gloria Rasmussen
Bob & Mary Blanche Rice
Pam Seals
George & Shirley Shirley
Bill & Paula Smith
Jane & Drummond Spence
Lisa Stopchuck
Mike & Jimmie Ann Stopchuck
Deanna Sylvester
Gail Sylvester
Alice Teele
Les & Valarie Turner
Lynne Velie
Agnes Willis
Chris & Spud Woodward
Dave and Ruth Young
Billy Zeh
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