Outreach Opportunities

Affirming God’s love for all people, we work with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice and human suffering. In collaboration with other local churches, Feed My Sheep is a local food ministry housed out of Zion Lutheran Church. Once a month, over 70 local families are provided with food. Zion supports this ministry with food drives, monetary collections, and volunteers to staff on set-up and distribution days. We also help provide extra donations around the holidays, like Christmas and Easter hams and Thanksgiving turkeys.

Help for the Homeless in Harrisburg, PA comes in many forms and from many people. Isaiah 61 Ministries has dedicated themselves to this calling from God and they work with the homeless every day of the week. Zion is helping this soup kitchen by donating food and serving the homeless the 5th Tuesday of the month.

They are an outreach ministry in the city of Harrisburg for the homeless, the downtrodden, and other needy people. Through hot meals, they reach out to the poor with a love and care that is so often missing yet desperately wanting in their lives. No one is turned away. Anyone in need of a hot meal or encouragement is welcomed. Zion donates food and winter clothing items.

http://helpinghandsministries.org/

 

 

St. Barnabas nurtures the spiritual, educational, social, and physical development of children and youth in Uptown Harrisburg. It is a joint project of the ELCA and Episcopal Churches. Zion has collected clothing and snack packs for their summer day camp program.

http://www.stbarnabascenterforministry.org/

Their mission is to provide a loving home-away-from-home for families with children traveling to Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital for treatment and to support organizations that directly improve the health and well being of children. Zion collects magazines and soda tabs for the RMcD House to recycle as a fundraiser. Zion collects pajamas and personal toiletry items.

https://www.rmhc-centralpa.org/