Serve | Community
For more information or help getting started, please contact Beverly Christian, Missions Chair; or Pastor Kris Williams
Duke Memorial Community Ministries
West End Mobile MarketDMUMC Contact: Matt Wood
Sign-up: HERE Location: Duke Memorial UMC No training required. Share fellowship, food and laughs with our fantastic West End Volunteer team as we distribute fresh healthy food to over 300 families here at Duke Memorial. You are invited to volunteer in a variety of ways including set-up/clean-up, serving coffee in the hospitality room, carrying groceries, unloading the Food Shuttle, and delivering food boxes. |
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Christmas MarketOver 1,000 gifts, 100 volunteers, and 100+ families from ministries across Durham celebrate the gift of Christmas by making an affordable Christmas Market possible for Durham families at Duke Memorial.
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Durham CANDMUMC Contacts: Hazel Ryon or Tony Nicholson.
Join the Duke Memorial Durham CAN Core team and the DM congregation as we work alongside over 30 diverse congregations, associations, and neighborhoods to effect meaningful change in Durham on issues like affordable housing, public education, employment access, and community/police relations. Organization website. |
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Families Moving ForwardDMUMC Contact: Roger Loyd
Once a quarter, members of Duke Memorial assist families who would otherwise be homeless transition into temporary homes. Volunteers prepare and share meals, offer homework help, play games with children, and help prepare/clean the temporary living spaces. Visit website. |
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CROP Walk
DMUMC Contact: Sid Allen
Sign-up: Online (Team name: Duke Memorial UMC)
You can still donate by sponsoring a current Duke Memorial team walker. The donation period is extended.
Due to COVID-19, total CROP donations are down compared to past years. The need is still great.
75% of donations raised help with hunger issues world wide. 25% of donations raised stay in our local community to help hunger issues.
Sign-up: Online (Team name: Duke Memorial UMC)
You can still donate by sponsoring a current Duke Memorial team walker. The donation period is extended.
Due to COVID-19, total CROP donations are down compared to past years. The need is still great.
75% of donations raised help with hunger issues world wide. 25% of donations raised stay in our local community to help hunger issues.
Team Name: Duke Memorial UMC
Partner Organizations
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Church World Service (CWS)
Help refugees resettle in Durham, help with English as a Second Language or citizenship classes, get to know a refugee family, or participate in the spring CROP Walk to raise money for CWS. Visit website. Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham
The Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham (RCND) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, who as an expression of their faith and goodwill, come alongside neighbors most-affected by our collective violence.Visit website. BUMP: the Triangle
Volunteer to help with a BUMP: the Triangle workshop and help create opportunities for children in the Durham community to learn the history, styles, and joys of African Diasporic music. Visit website. Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity of Durham is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization operated on Christian principles that seeks to put God's love into action by building homes, communities and hope.Visit website. |
Open Table Ministry
For many of our clients we bridge the gap between homelessness on the streets and a productive life. We enter into friendship with them, sharing weekly meals and creating a supportive community. Visit website. DCIA (Durham Congregations in Action)
Durham Congregations In Action (DCIA) is a cooperative, multi-faith network offering care and support for the most vulnerable and forgotten in our community, and planting seeds in new initiatives to change lives in Durham. Its mission is to bring together congregations to promote understanding across boundaries of faith, race and ethnicity and build an inclusive community of justice and peace.Visit website. Urban Ministries Durham
Mission: We connect with the community to end homelessness and fight poverty by offering food, shelter and a future to neighbors in need Visit website. Society of St. Andrew
The Society of St. Andrew is a grassroots, faith-based, hunger relief nonprofit working with all denominations to bridge the hunger gap between 96 billion pounds of food wasted every year in the United States and the nearly 40 million Americans who live in poverty. Collect unharvested food from local farmland to be reimbursed in the community. Visit website. |