Serve | Community
Duke Memorial offer a variety of ways to be with and for our Durham community. Join us as we distribute food, spread Christmas joy, advocate for justice, and share the love of Christ form the Heart of Durham.
For more information or help getting started, please contact Pastor Kris Williams
For more information or help getting started, please contact Pastor Kris Williams
Duke Memorial Community Ministries
Christmas MarketDMUMC Contact: John Tassa
Over 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. Click here to learn more. |
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Durham CANDMUMC Contacts: Rick Larson or Tony Nicholson.
Durham CAN (CAN stands for Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods) is a citywide organization of which Duke Memorial is a member. CAN uses the collective power of over 30 churches to seek social justice so that all of Durham’s residents have a better chance to thrive, regardless of income or race. Our actions have led to the creation of affordable housing, more equitable police practices, and more respectful treatment of our immigrant brothers and sisters. We are successful because CAN identifies issues and problems that matter to our congregations, does the research and homework necessary to find solutions, determines which public officials are responsible, and holds them accountable. If you would like to help build a more just Durham through this ministry, please join us! Contact Tony Nicholson or Rick Larson at to learn how you can contribute to the good work CAN is doing across Durham. And we would love to have you at any upcoming action and meeting. Meeting frequency varies depending on the issue, but our core team meets quarterly. Organization website. |
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Families Moving Forward
DMUMC Contact: Roger Loyd - 919-452-7802
Please join with other volunteers from our church to support this fantastic organization in Durham, assisting families to move from homelessness to a safe and permanent home. During the COVID19 pandemic, we are unable to go to their location in person but can serve in other ways. For more information, go to their website at fmfnc.org |
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CROP WalkDMUMC 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. Team Name: Duke Memorial UMC
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JJ HendersonDMUMC Contact: Jerry Smith
Join Jerry Smith and members of Duke Memorial as we live and grow in relationship with the residents of JJ Henderson Towers. |
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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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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. |