OUTREACH AT NORTH RALEIGH UMC

Locally

Community Garden
Family Promise of Wake County
Hearts & Hammers
Prison Ministry
Refugee Resettlement
Helen Wright Center
Aging in Grace
Community Garden

Weekly, Monthly, or as Needed

Community Garden


NRUMC’s community garden is located across the street (overflow parking lot) from the church. Lease a 5’ X 10’ raised bed ($25) or a full size 5’ X 20’ ($50) raised bed with complete discretion of what vegetables to grow with the understanding that at least 50% of your harvest will go to the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.

Garden members participate twice a month in Wednesday/Saturday/Sunday group harvesting activities and perform an additional 4 hours of community workday labor during the year. What a great way to experience community and friendship with your fellow church members! Individuals, circles, and families are all welcome to participate in this ministry. Green thumbs are helpful, but not required! If you are not interested in leasing a garden bed, we can always use volunteers to help with the picking.

Each year, our garden volunteers grow and donate about 6,000 lbs of fresh vegetables to the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. The Food Shuttle provides fresh vegetables and fruits to local individuals/families in need. Visitors to the garden are always welcomed!

For more information, email Julie Barnes or Pam Hartigan. Space is limited.

Visit our garden’s website for more information and click here for the agreement and sign-up form.

Family Promise of Wake County
Hearts & Hammers
Prison Ministry
Refugee Resettlement
Helen Wright Center
Aging in Grace

Regionally and Globally

Appalachia Service Project
Disaster Recovery Work Team
Peru Global Mission Trip
Mexico Global Mission Trip
Appalachia Service Project

Appalacia Service Team


Our work with the Appalachia Service Project helps to address housing issues in central Appalachia…but it’s so much more than that. 

  • It’s seeing groups of volunteers of varying skill levels accomplish so much to make homes warmer, safer and drier
  • It’s a work team member taking time out from his work to sit and play with a child at the worksite – because that personal connection is just as important as the repairs.
  • It’s the bonds of fellowship that form – with each other and with those we’re helping.
  • It’s the powerful moment when a team of youth complete the first indoor bathroom a family has ever had.

Since 2004, we’ve sent adult work team twice a year on weekend trips to work on ASP projects. We work out of the year-round ASP centers in Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. We’ve also sent youth teams for week-long trips in the summer.

If you go on an ASP trip, you’ll find yourself transformed by the experience, and you’ll help to transform the life of someone you’re helping.

 

How can I help?

  • Join an ASP work team! We take teams in the spring and fall (usually around April and October), leaving on Thursday and returning on Sunday. You don’t have to have construction experience – there’s work for everyone and for all skill levels. To find out about the next trip, email Allison Nunnery
  • Donate. ASP relies on donations of money, materials, and time in order to accomplish its mission. Although they are excellent stewards of all that they are entrusted with, the need is always greater than the resources available. To donate or to find out more about ASP, visit their website at asphome.org.
Disaster Recovery Work Team
Peru Global Mission Trip
Mexico Global Mission Trip