Missions: Across the Street

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

• Bringing/inviting friends to our church
• Providing rent free/utility free space and volunteers for Home Ties Day Care ( https://www.iowa4cs.com/home-ties/)
• Partnership with Iglesia Torre Fuerte
• First Mennonite Immigration Task Force
• Annual Commitment to Central Plains Mennonite Conference (http://www.centralplainsmc.org/)
• Annual support for Hillcrest Academy (https://www.hillcrestravens.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 CommUnity  (https://builtbycommunity.org/)
• Volunteers at Crowded Closet and Ten Thousand Villages Stores (http://www.crowdedcloset.org/  and (https://www.tenthousandvillages.com/iowacity)
• 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 Inside-Out Re-Entry Community
• Annual Support for Iowa Peace Center (http://peaceiowa.org/)
• Annual Support to the Center for Worker Justice (http://www.cwjiowa.org/)
• Annual Support to Dream City (https://www.dreamcityia.org/)
• Annual Support to Iowa City Compassion (http://www.iccompassion.org/)
• Annual Support to Grow: Johnson County (https://www.growjohnsoncounty.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/)
• Volunteers with Table to Table (https://table2table.org/)
• FMC Peace Knitters Group and Comforter knotting for MCC refugees
• 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