Current Asbury In Mission partners:
LOCAL
Allentown Rescue Mission: Working to end homelessness one person at a time. Website: http://www.allentownrescuemission.org/
Asbury|Ramos Initiative: Partnering with this city school to provide supplies for students and teachers as well as volunteer help in the classrooms. Website: https://lar.allentownsd.org/
Bridging the Gap: A ministry of St. Luke’s/Sacred Heart Hospital and the Parish Nursing Coalition providing financial assistance to those in need for medical co-pays and prescriptions. Website: https://studylib.net/doc/9251064/bridging-the-gap—st.-luke-s-hospital-and-health-network
Bright Hope: Offering individual and group support services that address pregnancy, healthy relationships, life skills, parenting, fatherhood, and abortion education. Website: https://brighthopecenters.org/
Casa del Rey UMC: La Trinidad UMC & Familia Dei Ministry joined together to become one ministry. On January 1, 2021. Reaching the Latino community of Allentown with the good news of Jesus Christ. https://www.facebook.com/latrinidadumcpa
Community Bike Works: Providing at-risk youth with meaningful work-ethic alternatives to drugs, crime and the street. Website: http://www.communitybikeworks.org/
Daybreak: Serving three balanced meals each workday and teaching life skills to people living with mental illness, physical disabilities, addictions, HIV/AIDS and to the elderly. Website: http://lehighchurches.org/what-we-do/daybreak/
Kingdom Life Family Center Food Bank: Providing food for those in need in the Parkland School District area. Website: https://klfc.org/food-bank/
La Trinidad United Methodist Church: Reaching the Latino community of Allentown with the good news of Jesus Christ. Contact Pastor Brunilda Martinez at 610-351-4804. Website: http://www.umc.org/find-a-church/church/23322
Lehigh Conference of Churches: Making Christian unity visible in the community through a number of agencies. Website: http://www.lehighchurches.org/
Meals on Wheels of Lehigh County: Providing meal services to people in need. Website: http://mealsonwheelslc.org/
Salem Food Pantry: An Allentown food ministry providing fresh locally grown foods for people in need. Website: https://sixthstreetshelter.caclv.org/
Sixth Street Shelter: Providing opportunity and direction for people to become self-sufficient, productive members of the community. Phone: 610-435-1490; Website: http://sss.caclv.org/
Turning Point: Providing shelter and support for victims of domestic violence. Website: https://www.turningpointlv.org/
REGIONAL/NATIONAL
Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Camps: Providing camps and retreat centers where people of all ages and backgrounds can experience God’s love in a caring Christian community. Website: https://www.epaumc.org/ministry/camp-retreat/
Emerging Ministries Corporation, Cookman Beloved Community Church: Providing high school diploma completion and GED courses for youth and young adults in North Philadelphia. Contact Rev. Donna Jones. Phone: 267-886-3139; Website: https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Emerging-Ministries-Corporation
High School Youth Ministries Work Trip to Philippi West Virginia: Working on housing projects for those in need in rural West Virginia. Websites: http://www.heartandhandhouse.org/, http://www.asburyym.org/
Young Life Lehigh Valley: Inviting high school students to follow Christ; caring for them regardless of their response and changing lives in the process. Website:. https://lehighvalley.younglife.org/
Youth P.E.A.C.E. Ministries: Providing scholarships to change lives of urban Philadelphia youth through Christian camping. Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjLfrbhuWTw
GLOBAL
Africa University Scholarships, Zimbabwe: Changing lives through education. Currently sponsoring Isolo Edouard in the School of Theology. Website: http://www.africau.edu/
Barrels of Love, Liberia: Providing clothing and school supplies for Voinjama District, St Matthew School and Dominic Hena School. Contact: Dick McCreight. Email: dickmcc@ptd.net
Boake Family Home, South Africa: Caring for 19 children/youth (battered, abandoned, HIV/AIDS babies) in need of a home, food, clothing, education and career opportunities. Contact: Colin Boake. Email: colinb@futurenet.co.za
Connectional Ministries, UMC Eastern PA Conference: Supporting United Methodist missions throughout the world. Website: http://www.epaumc.org/ministry/mission-outreach/
Deirdre Zimmerman, Nepal: Providing medical and nutritional care in Kathmandu Nepal. BIO, Website: http://www.npcs.org.np/nutrition.html
Fire & Fragrance, South Africa: Operating evangelism, relief, development and discipleship training programs in the North West Province. Website: https://ffsouthafrica.com/
Healthy Women-Healthy Liberia and Dr. Chris Hena: Promoting the health of the people and educating patients through comprehensive, sustainable, community-based primary healthcare. Website: http://www.healthywomenliberia.org/
Kevin & Kathy Bruce, Liebenzell: Working with the Awa people of Ecuador by communicating the Bible to them in their own language. Website: http://brucekev.blogspot.com/
Liberian Scholarships: Changing lives in Liberia through education of 15 elementary through high school students and three university students. Contact: Dick McCreight. Email: dickmcc@ptd.net
Mercy & Truth Children’s Home of the Himalaya: Providing school support for needy children in Pokara Nepal. Contact: Baburam Paudel. Email: himmatch9@gmail.com
Rev. Greg & Chris Miller, Source of Light Ministries International: Providing curriculum and courses around the world for evangelism, discipleship and church planting with Bible studies in over 100 languages. Website: https://www.christfc.net/crossworld/
Sewing School in Paynesville Liberia: Providing sewing machines and support of instructors for career training for women and men in Liberia. Email: pastorjerome.umc@gmail.com
Thembelihle Primary School: Providing quality education to young children from disadvantaged backgrounds in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Website: http://www.thembelihleschool.co.za/
Through These Hands: Providing free medical supplies to over 50 countries worldwide. Website: http://www.throughthesehands.org/
Voinjama District UMC, Liberia: Providing support of clergy and the ministry of this United Methodist District in rural Lofa County Liberia. Email: pastorjerome.umc@gmail.com
Wells for Liberia: Providing a source of clean drinking water for villages in Lofa and Bong Counties in Liberia through donations from Asbury and churches in Western Pennsylvania and Florida. Contact: Dick McCreight. Email: dickmcc@ptd.net