Missions: Across the Street

Missions: Across the Street
First Mennonite Church strives to be agents of healing and hope within our own community through our…

• Bringing/inviting friends to our church
• Providing rent free/utility free space, a teacher and volunteers for Home Ties Day Care (http://www.iowa4cs.com/hometies.)
• Partnership with Iglesia Torre Fuerte
• First Mennonite Immigration Task Force
• Annual Commitment to Central Plains Mennonite Conference (http://www.centralplainsmc.org/)
• Annual support for Iowa Mennonite School  (http://www.iowamennonite.org/)
• Bi-Monthly Ecumenical Free Lunch Program (http://www.icflp.org/)
• Grief Share Program (http://www.griefshare.org/)
• Annual Commitment to the Iowa City Shelter House (http://www.shelterhouseiowa.org/)
• Annual Commitment to the Iowa City Crisis Center  (http://jccrisiscenter.org/)
• Volunteers at Crowded Closet and Ten Thousand Villages Stores (http://www.crowdedcloset.org/  and http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/iowacity#fndtn-home)
• Annual Support to Crooked Creek Christian Camp (http://www.crookedcreekcamp.org/)
• Annual Support to Pleasantview Home (http://www.pvhome.org/)
• Support of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Compeer (https://namijc.org/ and http://www.compeerjohnsoncountyiowa.org/)
• Support Friends of International Students (http://international.uiowa.edu/international-students/make-connections)
• Annual Support for Iowa Peace Center (http://peaceiowa.org/)
• Annual Support of Inter-Varsity Campus Ministries at the University of Iowa (http://www.intervarsity.org/)
• Annual Support to the Center for Worker Justice (http://www.cwjiowa.org/)
• Annual Support to the Dream Center (http://www.thedreamcenteria.org/)
• Annual Support to Iowa City Compassion (http://www.iccompassion.org/)
• Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity (http://iowavalleyhabitat.org/)
• Participation in the Iowa City Ecumenical Housing Corporation (http://housingapartments.org/rental_detail/3858)
• Volunteers with Mennonite Disaster Service (http://www.mds.mennonite.net/home/)
• Mennonite Women’s Sewing Group and the FMC Peace Knitters Group
• Young Adult Sunday School class and small group
• Adult Sunday School class projects
• Children’s Sunday School projects
• Mennonite Youth Fellowship Service trips
• Adult classes focusing on such things as hospitality, stewardship, and sharing our faith
• Sponsoring speakers, inviting the public to attend
• Worship – preaching, weekly prayers, focus on mission