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WCC serves as the community partner for four Blue Springs Elementary Schools through the Harvesters' BackSnacks Program to provide children in need with four meals to take home for the weekend during the school year. A total of 95 children at James Walker, John Nowlin, Chapel Lakes and Voy Spears Elementary receive food packs each week. Volunteers from WCC deliver the food provided by Harvesters to the schools on Fridays. In addition, WCC provides food packs to 25 children at Liggett Trail Education Center in Blue Springs each week.

Get involved!

Deliver food packs to the schools on Fridays.

Hillcrest provides transitional housing in a Christian environment to homeless families and helps them become self-supportive, self-reliant contributors to society. Hillcrest provides 90 days of free housing, counseling, and training. WCC supports Hillcrest in a number of ways, including sponsoring an apartment at the Independence & Lee’s Summit locations. A Hillcrest Thrift Store is located in Lee's Summit.

Get involved!

Give your time by serving at Hillcrest or donate items as needed.

Support Hillcrest’s fundraising events: the Eastern Jackson County Auction & Gala held in the fall, and the Walk for the Homeless held each spring.

Work a shift at the Hillcrest Thrift Store or donate your gently-used items.

For more serving opportunites, go to www.hillcresttransitionalhousing.org

Leftover bread is picked up twice a week from local Panera Bread restaurants and delivered to area social service agencies for families in need.

Get involved!

Pick up and deliver the bread one Sunday evening a month.

WCC supports the ministry of the Neighbor to Neighbor program at Westport UMC by providing sack lunches for the homeless in the area. Sack lunches are made by church members in their homes and children in WCC’s Sunday school. They are collected each week for delivery to Westport. Our goal is to provide 100 lunches each week.

Get involved!

Fill brown lunch sacks with the following:

Two cans of tuna or Vienna sausages in the pop-top cans

A fruit or applesauce cup

Individually wrapped crackers

Individually wrapped desserts

Box drinks

Plastic utensils

Napkin

Favorite Bible verse

If doing this project with children, let them decorate the sack with stickers or drawings. Place donations in the marked bin outside the Missions room.

WCC supports the ministry of the Neighbor to Neighbor program at Westport UMC by providing hot meals on the First Thursday, Second Tuesday, Second Saturday and Fourth Saturday of each month.

Get involved!

Donate food for the meals. Sign up at the Missions table.

Serve the meals. Sign up at the Missions table

Current list of items needed:

Gallon size cans of green beans

Gallon size cans of baked beans

Gallon size cans of fruit cocktail

Gallon size cans of apple sauce

Tall cans of lemonade

Lasagna

Bread

Dessert

Non-perishable items may be placed in the marked bin in the Missions Room at any time.

Perishable items can be dropped off by 2pm the day before meals are served (see Mission calendar).

A Women's Ministry mission endeavor making mats for the homeless from plastic bags. This group of women are providing comfort and protection from the ground to those who live on the streets. They meet the first Tuesday of every month at 11:30 a.m. in Room 322 and all women are welcome. Work can be done at home and requires very little skill.

NEW in spring 2013! WCC's Community Garden (which is located off-site close to the church) needs your help! Fresh produce from the garden will be given to families in need in our community. Our team wishes to grow our community relationships through the nourishment of God’s food and word.

Get involved!

Join the Garden team! We need both experienced vegetable gardeners as well as those that just like to play in the dirt. Come join us in the garden on upcoming work days (planting, watering, weeding, tending grass around garden, harvesting, etc.). Sign up at the Missions desk or email the team at wcccommunitygarden@gmail.com.

You can find out more on our Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/WCCCommunityGarden.