GLOBAL FRIENDS ESL PROGRAM
The Global Friends ESL program is a collaborative effort of The Church at Spring Forest, Durham Home Church Network, and Pleasant Green United Methodist Church. We work in partnership with World Relief and Church World Service to provide ESL classes for refugees and immigrants. Our certified ESL teachers and program volunteers are passionate about welcoming our newest global neighbors and supporting English language acquisition as a major part of companioning refugees in rebuilding their lives here in the United States. We host this program on Friday mornings by providing space for the ESL classes, serving snacks and beverages to the participants, and providing childcare for the participants’ children. Contact: Wendy Anderson
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AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM HOMEWORK TUTOR
Volunteers read with younger children or help older children with their homework from 4:30-5:00 pm on Mondays through Thursdays during the school year. Contact: Wendy Anderson, JoAnna Brown or Susan Adams at pleasantgreenafterschool@gmail.com
WORK TEAMS
Work teams are assembled to assist locally and regionally in disaster relief, construction, and other situations, in conjunction with UMCOR or Habitat for Humanity. Work is typically performed on Saturdays.
YOUTHWORKS
The youth from Pleasant Green and several other churches, along with adult youth leaders, spend a week doing small building and renovation projects and working with local non-profits. Past trips have included Charleston, WV and Birmingham AL. Contact person: Emily Robbian, Director of Family Ministries / Youth Director
OCIM - ORANGE CONGREGATIONS IN MISSION
Orange Congregations in Mission is a private non-profit ministry composed of close to 50 congregations in northern Orange County, North Carolina. OCIM strives to meet the emergency needs of those who find themselves in a crisis situation. We collect canned goods each month and donate them to their food pantry. Contact person: Van McCay
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY BACKPACK PROGRAM
We partner with staff and families at Central Elementary School. We help provide school supplies, food, and housing for families in need. The Eleanor Walker circle of the UMW sponsors a family each year and provides food for them each weekend. Contact person: MaryAnn Hamm
FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD
Right here in Durham, there are families who need our help. Families without a place to live. Families with young children. Families in need. Working together, we help provide families with children a stable, safe and loving environment while they are in the temporary crisis of homelessness. FMF now offers after school tutoring, educational enrichment programming, and early interventions to children residing in our shelter as part of a two-generation approach that aims to break the cycle of poverty in our community. Thanks to the ongoing teamwork of loving volunteers and professional staff, our families become self-reliant members of the community who can then give back to others in need.
CHRISTMAS IN JULY
Sponsored by the Circle of Faith UMW Circle, Pleasant Green collects school supplies in July to donate to needy children within Orange County Schools. Contact person: Martha Walker
PRAYER MINISTRY
Members of Pleasant Green UMC meet once a month to pray actively for our church and extended family members, church ministries, and local, national and global issues. Contact person: Gail Pruett
COMMON THREAD MINISTRY
Started by a UMW Circle at Pine Valley UMC in Wilmington, NC, Common Thread is a ministry of compassion whose goal is to provide happy, colorful butterfly pillowcases to those who are dying in hospice, nursing homes and their own homes. Church members gather about once a month to sew these pillowcases.
PGUMC VISITING COMMUNITY
Groups of church members visit those in the church community who are in need of some help, support, or social connection.
ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH & COMMUNITY CENTER
Church members travel to Robeson County, NC to build wheelchair ramps and do roofing, cleaning, painting, deck work, and various construction projects throughout the neediest part of the county.
GLOBAL MISSIONS
EL SALVADOR
Each year since 2008, Pleasant Green UMC has sent a mission team to El Salvador. Over the years we have developed a warm and good rapport with the people in the Ahuachapan area. Their need is great and their gratitude is overwhelming. A church now rests on the spot the first team served. PGUMC funded the cost of the land as well as the building of homes and construction on other churches. We have led a medical team there, have done construction and food delivery, and have led Vacation Bible School.
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