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Outreach Ministries
These ministries look to find ways to give attention to the
larger community around issues of compassion and advocacy, social and economic
justice, health and welfare, and other areas that affirm our presence in and
to the world.
Current Active Outreach Efforts (click here)
Congregational Action
Visit this area to learn of Reno Firsts "beliefs put into action."
CLICK HERE
Family Promise
Family Promise provides care to homeless parents and
their children. Guest families rotate among the Network's Host
Congregations. The host congregations provide overnight lodging, meals
and hospitality in their congregation's facilities for one week at a
time, four to five times a year. During the day the guests are taken to
the day home where they work with the Director to create a practical
plan to regain stable housing.
Our congregation is one of the eight host churches and also houses
the daytime care center. During our host week we have over 30 volunteers
helping in one way or another. It is a wonderful way for everyone to be
involved in a mission that is hands on and relational. This mission puts
faces and names to the phenomenon of homelessness.
CLICK HERE to learn
more about Interfaith Hospitality Networks sponsored by Family Promise.
Kairos
Kairos is a ministry
to incarcerated men and women in Nevada prisons. It is an offshoot of
Cursillo, an ecumenical movement involving lay people and those in
ministry in renewal weekends. The experience of Kairos is also similar
to Walk to Emmaus and Tres Dias. A number of First
Church members have been involved in Kairos over the years.
Ridge House
Ridge House, a spin-off of Kairos, is a nonprofit program begun in 1982
by members of First Church. The Ridge House ministry seeks to mainstream
previously incarcerated men and women back into society. Ridge House
operates three gender specific treatment facilities, an intensive
outpatient program, a youth prevention program and provides educational
seminars to law enforcement professionals on co-case management and the
disease of addiction
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a national
organization which builds
houses for people who could not otherwise afford homes.
The local Truckee Meadows Habitat is
an active group, and includes
participants from First Church. Likewise, members participate in each
year's Crop Walk, which raises funds to feed the hungry.
Other
Throughout the year, members give to special causes: Native American
Sunday, UM Student Day, One Great Hour of Sharing, Peace with Justice,
University of Nevada Campus Ministry. First Church also supports World
Service mission projects, black colleges and the Africa University and
various other outreach and mission funds through its connection with the
larger United Methodist Church.
First Church uses its building as a resource to help the broader
community. Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meet regularly
at the church. The building has housed everything from a tutoring
program for Native American children to Sage Wind for young people
recovering from substance abuse . . . from rehearsals of Nevada Opera
and performances of Gothic North Theater to Great Basin Book Festivals.
We have also sponsored our own Boy Scout troop for many years.
Reno First United Methodist Church has been responsible for the birth of
additional churches in Reno: Saint Paul's United
Methodist Church in northwest Reno and South Reno United Methodist Church
located on the Mount Rose Highway. Enthusiastic members of the church
have helped to spawn a new ecumenical ministry in Reno's north valleys
and helped install improvements to the United Methodist Camp outside of
Austin, Nevada.
Reno First United Methodist Church has opened its heart to a Tongan language ministry that meets on Sunday at
the church. (See information on Worship Services
for times.)
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