Serving Our Community
Community Service Opportunities
Christ Our Savior plays a vital role in the community by providing spiritual guidance, fostering social support, and engaging in
charitable activities that address both spiritual and physical needs. In addition to the Ministries described below we hold many activities during the year that serve the communities that we live in.
These include
- Our Yearly Pancake Breakfast to honor our area’s veteran’s
- Fisherman’s Flea Market exchange of fishing supplies
- Ice Cream Social in the summer open to all … Just because it’s summer!
- Concerts and music recitals
- Sing-along visits to local nursing homes
- Angel tree gifts for children in need at Christmas
Community Focused Ministries
Heaven Scent
The Heaven Scent Ministry makes 18” square flannel blankets for premature babies. The mother first places the blanket next to her body to pick up her scent. The blanket is then placed under the baby in Natal Intensive Care Unit and mother and baby now have a bonding. Our Christ Our Savior ladies cut, sew, iron, and package the blankets (two per baby) and supply them to our local Children’s Hospital
Social Concerns
Our Social Concerns Ministry is in contact with three agencies in our area that focus on supplying food, personal care product and clothing and support to those in need. They organize supply drives within our church and advise our members of volunteer opportunities and coordinate financial support from our congregation.
Buddy Break
Our Buddy Break Ministry is part of Nathaniel’s Hope which is dedicated to sharing hope with kids with special needs (VIP kids) and their families.
This includes:
- Bringing hope and resources of encouragement to VIP kids and their families
- Providing practical assistance by offering free respite care for VIP kids
- Educating the community on how to be a Buddy to VIP kids and their families
- Equipping the community, especially churches, with opportunities, tools, training, and resources to reach out to VIP kids and their families
- Extending hope to VIP kids overseas
- Sharing hope with grieving families
Friendship Kitchen
Friendship Kitchen is just completing its third year serving the people of Loudon County. We have served between 70 and 75 meals every other month to handicap or otherwise fragile lives. We have a great staff of between 8 and 10 who help prepare meals, pack Styrofoam clamshells and pack coolers for the drivers. We have about the same number who drive the meals to the welcoming hands to the recipients of our ministry.
Grief Share
Grief Share is a network of 12,000+ churches worldwide equipped to offer grief support groups. The program is nondenominational and features biblical concepts for healing from your grief.
