Opportunities In the Community

Habitat for Humanity
Contact: Ralph Thwaite

Support the building of new residences in Fauquier County by doing construction or by providing assistance. Most work done on Saturdays.

For the most recent updates and additions check the calendar at www.fauquierhabitat.org.

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Visiting Shut-Ins
Contact: UMW

Visiting and writing cards to persons who are shut-in members and non members living at home and in nursing homes.

Kairos Prison Ministries
Contact: Jim Templeton

Participating in Kairos weekends, baking cookies for Kairos weekends, writing to inmates, visiting persons in jail.

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Angel Tree
Contact: Diane Shofkom

Support a needy family or families by providing Christmas gifts.

Crop Walk
Contact: Diane Shofkam

Each participant obtains sponsors who are willing to donate money for them to walk to benefit hunger. The Warrenton Walk is through the grounds at Airlie and usually takes place in the fall.

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Relay for Life
Contact: Carol Walus and Gayle Wilson

Obtain sponsors who are willing to donate money for you to be a member of our team who will walk to benefit cancer research. Walk through the evening and all night as a part of our relay team. Collect the pledges and turn them in to the point of contact. Usually in late May.

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Bethel United Methodist Women
Contact: Ava Lee

Selected work projects at different times throughout the year.

Bethel United Methodist Men
Contact: Greg Salamone

Selected work projects at different times throughout the year.

Stop Hunger Now
Contact: John or Martha Jo Payne

Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision to end world hunger in our lifetime and a mission to provide food and life-saving aid to the world's most destitute and hungry in the most sustainable, efficient and effective manner.

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Annual Pochahontas Mission Trip
Contact: Missions coordinator

Each year in July we take a week-long mission trip to Pocahontas, Virginia. During the trip, we help families with work that they can either not afford or are unable to do for themselves. There is no charge to attend unless you prefer to stay in a motel. The majority of the team stays in town either at the Catholic Parish House or in the Baptist parsonage that are offered to us free of charge. We eat breakfast on our own. Lunch is delivered to our work sites. And we have dinner together in the fellowship hall of the Baptist Church.

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Tri-Cities Work Camp
Contact: Ken and Martha Trexler

Bethel UMC participates in the Tricities Workcamp held in Petersburg, VA each year. Small crews work together each day, Monday through Friday on homes that have been assessed by Tri-Cities Workcamps, Inc. Work tasks include porch and step repair, hanging drywall, floor and wall replacement and painting. Evening programs offer inspiration through music, worship, games and projects. Special activities are scheduled throughout the week. Daily seminars are held for adults and campers 19 years and older. Thursday night is a special night of learning drama, music, liturgical dance and other art that can be presented by the campers at their home churches. Saturday morning's Re-entry Celebration is a culmination of the week through art, music, worship and pictures. This celebration is shared with residents, parents, and clergy and church members. Visitors are welcomed if anyone wants to come down and see what these youth are doing for the Peterburg community.

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Walk to Emmaus
Contact: Pastor Marty

The Walk to Emmaus is a weekend for deepening your relationship with Jesus. It is a vehicle for helping people connect what they know in their head about God – what they have learned in study – with the love in their hearts that is placed there by God. The "Walk" is not really a walk, but it takes its name from the disciples in Luke 24 who were walking to Emmaus, encountered Jesus and he unfolded scripture to them, and they had their eyes opened as Jesus shared bread with them.

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