At Birmingham UMC, our people are active in both local and international missions, with outreach taking place almost every day. This is one way that we make a difference in the world in the name of Jesus.
For more information about how to get involved in any of the mission areas below, please contact Rev. Dr. Jennifer Wyant, Associate Pastor.
Twice a year, a group from BUMC goes to serve the homeless and underserved at Trinity Table in downtown Atlanta. This project takes many volunteers, serving in various ways: Some volunteers donate food items. Some donate time to prepare the food items to be served. Then, about 25 volunteers go to serve.
Please watch for more information about the next day of service and prayerfully consider how you and your family can participate.
Thank you to everyone who went to serve at Trinity Table on October 15 in downtown Atlanta. Thank you also to those who helped provide and prepare the food. We provided 200 hot meals for underserved Atlantans, as well as provided them with takeaway meals.
Watch for information about the next day of service at Trinity Table.
Each summer, BUMC United Methodist Women lead a church-wide project to make lunches for MUST Ministries. MUST feeds hungry kids in seven north Atlanta counties with a nutritious lunch each summer weekday. These are children who normally depend on the school lunch program during the school year for nutrition. We are blessed to have so many volunteers donate food items as well as money, and then help pack lunches.
Each year a group at BUMC shops, packs and delivers shoeboxes for needy children around the world. This ministry enables children to receive a wonderful gift-filled shoebox along with the message of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Let us remember to keep these children and their families in our prayers.
BUMC supports the ministries of NFCC (North Fulton Community Charities) through several different means. NFCC offers financial assistance and food, as well as operates a Thrift Shop located on Elkins Road.
We support NFCC by:
Walk for Water in March 2015 was a fun, non-competitive event to raise $25,000 to purchase a Living Water Treatment System for a community in Haiti. Manufactured and installed by Water Missions International, each LWTS is a rugged, solar powered water purification system that turns unsafe water sources into clean drinking water for more than 2,000 people a day and lasts for 20 years.
During the Walk, participants carried an empty bucket to the halfway point of the Walk, filled their buckets with dirty water, then carried it to the finish to symbolize the trek women and children make each day to collect water. After the Walk, we had games and educational activities for the kids, music and a cookout.
In developing countries, it is estimated that women and children around the world spend two to three hours each day walking just to collect water. In most cases, the water they collect is not suitable for human consumption.
We walk so that women and children will have safe water close to their homes. This means they’ll have more time to study, more time to tell stories, time to love and care for each other, time to sing, dance and laugh, and time to think about other things besides where they will get their next sip of water.
In May 2016, BUMC celebrated the installation and consecration of the Living Water Treatment System in Merger, Haiti. Watson Escarment from Good Samaritan Haitian Alliance Church of Lawrenceville, GA, spoke in our worship services and shared the exciting news that the treatment system had been installed and was consecrated on Friday, May 6, 2016.
Atlanta Habitat for Humanity partners with working families, sponsors, and communities to build affordable, green, quality homes and to provide support services that promote successful home purchase and ownership. BUMC provides volunteers with varying degrees of skill (from none to tons) to help with the actual build, as well as volunteers to help cordinate and provide meals.
Our most recent project, in 2014 and early 2015, was a new home for the Navarro family. Abigail Navarro is the mother of three girls aged between 3 and 12. God plays an important role in the life of this family.
