Food Insecurity
Love Thy Neighbor
Love Thy Neighbor (LTN) is an outreach of FUMC which provides food for our neighbors in the community who are facing food-insecurity. Every morning LTN provides non-perishable, pop-top ready-to-eat canned foods, snacks and nutrition drinks to the guests of the St. Andrew’s Breakfast Program. We welcome you to support LTN financially.
Learn more about LTN or sign up to volunteer.
Contact: lovethyneighbor2008@gmail.com
Crop Walk
The annual Washtenaw/Ann Arbor CROP Hunger Walk involves walkers and supporters raising funds to help those who are hungry. People from various faiths and groups in a community wide event and walkers of all ages walking a 1.8 mile route on a fall Sunday afternoon. Of the funds raised, 25% support hunger relief efforts in our community and 75% supports worldwide hunger relief work of Church World Service.
Contact: Spring Jackson
*Family friendly, youth volunteers welcome
Hope Clinic
The food outreach program, for which volunteers are needed, has been extremely active in this COVID-19 period. Hope Clinic offers hot “to go” meals to consumers every evening (5-6 p.m.) except for Wednesdays and Fridays. Volunteers are needed for the 4th Thursday of each month at the clinic, 3-6:30 p.m. and at various other times throughout the week sorting and distributing food boxes.
Contact: Mark Giesler
Kenya Mission Project
FUMC partners with a rural Kenyan community to provide education and a sustainable feeding program to the poorest of the poor. The Bishop Lawi Imathiu Secondary School (BLISS) serves over 600 secondary school students and was built primarily with funds donated by FUMC Ann Arbor.
In addition, we are getting to know two other primary schools in the community that serve over 700 children living in acute poverty. Much of our recent focus has been on assisting the educational and feeding efforts at Gichunge Primary School. The mission team usually departs for Kenya in February.
Contact: Kathy Macdonald