Social Ministry Committee

The Social Ministry Committee is responsible for organizing charitable giving, directing volunteer involvement, and inspiring social advocacy within the congregation. We follow the Biblical principles of helping those in need, as the Gospel teaches to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, and help the helpless.

Social Ministry Committee current events and more information (new window).

Chair

Ralph James 380-9866

Opportunities for Ministry

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• Refugee Resettlement (of Montagnards)
• PLM Families Together (help homeless families reach independence)
• Christian Community in Action and the Dorcas Thrift Shop
• Lutheran World Relief (organize the annual clothing collection for help overseas)
• Prison ministry (such as KAIROS) (minister at local prisons by attending fellowship dinners and/or preparing homemade foods)
• Lutheran Family Services (help long- and short-term group homes for abandoned, at-risk, or other troubled kids)
• Back To School (provide clothing and school supplies for kids in need during August)
• White Christmas (provide gifts to those in need in December)
• Southern Regional Clinic (coordinate and/or participate in outreach to the migrant workers and their health needs)
• Filling In the GapS (FIGS) (provide prescription medication to needy people who have "fallen through the cracks" of other support agencies)
• Loaves and Fishes (provide children's needs)
• Meals on Wheels (deliver meals once a month to elderly or homebound persons)
• Food Bank of North Carolina (distribute food to afterschool and eldercare programs, the housebound, and area churches and soup kitchens)
• Carying Place (assist local homeless families in transition)
• Habitat for Humanity
• CROPWalk (walk to help fight world hunger in October)
• Faith Furnishings (pick up and deliver furniture for families in need)

Calendar of Ministry Focus

Charter

This committee extends Christian compassion and helpfulness to the ill, the aged, the underprivileged, the imprisoned, and in general to persons of all ages in need of aid in body or soul. It shall strive to enlist in these efforts as many individual members and organizations of the congregation as possible. The committee's responsibilities shall include, but not be limited to:

1. supporting Pan Lutheran Ministry to express our faith through action by joining other Lutheran churches in the Wake County area to provide quality services to those in need;
2. support Christian Community in Action by joining other Christians in the Cary area to provide quality services to those in need;
3. supporting families in need by overseeing parish outreach;
4. extending Christian compassion by working with organizations, such as, but not limited to CROP Walk, Habitat for Humanity, and Lutheran World Relief;
5. laying before the congregation ways to help those in prison; and
6. study social conditions to bring the cleansing and healing light of Christian truth and then laying before the Congregational Council proposals for action resulting from such study and discussion.