As a part of Peachtree City United Methodist Church’s Missions Outreach Weekend, last Saturday, Oct. 15, was“Super Service Saturday,” and 140 men, women and youth devoted a day of service to several outreach missions.

The projects included repairs, yard work and cleaning at the Promise Place transitional shelter in Fayetteville; traveling to Albany to glean leftover greens and peas in the fields, in partnership with the Society of St. Andrew; cleaning, sorting, and bagging the gleaned produce, then delivering it to 100 families who live in the Harmony Village Apartments in Peachtree City; packing donated canned goods into boxes and checking/repacking several hundred flood buckets and health kits for the United Methodist Committee on Relief, then loading everything onto a truck for delivery to the gulf coast; repairs, yard work and cleaning at the homes of five elderly and disadvantaged families in Fayette County; and baking desserts for the United Methodist Children’s Home fall bake sale and flea market in Decatur.

The following day, guests from local, regional and international ministries came to the church to bring their message of how involvement through missions can bring hope and healing to a hurting world.

Sonja Strickland, executive director of Promise Place, shared how PTCUMC is participating in their ministry to victims of domestic abuse and in their campaign to build an emergency shelter to serve the Fayette County area.

Mzee Tate, program director of Trinity Community Ministries in Atlanta, described the new Trinity House-Big Bethel facility, the new residential facility that can house up to 36 men, which PTCUMC helped to furnish and where the church is sponsoring one of the residents during the coming year.

Bishop Paulo Lockmann, of the Rio de Janeiro Region in Brazil, spoke about the United Methodist School of Missions in Rio and its work to offer youth an education and leadership training as an alternative to drug trafficking, along with describing the partnership between PTCUMC and new startup churches in the region.

“Missions at its best is relational,” said PTCUMC’s associate pastor, the Rev. Stephen Soulen. “These outreach opportunities gave our church members many ways to begin new relationships by reaching out beyond the walls of the church.”

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