Mission Outreach at St Pauls United Methodist Church in Oakland MD

Mission Outreach Page

We value:

Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
People, in all their diversity.
Children & Youth, and seek to incorporate them in everything we do.
Fellowship, and seek to be a community where people build meaningful relationships.

Our Vision:

    To welcome all people to worship God with passion.

    To grow in Christian faith and witness.

    To serve Christ in our community and the world.

Our Mission:

To make disciples of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:16-20).

St Paul's United Methodist Church provides a number of ministries for all age groups.

ST. PAUL'S MISSION PARTNER
LIVING HOPE HIGH SCHOOL
BUNGOMA, KENYA

     St. Paul's is a Mission Covenant Partner with Living Hope High School! St. Paul's has hosted Living Hope on many occasions during our Sunday Services, our Soul Food ministry and during special events held at our church over the past years.

      This 60-student Christian school serves impoverished teens who have lost one or both parents due to AIDS. Many of these students are sponsored by members of the Potomac Highland churches. To what else can we, UMC members, attribute this outpouring other than the Holy Spirit? GOD IS AT WORK! The Lord has drawn us as a district into this wonderful project. He has put a personal concern on our hearts for the physical and spiritual nurturing of these Christ believing young people.

     One of our own members, beloved Marilyn Uhl who passed away in 2023l, retired from teaching in West Virginia and went to Kenya (unsponsored by any church) in 2009 to follow the Holy Spirit's lead and serve these destitute children. Marilyn began with 24 orphans in a mud building with no electricity or running water. The school now has its own propert, a brick dormitory, a well and electricity.

     The students tend their own garden, milk cows, and watch over a banana grove while competing interscholastically in girls and boys volleyball, and still give their attention to the school buildings and grounds. Consistently,100% of the students obtain a passing grade on their state achievement tests. The students and faculty members feel God's benevolent hand on each of them. The students pray and worship with an intensity and dedication that inspires each of the sponsors to increase their prayer life and dedication to follow Jesus Christ's example to feed the hungry and clothe the naked!

Mission Statement: As Christians, we are compelled to care for and help others. The Bible instructs us in James 1:27 to care for orphans in their troubles. The donors and sponsors of LIVING HOPE HIGH SCHOOL are committed to supporting the students of the school with our prayers, love, time, and money. By putting Jesus' word into practice, hope, a bright future, and a chance to witness their deep faith in Jesus Christ is given to these children. The mission of the donors and sponsors of the school is to empower the students through spiritual values, to be ever conscious of the human rights of all, to break the poverty cycle of AIDS, to lower child abuse and the incidence of child labor, and to prevent malnutrition and deadly diseases.

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The Kairos Prison Ministry at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland is in need of new ministry partners. Volunteers minister to the incarcerated and their family members. Opportunities are available for service both inside and outside the correctional institution. For more information, visit http://www.marylandkairos.org/involved.html or call Chaplain Eric Weaver at 301.697.9684.

'Pressley Ridge, a therapeutic Foster Care Program in Western Maryland has an urgent need for foster parents to provide full-time or part-time care for youth in their program. Interested individuals must be 23 years old, have a stable income, a means of transportation, compassion and a strong desire to help young people. The program offers 24-hour supportive services including weekly in-home support by a licensed treatment coordinator; tax-free reimbursement for care; professional foster parent training and on-sight mental health services. For more information, contact Allison Watkins at Pressley Ridge at (301) 724-8413 or visit the website today.

Visit their website at :
www.livinghopehighschool.org

For More Information visit:
www.livinghopehighschool.org/contact-us

HEART & HAND HOUSE MISSION TRIP

Our Heart & Hand House, Inc. Mission trip occurrs in late summer and takes our missionaries to Philippi, WV. The group is sponsored by St. Paul's UMC. The volunteers fulfill this enduring mission trip to support those in need. Our missionaries in the field may be volunteering to paint, dry wall, install water pipes to bathrooms and perform electrical work.

PART 1 of Matthew and Melissa's conversation with Rev. Dr. Mike Linger, the Executive Director of House of the Carpenter

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Part 2 of Matthew and Melissa's conversation with Rev. Dr. Mike Linger of the House of the Carpenter.

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