Meals are prepared and served to the hungry in SE Volusia County
The Community Hot Meal program serves hungry people in Southeast Volusia County. It operates every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at Hollister Hall, First United Methodist Church - NSB and on Tuesday and Thursday at Pettis Park.
This program, initiated over a decade ago, serves meals prepared by fourteen area churches and supported by an additional seven churches. The individual churches provide most of the food items for the meals and then prepare and serve them to hungry people in our area. Meal planners are challenged to provide a complete and balanced meal for 100-150 participants for $30, the amount allotted by CCUMC to pay for the meal. This year the program has averaged around 125 dinners per day. CCUMC has two crews which prepare food on the second Monday and third Wednesday of each month.
Donations of fruits and vegetables by Perrine's Produce are used to supplement the meal. Publix donates excess items prepared by its own bakeries. A CCUMC volunteer picks up these items at the Publix Stores on the beachside and on Route 44 and delivers them to the feeding program every day of the week.
For more information on how you can support this program or volunteer to help, call Bobbi Wilson, Monday team chair, at 416-9669 or Joan Harvey, Wednesday team chair, at 428-6863.
Rev. Marilyn Beecher, Church and Community Worker, East Central District, Florida Conference
The Rev. Marilyn Beecher, a United Methodist missionary serving as a Church and Community Worker, will be the guest preacher on Sunday, August 22.She will preachat both the 9:30 and 11 a.m. services. Her sermon topic is Words and Deeds, based on Matthew 21:28-32.
Ms. Beecher’s responsibilities as a Church and Community Worker involve helping congregations inEast Central Florida develop new outreach ministries, with special emphasis on work with children and youth, disaster response, immigrants, and hunger programs.
She says about her work: “If churches are to live up to the call of the Gospel, then they cannot just care for their own members, but they must be engaged with the people around them and be beacons of hope for the community.”
Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Beecher was a Church and Community Worker in Miami, working with three Haitian congregations to develop new outreach and evangelism ministries. She also served as a United Methodist missionary in Bulgaria from 1993 to 1997.
WEEKLY WORSHIP SERVICES
SUNDAY @ 9:30 AM Traditional Blended Style of Worship
SUNDAY @ 11 AM A More Informal and Flexible Style of Worship Children who attend this service are invited to leave at the Offering to attend Children's Church
SUNDAY @ 5:00 PM Special Worship for Special People
for the Mentally Challenged, their families, and friends
followed by a light supper and time of fellowship
