Mission Opportunities


Volunteer Schedule for the Food Pantry and/or RITI:

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Year Round Missions

  • FOOD PANTRY
  • SSUMC provides bags of basic food items that can last two or three days to those that are in need. The pantry is open two days a week. You can help purchase items for the pantry, helping to distribute the bags or providing monetary donations.
  • Ministry Contact:  Tim Witthuhn
  • HELP MINISTRY
  • Churches United in Christ is a joint ministry of several downtown Bowling Green churches. They provide assistance with utilities and other crisis matters to persons or families in need under a set of guidelines. Each church is a “host” church one time of the month. SSUMC is a host the first full Wednesday of each month from 1-3 pm. All financial support for this Ministry is provided by the member churches through tithes, donations, and fundraising activities. Help ministries is always in need of people willing to give their time once a month to help with greeting or interviewing our guests or data entry in the computer.
  • Ministry Contact: Carol Lee


Seasonal Missions

  • ROOM IN THE INN (RITI)
  • From November through mid-March,State Street serves as a host church for this ministry. State Street UMC opens our doors to our homeless neighbors, twice a month, who need a meal and a warm place to spend the night. A number of other local churches participate in this ministry. You can help by transporting guests to the church by van, being a host, providing a meal, sitting and listening or providing clean up the morning after.
  • Ministry Contact:  Tim Witthuhn   
  • THANKSGIVING MEAL
  • State Street and First Christian Church, together, host a Thanksgiving Day meal. They offer meals at church and delivery of meals to shut-ins. There are many ways to help with this outreach..You can help by providing food, preparing and serving the food, delivering meals, or cleaning up at the end of the day.
  • Ministry Contact Tim Witthuhn 
  • ANGEL TREE
  • Angel Tree is a program of Prison Fellowship that allows incarcerated parents a pathway to strengthen or restore their relationships with their children and families. Prison Fellowship works with those who are in prison and want to participate in the program. The organization sends a list of children whose parent wants to provide a gift and a message to their child. Names of the children are placed on a Christmas tree and Church members select an angel and buy a Christmas gift for the child. The program gives our church the opportunity to share Christ’s love and the spirit of Christmas with these families.
  • Ministry Contact: Phyllis Schnacke



Ministry Partners

  • THE FOUNDRY
  • The Foundry is a Christian Community Center focused on providing the children of Bowling Green opportunities to succeed. They provide a preschool program, after school tutoring and enrichment activities for school age children of the West End of Bowling Green. State Street participates by volunteering for their after-school program and assisting with their summer camp program.
    Ministry Contact:     Tim Witthuhn
  • KENTUCKY UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN’S HOME
  • They serve Christ by providing for the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of children and families. They are a Christian service agency for children and families.
    Ministry Contact:     Steve Schnacke
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