Caring Ministry

Caring Ministries provide a silent support to people in need. Typically, the only people who know about it are those being cared about or cared for.

 

Caring Ministry is greeting a new family at the door on Sunday morning with a big smile and a warm handshake.
(Greeter Ministry, Mary Williams)

 Caring Ministry is sending words of encouragement in a card to someone struggling with a serious illness.  It is remembering the loss of someone's loved one in a note sent at Christmas. (Card Ministry, Kim Lundquist)
Caring Ministry is seeing the delighted face of elderly person with limited vision as someone reads to her.
(Reader Ministry, Larry Sears)		 Caring Ministry is driving across town to deliver food to someone calling churches because they have no food in their home and no money.  It is collecting and distributing food to families at Greenwood Community Church struggling in the tough economy.
(Food Collection Ministry, Anne Schaefer)
Caring Ministry is paying an energy bill for a family to keep heat in their home in the winter.  It is helping a family put together a budget to make better use of the resources they have.
(Finance Council, Tom Trimble, Marly Dragoo)		 Caring Ministry is someone working for hours while praying as they make a prayer shawl to be given to a young mom with cancer.
(Prayer Shawl Ministry, Karen Hinzelman)
Caring Ministry is going to a hospital at 6am to pray with someone who is having major surgery.  It is visiting an elderly person in hospice.
(Visitation Ministry, Mary Ann O'toole)		 Caring Ministry is making a meal at the end of a long day for not only your own family but also making a meal for a family whose mom is going through chemo treatments.  It is delivering that meal.
(Meal Ministry, Julie Lynn Ashley, Marissa Rustad)
Caring Ministry is sitting with a family as their loved one lies dying.  It is going to a hospital in the middle of the night to be with a family as they wait for a funeral home to pick up the loved one who just died.
(Care Person On Call, Bonnie Walters)		 Caring Ministry is helping a single mom find a home for her and her children.  It is making a phone call to someone when you notice they haven't been in church for awhile.
(Care Coordinator, Linda Sinclair)
Caring Ministry is sending care packages and cards to soldiers in remote areas of Iraq.  It is honoring those in the military at Greenwood Community Church.                 (Military Ministry, Ron Meier) Caring Ministry is helping someone with the hearing impaired equipment so they can hear the worship service.  It is helping someone find a seat in church. (Usher Ministry, Karen Schottleutner 8am, Allyen Wilson 9:30am, Dan Parkhurst 11am)
Caring Ministry is giving hope to someone that ther is life beyond divorce.
(Divorce Recovery, Larry Sears)		 Caring Ministry is praying for someone living in fear of an abusive ex-husband.  It is praying for the healing of a child with leukemia.
(Prayer chain/Bulletin Prayer needs, Joyce Hutchins)
Caring Ministry is teaching men coming out of prison to be good fathers. It is providing food and gifts to the families of these men.
(Father's Heart Project, Larry Sears)		 Caring Ministry is helping a family who just lost a loved one plan the memorial service.  It is crying, praying with and providing a reception for the loved ones left behind.
(Funeral Ministry, Diane Leede, Louise Cahill)
Caring Ministry is giving a listening ear to someone whose heart has just been broken.                         (Stephen Ministry, Mary Ann O'toole)
 Caring Ministry is providing shoes (and even a few "fun things") for four little kids who have outgrown their beat up old tennis shoes.
(Special Projects, Shannon Harper)
Caring Ministry is doing what you know Jesus would do, and trying to love people like you know Jesus would love them even when you feel inadequate to the task!