Outreach & Missions
Support for Community & Beyond
God is at work in the world and he expects us to join him. By serving communities and individuals in need, we also serve Christ.
Outreach funds are allocated to support various groups, including missionaries, Christian charities, natural disaster relief, and local needs.
Family Promise is a national organization that carefully screens temporarily homeless families. They work with local churches to provide food and shelter for the qualifying families. The program also manages transportation, counseling, parenting classes, budgeting classes, and job searches. We "host" families 3-4 times a year for a week at a time, providing meals and gift cards for household needs. Family Promise has a 100% apartment placement rate for those families who complete the program successfully.
Hope Rescue Mission: For 130 years, Hope Rescue Mission has been a place of refuge for people experiencing homelessness in Berks County. The organization provide meals, shelter, and support services for those in need in our community 365 days a year. Each month, volunteers from St. John's helps serve dinner at Hope Rescue Mission.
A GriefShare support group is a safe, welcoming place where people
understand the difficult emotions of grief. Through this 13-week group,
you’ll discover what to expect in the days ahead and what’s “normal” in
grief. The pastors at St. John's lead the support group, with the 13-week sessions offered in the spring and fall.
Holiday Food Boxes:
Through donations from the congregation, we provide food boxes to local families in need at Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, so they can enjoy a meal that otherwise might be impossible.
Wilson Area Food Pantry:
At St. John's, we collect non-perishable food items throughout the month for donation to the Wilson Area Food Pantry. The food pantry distributes food the third Friday of each month from 3:00 to 5:30 p.m.. Volunteers are needed each month to help with distribution and also on the day prior to help set up.
Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child:
Each fall, St. John's shares the message and power of the Gospel through the Operation Christmas Child program, filling shoe boxes for worldwide distribution. A team of volunteers also travels to Baltimore to help with processing boxes.
Opportunity House:
Several times a year, volunteers from St. John's Reformed Church prepare and serve lunch at Opportunity House, an emergency shelter located in Reading, PA that has been serving the homeless population since 1984.
Pet Loss Support Group
Grief over losing a pet can often be minimized or even overlooked, yet it is real. Our Pet Loss Support Group, led by Dr. Becky Frank (associate veterinarian with Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice and certified in Thanatology [death, loss, grief, and bereavement]), meets monthly and is open to the public.
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