Mount Olive Lutheran Church

Serving our Community

Mount Olive is actively engaged in a wide variety of service ministries as we seek to care for the poor and vulnerable.  Mount Olive hosts the Tri-Vally Migrant Head Start program from June – November each year, services as a host congregation for the Interfaith Hospitality Networks (IHNS) program, Habitat for Humanity each month, serving at Channel One, Dorothy Day House, Crisis Nursery and Salvation Army. 

In addition, Mount Olive has a rich history of ministry through Lutheran World Relief, making and shipping quilts, receiving blankets, school and health kits.  Mount Olive is also a leader in giving to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal.  Members have been involved with disaster response, the United Way, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and many other outreach ministries.

Links to many of these organizations can be found on the Resources page

• Service Opportunites

Participate

• IHN Volunteers:
  
  
  Using the userid "moliveihn" and the password "2881580", go to this Yahoo Group database and sign up for your time and area of serving.
  
  You will be able to see the whole week's entries. Choose "Edit" on the far right of the row for the date you want to sign up. You will see the various tasks listed and you can put in your name and telephone number, and then choose "Save Record". (You may have to scroll down to see the Save Record button.) You may then click "Sign Out" in the extreme upper left of the database page (above the Yahoo logo).
  

  Habitat for Humanity January 14
  
  Work continues on the Thrivent Builds/Habitat for Humanity house. Mount Olive volunteers work every second Saturday of the month from 9 am – 3 pm. Sign up in the gathering area. Contact Jim Berg at 287-6649 with questions.

  Mount Olive Hosting
  Interfaith Hospitality
  January 22-29
  
  IHN is the combined work of 50 congregations in the greater Rochester area with the shared mission of helping homeless families with children break the cycle of homelessness. Mount Olive hosts four weeks each year. Thank you to everyone who helped during our recent week of hosting (December 18—25). Your time and effort to care for homeless families is greatly appreciat-ed.

  Project Comfort Coffee February 5
  
  Lutheran World Relief (LWR) ships Mount Olive’s layettes, health kits and quilts to places of need in this country and overseas. To support LWR by donating shipping money, Ruth Circle hosts the Project Comfort Coffee each year. On February 4 after the 5 pm service and after each service on February 5, circle members will serve cookies and beverages and accept a free-will offering for this cause. Checks can be made out to Mount Olive WELCA with the nota-tion “Project Comfort” on the memo line.