Our Ministries

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Prayer Bead Ministry
Prayer beads and accompanying specific devotionals for patience, gratitude, military service, illness, and grief are now available in the church office if you are interested in a set for yourself or as a gift.  

Yarn for Veterans Group
The Veterans Group at Auburn Correctional participates in an ongoing mission making baby blankets, booties, bibs, hats and scarves for infants up to high school aged children. These items are distributed to food pantries, hospitals, churches and shelters throughout the area particularly around Fort Drum. The group would appreciate your support by donating yarn. The group can ONLY accept acrylic yarn which may be ordered through Herrschners at (715) 341-8686 or herrschners.com. Please note: The group cannot accept money or black, blue, gray, orange or multicolored yarn. Post to: Veterans Group of Auburn c/o Ms. Brenda Walsh, Sr. Librarian Auburn Correctional Facility 135 State Street Auburn, NY 13021.

Food Pantry
We support the local food pantry with Soup-er Bowl Sunday, providing helpers for the holiday sorting, packing, and distributing at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, as well as weekly donations and monetary gifts.  Volunteers can sort and pack food for our Thursday evening food distribution from 6:30-7:30 pm. The pantry is located at St. Patrick’s Church on N. Main St. in Jordan.  What a difference you can make in our community! For more information contact St. Patrick's Church: 315-689-6240 ext. 105. 

Brown Memorial UMC Meal Servers
Come join us as we serve a meal at Brown Memorial UMC in Syracuse. 

Missions For Soldiers 

JUMC works to collect or make items that our soldiers need overseas. 

Supported Missionaries
We support missions locally in the Syracuse and Auburn areas. 

Bereavement Ministry
JUMC wants to be supportive of you during times of loss of a loved one. Following a funeral/memorial service, the Martha Ministry is available for you to greet family members and friends with a reception or a lunch/dinner in our Fellowship Hall.  

Church World Service
In May we honor our mothers by raising money for CWS in order to supply blankets when disasters strikes.   We honor our fathers in June by raising funds for CWS. They buy tools which help people around the world gain the resources and develop the skills necessary to sustain themselves and their families and build viable communities. In the Fall, we support the community CROP WALK, which helps us to support our food pantry. 

"Be" The Church Day
One Sunday during May we meet after church to go into our community to help spruce things up. We especially enjoy working on the canal gardens in Jordan as we weed, spread mulch, and prepare the area to come alive with spring and summer flowers. We also have workers at the church on this day who knit or crochet washcloths and sew laundry bags for Salvation Army summer campers, and cutting out shoes for solehope.org 

Camps & Retreats
Camps and Retreats Ministries. Applications are available.  We also make camp bags for the Salvation Army who give them to campers each summer. 

Support Our School
During the summer we collect items for our school kit ministry. These kits include many useful back to school items to help children begin the school year prepared with the supplies they need. Parishioners donate various supplies and our Outreach Team assembles the kits to be sent to UMCOR, which is our relief agency within the United Methodist Church. We also show our appreciation to our school’s teachers and administration by sending them apples in September, and muffins in May. 

Church Wide Mission Fair
In December we offer our congregation an opportunity to give meaningful gifts to family and friends while financially supporting our local missions,  missions of CWS and UMCOR,  Imagine No Malaria, Africa University (missions of the UMC), and our local Christmas Angel Tree, in our annual Church Wide Mission Fair. 

Operation Christmas Child (Samaritan's Purse)
Each fall we begin to collect items to send in our shoe boxes as we bring smiles to children in need around the world.  

Small Group Study
The Bible is the most read and studied book ever written. This is because it has a very special author – God. Periodically we offer small group studies to help people grown in their faith. Please see the "Announcements" on the home page for the next learning opportunity.

OAKS The OAKS is an adult social group open to anyone 55 or over (although we wouldn't exclude anyone).  We get together to enjoy each other's company. We meet the first Sunday of every month for brunch after church at a local restaurant.  

Prayer Requests
You may call or email the church office with your prayer requests. Phone:  315-689-3499 (please leave a message).  Visit our Contact Us page to send us an email. Please have permission from individual if requesting prayers for another.

Call or e-mail church office for details on any of the ministries listed above.