Purpose: To serve the mission of the congregation to make disciples by developing and formalizing mission opportunities both locally and worldwide, reaching others with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Committee Functions:
- To charge Ministry Teams with goals consistent with the mission of the congregation and the purpose of the committee
- To recruit and provide training for Ministry Team leaders
- To help implement the strategic plan
- To identify ministry areas and develop new Ministry Teams as needed
Ministry Teams:
- Campus Ministry: Provide program assistance for Aggie Lutherans, oversee funding resources and coordinate activities & relationships between the worshipping students and parish members
- Old and New Missions: Assess future opportunities for mission and support current old and new missions in our community, state and worldwide.
- Social Concerns: Provide for the on-going needs for local community assistance for individuals and agencies in the Bryan/College Station area as well as identify and support new areas of ministry. Current community projects:
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PIES:For Thanksgiving meal at the Twin City Mission! Each year Peace Lutheran members provide pies for the Twin City Mission's community lunch meal served at noon on Thanksgiving day. There is a sign-up board in the narthex. The pies need to be at The Bridge at the Twin City Mission at noon on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Want to help? Get your Sunday School class, bible study class, small group ministry group, family group together and bake away.There are no restrictions other than it needs to be a disposable pie tin. Traditionally, we have over 100 pies!
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Thrivent/Youth Shopping for Twin City Mission residents: this is done each year by our 3rd thru 6th graders with money provided by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Care in Communites projects. We obtain a list of current long term residents from The Bridge at the Twin City Mission shelter, and then take the youth shopping, then wrapping, and delivering. We have pizza for the kids prior to departing for shopping. We need parents to help with the transporting, shopping, and wrapping.
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Angel Tree ministry: We put up our trees in November each year. We have sponsored children from the local Lutheran social service foster children program, children from the Voices for Children program, families from the Twin City Mission, and families from the Family Promise program. You select a wish, shop, bring it back to the boxes in the narthex.
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Community Blood Drives: Our Mission team makes the arangements, and the blood donation vehicle arrives at Peace! Several times each year, we hold a blood drive in our parking lot. This is a selfless gift of life to people in our local community. Watch for the sgns and artcles in the newsletter to catch the next donation drive! Thank you for giving of yourself so others may live!
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Family Promise of Bryan-College Station: Our church is a core member of the local Family Promise affiliate. Our mission is to help homeless children and their families achieve sustainable independence. Our Vision: a nation in which every family has a home, a livelihood, and the chance to build a better future together.
We are an area-wide, volunteer-based, non-profit organization that supports families by providing shelter, meals and support services to homeless families. We provide a safe environment in which families can stay together and become self-sufficient. The program is affiliated with the nationwide Family Promise in Summit, New Jersey.
As of November, 2011, we have served 34 families (75 children and 47 adults). Please check out te local Family Promise website for ways to join in and help fight homelessness for our local families. For more information, please contact:
Family Promise of Bryan-College Station, Inc.
P.O. Box 11232
College Station, TX 77842-1232
(979) 268-4309
familypromisebcs@gmail.comDay Facility location:
1806 Wilde Oak
Bryan, TX 77802For volunteer opportunities, familypromisebcsadmin@gmail.com.
Family Promise of Bryan-College Station, Inc., is a 501c3, tax-exempt organization.
Peace Lutheran Church hosts the Famly Promise guests several times each year in our education wing for a week of overnight stays. There are many opportunities for you to join with us as we use this ministry to families without homes to share our blessings from God. We are responsible for 3-4 families as they stay with us for a week at a time. We provide their rooms/beds, food, transportation, and most of all, our famous Lutheran hospitality! Please watch our calendar for the next host rotation and look in the narthex for the volunteer sign-up board for opportunites to participate in this ministry. -
Spaghetti Supper: This is our Social Concerns annual primary fundraiser. It takes place in the fellowship hall, we serve spaghetti, garlic bread, salad, and for dessert...we have a dessert auction! We sell tickets to eat, but we should sell tickets to watch the entertainment for the dessert auction! Join us as we raise money for our services projects and outbid each other on our homemade desserts. Lots of fun and great fellowship to support our Social Concerns activities.
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Souper Bowl Sunday food drive: In conjunction with the national Souper Bowl Sunday food drive, Peace Lutheran also puts out the request for canned goods and monetary donations on the annual Super Bowl Sunday. There will be signs announcing the date for the drive. Look for our youth as they look for your donations on that Sunday with their soup pots! All donations go to the Brazos Valley Church Pantry.
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Brazos Valley Church Pantry: Peace Lutheran and several other local churches provide hungry folks in our community with canned goods, bread, eggs,etc out of a small building in Bryan. We have a dedicated core of volunteers who serve on the board, take the donated food to the pantry and work volunteer hours to hand out the food to those who arrive to be served. Please check out their needs and contact info at www.brazoschurchpantry.org The first Sunday of each month is dedicated at Peace to helping replenish their stores. Please bring your food donations(always needed: canned goods, peanut butter, paper goods, diapers, and monetary donations) at any time it is convenient. The needs at the pantry have tripled over the past couple of years due to the downturn in the economy. Our blessings go directly to help put food into hungry people's mouths right here in the Brazos Valley.
Committee Leadership:
Chair: Bari Creager
Chair Elect: Tammy Way
Parish Assistant for Outreach: Ann Fleischer
