Community Outreach

Cookies for Veterans
Contact Person: Mary Jaeschke
Cookies are collected each month for the VA facility.

Degage Inner City Ministry
Contact Person: Bill & Barb Deal
Members volunteer one night each month to work at Degage Ministries (a ministry dealing with the needy in Grand Rapids).

Holiday Food Baskets
Contact Person: Mary Jaeschke
Members donate food items for baskets distributed to families in need between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Lutheran Social Services
Contact Person: Susan Clark
Lutheran Social Services of Michigan is affiliated with the Lower/Northwest Michigan Synod of the ELCA. LSSM manages several retirement communities: Luther Village retirement apartments, Luther Home skilled nursing and care for Alzheimer's patients and Luther Woods assisted living. LSSM also sponsors group homes and halfway houses, offers services for the elderly, adoption and less fortunate members of our local communities here in Michigan, and has been doing so for over 50 years.

Operation Christmas Child
Contact Person: Sara Rice
Members help make gift baskets for children at Christmas.

Thrivent Financial Services
Contact Person: Lisa Harris & George Wohleter
Thrivent Financial Services is a "mutual benefit society that sells life insurance and financial products to Lutherans. They share some of the proceeds with congregations, helping to fund various projects and ministries.

Wee Care
Contact Person: Open
Collects good, used outerwear from members and distributes them to children in need in elementary schools in the Wyoming Public Schools during November and December.