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Missions are at the heart of of First United Methodist Church in West Lafayette, Ind. The Missions and Social Concerns Committee receives a portion of the church's operating budget to support 12 missions while United Methodist Women and our Children's Ministries support others. In addition, Missions receives 1 percent of the annual donations to this church. Missions allocates that income to support the Wesley Foundation at Purdue University.
The Projects in Our CommunityUMW and Children's Ministries' Missions
Grace Children's Hospital (Haiti) United Methodist Committee on Relief Operation Classroom (Liberia & Sierra Leone)
First United Methodist and Christ United Meth
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 Above: Karen Logan and Julie Nagel, (left) work with other volunteers to pack backpacks. Right: Birthday parties Feed the Kids: Two birthday girls, (left to right) Caroline Nagel and Molly Shanklin, at First United Methodist Church decided to forgo presents and instead asked guests to bring food to donate to Edgelea School.
MOPS helps girls who find themselves trying to fill the role of "mom" while they are still growing up themselves. We are chartered by Mothers of Preschoolers International to provide a faith-based, supportive, nonjudgmental environment where teen moms can come together for support and encouragement. Teaching and activities are focused on the distinct needs of teenagers to help them become more self-sufficient, confident, mature, giving, and self-aware young women. http://www.fumcwl.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=45703&PID=728880 Lafayette Urban Ministry (LUM) In addition, we have pledged $4,000 to LUM’s capital campaign. The foundation of our church has pledged to match that. We also partner with St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church to sponsor LUM’s Jubilee Christmas for which we help disadvantaged parents select and wrap presents for their children. It is the community’s largest Christmas assistance program.
Wesley Foundation at Purdue University
These $50 scholarships help youth from First Church attend a week at camp. Youth grow in their faith through a week in one of our four camp settings in the conference. TOP Other FUMC groups sponsor more missions United Methodist Women’s and Children’s Ministries take on their own projects and support efforts that include the Lucille Raines House in Indianapolis for women recovering from substance abuse; YWCA Women's Shelter; scholarships for the Village Nursery School; the mitten tree for LUM, Food Finders Food Bank as well as the LUM and Hanna Center food banks; and Heifer International. |
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Make a tax-deductable financial donation to the church for the Kids so we can buy food from Food Finders. 
Lafayette Urban Ministry is a non-profit ecumenical organization serving the disadvantaged in our community.
This non-profit, ecumenical housing ministry has built nearly 200 homes in Tippecanoe, Carroll and White counties. Through volunteer labor and tax-deductible donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple houses with the help of the homeowner families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and are financed with affordable, no-interest loans. The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are recycled into a revolving fund to build more houses..jpg)
The Wesley Foundation is a campus ministry primarily for and by students, serving them and helping t
This is a hands-on mission project of the Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church to strengthen education in some of the church's schools in Liberia and Sierra Leone. We construct cloth bags and fill them with specific school supplies. We send about 200 school kits to Tubman-Gray School in Liberia, West Africa. We also collect donations to cover shipping expenses as well as for scholarships.
Founded and led by missionary Marie Humbane, a teacher from Africa University, the Ishe Anesu Project in Mutare, Zimbabwe is part of the United Methodist Church's Global Ministries. Ishe Anesu provides tuition, fees and school uniforms for those in need. Additionally, it offers an after-school program, Bible study, assistance with homework, tutoring, physical recreation, and field trips. Christian education and ethics are taught through Bible stories, dramas, and skits. Read their Christmas 2011