THANK YOU for helping to make a difference in our community!
We have many ongoing outreach opportunities with our community partners. Please see the list below.
If you choose to participate in one or more, or find other opportunities to serve in our community, let us know! Send your photos and a brief description to community@mountparannorth.com.
Christmas Outreach 2024
Each year, we partner with the Marietta Housing Authority’s Family Self-Sufficiency Program to provide Christmas gifts for families that otherwise may go without. There are 4 ways you can help:
- Sponsor a child or family
- Donate to the Christmas Outreach Fund
- Shop for gifts using donated funds
- Deliver gifts to families
To sign up, stop by the Christmas Outreach table in the Main Lobby or Kids Lobby starting Sunday, November 17. Or click one of the buttons below. Thank you for helping to make a difference in our community this Christmas!
Under Fund, select “Other” and note “Christmas Outreach.”
MORE SERVING OPPORTUNITIES!
Many of our community outreach partners offer opportunities for you to serve throughout the year.
See below for more information on ways you can help make a difference!
Y Hunger Relief
We are partnering with the Y to package and distribute food at several locations.
Church at Green Acres (Smyrna)
Sawyer Road Elementary (Marietta)
Mentoring Program at Lockheed Elementary
Lockheed Elementary, located at 1205 Merritt Road in Marietta, is starting a one-on-one mentor program for students who need a positive, caring adult in their life. One day a month can make a HUGE difference socially and emotionally for our students. If you would like to become a Lockheed Mentor, click the link below.
MUST Ministries
- Sort food and clothing donations in the donation center
- Prepare and serve a meal at Elizabeth Inn
- Compile donations to provide hygiene kits
- Host a food drive in your neighborhood
- SIGN UP
The Table on Delk
A ministry that provides a safe place for those who are currently, or at risk of, being sexually exploited to have a meal and get connected to resources.
- Provide sack lunches for children
- Provide a meal for a meeting
- Provide dessert for a meeting
- Minister to residents of Delk Rd. motels (Sat. or Wed.)
- Minister and assist at laundromat (Wed., Thur., or Fri.)
- Write inspirational messages and color placemats
- SIGN UP
Waymark Foster
Waymark’s quality programming provides youth in foster care with a sense of community and support — guiding them to succeed when they make the transition to adulthood.
- Make birthday cards to be sent to children in foster care
- Provide a meal for small group meeting
- SIGN UP
Wellspring Living
A non-profit organization in Atlanta, Georgia that provides domestic sex trafficking victims and those at risk with specialized recovery services through residential and community-based programs.
- Organize a small group to do a special project at one of the campuses
- SIGN UP
Simple Needs GA
An organization whose mission is to meet the simple needs of children, people experiencing homelessness, and others in need.
- Help collect and/or deliver donations
- Put together Comfort Kits
- Work a Donation Drive
- SIGN UP
MEET OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS!
We are thankful for the opportunity to partner with local churches, schools, and organizations who are making a difference in our community.
MUST Ministries
MUST Ministries is a volunteer organization dedicated to helping homeless and struggling individuals and families with food, clothing, housing, employment, and other resources.
mustministries.org
Table on Delk
Table on Delk provides a safe place for those who are currently, or at risk of, being sexually exploited to have a meal and get connected to resources that they might not know about. Meals and programs are provided six days a week.
thetableondelk.org
Waymark Foster
Waymark helps youth in Georgia’s foster care system successfully transition to adulthood by creating the structure and space for caring volunteers to provide skills, support, and critical relationships. Their quality programming provides youth with a sense of community and support — guiding them to succeed when they make the transition to adulthood.
waymarkfoster.org
Wellspring Living
Wellspring Living is a non-profit organization in Atlanta that provides domestic sex trafficking victims and those at risk with transformative care through therapeutic services, education, life skills, and personal/professional development.
wellspringliving.org
First Care Women’s Clinic
First Care Women’s Clinic is a Christian-based clinic committed to helping women and men deal positively with an unplanned pregnancy by providing assistance as well as emotional and spiritual support.
firstcarewomensclinic.com
Goshen Valley Boys Ranch
Goshen Valley Boys Ranch believes every child deserves to know the safety of a home, the love of a family, and the hope of a future. Goshen exists to provide these for young men, women, and children in the foster care system that they might experience full healing.
goshenvalley.org
McCleskey East Cobb YMCA
McCleskey East Cobb YMCA collects and distributes hundreds of thousands of pounds of food each year to those living in “food deserts” throughout Cobb County as part of their Hunger Relief program.
ymcaatlanta.org
House of Cherith
House of Cherith, based in Atlanta, provides a safe house where girls and women dealing with the trauma of sex trafficking can receive counseling, therapeutic services, health services, and assistance in obtaining and maintaining employment.
hocatl.org
The Extension
The Extension has helped hundreds of homeless men and women in Cobb County recover from drug and alcohol addiction through their residential treatment plan.
theextension.org
Foundation for Hospital Art
The Foundation for Hospital Art recruits patients and volunteers worldwide to create colorful, soothing artwork donated to hospitals to help soften the often-stressful hospital experience. Throughout the years, over 50,000 paintings have been donated to over 7,500 hospitals in 195 countries.
hospitalart.org
FSS Program
Marietta Housing Authority – Family Self-Sufficiency Program helps families become more self-sufficient by providing resources needed to obtain and maintain full-time employment and to be free of welfare assistance.
mariettahousingauthority.org
Green Acres Baptist
Green Acres Baptist is located in the middle of a multi-racial, impoverished area. North has partnered with them to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of their community.
Lockheed Elementary
Lockheed Elementary provides food, uniforms, and school supplies to children in need. For several years, North has partnered with Lockheed to assist in their programs and projects.
Simple Needs Georgia
Simple Needs Georgia seeks to “fill in the cracks” by meeting other unmet, but important, needs. It is in these simple acts—bringing a tent to a person living in the woods or providing birthday gifts to a homeless child—that we help connect people with the services that can improve their lives.
simpleneedsgablog.com
Maximum Impact Love
Maximum Impact Love exists to rescue girls and women from prostitution in the Fulton Industrial Parkway area. To date, they have reached out to over 50,000 people with food, support, and a way out through the love of Jesus.
maximumimpactlove.org
Rise Up!
RISE UP! is a free after-school character development program for elementary-aged children held in local public schools with the purpose of teaching students how to apply relevant Biblical truths in their everyday lives. RISE UP! provides a creative, fun and memorable environment for kids to hear about God’s amazing love for them.
Ways to help:
Register your child / Volunteer / Start a chapter / Pray / Give
Men of Acts
Men of Acts is a group of men and women from North who serve the widows, single parents, elderly, and disabled in our congregation and nearby community by providing labor for one-day handyman jobs (minor repairs, yard work, etc.). MOA welcomes men and women of all ages to join us the third Saturday of each month as we fulfill assistance requests.
Learn more.