Caring Outreach Team enjoys group outing at Region’s 117 restaurant in Lake Frederick, VA

‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’ Matthew 25:40 NRSV

The Stephens City UMC Caring Outreach Team provides spiritual and holistic care for church members and regular visitors in support of the Church Pastor. The group sends cards to both members and extended family/friends for sickness, sympathy, or to those needing to be uplifted. Home-made soup and meals are taken to those who may be recovering at home from illness or returning from the hospital. Caring Outreach members visit shut-ins, nursing home residents, and others who may need assistance for various reasons. A Connect Volunteer Team assists church members if food or medicine requires pick up or someone needs to be taken to a doctor appointment.

Stephens City UMC Caring Outreach Team lunching at Region’s 117 restaurant at Lake Frederick VA. Courtesy Karen Paul.

Caring Outreach also supports local schools through the Bright Futures program. Bright Futures is part of the Frederick County/Winchester school system and provides food and school supply items to needy students. A church food and school supplies drive for Bright Futures will be held in July and August to start the new school year. Bright Futures provides over 1,000 Frederick County and Winchester needy school children with weekend food bags all year long. Caring Outreach donates snack items on a regular basis to Middletown Elementary School and delivers twenty bags of food monthly to Orchard View Elementary School Back Pack Ministry in Winchester which are provided to needy children.