Ongoing Mission Efforts in Knoxville and Surrounding Area:

• Soup Kitchen – Weekly on Thursdays
• Sharing Shop – Monthly
• Wesley House Community Center – Support through regular giving & occasional workdays
• Dogwood Elementary School – Support through regular giving & occasional workdays
• Family Promise – Through Church of the Ascension
• Community School of the Arts – Calls Church Street home as its practice and performance space
• Justice Knox
• Sterchi Lodge
• Second Harvest Food Bank’s Food for Kids

Seasonal and Annual Mission Projects:

• School Supplies Drives
• Habitat for Humanity Builds
• Annual Holston Conference Hands-On Mission Projects
• Mission Day of Service (March or April annually)
• Youth and Children Advent and Lenten Mission Projects
• Thanksgiving Baskets with ministry partners and neighbors

Church Street is a member of the Holston Conference and part of the global United Methodist Church. We participate regularly in activities within the conference, as well as global UMC efforts, such as UMCOR, to bring services to communities in need around the world. UMCOR is the United Methodist Committee on Relief and is the global humanitarian aid and development organization of the United Methodist Church. UMCOR is a nonprofit 5013 organization operated under the auspices of the General Board of Global Ministries.

While Church Street’s main mission focus is in our own Knoxville backyard, we also support missionaries who are helping communities nationally at a UMC outpost in Willow, Alaska, and internationally at an orphanage in South Sudan, which is temporarily located in Uganda, displaced by war.