Outreach & Missions

The Church & Society Committee is a long standing part of Methodist churches. Its role at Christ Church is to support efforts to address community needs regarding education, children and families, and the environment.

The Global United Methodist Church's General Board of Church and Society’s 2013 legislative priorities can be found at the following link: http://umc-gbcs.org/faith-in-action/2013-legislative-priorities.

Some of the programs on which The Church & Society Commitee focuses are listed below. Details on these programs may be found on our Volunteer Opportunites Page.

• Scholarships through Westminster College and the Alberta Henry Foundation
• Crossroads Urban Center
• Sandwich Service Project
• Family Promise
• Habitat for Humanity
• The Road Home
• Homeless Youth Resource Center
• Families Anonymous
• Meals-on-Wheels
• Voices for Utah Children
• The Ulster Project
• Utah Interfaith Power & Light

The Missions Committee is another part of our outreach done world-wide, both inside and outside of the continental United States, but usually in other countries.  Many of our mission efforts are coordinated through the Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church.

• Missionaries  are busy training new missionaries and filling new assignments:   
  Ron & Cathy Whitlatch - August 2012 ,  2011...,  and earlier...
• "Nothing But Nets" is an international effort which saves millions of children from malaria by distributing sleeping nets to protect them from disease-carrying mosquitoes.