Missions
LOCAL MISSIONS
NATIONAL MISSIONS
Appalachia Service Project A home repair and building ministry through which volunteers and ASP staff repair and build homes for low income families in rural Central Appalachia. Jerome Church sends between 10-20 volunteers to this service project each fall. Good Works Good Works is a mission trip opportunity that takes place each spring. Work on projects with community members to paint, mow lawns, perform minor repairs and construction projects. Volunteer also serve a dinner on Friday night for approximately 150 homeless individiuals, staff and volunteers. Mountain TOP Jerome Church sends a mission team of students and adults each summer to Mountain TOP in Tennessee. The mission team performs basic construction tasks and meets the emotional needs of people living in the surrounding community. UMCOR Jerome Church supports the work of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) through regular giving, special offerings, and relief kit packing. To learn more about UMCOR, visit their website here.
INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS
Learn more about our missions strategy
- Involve as many people in the church and community as possible
- Every mission involves as many “layers” of the congregation as possible (ages, interests, demographics, etc.)
- Goal is for 75% of our worshiping congregation to participate in missions in a 12 month period; the majority of people will participate in a local mission or mission event.
- Small groups/individuals will seek ways to serve in already existing missions before creating new missions/service opportunities; current opportunities must meet capacity before new missions are added.Do less to do more: being strategic about the missions we participate in as “all church” missions helps us make a greater kingdom impact.
- Student Ministry plans 3-4 “big-event”, annual missions; as well as each small group participating in existing “all church” local missions.