Our Church

Our staff is small, and a great deal of the congregation’s work is done by volunteers. Our needs range from preparing the sanctuary for worship, to gardening and building maintenance. We also have a strong Mission Program outside our church, that serves the less fortunate in local communities, and communities across the United States and around the world. Whatever your talent, you’ll find a volunteer opportunity that makes you feel useful and appreciated. We welcome your time and expertise.

Contact Church office: 314-961-4133, [email protected]

Serve Through Volunteering Within Our Church

Serve Through Talents

Music Ministry

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Share your musical talents through singing and/or playing an instrument. The outstanding acoustics in our sanctuary make music the heart of worship at Webster United Methodist. Volunteers are always welcome to sing in our Chancel Choir or youth choir, or to perform a vocal or instrumental solo.

Chancel Choir practice is held in the Music Room on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m., led by our Director of Music Lamar Fitzgerald. [email protected].

Worship Design Team

This small, imaginative group creates each worship experience, including the themes, music, movement and graphics.

Worship Service

Our Sunday services would be incomplete without the assistance of our ushers and lectors, and volunteers to set up communion and audio visual needs.

Kitchen Cooking Projects

Family Cooking Kitchen Food Togetherness Concept

Are you a good cook? Share your culinary talents by cooking and serving meals for our Sunday events and the children’s Wild Wednesday nights. Clean-up volunteers also are needed to tidy up and wash the dishes.

Give Your Time

Care Team

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Acts of care include writing notes and preparing meals to be frozen or delivered to those who need a little love; visiting church members at home or in the hospital; sending care packages to college students far from home; and hosting dinners or tea parties for our wisdom folks.

Hospitality & Connections Team

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Share your gift for hospitality by meeting and greeting our church family and guests who are seeking a connection with our church. Responsibilities also may include hosting lunch with the pastor, hosting overnight guests and mission teams at the church, serving as ushers, assisting in Communion and directing guests to their classes and the nursery.

Office Team

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Do you have a friendly phone voice and welcoming attitude? Afternoon assistance is needed in the church to answer the phone, receive parcels and people, and assist Pastor Sharon as needed.

Prayer Group

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Our prayer group meets one hour a week to offer up prayer requests received from our website and the weekly blue connection cards offered in worship.

Present Your Passions

Craft Ministry

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Our clever crafters gather once a month to create products which are sold at the Lord’s Acre Auction to raise funds for missions. It’s a fun couple of hours with plenty of fellowship.

Knitting & Crocheting Ministry

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If you love to knit, crochet or would like to learn, join us for this weekly gathering. Beautiful prayer shawls are created to be blessed and delivered to those in need of a hug by our church family.

Quilting Group

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Meeting weekly on Tuesday mornings, this group creates beautiful quilts to be sold at the Lord’s Acre Auction each year to raise funds for missions. Don’t know how to quilt? These quilters will teach you!

Children's Ministry/Youth Group

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Volunteer teachers lead children in the Deep Blue curriculum on Sunday mornings, and assist at our monthly Wild Wednesday program with crafts/games and cleanup. They may also serve on the Children’s Ministry Team to plan Vacation Bible School and children’s missions.

Love to work with young people? The Youth Ministry is always seeking creative, authentic and caring persons to offer programs, encouragement and transportation to youth events.

Grant Your Expertise

Building Maintenance/Gardening & Grounds Team

Tuesday Crew volunteers perform interior and exterior maintenance projects on Tuesday mornings; coffee and donuts are included to sweeten the deal. Bring your own toolbox.

Gardeners are welcome to bring their green thumbs to the church grounds and flowerbeds to help with regular weeding, watering, pruning, planting and maintenance.

Finance Team

If number-crunching is your forte, we could use your administrative talent in working with the church budget. The Finance committee creates and administers the budget and designs and runs the stewardship program.

Trustees

Trustees are elected to coordinate the overall maintenance budget and schedule for the church, including elevator maintenance, and computer hardware and software needs.

Communications Team

Are you creative in copywriting, design, photography, advertising or social media? We need you on the Communications Team!

Risk-taking Missions

Risk-taking missions unleash the spiritual power and love of Jesus Christ outside the walls of the church. Our efforts span local, national and international ministries with an emphasis on strengthening families and direct engagement with those we serve. We respond compassionately to those affected by natural disasters, poverty, violence, injustice or struggling relationships, and invite you to join one of our on-going missions.

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Reconciling Team

Reconciling Ministries Team

Risk-taking missions unleash the spiritual power and love of Jesus Christ outside the walls of the church. Our efforts span local, national and international ministries.

This group is charged with helping the church live out its pledge to be a radically welcoming church to all people.

Their most recent focus has been to bring awareness of Transgender Sunday, create a presence at the Pride Festival, support the Spring Awakening Weekend, and sponsor an all-church educational event.

Reconciling Ministries Network: https://www.rmnetwork.org

Justice Team

The Justice Team focuses on matters of social and civic justice and fairness. Our mission is to provide opportunities for education and action in areas such as poverty, hunger, and race and gender relations.

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Webster Groves Alliance for Interracial Dignity allianceforinterracialdignity.org/

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Reconciling Ministries Team

This group is charged with helping the church live out its pledge to be a radically welcoming church to all people.

Their most recent focus has been to bring awareness of Transgender Sunday, create a presence at the Pride Festival, support the Spring Awakening Weekend, and sponsor an all-church educational event.

