Missions
Living Word is active in, and strongly supports, mission and service in our community and around the world.
Serve Now
Living Word has chosen strategic partners, local agencies where we have established relationships and a plan in place for on-going service. Interested in serving at any of the local missions below? Click the button to sign up and help out!
Local Missions
Circle of Concern feeds the hungry and provides assistance to low-income families living in west St. Louis County through a food pantry. Steve Ernst, our Missions Chairperson, has connected with this agency on several occasions and can help you get connected, too!
Meramec Elementary is located 30 miles east of Living Word in south St. Louis City. Meramec has 228 students from preschool – 5th grade. Living Word has partnered with Meramec Elementary with the goal of helping the children reach their full potential. Join a group of volunteers already going to Meramec to read with students. Let’s carpool together and make a difference!
Living Word provides tutors, reading buddies, gardeners, volunteers, supplies, clothing, food and other needed items. For more information or to get involved please contact Pastor David Israel at disrael@livingwordumc.org
On the second Thursday of every month, Living Word hosts up to ten guests, including single women and parents with children as a night site partner for Room At The Inn. We provide dinner, activities, sleeping accommodations, breakfast, and transportation back to their day site. To make this work, we need VOLUNTEERS! There are many volunteer roles with this ministry. For more information see Room at the Inn.
To sign up to help or learn more about volunteer opportunities with Room at the Inn, click here. For more information or questions about Living Word’s involvement with Room at the Inn, please contact Cheryl Jones at 314-630-2969 or jonesfoursome@sbcglobal.net.
Around The World
Living Word Answers God’s Call
If you had $1,843,000 to spend over 10 years, what would you do with it? Living Word has been able to fund over 138 Boreholes, 27 Pump Repairs, 18 School Projects including 24 classrooms and 4 support rooms, 17 Chapels, 2 Electrification/Power Projects, 7 Borehole Mechanizations/Overhead Water Tanks, over 19 Community/Chapel Latrines and Toilets, 151 Household Toilets and 17 Miscellaneous Projects/Support.
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In 2010, Living Word answered God’s call and entered into a relationship with the people of northern Ghana. After an initial exploratory trip to northern Ghana to discover what needs the villages had, Living Word formed The Ghana Project. The Ghana Project’s mission is to establish relationships with the people of northern Ghana, provide them with clean water and help with their spiritual growth, educational, medical and agricultural needs.
Contact Pastor David Israel at disrael@livingwordumc.org for more information about The Ghana Project.
If you’d like to see videos about Ghana, check us out on Vimeo.
