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 | Members serve as tutors to children at West Elementary and
the Mount Vernon Middle School. |
| "Carpenter's Hands" serves members of Gay Street UMC who need help to do minor house maintenance. |
| The Congregational Care Team ministers to our own members, sending notes, making calls, and visiting with those who have experienced illness and/or loss in their families. The Team requests that members keep them informed of illnesses and hospitalizations by calling the church office. |
| On Friday evenings the church serves dinner as part of the ISS "Hot Meals" program which provides meals for those in our community who are in need. |
| Members provided over 100 Christmas presents for ISS families in the annual "Tree of Sharing" project. |
| The first Sunday of each month, a collection of food, paper products, diapers, etc is made for the ISS food pantry. |
| Over the past 25 years, over 500 youth and adults have gone to Appalachia for one week each summer to participate in the "Appalachian Service Project", which works to improve homes in depressed sections of this area. Participants have always been well supported with materials, finances, and prayer support from the congregation. |
| The local "Habitat for Humanity" has been supported financially and with volunteers from the congregation. |
| Gay Street UMC helps to financially support "New Directions", the local women's shelter which cares for abused women and their children, as well as contributing to other needs such as linens and furniture. |
| We join many other churches in Knox County in the support of "Interchurch Social Services"(ISS). ISS provides services for people in need: clothing, housing, food, furniture, medical, utilities, transportation, and emergency financial assistance. |
| Gay Street joins other Methodists in supporting the "Red Bird Mission" in Beverly, Kentucky with money and Campbell soup labels. In addition, the local church helps to financially support Chris and Thom Denman, who are missionaries at the Joy Center. |
| Individual members have contributed thousands of dollars to UMCOR (a world-wide denominational relief group) for relief efforts involving not only natural disasters, but also the problems created by warfare and terrorism. |
