Ministries of Our Church

South Wyoming United Methodist Church

Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds

Ministries of our Church

We are a giving church. Persons who join The United Methodist Church promise to serve God and support the church with their prayers, their presence, their gifts, and their service; and that pledge of loyalty enables us to give generously to benevolences and mission efforts. We gather together in the spirit of Christ to worship, and then, empowered by that inspiration, we depart to be the church in the world.

Do all the good you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can.
-John Wesley

South Wyoming United Methodist Church is proud to work with the following organizations and encourages you to give from your heart!

South End Community Outreach Ministries (SECOM)
Paper Gator
Nothing But Nets
West Michigan United Methodist Conference (W.M.U.M.C.)
Official Website of the United Methodist Church
Haiti Hot Lunch and other World Service ministries
Byron Community Ministries

South End Community Outreach Ministries (SECOM) - An independent charitable organization serving Kent County by providing emergency assistance and opportunities for individual growth and development, and support of the family.

SECOM's Mission - SECOM will actively partner with others working to reduce poverty and increase the ability of individuals to independently meet the basic needs of life. SECOM will strengthen and expand its capacity as a servant leader of community change.

SECOM's Vision - Helping today, building hope for tomorrow.

Haiti Hot Lunch-Hunger is a much too familiar phenomenon in Haiti. For a number of years, the lunch program has provided daily meals in 93 schools. It reaches 16,877 youngsters. For many, this is the only meal they will receive. A meal of beans and rice can be prepared for about 25 cents per student. As the project has grown, so has the need for contributions. The Haiti Task Force of Michigan, in collaboration with the Methodist Church of Haiti, began this project in order to improve student health and educational performance.

Shoebox Ministries-The shoebox size health kits are used for disaster relief around the country. Now more than ever, we have requests for basic care items. Each shoebox contains a hand towel, washcloth, comb, fingernail clippers, bar of soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, and bandages.

Byron Community Ministries-An outreach of twenty one sponsoring and supporting churches. It is committed to serving the needs of disadvantaged, lower economic, in-need, at-risk, and senior persons in the wider Byron area, without preference, in the name of Christ.

Nothing But Nets-A grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. While the UN Foundation has been working with the UN to fight malaria for years, it was a column that Rick Reilly wrote about malaria in Sports Illustrated, challenging each of his readers to donate at least $10 for the purchase of an anti-malaria bed nets -- and the incredible response from thousands of Americans across the country -- that led to the creation of the Nothing But Nets campaign.

The UN Foundation has now partnered with groups as diverse as National Basketball Association’s NBA Cares, The People of the United Methodist Church and Sports Illustrated to bring Nothing But Nets to the American public. These Founding Partners are joined by corporate, multi-media and financial partners to make a significant impact by raising awareness and funds to purchase and distribute bed nets and save lives.


We also have an extensive collection program to raise money to fund various activities and events and to support recycling efforts world-wide. Here is the list of items we save for redemption:

Box Tops for Education
Campbell's Labels for Education
Egg Cartons
Ink Cartridges
Newspapers
Plastic Bags
Pop Cans
Pop Tabs
Spartan Labels

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In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive".
--Acts 20:35