Missions and Service
The Missions and Service ministry provides leadership and congregational resources for various ad-hoc and ongoing sub-committees, and service groups that are involved with service and ministry to our community, and beyond.
Current Missions
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Service Projects
Friendship Inn - Meal Sponsorship
Saturday January 8th - MRMC has committed to participating in the Meal Sponsorship Program at the Friendship Inn. Our commitment is to support the Inn both financially as well as to serve Breakfast and Lunch on this day. MRMC volunteers are needed. $1750.00 is what we will be working to raise to help offset the cost of 1000 meals served that day. Use the "Donate Meals" button below to designate your giving for MRMC's Friendship Inn meal sponsorship project. A sign up sheet is posted at the back of the Church for those that want to volunteer that day. You can also volunteer by emailing MRMC at mrmc@sasktel.net or Wilf and Cheryl at wcfunk1@sasktel.net.
See more details about the Meal Sponsor Project
Donate here for our "Day's worth of Meals" project.
Choose one of the prompted donation amounts or other amount as you are able.
Or see other giving options on our Donate page, and designate to "Friendship Inn".
Help Global Gathering Place help Refugees
Global Gathering Place (GGP) is currently assisting 200 Afghan refugees to resettle in Saskatoon, in addition to a flood of other newcomers from many other places.
They are always in need some very basic supplies:
- Tylenol
- Warm Mitts, Toques/neck tubes, warm socks
- Blankets (new or gently used and cleaned)
- Children’s activity books
- Cash donations to purchase grocery gift cards or to cover other immediate needs.
See the Global Gathering Place website.
Help us fill buckets of supplies.
Orange buckets will be placed on the table in the foyer each Sunday. Drop off your item or donate to the GPP through MRMC.
Use the button above to donate to GGP.
Or see other giving options on our Donate page, and designate to "Global Gathering Place".
Past Missions
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Service Projects
MRMC Missions Ministry Team has accepted another mission that all too often
seems like a truly Impossible Mission for many of our newest members of our
local community!
The Mission: Inject funds into the Emergency Fund at the Global Gathering
Place. www.globalgatheringplace.com
Mission Details: Missions Ministry reached out to Global Gathering Place with
an invitation to help where we could and we were presented with an immediate
need for a Small child sized wheelchair for 6 year old Hamzi from Somalia
(see attached document). This part of the mission was accomplished with the
purchase of a 16” x 16” wheel chair for the GGP to loan to the family.
Additionally, ongoing support to the Emergency Fund is required to help pay
for internet for those that have no means, purchasing enough groceries to
survive for a day or 2, purchasing bus passes etc. etc. etc.
How can you help with this Mission: By donating to the Global Gathering Place
Emergency Fund You will help make the seemingly impossible reality of
transitioning life from a community on the other side of the world to our
community ….POSSIBLE!
Donations can be made to MRMC and designated to GGP. Receipts will be issued.
Operation Potato Peeler
As we all know, 2020 has created challenges that many of us have never encountered before. These challenges have impacted Global and Local Communities, stretching resources for those most vulnerable and the organizations like The Friendship Inn that are on the frontlines serving those communities. Unfortunately, due to COVID 19 The Friendship Inn has experienced a rapid decline in volunteer participation. They rely on volunteers to prepare and serve a healthy Breakfast and Lunch to 300 500 guests every day.
Full project details Here
To Donate
If you can help us with this urgent need or have any questions, please contact Claire Ewert Fisher at claraewertfisher@gmail.com.
Donate to the project through MRMC DonateIf using one of the electronic options, designate to Operation Potato Peeler; in e-transfer use the message, in Tithe.ly use the "Give to" selector.
Refugee Sponsorship
MRMC has a long history of working with MCC to sponsor refugees, beginning with Vietnamese Boat people and Salvadoran refugees in the 70’s and 80’s. Since then we have worked with refugees from the Congo and more recently from Syria.
Hold your cursor over a photo below to see the story behind it.
Annual Spring Food Drive
For the past several years we have been involved with the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre's spring city wide food drive. Our church volunteers collected the food donations from the physical neighbourhood around the church, and delivered it to collection centers for the Food Bank.