Mission Outreach
DENOMINATIONAL
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) - Responds to national and international disasters including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, famine, refugee situations, etc.
Florida United Methodist Children's Home - Provides care to children in crisis with residential care, counseling, foster care, and adoption services.
United Methodist Cooperative Ministries (Suncoast) - Operates and promotes social services such as preschools, feeding programs, after school tutoring and ESOL programs in the Gulf Central District.
INTERNATIONAL
Homeless and Orphans Outreach International - Support for orphanages in the Dominican Republic with funds, work teams, and donations of school supplies, medicine and clothing.
IN COOPERATION WITH OTHER LOCAL GROUPS
Solve (Save our lives, volunteer everyway) - Provides crisis pregnancy care housing, counseling, education - for single women.
Family Promise - provides housing and other services to homeless families.
Manatee Religious Services - clearinghouse for requests for financial aid: rent, utilities, etc.
Our Daily Bread - feeding the needy through meals and food pantry.
Christmas Boxes - provides food boxes for the needy during the holiday season.
Manatee Elementary School - support the school by classroom volunteers, Pack-A-Sack, meeting needs as they arise.
OUR UNITED METHODIST WOMEN
Ditty bags provide personal care items for the homeless.
Quilts created by our "SEW 'n'SEWS" for migrant workers
Lap blankets for shut-in's and baby covers, created by the Crocheted Hearts