MUST Ministries Summer Lunch Program
Each year North partners with MUST Ministries to help feed children that normally receive reduced or free lunches during the school year. Please consider donating one or more non-perishable food items. These food items will be collected and taken to MUST Ministries where meal kits will be assembled and distributed to kids throughout the community.
Below is a list of needed items for the meal kits:
- Kraft Easy Mac & Cheese cups
- Microwavable cup meals such as Campbell’s soup, Beef Stew, Chef Boyardee
- Salty snacks such as pretzels, Goldfish, peanut butter crackers (individually wrapped)
- Sweet Snacks such as Quaker Chewy Bars, Fruit Snacks, Fruit Cups, Applesauce, Animal Crackers (individually wrapped)
- Juice Boxes, Capri Sun packs
You may drop off items any time at the collection bin located outside the Main Lobby.
If you would like to help sort, pack, and/or distribute meal kits this summer, click the “Sign Me Up!” button below and select “MUST Ministries.”
Ongoing Serve Opportunities
Below is a list of ongoing serve opportunities with our Community Partners. When you are ready to get started, select the “Sign Me Up!” button, select the area(s) you are interested in, and we’ll be in touch to help get you started!
Crisis Care
- The Extension (Cobb County) helps homeless individuals overcome drug and alcohol addiction.
– Provide and serve a meal
– On-campus projects
– Volunteer at special events
- Goshen Valley Family Resource Center (Cherokee County) provides basic needs of food, clothing and financial resource to families in crisis.
– Landscaping/facility projects
– Sort donations/food pantry
– Become a foster parent, respite care, or mentor (training provided)
→ Learn more about Goshen Valley
- Marietta Housing Authority (Cobb County) provides housing opportunities to needy individuals/families, while fostering their economic independence, through responsible stewardship.
– Donations
– Christmas Outreach
– Backpack Outreach
- MUST Ministries (Cobb County), provides food, clothing, housing, employment, and other services to homeless and struggling individuals.
– Sort Donations
– Fill and Distribute Food Boxes
– Volunteer to sort, pack, and distribute meals as part of the Summer Lunch Program
– Serve at the Toy Shop (Christmas)
→ Learn more about MUST Ministries
Women’s Care
- First Care Women’s Clinic (Cobb County) is a crisis pregnancy center located in Marietta, GA.
– Donate
– Facility projects (landscaping, sorting, etc.)
– Become a mentor (training provided)
- The HOPE Center (Cherokee County) is a crisis pregnancy center located in Woodstock, GA.
– Donate
– Become a prayer partner
→ Learn more about The HOPE Center
- The HOPE Center Seeds Thrift Boutique (Cherokee County) sells quality donated clothing, furniture and décor contributes greatly to The HOPE Center ministry. The store is located in Woodstock, GA.
– Donate
– Sort donations
– Purchase items on their Amazon wish list HERE
- The Table on Delk (Cobb County) provides meals and resources to those at high risk for trafficking.
– Prepare and/or serve a meal
– Decorate placemats
– Prayer walk
→ Learn more about The Table on Delk
- Wellspring Living (Metro Atlanta) rescues & restores individuals from trafficking. Wellspring serves Gwinnett, Dekalb, Paulding, and Fulton counties.
– Organize a small group to complete a project at one of their campuses
– Tutor
– Prepare a meal
Foster Care
- FaithBridge Foster Care (Fulton County) is a faith-based foster and adoptive placement agency located in Alpharetta, GA.
– Donate
– Become a foster parent
- Goshen Valley Boys Ranch (Cherokee County) is a faith-based foster placement agency that provides a group boys ranch in Waleska, GA. Their Family Resource Center, located in Canton, GA, provides preventative therapeutic services, resources for foster families, and “aged out” programs focused on keeping siblings together.
– Donate
– Facility projects (landscaping, sorting donations, etc.)
– Become a house parent or foster parent
→ Learn more about Goshen Valley
- Mount Paran North Foster Hope (Cobb County) provides support to our local foster families
– Provide transportation
– Laundry work
– Yard work
– Prepare a meal
– Provide respite to foster parents
- Waymark Foster (Cobb County) is a support ministry to foster families and helps foster kids successfully transition to adulthood with camps and events
– Make birthday cards for kids in foster care
– Prepare a meal for small group meeting
– Become a volunteer, camp counselor, or mentor (volunteer and trauma-based training provided)
→ Learn more about Waymark Foster
School Partnerships
- FCA East / Osborne High School is located on Favor Road in Marietta, GA.
– Pray for FCA ministry opportunities as well as the coaches, athletes, and schools
– Serve in FCA Club Meetings (serving breakfast, speaking, etc.)
– Provide/serve meals for their sports teams
– Become a Character Coach for a team
- Lockheed Elementary School is located on Merritt Road in Marietta, GA.
– Mentoring
– Food pantry (organize and distribute food boxes)
– Faculty events
– Collection drives
- 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.
– Register your child
– Volunteer
– Start a chapter
– Pray
– Give
- Sawyer Road Elementary School is located on Sawyer Road in Marietta, GA.
– Mentoring
– Food pantry (organize and distribute food boxes)
– Faculty events
– Collection drives
→ Learn more about Sawyer Road Elementary
Senior Care
- Dorsey Manor (Cobb County) is a senior living facility located in Marietta, GA.
– Provide support
- Men of Acts provides help to seniors, widows, and single moms in our congregation with needs around the house.
→ Visit our Men of Acts page
- Mount Paran North Seniors provides support to seniors within our church family
– Help with shopping lists
– Put groceries away
– Household chores
– Transportation
- North of Sixty is a monthly gathering for those age 60 and older
– Share a testimony
– Be a speaker
– Help with event set-up/tear-down, registration, or lunch
– Donate towards events
– Lead worship
Local Service Personnel Care
- Cobb County Fire Station #56 is located on Sawyer Road in Marietta, GA.
– Prepare and/or deliver a meal for firefighters
– Pray for fire fighters
- Dobbins Air Force Base (Cobb County)
- Marietta Police Station
– Prepare and/or deliver a meal for 130 police officers (3 different shifts) quarterly
– Pray for police officers
- United Military Care, Inc. (Cobb County) is a non-profit organization located in Marietta, GA, that serves military veterans.
– Donate
– Clerical/administrative support
– Food pantry (stock & organize)
– Special Events
North Community Care
- Administrative Assistance
Help organize, file, or assist with meetings and events.
- Community Events and Promotions
Volunteer to serve at our community events or help support and promote events by serving on campus at an information table after Sunday worship gatherings.
- Donation Management
Serve on the North campus by organizing, sorting, and/or delivering donations bi-monthly to local underprivileged schools or at special events throughout the year.
- Partner Liaison
Become a North liaison with one of our local community ministry partners.
MORE COMMUNITY PARTNERS
The Academy at Double Ranch
The Academy at Double H Ranch is a non-profit, Christian K-12, private school focused on serving low-income and at-risk children, located near Jasper Georgia.Our mission is to help low income, at-risk students prepare for life by providing a safe, Christ-centered learning environment and inspire them to reach his/her full academic, emotional, physical, and spiritual potential.
academyhhranch.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.
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
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
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
Simple Needs GA
Simple Needs GA 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
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