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St.
Paul's Church Mission is "To Know Christ and To
Help Others To Know Christ." The congregation is
passionately committed to fulfilling that mission
locally and around the world.
Locally,
some of the missions we support financially and
through volunteers include
- The
Ecumenical Center (transitional housing and
other programs)
- Neighborhood
Meals and Enrichment
(summer
meals program)
- SPRINT
(neighborhood youth activity
program)
- Metro
Area Housing Project (MAHP - refurbishing homes
for lower to middle income families)
- Habitat
for Humanity
(new
and refurbished housing)
- Linn
Community Food Bank
- Wellington
Heights Neighborhood Association Clean Up
Day
- Mound
View Neighborhood Association Clean Up
Day
- LEAF
(Local Emergency Assistance Fund)
- Helping
Hands
- Linn
County Jail Ministry
- and
many more!
Globally,
St. Paul's reaches out in mission throughout the state of
Iowa, around the nation and
around
the world.
Short
Term Volunteer in Mission teams of adults in recent
years have gone personally to Honduras, Zimbabwe,
Russia, Haiti, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic.
National youth mission trips are sponsored every
other year.
In
addition, through the congregation as a whole and
various church groups provide over $350,000 of
mission support annually.
You
can be part of God's work in missions at St.
Paul's! For more information, phone the church
office (363-2058)
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Summer Mission Trip