Mission & Outreach

LOCAL MINISTRIES

BLOOD DRIVE BENEFITING LIFE SOUTH

LifeSouth Community Blood Centers is currently concentrating their mobile blood drives at select locations, which means Eastminster is not able to host on-site blood donations at this time. Even so, there are many convenient ways to continue supporting their mission of saving local lives.

LifeSouth offers frequent donation opportunities at nearby donor centers and community locations throughout our area. To find a blood drive near you, visit donors.lifesouth.org, select Find a Blood Drive, and enter your zip code to view local sites, dates, times, and driving distances. Bill Hutchinson leads this ministry.

CARING TREE
During Advent, we collect donations to support families in our community. Partnering with Brockett Elementary and Stone Mountain Elementary, we provide Walmart and Kroger gift cards to 20 families. Each child in a participating family will receive a Walmart gift card, and each family will also receive a Kroger gift card to help with food and household supplies. Linda Redman and Mary Ann Howard lead this ministry.

CLIFTON NIGHT HOSPITALITY
Clifton Sanctuary Ministries operates a homeless shelter out of a church. Providing year-round overnight and transitional housing, it cares for 30 men a day and has served more than 9,000 since opening its doors in 1979. Residents have a wide variety of problems from heart conditions to diabetes to substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. Eastminster provides annual funding to Clifton.

Visit their website here: www.cliftonsanctuary.com

CLOTHES CLOSET
The Eastminster Clothes Closet functions as a distribution point for donations from our congregation. Clothing that is in good shape and currently in style is collected and donated to our various mission partners. Donations can be brought to the church Clothes Closet/room 210 on the second floor, near the Church Office. Susan Adle leads this ministry.

LILBURN CO-OP
Eastminster donates food and supplies and a few volunteers work in the co-op. We provide annual funding to this co-op. Contact Janet Uthlaut to get involved.

STONE MOUNTAIN CO-OP
Eastminster donates food and supplies and a few volunteers work in the co-op. We provide annual funding to this co-op. Contact Janet Uthlaut to get involved.

REGIONAL MINISTRIES

THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN, Clinton, SC
Thornwell’s referral network receives more than 300 calls from families in crisis; and, each year, more than 100 children find their way to our home. Most come to us battered and broken, frightened, full of sadness and despair. Thornwell offers them a safe haven; a warm, loving, family-style community in which to grow and thrive. Eastminster sends youth and adults to Thornwell for work projects annually. We provide annual funding to Thornwell. Beverly and Steve Roberts lead this ministry.

Visit their website here: www.thornwell.org

PROVIDE FUNDING TO ECHO OFFERING
The ECHO offering is taken up every other month (January, March, May, July, September, November). A portion of the ECHO offering is given to the Stone Mountain and Lilburn Co-ops and an overseas portion goes to the Giathenge Feeding Center in Kenya, a project of the Presbyterian Church in East Africa. ECHO stands for Eastminster's Care & Help Offering.

PCUSA - PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Visit their website here: https://www.presbyterianmission.org/

View a newsletter about the important projects the mission is involved in and read a few personal stories here:

https://us2.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ccc25991653fb98d70f2f8d93&id=798d683c32

OUTREACH COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Rick Adle - Chair
Susan Adle
Mary Ann Howard
Bill Hutchinson
Sally McMillan
Linda Redman
Janet Uthlaut
Mark Sauls, Staff Liaison