Angel Tree

Provides Christmas gifts and some essentials to families in the Acworth area who are in need of assistance. Names of families can come from an application at the food pantry, AUMC families in need, local schools and military families.

Blessings In a Backpack

Many children who rely on free or reduced cost lunches during the school week become food insecure on the weekends. This program seeks to bridge the gap between lunch on Friday and breakfast on Monday. Volunteers prepare bags with meals and snacks designed with kids in mind. 

Early Response Team
Year Round

Participants learn the basics of disaster response, including how to stabilize and secure homes safely, and how to work effectively with survivors and others on the response team. After training, volunteers have the option to participate in disaster relief efforts. A standardized class is required for the basic ERT UMCOR identification badge.

Family Promise

Acworth UMC is a hosting congregation for the Rotational Shelter Program which provides transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness. Along with 13 other religious institutions in Cobb County, AUMC provides meals, housing and hospitality 3-4 weeks per year. This program is designed to keep children in their current school, parents near current jobs, trains and assists in employment as well as provides follow up resources after families graduate to independent housing.

Food Pantry

The food pantry goal is to provide enough groceries for three meals for three days for guest families. Volunteers can provide food, organize donations, assemble grocery bags and welcome guests. Tuesdays from 12 to 4 pm.

International Missions

Acworth UMC seeks to be the hands and feet of Christ across the globe through giving and service. Current missions include:
​
Zimbabwe: Hope Center, Mutambara
Jamaica: Methodist Churches of St Elizabeth Parish
Bahamas Youth Mission (annual)
Malawi: Clinic & Mujane Community
Orphanage Emmanuel, Guimaca, Honduras
​Mexico: Casas Por Christo
Young Adult Mission to Kenya (Dec 2019)
UMCOR: global disaster relief

Middle School Outreach Program

An after-school program for students selected by Awtrey Middle School teachers for children requiring additional help with studies. The goal is to provide encouragement and mentoring. Teachers are on site for specific help. The times are Monday through
Thursday 4:30-6p at Awtrey Middle School

​MUST Summer Lunch 

This area wide program provides lunches for children who normally depend on free or reduced lunches provided by public schools. Volunteers sort donations, decorate lunch bags, pack lunches and distribute thousands of meals to children in Cobb County. 

Red Cross Blood Drives

In partnership with the American Red Cross, Acworth UMC aspires to turn compassion into action so that everyone in our community has access to safe, lifesaving blood and blood products.  We share God’s love by hosting 4 blood drives a year and welcoming our community to donate blood. Volunteers are needed to work at the welcome desk and refreshment table during the blood drives.  You can support this ministry by donating blood and inviting those you know to donate blood.  Our goal is to collect 60 pints of blood at each drive.

Thanksgiving Baskets

Bins of food for over 70 families are purchased and assembled by volunteers or groups who sign up for a basket beginning in November of each year to be delivered in time for Thanksgiving day. Families are selected from people who apply, food pantry and church referrals, and a few Veteran families who need assistance. Opportunities are to contribute or purchase a basket, volunteer to assemble or deliver the basket.

UMCOR Disaster Relief
​Supply Mission

​In February 2019 Acworth UMC sent its sixth mission team since 2013 to the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, Louisiana. At this strategic location, the UM Committee on Relief hosts over 3,000 volunteers a year who prepare essential emergency relief supplies, ready to ship after natural and human disasters to aid and support the persons and communities  affected.  In addition, volunteers serve local missions and find a spiritual retreat.
 
The goal is to continue to send a team annually to:
  • Prepare for disaster relief by packing supplies of school kits, health kits, and cleaning kits ready for shipping as needed
  • Fulfill member’s desire to provide hands-on disaster relief if unable to serve on Disaster/Early Response Teams
  • Raise awareness of UMCOR and their vital role in disaster response in the USA and abroad
  • Have the opportunity to engage in short term mission if unable to serve on a foreign mission
4340 Collins Circle
Acworth, GA 30101
770.974.3312
Email
Proudly powered by Weebly