Local Ministries Supported by Newburg
- Eastside ministries
- An outreach program that provides social outlets and pastoral support for former mental patients living in group homes.
- Ministry Jubilee Projects
- Six projects have been selected for support for 2008, one
each two months of the year. Loose change offering, in addition to
designated
monies,
are directed to each project. The projects are:
- January/February: Joy-Southfield Clinic - Joy-Southfield Community Development Corporation (JSCDC) established by Second Grace UMC in 2002. Volunteer health care practitioners and lay persons provide primary and preventative health care to residents with inadequate health insurance. (Newburg's Charissa Shawcross is our Missionary for this, and Director of Community and Health Services for the clinic.) [$932 was sent in 2008]
- March/April: N.O.A.H. - Networking, Organizing and Advocacy for Health (NOAH). Assists people in downtown Detroit at Central UMC, by providing services such as mental health, domestic violence, substance abuse counseling, physical heath assessment, assistance with transportation, clothing, prescriptions, and hygiene items, etc. [$900 was sent in 2008]
- May/June: Mission Intern Program - Provides support for young, college age adults to explore servant ministry for the summer. (Newburg's Sarah Nadeau is our mission intern) [$857 was sent in 2008]
- July/August: Samaritan Counseling - A "pastoral counseling" center providing counseling to individuals, couples, and families in Southeastern Michigan. [This project is new for Newburg in 2008]
- September/October - Board of Higher Education - Campus Ministry is responsible for promoting and supporting ministry to and with students through Wesley Foundations, local churches, and ecumenical campus ministries. [This project is new for Newburg in 2008]
- November/December - God's Country Cooperative Parish , located in the eastern part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, covers a 250 mile area from Engadine to Paradise to Grand Marais, and encompasses McMillian, Germfask, Newberry and Hulbert. [This project is new for Newburg in 2008]
- Food collection
- Non-perishable food items are collected throughout the year and deposited
in the missions cabinets across from Gutherie Hall. Announcements about
food collections are in the weekly church newsletter, the Scroll. Everyone
is encouraged to participate in this caring ministry. All non-perishable
food is welcome. Food deliveries are made to various local shelters
and care facilities including Redford Interfaith Relief, COTS, Cass UMC, Salvation Army, First
Step, and Doorstep.
- Habitat for Humanity
- Habitat for Humanity is a Christian housing ministry working in partnership
with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing.
Habitat homeowners work along side volunteers from corporations, churches
and other organizations to build homes. Houses are sold at no profit
and no interest charged and mortgage payments are used to finance additional
houses. Newburg members have been strong supporters, in constructing
homes, and financially supporting the building of homes. Projects go
on throughout the year at the Habitat
for Humanity, Detroit affiliate office.
- Housing the Homeless
- Once a year, Newburg United Methodist Church houses approximately
70 homeless guests in Gutherie Hall for a week. The program is in conjunction
with the rotating shelter program run by Cass Community Methodist Church.
Churches throughout metro Detroit volunteer to provide food, love and
shelter, hot breakfasts and dinners, entertainment and companionship
for our guests for the week.
- Lap quilts, baby blankets, and slippers
- Newburg has many talented people who make lap quilts, baby blankets,
and slippers for residents of retirement homes, nursing homes, convalescent
centers and other care facilities throughout Metro Detroit. Yarn and
instructions are available in the mission cabinets across from Gutherie
Hall. In the past, Hope Convalescent Home in Westland, Boulevard Retirement
Center in Detroit and First Step in Canton have received these wonderful
hand-made items.