Ways We Regularly Serve

We commit to serve inside and outside the church through ministry teams and out in the community. Serving transforms the world and us and opens us up to new experiences and people.

Serving inside the church usually happens through ministry teams. Ministry Teams are how we put our love into action. Just as there are a variety of gifts there are a variety of ministry teams.  Find the one that's best for you or start one to fill a need!

Together we are committed to cooking, baking, and serving the meal at Loaves and Fishes on the fifth Wednesday of every month. We have other volunteer opportunities throughout the year to impact our community including For Columbia, serving at the Food Bank, Mobility Worldwide, and more!

Our Loaves and Fishes Meal Night is every fifth Wednesday. We plan the meal, cook, serve, and clean up.

Loaves and Fishes is located at 1509 Ashley St. Columbia, MO 65201

To help with these meals you can pray, cook, bake, volunteer on site setting up, serving the meal, washing dishes, and cleaning up.

Room at the Inn is now open year round! Please consider signing up to serve or bring food.

You can serve in many different ways - Food Prep, Food Prep and Food Service, Check-in Volunteer, Morning Crew, and Laundry Transport.

Talk to your friends, family, your Sunday School class, or small group and see if anyone else wants to volunteer with you!

Relief supplies provide care for the most vulnerable following a disaster or during times of crisis.

United Methodist Committee on Relief or UMCOR collects relief supplies in the form of cleaning kits, hygiene kits and menstrual hygiene kits.  In the event of a disaster kits are distributed in the United States and its territories.

We help assemble these kits with other United Methodists at the Missouri Annual Conference Disaster Response facility here in Columbia.

We collect very clean half gallon and gallon milk and juice bottles along with very clean empty cans with labels removed - like you get soup or vegetables in for Mobility Worldwide. These are used as packing material when mobility carts are shipped overseas.

You can place these items in the blue barrel in the narthex. Please leave the lids on jugs.

We also organize times throughout the year to go to the workshop at Mobility Worldwide to contribute to their mission.

Mobility Worldwide is located at 4825 E. Meyer Industrial, Columbia, MO 65201

The small group Fairview Women in Faith collects Best Choice, Clearly by Best Choice and Best Choice Superior Selections labels (from Moser's).

For every 1000 UPCs we submit, UWF will receive $30 to use in our mission to help women and children.

You can place your labels in the Save a Label can on the Resource Table in the Narthex.

If you would like to contribute to the assistance fund you can do so by writing "Assistance Fund" on the memo line of a check or on a cash envelope. You can also give to this fund online, by clicking the link below and selecting "Assistance Fund" from the dropdown menu.