SERVING OUR COMMUNITY
South Mecklenburg Presbyterian Church offers many opportunities to serve within our community. All talents are celebrated and appreciated! Need advice on finding the perfect place to serve? Contact Leisa Lackey, Chair, Missions-Outreach Ministry, Leisa.Lackey@atriumhealth.org
Bread Ministry
Every Thursday, an organization called The Food Recovery Group, drops off day old bread items from Panera to SMPC. SMPC delivers the bread to our neighbors at the Dilworth Soup Kitchen. Volunteers are needed to deliver the bread on Friday mornings. Delivery should be made before 10:00 a.m. as the Dilworth Soup Kitchen opens at 10:30 a.m. If you’re interested in feeding the hungry, then the Bread Ministry is a brilliant way to lend a hand.
Student volunteers may contact Lisa Gilleland at LSC13@cornell.edu for service hours submissions.
Click here to sign up to help with delivery.
Contact: Lisa Gilleland, lsgilleland@gmail.com.
Desserts for Center of Hope
The Second Sunday of Each Month*
*Dates:
March 13, April 10, May 8, June 12
SMPC members may provide desserts for dinner at the shelter!
Bring desserts to SMPC just before the 10:00 a.m. worship service.
Click here to sign up to provide desserts.
Contact: Terry Gaines, terryg@carolina.rr.com.
Bag Lunches for Roof Above
Looking for a way to help our neighbors in need? Join us in providing bag lunches for 70 of our neighbors experiencing homelessness who receive support from Roof Above (formerly The Urban Ministry and Men's Shelter of Charlotte). Collect lunches outside the Palmer Building at SMPC from 9:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
Click here to sign up to provide bag lunches.
Contact: Shelby Ullman, shelby.ullman@gmail.com
Shelter Ministry
Our Shelter Ministry meets the second Thursday of each month at 9:00 a.m. in Mecklenburg Hall to fill repurposed medicine bottles with laundry soap, body wash, and shampoo for Roof Above. Donations of product and discarded prescription bottles can be left in the Missions closet outside Mecklenburg Hall.
Contact: Carol Morgan, morgancc43@aol.com
American Red Cross Blood Drives
SMPC offers several blood drives each year.
To set up your appointment, contact Tierra Sandeen below, or CLICK HERE.
2022 DATES:
March 5
May 7
July 9
November 12
Please remember to bring your Red Cross Donor Card or photo ID.
Contact: Tierra Sandeen, tierrad@hotmail.com.
Amazon Wish Lists
Many of SMPC's supported agencies have rotating needs beyond the scope of our normal ministries. Please peruse their lists and donate if you are able.
Loaves & Fishes Food Drive
SMPC holds a huge food drive every fall to benefit our neighbors served by Loaves & Fishes.
Last fall the SMPC canned food drive included a request for books featuring children of color. St. Giles Loaves & Fishes has partnered with Promising Pages. Promising Pages is a nonprofit organization that collects new and donated books and shares them with children living in the Charlotte Area Book Desert, homes with few if any books. 60,000 children in the Charlotte Area live in a book desert. Please help encourage a lifelong love of reading by visiting our Amazon book wish list. Research shows the most successful way to improve the reading achievement of low-income children is to increase their access to print.
FOOD DRIVE REQUESTED ITEMS:
canned meat, canned fruit, canned or dry pasta, cereal, canned vegetables, corn muffin mix
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE BOOKS FOR PROMISING PAGES FROM OUR AMAZON WISH LIST
Contact: Jennifer Basquin, jbasquin@carolina.rr.com
Alternative Gift Market
Each year during Advent.
Held during the Advent season, the Alternative Gift Market is a wonderful opportunity for year end giving, purchasing A GIFT THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE honoring loved ones and friends in the form of contributions to worthy local and global missions.
Contact: Donna Brown, donnamatt89@gmail.com.
Dinner: Salvation Army Center of Hope
SMPC prepares a spaghetti dinner the first Saturday of each month for the women and children living in the Salvation Army Center of Hope.
This ministry is temporarily suspended due to COVID.
Please consider signing up to donate desserts to the Center of Hope above!
Contact: Terry Gaines, terryg@carolina.rr.com
Breakfast: Salvation Army Center of Hope
SMPC prepares a full breakfast the third Saturday of each month for the women and children living in the Salvation Army Center of Hope.
This ministry is temporarily suspended due to COVID.
Contact: Terry Gaines, terryg@carolina.rr.com
Spoon it Up Offering
The Spoon It Up offering for Roof Above is collected the fourth Sunday of each month.
Contact: Leisa Lackey, Leisa.Lackey@atriumhealth.org