Our Inreach ministries range from those designed to provide simple fellowship with one another to those that are intentional expressions of compassion and care for those of our church family.

COMPASSION MINISTRIES:

- Prayer Email & Phone Chain
- Prayer Shawl Ministry - individuals knit a shawl that they pray over while constructing; the shawls are eventually distributed to those who are dealing with a loss, or who have just had a baby, or just married.
- Meal Ministry - meals made for families as they deal with hardship through illness or hospitalization or child birth
- Visitation Ministry
- Pen Pal Ministry - individuals commit to corresponding with supported missionaries, college students, and incarcerated


FELLOWSHIP & FUN ORIENTED MINISTRIES:
These are activities intended to bring people together for some fun and time for fostering new acquaintances and relationships.  Some of the events offered throughout the past year include:

- After-worship Fellowship & Refreshment time - usually every third Sunday of each month
- Pick-Up Basketball in our Social Hall - Tuesday evenings, from 7:30-9:00 pm
- Card Playing Fellowship - pinochle and haus quarterly on Thursday afternoons
- Easter Egg Hunt - Saturday before Easter
- Strawberry Festival - the first or second Sunday of June, depending on strawberry availability
- 9-Hole Golf Scramble - one Sunday afternoon in the fall
- Father-Daughter Dance
- Summer Softball Team participating in local church league
- First Saturday Suppers


WOMEN'S MINISTRY:
There are activities intended to specifically bring the women of our congregation together.  The events include leisurely, fun activities as well as projects designed to serve others.  Again, the hope is to also increase the opportunity for relationship-buiding among the women of our congregation.  We have a Women's Ministry Committee the purpose of which is to nurture loving, lasting and meaningful relationships with God and others.  We offer various activities throughout the year such as:

- Ladies Meet & Eat Breakfast at local Restaurants and Dinner at Yoders - the first Monday of the month
- Secret Sister Program and a luncheon for the participants in April - matching an over-70 year old woman with a secret female pal
- Mother/Daughter Banquet - usually held in May
- Women's Retreat or Night Out - a trip to Sight & Sound is planned for June
- Christmas Brunch and Cookie Exchange
- Making and shipping Cookies for our College Students for finals week their first semester
- December St. John's Center U.C.C. Collectible Ornament
- Gift bags distributed to widows and senior ladies (80 plus years old)
- Card ministry - to support the grieving and infirmed


MEN'S MINISTRY:
Providing means to bring men together to meet and share with each other
- Men's Breakfast - the last Saturday of each month at 7:30 am; usually two men cook breakfast, we eat and fellowship, and then spend time sharing with each other about those faith issues that we might be dealing with
- Men's Group - a Bible Study and care group that typically meets on Wednesday evenings