The Outreach Team is responsible for carrying out the church‚s mission and vision related to its outreach. Responsibilities include providing activities for peace and justice issues, evangelism, disaster relief, CROP, special outreach offerings, and work camps such as the Puerto Rico trip; securing ushers, greeters and the Ambassadors; maintaining relationships with the Cedars, McPherson College, Churches United in Ministry, and the Council of Churches; and serving the community in other ways.
Team Functions
- Peace and justice education/activities
- Ushers and greeters
- Calls on church visitors
- Outreach offerings
- Disaster relief (coordinator)
- CROP-Walk/Bread Festival
- Scouting
STEPMC is offering Bridges Out of Poverty Training for all community members. Bridges Out of Poverty trains community volunteers who want to help people living in poverty work their way to self-sufficiency. Bridges training leads to a better understanding of poverty, provides a process for helping people out of poverty and encourages restructuring of community resources to facilitate and sustain self-sufficiency. This training is used to prepare volunteers to build relationships across class lines.