Reconciling Ministries Network: https://www.rmnetwork.org

Justice Team

Webster-Rock Hill Ministries wrhm.org/

Webster Groves Alliance for Interracial Dignity allianceforinterracialdignity.org/

Equal Exchange Fair Trade products http://equalexchange.coop/

Bread for the World bread.org/

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Adult And Youth Mission Trips

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Embark on one of our weeklong youth or adult mission trips for a faith-building experience that changes the lives within the communities we serve.

Contact Jan McCurley, adult mission trips: [email protected]

Amanda Furbee, youth mission trips: [email protected]

Epworth Children & Family Services

Enjoy one Saturday afternoon a month with girls living in the dorm at the Epworth Children’s facility. Crafts, cooking and celebrating birthdays are common events for the monthly interactions. www.epworth.org/

Contact Church office: 314-961-4133, [email protected]

Food, Clothing, Gifts & Supply Donations

Donations keep individuals fed and clothed, put smiles on the faces of children at Christmas and send children to school with needed supplies.

Collections are taken for:

Contact Church office: 314-961-4133, [email protected]

Hands in Mission

Neighborhood projects such as food collection, yard work and home maintenance projects for the elderly are scheduled on select Saturday mornings from May to October. We enjoy sharing with others, because the more we give, the more we receive.

Church office: 314-961-4133, [email protected]

Webster-Rock Hill Ministries

WRHM is a coalition of churches, organizations and businesses which provide services and programs to support low-income and disabled members of the community. Volunteer opportunities include working in a food bank, minor home repairs, yard work, tutoring, family adoptions at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and office work.

Contact Church office: 314-961-4133, [email protected]

http://wrhm.org/

Regional Volunteer Events

Youth

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Operation Clean Stream

Celebrating its 50^th anniversary in 2017, Operation Clean Stream has been responsible for the removal of thousands of scrap tires, metal, yard debris and other litter out of Missouri’s waterways. Volunteers join a team on the river, or walk the banks and clean up the parks and greenways in the watershed.

http://openspacestl.org/ocs/

Contact Paige Foster, Youth Leader: [email protected]

Church office: 314-961-4133, [email protected]

Adult

Emergency crisis response is a vital part of our adult volunteer efforts in the greater St. Louis region and the state of Missouri. Two of the most devastating crises occurred in Joplin in 2011 and Eureka in 2015. We continue by serving and responding to local needs as they arise.

Give to Missions

Joplin Tornado Response

The mile-wide tornado that tore through Joplin, MO., in May 2011 was rated the deadliest tornado to hit the United States since 1947. With more than 150 deaths, 1,150 injuries and billions of dollars in damages, the disaster drew in multitudes of emergency volunteers, including our WUM mission team who made two trips to Joplin, each time spending a week at a Joplin church while assisting community members with cleanup and construction.

Eureka Flood Cleanup

Following record-breaking flooding southwest of St. Louis in December 2015, our WUM

mission team traveled to Eureka, MO., one of the hardest-hit areas, to assist in the cleanup and rebuilding of water-damaged homes.

National & International events that we support

Global Outreach

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As a United Methodist Congregation we are not alone in our efforts. We join hands with almost nine million United Methodists from more than 35,000 churches (in the United States) to accomplish amazing mission work for Christ.

Join us as together we support:

2,281 full-time mission personnel

103,500 volunteers in mission

Global disaster relief (UMCOR)

Global hunger relief

Agricultural missionaries

Medical missionaries, teachers and relief workers

Mozambique Initiative

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Donate to the Mozambique Initiative to support the life-changing ministry of the Mozambique people and our sister church in Chiphongo. Your donations will support:

Construction of safe water wells to help prevent water-borne illnesses, a leading cause of death in young Mozambique children

O peration of the local hospital and a malaria prevention program

Leadership training for community leaders at the Gondola Training Center

Construction of primary schools and churches

Microfinance projects to encourage self sufficiency

Social services

Gertrude's Orphanage

Gertrude’s Orphanage serves children with disabilities and abandoned children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Founded by Sister Gertrude Bien-Aimee in 1993, the orphanage encourages volunteers to travel to Haiti and donate a week of service, assisting in such activities as:

Light physical therapy for special-needs children

Summer camp, prayer services, structured games, dance/music programs, science experiments

Cooking and knitting

Preparing videos, pictures and drawings for the children’s sponsors

On-site maintenance work

During our 2017 mission trip to Haiti, our team built a therapy bed, installed a basketball backboard with a net, and deep-cleaned the orphanage’s therapy room.

http://gertrudesorphanage.weebly.com

[email protected]

United Methodist Committee on Relief

United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is an emergency relief organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the globe. A nonprofit agency of the United Methodist Church, UMCOR provides humanitarian relief when war, conflict or natural disaster disrupt life to such an extent that communities are unable to recover on their own. UMCOR’s work reaches people in more than 80 countries, offering programs in disaster response, health, sustainable agriculture, food security, relief supplies and more.

While UMCOR cooperates with other aid organizations to extend its reach, it strongly believes that successful solutions to emergency or chronic conditions begin with the affected population. UMCOR provides these survivors not only temporary relief, but also long-term education, training and support. UMCOR spends 100 percent of designated donations on projects specified by donors.

Source: https://www.umcor.org/

Contact Church office: 314-961-4133, [email protected]

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Our Church

Contact Church office: 314-961-4133, [email protected]

Serve Through Volunteering Within Our Church

Serve Through Talents

Give Your Time

Present Your Passions

Grant Your Expertise

Risk-taking Missions

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Reconciling Team

Reconciling Ministries Team

Justice Team

Justice Team

Reconciling Ministries Team

Justice Team

Regional Volunteer Events

Youth

Adult

National & International events that we support