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Missions
Ocala West United Methodist Church believes it is important to serve those less fortunate. We encourage all our members to support our mission activities with prayer, financial support and participation.
Food
Food 4 Kids is a program to provide food on weekends to children who normally receive food each day in school. Sponsored through Interfaith Emergency Services, Ocala West supports this program financially as well as filling the backpacks with food each week for students at Hammett Bowen Elementary school.
Ocala West Food Pantry provides non-perishable food to those in need locally.
Interfaith Emergency Services provides food to those in need in Marion County. Ocala West supports this worthwhile activity by collecting food from members and friends the first Sunday of each month and financially through our mission of the month program.
Special Food Collections at Thanksgiving and Christmas are given to our at risk members as well as Interfaith and Domestic Violence.
Children
The Florida United Methodist Children’s Home creates an atmosphere which enables children and families with special needs to experience God’s love and care as presented in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Combining Christian influence with a healing, caring, therapeutic community, the Home provides a continuum of highly specialized services designed to strengthen individual and family life. OWUMC supports this important Florida mission by our contributions collected on fifth Sundays.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse. Shoe boxes filled with gifts for children who may never have received a gift before are lovingly assembled by members of our church and sent to be combined with those from other churches in the Southeast. These gifts are presented to children around the world to show the love of Christ. Several members of our church travel to Atlanta each year to repack the boxes in preparation to ship them around the world.
International
Ocala West UMC provides financial support to the following organizations through our mission of the month program.
Covenant Relationship with Delbert and Sandy Groves in Zambia. They are bringing many people to Christ through their efforts. They are very involved in making and distributing P.E.T. vehicles to severely handicapped individuals.
Itec provides portable dental equipment and training in basic dental practices for people in many remote areas. They also do eye exams and provide eyeglasses to these people, training them to help themselves.
ECHO develops and provides seeds for use in underdeveloped countries; particularly in Africa and Asia. In addition, ECHO people develop growing techniques that fully utilize all available nutrients and the environment of the area.
Red Bird Mission serves the needs of people in Appalachia. Their mission statement tells the story well. ‘Red Bird Mission, guided by Jesus Christ, empowers individuals and advocates justice by providing spiritual, educational, health, and community outreach ministries.’ They are a wonderful presence in the lives of the people of the mountains.
P.E.T.is Personal Energy Transportation. ‘The wheelchair that goes where wheelchairs can’t go. For those who can use their arm strength as the energy because of little or no use of the legs.’ The P.E.T. is manufactured in Florida at Penny Farms Retirement Center as well as other locations both within and outside the US.
Church World Services provides blankets that will be distributed in emergency and disaster situations all over the world. Blankets have many uses such as a tent, a shawl to protect from the wind, a table covering, or a mat to sleep on.
Golden Cross provides funding for ministers in need.
UMCOR (United Methodist Council on Relief) is the first responder from the Methodist Church to disaster areas around the world. All funds provided to UMCOR go directly for the relief efforts.
Mission Trips
Over the past few years Ocala West UMC has sent adult mission teams to support specific needs locally, in Mississippi and in Puerto Rico.
For 3 years, working through the Mississippi United Methodist Conference, Ocala West sent teams to Mississippi to help rebuild homes devastated by hurricane Katrina.
In conjunction with the Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana en Hormigueros church in Puerto Rico, teams completed projects needed by an orphanage, a senior care facility, and the home of a member of the local church in great need. They were also blessed to be able to help feed the homeless of Hormigueros.
During 2011, two teams worked locally in support of Interfaith Emergency Services and a farm that provides Horse therapy for Autistic children. At Interfaith, the team renovated and completely reorganized the clothing distribution store. At the horse farm, we put up and painted over 300 feet of fencing; and repaired and renewed the clay and straw flooring.
Food
Food 4 Kids is a program to provide food on weekends to children who normally receive food each day in school. Sponsored through Interfaith Emergency Services, Ocala West supports this program financially as well as filling the backpacks with food each week for students at Hammett Bowen Elementary school.
Ocala West Food Pantry provides non-perishable food to those in need locally.
Interfaith Emergency Services provides food to those in need in Marion County. Ocala West supports this worthwhile activity by collecting food from members and friends the first Sunday of each month and financially through our mission of the month program.
Special Food Collections at Thanksgiving and Christmas are given to our at risk members as well as Interfaith and Domestic Violence.
Children
The Florida United Methodist Children’s Home creates an atmosphere which enables children and families with special needs to experience God’s love and care as presented in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Combining Christian influence with a healing, caring, therapeutic community, the Home provides a continuum of highly specialized services designed to strengthen individual and family life. OWUMC supports this important Florida mission by our contributions collected on fifth Sundays.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse. Shoe boxes filled with gifts for children who may never have received a gift before are lovingly assembled by members of our church and sent to be combined with those from other churches in the Southeast. These gifts are presented to children around the world to show the love of Christ. Several members of our church travel to Atlanta each year to repack the boxes in preparation to ship them around the world.
International
Ocala West UMC provides financial support to the following organizations through our mission of the month program.
Covenant Relationship with Delbert and Sandy Groves in Zambia. They are bringing many people to Christ through their efforts. They are very involved in making and distributing P.E.T. vehicles to severely handicapped individuals.
Itec provides portable dental equipment and training in basic dental practices for people in many remote areas. They also do eye exams and provide eyeglasses to these people, training them to help themselves.
ECHO develops and provides seeds for use in underdeveloped countries; particularly in Africa and Asia. In addition, ECHO people develop growing techniques that fully utilize all available nutrients and the environment of the area.
Red Bird Mission serves the needs of people in Appalachia. Their mission statement tells the story well. ‘Red Bird Mission, guided by Jesus Christ, empowers individuals and advocates justice by providing spiritual, educational, health, and community outreach ministries.’ They are a wonderful presence in the lives of the people of the mountains.
P.E.T.is Personal Energy Transportation. ‘The wheelchair that goes where wheelchairs can’t go. For those who can use their arm strength as the energy because of little or no use of the legs.’ The P.E.T. is manufactured in Florida at Penny Farms Retirement Center as well as other locations both within and outside the US.
Church World Services provides blankets that will be distributed in emergency and disaster situations all over the world. Blankets have many uses such as a tent, a shawl to protect from the wind, a table covering, or a mat to sleep on.
Golden Cross provides funding for ministers in need.
UMCOR (United Methodist Council on Relief) is the first responder from the Methodist Church to disaster areas around the world. All funds provided to UMCOR go directly for the relief efforts.
Mission Trips
Over the past few years Ocala West UMC has sent adult mission teams to support specific needs locally, in Mississippi and in Puerto Rico.
For 3 years, working through the Mississippi United Methodist Conference, Ocala West sent teams to Mississippi to help rebuild homes devastated by hurricane Katrina.
In conjunction with the Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana en Hormigueros church in Puerto Rico, teams completed projects needed by an orphanage, a senior care facility, and the home of a member of the local church in great need. They were also blessed to be able to help feed the homeless of Hormigueros.
During 2011, two teams worked locally in support of Interfaith Emergency Services and a farm that provides Horse therapy for Autistic children. At Interfaith, the team renovated and completely reorganized the clothing distribution store. At the horse farm, we put up and painted over 300 feet of fencing; and repaired and renewed the clay and straw flooring.
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