Serving

Serve with us

Serving others is how we show Christ's love for our world. Zion members come together to volunteer for annual events like Feed My Starving Children and God's Work / Our Hands, regular ministries like Family Promise and Faith Kitchen, and there are dozens of opportunities to serve throughout the year, from teaching Sunday School to serving on Church Council or contributing to Sunday worship as a greeter, usher, or Assistant Minister.

Feed My Starving Children

Feed My Starving Children® is a non-profit Christian organization committed to feeding God’s children hungry in body and spirit. The approach is simple: children and adults hand-pack meals specifically formulated for malnourished children, and we ship these meals to our distribution partners. FMSC meals have reached nearly 70 countries around the world in our history.

Each year, Zion hosts over 450 volunteers over two days to pack over 100,000 meals that are delivered to children in need around the world. This translates into providing a meal for nearly 300 children every day for a year! This is a wonderful ministry and opportunity to serve that you will never forget.

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Family Promise

Family Promise is a partnership of local congregations and volunteers helping families who are facing homelessness by meeting their immediate needs for shelter, meals, and support services. Family Promise is the only shelter in Hunterdon County that keeps families together while helping them regain their housing. Zion has been an Family Promise partner since 1990.

Zion hosts Family Promise three times each year. As a host church, Zion provides lodging and meals for up to fourteen people for a two-week period. Volunteers are needed to cook meals, have dinner with guests, play with children, socialize with families, and stay overnight at the CEB. It is an opportunity to live out your faith by offering kindness, respect, and support to families as they regain their independence and their dignity. Watch for the signup list in the church narthex when it is our turn to host!

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Faith Kitchen

Faith Kitchen is a ministry of Trinity Lutheran Church in nearby Dover, NJ that provides over 40,000 nutritious meals annually, free of charge, to anyone who comes though their doors. Faith Kitchen is more than just a place to get a hot meal – clients are guided to social service agencies that can provide jobs, housing, and mental and physical healthcare. Zion is one of 22 churches involved in Faith Kitchen. A portion of every offering made to Zion supports Faith Kitchen. Along with this monetary support, Zion has a coffee drive every January with a goal of contributing 100 pounds of coffee, and volunteers visit each month to help serve meals.

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God's Work. Our Hands.

Each September, congregations across the ELCA join in a day of service we call "God's Work. Our Hands." In 2018, Zion packed 100 bags with all the fixin's for Thanksgiving dinner for the Flemington Food Pantry, and 200 health kits for the homeless served by Edna's Haven in Dover.

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How you can serve

We also offer support to the following agencies and institutions primarily through financial gifts:

The Flemington Area Food Pantry provides food and personal care items to people in need throughout our county. Zion parishioners donate food items year-round, but we also have special collections as we did last year when we created bags of “Thanksgiving” meals with all of the food, except for the turkey, that would be needed for a Thanksgiving dinner. We have also donated funds to help them upgrade their computer system for a more efficient operation.

This organization specializes in providing professional and affordable mental health, family and addiction counseling services to children, adolescents, adults, and families in need. When Zion stepped up with a cash donation to help grow their in-school counseling programs, it produced a ripple effect that garnered more financial support from the county and other sources, enabling the programs to grow and continue on.

Pedals for Progress began years ago as a non-profit organization that would send donated bicycles to third-world countries, providing desperately needed transportation for work, shopping and education. More recently, they began to send donated sewing machines for people to use as business opportunities to make items for sale. Zion assists this organization with funding for shipping costs as well as hosting collection days for used bicycles and sewing machines.