Food Pantry
The Food Pantry is the third Thursday of the month from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Participants will receive a box of food, bread, and produce as seasonally available. All are welcome and there are no questions asked.
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
James 2:14-18
Zion Quilters
The Zion Quilters are a group of individuals who love to quilt and who have turned their passion into a ministry of service with a wide audience. The quilters produce blankets for Mary Washington Hospital Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU); quilts for Project Linus; numerous teddy bears for the Radiology Department at Mary Washington Hospital, and quilted items for homebound individuals and other members of the community. They meet every Monday and Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. You don’t have to be a church member or know how to quilt or sew to join our group—we have excellent teachers, and everyone is willing to help. Please come join us!
The contact person for Zion Quilters is Libby Hall and she can be reached at libbyquilts7@comcast.
All the skillful women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and crimson yarns and fine linen (Exodus 35:25)
Feeding the Homeless
Zion UMC partners with Micah Ministries to feed the homeless. On the fifth Monday of the month, volunteers prepare and provide a hot breakfast for the homeless. Volunteers also provide fresh fruit and protein snacks for the day. Currently, the breakfast begins around 7:00 a.m. at the VFW Building in Fredericksburg (although time and location are subject to change).
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?
Isaiah 58:7
School Dressing Days
The Interfaith Council in the Stafford County area provides a school dressing day(s) for the needy children of Spotsylvania, Stafford, Caroline, and King George Counties and the City of Fredericksburg. Each year, hundreds of children are served and they are provided with backpacks, school supplies, personal hygiene items such as tooth paste and tooth brushes, clothes, underwear, coats, and shoes.
AA WOMEN’S MEETING
A recent addition to the ministry here is a weekly AA Women’s Meeting. Their meetings, which started mid-September, are held from 8:00 – 9:00 every Saturday. However, given set-up and clean-up, they have the use of the Fellowship Hall from 7:30 – 9:30.
Please respect the privacy required by a group of this kind.