Outreach Projects
Click below to find out more about our many Outreach Projects throughout the year.
This outreach provides supplemental weekend food for children and teens in the local school district. Bags are packaged with breakfast, lunch, and snacks before being distributed each Friday.
Visit our Contact page if you’re interested in helping with this outreach, or visit our Giving page to support with a financial gift.
After every home football game, student in grades 7-12 are invited to MUMC for a safe, chaperoned party! The event features a live DJ, food, drinks, table games, and more.
Visit our Contact page if you’re interested in helping with this outreach, or visit our Giving page to support with a financial gift.
Our church serves as a site for children or parents to pick up shelf-stable meals for a week (seven breakfasts and seven lunches per child). All children ages 1-18 are eligible and there are no income or residency requirements. This is a USDA-funded program that is brought to us by Children’s Hunger Alliance, with Mechanicsburg Public Library coordinating the paperwork for the program.
Volunteers to pack and carry out meals are always welcome, from 10am-12pm during summertime Mondays, as well as monetary donations or donations of food to provide extras. Those wishing to receive meals may do so between 11am-12pm.
Ministry Partners
Click below to find out more about the ministries we partner with throughout the year.
The Oasis of Mercy Food Pantry is a non-profit organization that operates a food pantry at 40 Walnut St. They are open for food distribution on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, as well as special distributions throughout the year.
For more information, click HERE to visit their Facebook page.
The United Methodist Mountain Mission is a non-profit organization based in Jackson, Kentucky, that supplies gently used clothing and household items to the people of Eastern Kentucky at affordable prices. They have provided for the people of that region for over 80 year.
The UM Mountain Mission sends a truck to Mechanicsburg UMC twice per year, in April and October, to pick up items donated by our church family and community.
Click HERE to learn more about their history and operations.
For questions about drop-offs at the church, please see Diane Briggs or contact the church office.
Jackson Area Ministries of the United Methodist Church is a non-profit based in Jackson, Ohio, that serves an 18-county are in southern Ohio. Their vision is to improve the quality of living within their region.
JAM operates work camps for youth to building ramps and repair houses in their area, and they distribute vegetable seeds in order to quantity and quality of available food in the area.
Each year, MUMC collects vegetable seeds in the late winter/early spring to send to JAM for their seed distribution.
Click HERE for more info on Jackson Area Ministries.
If you have any questions about JAM or our seed collect, please see Carolyn Anderson or Trish Hull, or contact the church office.
Sycamore House Pregnancy & Family Life Center is based in Urbana, Ohio, to assist with pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STI testing, and more.
Mechanicsburg UMC supports Sycamore House with occasional drives for diapers, wipes, and baby clothes. As well, we encourage church members to collect coins between Mothers Day and Fathers Day, placing them in a “baby bottle” to donate to the center.
For more information or to make an appointment with Sycamore House, click HERE.