Outreach Ministry

  • Burbank Elementary School

  • Habitat for Humanity

  • Interfaith Council of Churches Crop Walk

  • Lutheran World Relief

  • Bluemound Interfaith Older Adult Programs

  • Mt. Meru Coffee Project

  • We also open our building for the use of several community groups including:

    PFLAG

    AA groups

    Overeaters Anonymous

    Epilepsy Support

    Greater Milwaukee Synod classes
     

Social Outreach Committee
The Social outreach committee works on and/or promotes projects that have a direct social impact. Such projects include but are not limited to: Burbank School (Thanksgiving baskets, readers, Christmas giving tree, and coats and boots), Mt. Meru Coffee (provides fair trade funds to the farmers directly and money to the Mt. Meru cooperative to help fund improvements such as schools and books), special projects (e.g. Pennies for Peace), Serenity House meals (more volunteers could be used), the RIC proposal and the play-date. We currently have 6 members: myself, Nancy Sack, Michelle Wegner, Barry Burns, Art Langlas and Wendy Buettner. We are trying to come up with ideas for additional outreach including the potential of renewing the partnership with Divine Word Lutheran Church and perhaps supplying project materials for the County Mental Health Children’s wing. If you have any suggestions, please drop a line in my mailbox in the Church office.~ VJ Meyer Chairperson

Volunteers Needed! Do you or someone you know need a volunteer to make a daily morning telephone call to help a frail or elderly citizen stay connected to the community while they remain living on their own? Interfaith Older Adult Programs’ Telephone Reassurance Program makes calls Monday-Friday to people over the age of 60 to ask how they are doing and remind them to take their medications if necessary. Please call Lynn Friedman at 414.220.8651 to make a referral or for more information.

MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT

The Mt Meru Coffee Project made a decision over 8 years ago to pay the coffee farmers a significant premium over market and fair trade prices. The price we have been paying to the farmers has not changed since the program began. Because the cost of living and the cost of producing coffee have increased over the years, it is time to increase the price paid to our friends in Tanzania. The price we pay the farmers for this year’s production will be increased by 10% and will continue to be higher than prices established by the market and the Fair Trade standard.