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TAMPA BAY OUTREACH
A Woman’s Place - Reaching out to women, babies, teens, and families facing an unplanned pregnancy. Providing education and support on abstinence and power parenting. Serve opportunities include; providing crisis and long term mentoring, promoting awareness, and assist with annual fundraiser events.
Canines for Christ - Canines for Christ were founded by Larry and Susan Randolph. The Holy Spirit ignited a passion in their hearts to share the love and hope of Jesus with the sick and terminally ill. Through God’s creations of man’s best friend, the sick and lonely find a reason to smile as God works through His furry friends. Join the team and visit local hospitals and assisted living centers.
Canines for Christ - Canines for Christ were founded by Larry and Susan Randolph. The Holy Spirit ignited a passion in their hearts to share the love and hope of Jesus with the sick and terminally ill. Through God’s creations of man’s best friend, the sick and lonely find a reason to smile as God works through His furry friends. Join the team and visit local hospitals and assisted living centers.
Campus Crusade for Christ - A national organization providing college students an arena to support evangelism and discipleship efforts. This organization has a strong presence at both the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida. There are between 50 and 100 students who meet Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m. at the University of Tampa. Serve opportunities include attending socials every other weekend and participating in outreach activities including concerts.
Christian Emergency Response Force (CERF) - Is a team of individuals from local churches who have been led by the Holy Spirit to serve at the front line in times of disaster. Members are required to be certified by Hillsborough County by taking a 24 hour class that is free of charge to all members. The ministry's mission is to be trained and equiped to extend a hand to the communtiy. not only offer a help
Cornerstone - This is a non-profit, faith based ecumenical organization committed to making lasting, positive changes in the local communities by improving the social, physical, spiritual, and economic aspects of family life. There are vast serve opportunities within this organization from helping at the children's facility, the elderly facility, and promoting and participating in annual fund raising events. The Rosa Valdez and Cuscaden Center reach out to the impoverished children and families of Ybor City.
Faith Community UMC (Haitan Sister Church) - Serves between 250 and 350 Haitian people in Tampa as well as missions in Haiti. There are many serve opportunities from helping keep their food bank stocked to maintaining their church building. Also, help the Van Dyke youth bring VBS to the local children.
Habitat for Humanity - Reaches out to low income families and provides an interactive program for home ownership. Opportunities to serve consist of helping with actual construction, working in the surplus store and office, and participating in recycling projects (extracting material from homes to be demolished).
Hillsborough House of Hope - This is a Christian residential program that serves women coming from the Hillsborough County jail system, women who have already demonstrated a desire to lead productive lives. Working through volunteers and partnering agencies, they offer woman leaving the prison system a bus pass, a Bible and a personal plan including people agencies, and additional resources to assist them in making a successful reentry into society.
Hope Children’s Home - Has rescued nearly 5,000 children between the ages of 2 and 18. Most of these children have been discarded, abused, unwanted or orphaned. The purpose of the home is to provide a safe, nurturing, and loving environment. A Christian school is also part of the service offered. The home and school is located on 45 acres only 7 miles from Van Dyke and has many opportunities to serve including helping campus teachers, to helping maintain the grounds and buildings.
House of Hope - Reaches teens to bring about healing, reconciliation, and restoration. Many teens in today's society are growing up without necessary love, guidance, and discipline in the home to ensure positive growth and development. Many are victims of family instability, incest, emotional and physical abuse. This home is located only 5 miles from Van Dyke and has ongoing opportunities to provide mentoring, tutoring, dinner planning, and physical education training.
Juveniles for Jesus Ministry - Ministers to incarcerated children. There are 4 facilities within 25 miles of Van Dyke that house over 400 children ages 8 - 16 who are serving at least a 2 year sentence. In many cases, the children themselves are victims of abuse and abandonment. JFJ brings hope to these children by offering weekly Bible studies, warm meals, Christmas dinner, and simply the love and compassion from an adult who has been led by the Holy Spirit to serve.
