At Peace Lutheran Church we partner with a wide assortment of non-profit agencies to do God’s work with our hands.
Ordinary gifts, when used to help others .... extraordinary!
Ordinary gifts, when used to help others .... extraordinary!
Building Communities
CareKits
A CareKit is gallon size ziplock bags which we fill with all sorts of items such as toiletries, socks, hats, gloves, t-shirts and gift cards. We keep the CareKits in our cars and give them to folks we encounter asking for help. We learned the following story. About 2 years ago a woman was in an abusive relationship and left with the only the clothes on her back. While homeless she was given a CareKit. She found her way to a shelter in Nashville, which helped her get to a shelter in SC. She now has a job and her and her daughter are in their own home.
Blood Assurance
We work with Blood Assurance several times a year to host blood drives. Each unit of blood donated saves 3 lives. All of the blood donated supports our local hospitals.
Community Events
We show up for community events that supports crossing barriers and building friendships such as PRIDE and Recovery Fest.
The Well
The Well; which is Spring Hill’s food pantry. Peace Lutheran Church appreciates the good work The Well is doing in our community. We help with fund raiser, food drives and assist with cleaning their facility.
Caring for Creation
One of the many ways we strive to care for our plant is by maintaining bee hives on our property.
ShowerUp
ShowerUp believes that everyone deserves a shower. With their mobile shower units strives build relationships, restore hope and dignity, and show the love of God to those in need by providing them with shower services and personal care.
Love on Wheels
Love on Wheels is a non-profit organization that provides new suitcases filled with basic necessities for children entering the foster care system. Our goal is provide stability and a stronger sense of self-worth to children in crisis as they transition into a new home. We enjoy helping with organization by tying blankets that are included in the new suitcases.
Love on Wheels is a non-profit organization that provides new suitcases filled with basic necessities for children entering the foster care system. Our goal is provide stability and a stronger sense of self-worth to children in crisis as they transition into a new home. We enjoy helping with organization by tying blankets that are included in the new suitcases.
Inspiritus
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Inspiritus guides individuals and families on a path from surviving to thriving. Empowering those whose lives have been disrupted to discover their strengths and resilience, accompanying them as they grow into vibrant contributors to their community. |
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Spring Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens
For the past several years Peace Lutheran Church as partnered with Spring Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens to host a community Eggstravaganza. This egg hunt is held at the Funeral Home. In a very tangible ways this event ties together the Holy Week significance of death and resurrection. In addition to have hunts for 3 age groups, there is also an egg hunt for adults with cash and other prizes.
Bridging Continents
Lunches for Learning
Each year we raise the funds to provide daily school lunches at Santa Rita in Francisco Morazan. We enjoy being a part of their graduation ceremonies at the end of the school year in November. Lunches for Learning exists to break the cycle of poverty in rural Honduras by providing a healthy lunch to elementary school children every school day at their school; thereby allowing these children to stay in school so they can complete their education and enter the workforce as literate individuals.
Sew 'n sews
Sew ‘n Sews: Typically meets the 2rd Wednesday of each month to make around 100 quilts each year. These quilts are then sent to Lutheran World Relief who ships them all over the world. The ultimate purpose of a Quilt is to provide warmth, an essential need for people in every climate. In addition to being a cozy, clean new bed cover, these Quilts, provide comfort to people we have never met, but they are also an object that is useful in ways you probably never imagined.
Blessing of the Backpacks and School Kits
Each fall as school is resuming, students of all ages are invited to bring their backpacks to worship for a blessing. Because we are blessed to be a blessing after worship 100 school kits are assembled for Lutheran World Relief. Women at Peace make the bags and the congregation pitches in to gather the 400 notebooks, 500 pencils, 500 pens, crayons, scissors, pencil sharpeners and erasers needed for the kits. Lutheran World Relief then sends the school kits all around the world to places where a child’s education is disrupted through war, natural disaster or poverty.
Building Friendships with Turkish Muslim Immigrants
It is our duty and our joy to cross barriers of religion, culture and language to build friendships with our Turkish Muslim brothers and sisters. We have been a part of Iftar meals with them. Together we celebrated Thanksgiving. We have discovered that we have so many things in common.
St. John's Lutheran Church in Oberhausen, Germany
Peace Lutheran Church is very excited about our partnership with St. John's. About every two years there is a two week visit. Either they visit us here or we visit them in Oberhausen. This is an opportunity to experience first hand how each church is engaged in their community.
