Service
Serving our church
Sunday School Teacher/Substitute
Without Sunday School teachers, our ever-growing program would not have the means to flourish! We love our teachers, but we also love our substitutes who keep the ball rolling when the “regulars” can’t be present.
Contact Donna if you would like to be a Sunday School teacher or sub.
Ushers and Greeters
Assigned to a rotating schedule throughout a year, ushers and greeters quickly become the faces of who our church is on Sunday mornings. Greeters are those who, well, greet everyone as they enter the building. A friendly face and a welcoming smile are the only requirements to serve as a greeter. Ushers help during the worship service by seating individuals arriving after the service has started and by collecting the offering.
Contact Donna if you would like to be an usher or a greeter.
Preschool Nursery
The preschool nursery is staffed by two wonderful volunteers each Sunday morning during the 8:30 and 11:15 worship times for children too old for the infant/toddler nursery who choose not to stay in worship. Volunteers usually serve about once per quarter on the rotating schedule. The only requirements are a smile and love of preschoolers; however, good coloring and puzzle skills are a plus.
Fellowship after Worship
Being able to stay in a spirit of fellowship with one another after worship is such a wonderful thing! The volunteers who provide fellowship goodies each week are a crucial component of making that happen. We provide the coffee and the set-up, you bring the goodies and juice. Volunteers on this rotating schedule serve about three times per year. More details, instruction, and help are always available.
Contact Donna if you would like to volunteer for fellowship after worship.
Loaves and Fishes
At the risk of sounding cliché, a casserole often does show you care! Our Loaves and Fishes freezer is located in the Fellowship Hall by the kitchen door and is stocked by volunteers with food that can be taken to people who are in need due to their circumstances. We have a need both for prepared food in the freezer and for people to deliver the food when the occasion arises. If you can make an extra dish or batch of cookies, Loaves and Fishes is a service for you.
This is only a sampling of ways that you can be in service to Wrightsville United Methodist Church. Copies of our Ministries Booklet, published annually and containing a more extensive list of service opportunities, are available at the church.
Serving our community
Kempton Worship Team
Each month, WUMC sends a team of lay persons to lead a brief worship experience ad to serve communion to residents at the Kempton at Brightmore – an assisted living facility in Wilmington. This team serves on the first Sunday of every month. These team members are provided with guidance, serve with others, and are asked to serve once every 3-4 months.
Local Construction/Recovery Team
As part of our Community Action Team, several times throughout the year we partner with a local agency and form a team to help repair, rebuild, or clear the homes of some of the most vulnerable members of our community: the poverty-stricken, the elderly, and the disabled. By letting the church know your interest, you can then be contacted when a team is forming.
Wilmington Interfaith Hospitality Network
The Wilmington Interfaith Hospitality Network serve our area homeless families with short-term transitional shelter. These are families who find themselves homeless for a variety of reasons and are seeking safe shelter while they get their lives back together. This ministry is supported by area churches. WUMC supports this ministry four times per year for one week at a time. There are various roles to be filled as we co-host these families at Masonboro Baptist Church – spending the night at the church, driving them to the day house, or even just joining them for the evening meal.
Please contact Mikki if you can help serve during one of our weeks with WIHN.
Heart and Home
Our own WUMC outreach agency helps qualified families secure permanent housing. A mentor form our congregation is selected for each family to help build a relationship of trust and support. The mentor tunes into the needs of the family and, with lots of support, helps match those needs with resources from within our congregation and beyond.
MERCI
The Marion Edwards Recovery Center Initiative (MERCI) is a program of the NC Conference of the UMC which seeks to provide mission and ministry programs that meets people’s physical and spiritual needs. MERCI’s primary function is disaster preparedness, response, and recover. MERCI also assists UMCOR in mission to various parts of the world. Volunteer opportunities often require a few hours of travel and include light warehouse work such as assembling flood buckets, health kits, and school kits. See how MERCI is making a difference by clicking here.
Tileston Clinic
The Tileston Clinic, located downtown, provides health care services to those who live in poverty and cannot afford health insurance. Clients eager for services are often lined up prior to the doors being opened. Tileston’s growing list of services includes medical, dental, and diabetes clinics as well as a pharmacy. Healthcare professionals are always needed, as are office assistants and volunteers who will interview and assist new clients with paperwork, etc. If you are a healthcare professional of any kind, or have time to devote to the Tileston Clinic, please contact the church and we will forward your information to the clinic.
Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard
This community-supported program is run out of Grace United Methodist Church downtown and collects non-perishable food from donors and disperses it to eligible families. WUMC is a large supporter of this program and members are encouraged to bring items to the collection sites at our church at anytime. The first Sunday of the month is “First Foods Sunday” here at WUMC when many members bring their items for the month.
Serving our country
Disaster Recovery Ministries
Having endured our share of hurricanes here at Wrightsville Beach, after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast in 2005, our Wilmington District partnered with the town of Biloxi, MS to help get families back in their homes by organizing mission work teams with skills such as construction, administration, cooking, and counseling. Work teams still leave from our area to help Biloxi and have expanded to helping other areas of our country recover from disaster.
Serving our world
UMCOR
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is one of the first responders when catastrophe strikes a part of our globe. Through our tithes and offering, all United Methodists support UMCOR as a disaster relief agency. See how UMCOR is making a difference by clicking here.
Mission Trips
On occasion, various adults from our church have comprised mission work teams to different parts of the world. Each summer, our youth take a week long mission trip also. This summer, the youth will be traveling to both Charleston, SC and Caguas, PR for a week of service to the people there. If you are interested in serving on or starting to form an international mission team, please contact the church.
