Current Opportunites for Serving the Community

Community Breakfast

On the last two Sundays of each month, First UMC youth lead us in preparing, serving and sharing breakfast with the homeless in our community. We invite you to participate. Cook, serve and share breakfast with our homeless neighbors. Come at 7:30 a.m. to cook and serve at 8:45. For more information or to donate food, contact the church office. 

Family Promise

Family Promise of Sacramento is a nonprofit program designed specifically for homeless families that helps them achieve self-sufficiency and regain a home for themselves and their children. Shelter for the families is provided through a unique, innovative method by utilizing an interfaith hospitality network of 16 churches and hundreds of volunteers throughout the Sacramento region.  First United Methodist Church is a host church and houses Family Promise guests 4 times each year.  When families are in residence at FUMC, we offer multiple opportunities to volunteers to cook meals, spend time with the children with special activities, spend the night with the families and plan special outings for our guests.  If you are interested in volunteering during a week with Family Promise, please contact the church office.

Faith and Homeless Families Initiative

First United Methodist Church is a part of a pilot program seeking to provide homeless families with limited and temporary housing assistance, mentoring, financial planning and other support services.  We are in partnership with the Community Services Planning Council of Sacramento, homeless service providers, and the City of Sacramento to end chronic homelessness in Sacramento.  If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please contact the church office.

Sierra Service Project

Each summer, youth travel from First UMC to a Native American Reservation and work for a week helping to improve the lives and living conditions of those in need through repair and construction projects.  To pay for the trip, the youth group runs a number of fundraising projects.

A Place for Everyone to Help

Each month we package needed items for people who can no longer attend church; children and families living in shelters or on the streets; and disaster kits for infants and mothers; school preparation kits for children needing supplies.  These kits are then supplied to Loaves and Fishes, Maryhouse, Francis House, Side-by-Side Spiritual Ministries and others.

Raising Funds

Several concerts and other activities are held each year to benefit a number of charities, including the Make-A-Wish-Foundation, Heifer project, Habitat for Humanity and the Downtown Food Closet.

Volunteers in Mission (VIM)

Find out about plans for FUMC-sponsored VIM trip

First United Methodist Church is part of the national and international United Methodists Volunteers in Mission offering opportunities to participate in various local, national and international relief efforts. New volunteer opportunities are posted on http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/getconnected/volunteer/ . Anyone that is interested can sign up for automatic updates as new volunteer opportunities become available. For more information about the United Methodist Committee on Relief go to http://umcor.org . If you are interested in First United Methodist Church Volunteers in Mission, please contact the church office.

United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)

The United Methodist Committee on Relief is the relief arm of the general conference of all Methodist Churches.  Their website is new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/ .  Our church supports UMCOR as part of our regular budget and with special offerings.

Staging A Miracle  

A Theatre Program for Children and Youth With Arts and
Music Classes for Parents and Younger Siblings 

Staging a Miracle (SAM) is a First United Methodist Church program developed to offer high-quality music and arts education to the children of the City of Sacramento, regardless of their ability to pay.
  
The five-week summer program for children and their families includes dinner each Tuesday and Thursday evening; music and creative arts classes for parents and pre-school and infant childcare. For more information, see Staging A Miracle.