Judeo Christian Clinic - Provides free quality, timely, and compassionate health care to thousands in the Tampa area who have no health insurance or funds to pay a private doctor. They are always in need of medical professionals to donate their services. Van Dyke congregants can serve by working in their office on Tuesdays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Ministries - Providing answers for poor and homeless families faithfully. This ministry offers year round opportunities to serve from serving meals, providing adult life skill classes, serve in the thrift store, offer administration support, and ministry awareness. We accept donations for food, clothing, baby formula, toys, and furniture/household items in the rear of the Van Dyke church kitchen.
Metropolitan Ministries - Providing answers for poor and homeless families faithfully. This ministry offers year round opportunities to serve from serving meals, providing adult life skill classes, serve in the thrift store, offer administration support, and ministry awareness. We accept donations for food, clothing, baby formula, toys, and furniture/household items in the rear of the Van Dyke church kitchen.
Migrant Ministries Racetrack - This ministry caters to the migrant community that works behind the scenes at Tampa Bay Downs. Many are seasonal workers who leave their family behind to earn a living. Join the service to share the love of Jesus with those who are separated from their family.
New Frontiers Health Force - Is a ministry devoted to offering primary health care locally and internationally. The local outreach teams serve communities in Hillsborough and Pinellis counties. The international teams have travelled to Nigeria, Kenya and many more countries taking disaster relief, medical care, hygiene supplies and hope to thousands of hurting people.
Prison Outreach - This is a ministry designed to help criminals re-enter society with appropriate life skills. They are taught how to: handle anger, have a positive mental attitude, manage money, look for employment opportunities, and interview skills. Serving opportunities include weekly visits to local prisons.
Second Saturday Serve - Is all about serving the community and sharing the love of our Savior Christ Jesus. Once a month teams are sent out to "approved” project sites to help individuals or non-profits. For example, we have helped many elderly and chronically ill individuals with yard work, we have painted homes, power-washed churches, built wheelchair ramps, and much more. Stay tuned to the weekly bulletin for the date of the next serve.
SHARE - Food Co-op - For only 4 hours of community service a month, you can purchase groceries at a 50% discount. This ministry has a vision of giving back to those who have a servant's heart. Your serve hours can be at Van Dyke or in the community (i.e., scouts, helping the elderly, etc.). They simply encourage serving.
Tampa Bay Harvest - This is a non-profit organization which is primarily a transportation network. They recruit and organize volunteers to link suppliers who have leftover food to nearby agencies which can best utilize the donation. Over 300 donors, such as schools, restaurants, and grocery stores give thousands of pounds of food to area locations.
Van Dyke Quilters - They meet the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Thursday of the month to create crib quilts for new born babies in intensive care. This group of loving hands sews 30 quilts a month. They are prayed over and then delivered to St. Joseph's Children's Hospital. This friendly group is always in need of helping hands, along with quilt fabric donations.
FLORIDA OUTREACH
Florida United Methodist Children's Home - Enterprise Florida (near Orlando). The Children's Home reaches kids in the state of Florida who have experienced abuse, abandonment or family breakdown due to divorce, drug abuse, illness or death of a parent. The ages of the children accepted into residential care are from 5-18 years of age.
Opportunities to serve include: placing envelopes in the pews on Thursdays before each 5th Sunday at Van Dyke. At the home you can help in the following areas: coordinate special events, greet/host guests during visitor weekends, decorate grounds at Christmas, drive tram, assist in commissary or help maintain the rose garden.
AMERICA OUTREACH
Campus Crusade for Christ - A national organization providing college students an arena to support evangelism and discipleship efforts. The organization has a strong presence at many campuses across the United States.
Habitat for Humanity - Reaches out to low income families and provides an interactive program for home ownership. Opportunities to serve consist of helping with actual construction, working in the surplus store and office and participating in recycling projects (extracting material from homes to be demolished).