Service
Serving our church
Sunday School Teacher/Substitute
Without Sunday School teachers, our ever-growing program would not have the means to flourish! We love our teachers, but we also love our substitutes who keep the ball rolling when the “regulars” can’t be present.
Contact Donna if you would like to be a Sunday School teacher or sub.
Ushers and Greeters
Assigned to a rotating schedule throughout a year, ushers and greeters quickly become the faces of who our church is on Sunday mornings. Greeters are those who, well, greet everyone as they enter the building. A friendly face and a welcoming smile are the only requirements to serve as a greeter. Ushers help during the worship service by seating individuals arriving after the service has started and by collecting the offering.
Contact Donna if you would like to be an usher or a greeter.
Preschool Nursery
The preschool nursery is staffed by two wonderful volunteers each Sunday morning during the 8:30 and 11:15 worship times for children too old for the infant/toddler nursery who choose not to stay in worship. Volunteers usually serve about once per quarter on the rotating schedule. The only requirements are a smile and love of preschoolers; however, good coloring and puzzle skills are a plus.
Fellowship after Worship
Being able to stay in a spirit of fellowship with one another after worship is such a wonderful thing! The volunteers who provide fellowship goodies each week are a crucial component of making that happen. We provide the coffee and the set-up, you bring the goodies and juice. Volunteers on this rotating schedule serve about three times per year. More details, instruction, and help are always available.
Contact Donna if you would like to volunteer for fellowship after worship.
Loaves and Fishes
At the risk of sounding cliché, a casserole often does show you care! Our Loaves and Fishes freezer is located in the Fellowship Hall by the kitchen door and is stocked by volunteers with food that can be taken to people who are in need due to their circumstances. We have a need both for prepared food in the freezer and for people to deliver the food when the occasion arises. If you can make an extra dish or batch of cookies, Loaves and Fishes is a service for you.
This is only a sampling of ways that you can be in service to Wrightsville United Methodist Church. Copies of our Ministries Booklet, published annually and containing a more extensive list of service opportunities, are available at the church.
Serving our community
Kempton Worship Team
Each month, WUMC sends a team of lay persons to lead a brief worship experience ad to serve communion to residents at the Kempton at Brightmore – an assisted living facility in Wilmington. This team serves on the first Sunday of every month. These team members are provided with guidance, serve with others, and are asked to serve once every 3-4 months.
Local Construction/Recovery Team
As part of our Community Action Team, several times throughout the year we partner with a local agency and form a team to help repair, rebuild, or clear the homes of some of the most vulnerable members of our community: the poverty-stricken, the elderly, and the disabled. By letting the church know your interest, you can then be contacted when a team is forming.
Wilmington Interfaith Hospitality Network
The Wilmington Interfaith Hospitality Network serve our area homeless families with short-term transitional shelter. These are families who find themselves homeless for a variety of reasons and are seeking safe shelter while they get their lives back together. This ministry is supported by area churches. WUMC supports this ministry four times per year for one week at a time. There are various roles to be filled as we co-host these families at Masonboro Baptist Church – spending the night at the church, driving them to the day house, or even just joining them for the evening meal.
Please contact Mikki if you can help serve during one of our weeks with WIHN.
Heart and Home
Our own WUMC outreach agency helps qualified families secure permanent housing. A mentor form our congregation is selected for each family to help build a relationship of trust and support. The mentor tunes into the needs of the family and, with lots of support, helps match those needs with resources from within our congregation and beyond.
MERCI
The Marion Edwards Recovery Center Initiative (MERCI) is a program of the NC Conference of the UMC which seeks to provide mission and ministry programs that meets people’s physical and spiritual needs. MERCI’s primary function is disaster preparedness, response, and recover. MERCI also assists UMCOR in mission to various parts of the world. Volunteer opportunities often require a few hours of travel and include light warehouse work such as assembling flood buckets, health kits, and school kits. See how MERCI is making a difference by clicking here.
Tileston Clinic
The Tileston Clinic, located downtown, provides health care services to those who live in poverty and cannot afford health insurance. Clients eager for services are often lined up prior to the doors being opened. Tileston’s growing list of services includes medical, dental, and diabetes clinics as well as a pharmacy. Healthcare professionals are always needed, as are office assistants and volunteers who will interview and assist new clients with paperwork, etc. If you are a healthcare professional of any kind, or have time to devote to the Tileston Clinic, please contact the church and we will forward your information to the clinic.
Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard
This community-supported program is run out of Grace United Methodist Church downtown and collects non-perishable food from donors and disperses it to eligible families. WUMC is a large supporter of this program and members are encouraged to bring items to the collection sites at our church at anytime. The first Sunday of the month is “First Foods Sunday” here at WUMC when many members bring their items for the month.
Serving our country
Disaster Recovery Ministries
Having endured our share of hurricanes here at Wrightsville Beach, after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast in 2005, our Wilmington District partnered with the town of Biloxi, MS to help get families back in their homes by organizing mission work teams with skills such as construction, administration, cooking, and counseling. Work teams still leave from our area to help Biloxi and have expanded to helping other areas of our country recover from disaster.
Serving our world
UMCOR
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is one of the first responders when catastrophe strikes a part of our globe. Through our tithes and offering, all United Methodists support UMCOR as a disaster relief agency. See how UMCOR is making a difference by clicking here.
Mission Trips
On occasion, various adults from our church have comprised mission work teams to different parts of the world. Each summer, our youth take a week long mission trip also. This summer, the youth will be traveling to both Charleston, SC and Caguas, PR for a week of service to the people there. If you are interested in serving on or starting to form an international mission team, please contact the church.