Community Outreach

SERVE DAY

A big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make our last Serve Day a great success! We had 154 volunteers complete projects at 16 different locations throughout Cobb and Cherokee counties. If you were unable to attend, our next Serve Day is coming up October 14! Serve Day is the perfect opportunity for you to gather with your friends, family, or Life Group and help make a difference in our community! A wide variety of opportunities will be available for all ages. Sign up will begin in September.

YMCA Hunger Relief

• Package and distribute food at various locations
• SIGN UP to serve at The Church at Green Acres
• SIGN UP to serve at Brumby Elementary

Food Pantry Drive

Mount Paran North is partnering with local elementary schools to provide non-perishable items for their food pantries. These food pantries help struggling families put food on the table for their children. YOU CAN HELP! Please bring non-perishable food items to North at any time, and we’ll take care of it from there! See below for a list of needed items:

• Canned meats (tuna, chicken, Vienna sausages)
• Campbell’s soup (can or plastic container)
• Individual apple sauce
• Saltine crackers (smaller box)
• Canned pasta sauce
• Boxed pasta
• Baby food
• Breakfast cereals
• Goldfish snacks (individually wrapped)
• Granola bars (no nuts)

Bring donations to the Main Lobby for collection. NO GLASS ITEMS, PLEASE.

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 thatprovides 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 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

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

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

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

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 uplanned pregnancy by providing assistance as well as emotional and spiritual support.
firstcarewomensclinic.com

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

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.

Green Acres Baptist

Green Acres Baptist is located in the middle of a multi-racial, impovershed area. North has partnered with them to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of their community.

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

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.