Burke United Methodist Church

Local Missions :

- Sandwich making for Martha’s Table

- Echo an ecumenical area support ministry serving immediate needs not covered by social services in the Burke/Springfield area. ECHO provides food, clothing, household goods, and job counseling. Burke UMC supports ECHO financially and through donations of the above items. We assist at Thanksgiving and Christmas with food baskets and gifts.

- Interfaith Housing: provides goods, finances, and services to those needing housing assistance or who are currently homeless. We assist at Thanksgiving and Christmas with food baskets and gifts.

- Rising Hope United Methodist Mission Church: A mission church on the Route 1 Corridor, we provide volunteers, teachers, financial support, clothes, food, Christmas and thanksgiving baskets, and host a youth-led “Camp Rising Hope” for children at risk each summer.

- Caroling/visitation in local retirement centers, especially our neighbors at Heatherwood Retirement and Burke Nursing Facility.

- Letters at Christmas to veteran’s centers.

- Care packages and cards/cookies to service members stationed abroad, or residents in Veteran's Homes

- Collections of gloves, mittens, socks, and scarves for places of need, specifically Rising Hope, the Henderson Settlement, and in emergency situations

- Collection of baby items for local hospitals

- Bethany House: a shelter for abused women and children, we provide needed supplies

- BUM Builder’s Rebuilding Together (formerly Christmas in April) and Habitat for Humanity.

- Mission Possible for rising 6th and 7th graders: a week long mission camp assisting at Rising Hope UM Mission church, Food for Others, the Hermitage Retirement Center, and other homeless shelters.

- Wesley Housing: provides housing for low-income persons or those facing extraordinary medical bills