In our United Methodist tradition, personal piety walks hand-in-hand with social holiness. To put it simply, our spirituality “walks the talk” when engaged in acts of mercy (direct helping) coupled with voices for justice (long-term advocacy leading to social change). Portage Chapel Hill United Methodist Church has many, many ways to be involved in working for a community that looks more like God’s intention…a place of wholeness, peace and justice. Watch this space for emerging opportunities. …And, if you have a great idea for a new mission or cause for justice, talk with the “Beyond the Trail” Core Team Leader, Sheila Bigelow. She will point you in the direction to get something going!
Opportunities for Hands-On Acts of Mercy
Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry at Chapel Hill
Helping Hands
Ministry with Community
Sit-and-Stitch Quilting Group
Summer Youth and Adult Service Project
Opportunities for Justice Advocacy
Bread for the World (working to ensure the feeding of a hungry world)
“Green” Congregations (working for ecological stewardship)
Reconciling Congregations Efforts and Events (working for full inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered persons in the community of faith)
Michigan Organizing Project (an interdenominational effort in southwest Michigan to work on agreed issues of social justice)