Community Outreach
Personal Care Pantry
Contact Person: Tammy Davison
Personal Care Pantry is an amazing ministry that is held once a month to supply thirty families who are less fortunate, with basic items such as toilet paper, soap, paper towels, shampoo/conditioner, etc. These essential items that are provided are not available through government programs, so unless families have enough money left over in their budgets it is a struggle for them to buy these items. What we take for granted is not so easy for them.
Christ Lutheran Church sets up the products in a manner that is as much like a shopping experience as possible to allow the families to select their products. Along with this we provide a meal that allows the families to sit down together.
We at Christ Lutheran believe that through this one ministry of many we strengthen the Wyoming community through building connections, and fostering health and wellness by making available basic hygienic products, while promoting respect and self-value for the families.
In our giving we as a congregation are rewarded with the opportunity to experience something bigger than ourselves.
Degage Inner City Ministry
Contact Person: Dave Harris
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: Nancy Heidrich and Lisa Harris
Members donate food items for baskets distributed to families in need between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Back to School Bags
Contact Person: Jennifer Buddemeier
Each fall Christ Lutheran Church bags for local school children.
Blood Drive
Contact Person: Dave Park
Once a quarter the Red Cross brings the blood bank to Christ Lutheran Churah
Habitat for Humanity
Contact Person: Ray Punches/Tom Powell
We provide volunteers to the local Habitat for Humanity and participate in a fund raising Bar-B-Que
Lutheran Social Services
Contact Person: Open
Lutheran Social Services of Michiganis 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.
Thrivent Financial Services
Contact Person: Julie Fischer and 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.