THE WORLD OUTREACH
Christian Union Sports Club - This ministry led by missionary, Mark Wittig, is located in Medellin, Colombia, South America. The vision is to reach neighborhood youth through soccer in an area that is influenced strongly by gangs, guerillas, and drugs. Youth are provided an outlet to learn soccer and an opportunity to compete in leagues. To date, they have reached over 1,500 youth who attend a Bible study before each practice.
Revival Tabernacle Methodist Church of Guantanamo - The United Methodist Conference in Cuba and Florida have created a covenant in Christ with one another. Prayerfully seeking God's will for the churches, we have envisioned Cuban churches and restored them for worship with the collaboration of volunteer teams. Van Dyke's sister church is in Guantanamo, Cuba. This church is critical to spreading the gospel throughout the island as it is the largest church in Guantanamo with 300 people in worship each week. Presently, they direct over 23 missionary's who filter out to small outlying villages. There are many opportunities to serve this ministry here in Tampa as well as joining mission trips.
International Cooperating Ministries (ICM) - ICM is an interdenominational ministry that focuses on church growth and nurturing believers worldwide. In the last 20 years, ICM has partnered with over 55 denominations/partners in 44 countries to build more than 2,500 churches. Van Dyke has been proud to partially or completely sponsor 23 churches, with one being a pastoral training church in Tanzania. Join mission trips to help spread the gospel in Africa or support the ministry through promotional efforts here in Tampa.
International Street Kids Outreach - This ministry focuses on rescuing street children in numerous countries. John Schmidt and his family are the missionaries who minister to children from San Paulo, Brazil to Cambodia. They introduce Jesus to these abandoned children in creative campsite settings. Serve this ministry by sharing awareness with congregants, praying for the Schmidts, and promoting fundraising for supplies.
Lighthouse for His Lambs - There are over one million orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti. This ministry built an orphanage and currently houses 21 children and provides schooling for over 200 children in cooperation with the Bethany House (Christian school). This ministry teaches local adults to raise fish, goats, and chickens along with various fruits and vegetables to maintain a food supply for the children. Join Phillip Hall, the Van Dyke Missionary, on his next mission trip to assist efforts of sharing the gospel to children and giving them hope.
Living in Faith -
Missionary Ventures - Reverend Dick Christiansen, missionary, leads this ministry whose efforts spread from India to China building schools and sharing the gospel with children everyday. This ministry is known worldwide for establishing 14 adult Bible training centers. The ministries current focus is expanding pastor training schools into closed or difficult Muslim areas. Serve this ministry by sharing awareness of these efforts and arranging fundraising opportunities for supplies and support.
Living in Faith -
Living in Faith is a nondenominational, independent ministry that provides resources to leverage the work of the local church, primarily in Cuba and Haiti. We provide this help through spiritual programs, training and meeting the humanitarian needs of the local church communities. We encourage faith-based independence and do not believe in creating a dependency upon us. We believe that by giving tools to the local churches they can work most effectively to draw both Christians and non-Christians into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and each other.
LIF ministry focuses on Vision for Christ (eyeglass ministry), Woman at the Well (water purification systems), Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Relief, Ancient Paths seminars, Walks to Emmaus, and in developing special outreach programs to leverage the work of the local church.
Missionary Ventures - Reverend Dick Christiansen, missionary, leads this ministry whose efforts spread from India to China building schools and sharing the gospel with children everyday. This ministry is known worldwide for establishing 14 adult Bible training centers. The ministries current focus is expanding pastor training schools into closed or difficult Muslim areas. Serve this ministry by sharing awareness of these efforts and arranging fundraising opportunities for supplies and support.
Operation Christmas Child - Is a project of Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian relief organization headed by Franklin Graham. Collections of gift-filled shoeboxes are delivered in the name of Jesus Christ to children living in desperate situations around the world. Over the past 14 years, approximately 54 million children have been reached by the project in over 120 countries.
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