Mission:
To help and encourage others, seeking to identify care ministry needs of congregation and community; identifying, utilizing and coordinating talents and Spiritual gifts of the congregation to meet the needs of our fellow man; to maintain and administer an emergency assistance fund used for acts of mercy or gifts for those in need.

Activities: 

• Care Notes: Booklet and note to those who have lost loved ones
• Love Meals to Calvary members after surgery or new baby
• Funeral Meal after funeral service
• Bottles for Babies: Money collection for Life Centers
• College Care Packages: fall and spring semesters (Linda Bugher)
• Holidays: Thanksgiving food baskets, Christmas gift card distribution, Lutheran Child and Family Services Christmas party and gifts
• Produce Table: Money collected goes to Good Samaritan Fund
• School Supply Collection: Perry Township/El Salvador

Goals:

• To encourage individual and congregational expressions of Christian love and concern.
• To serve community families in need by collecting and distribution donations to local food banks and various missions.
• To provide holiday assistance at Thanksgiving and Christmas to underserved families.
• To connect with and encourage college students of the congregation through care packages.
• To pursue programs and activities for contributions to Calvary’s Good Samaritan fund.

Volunteer or participation opportunities:

• Funeral and Love Meals
• Visiting Lutherwood
• Write Care Notes
• Volunteer at Life Centers
• Distribute Extra Funeral Flowers