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We are a community of faith with a calling to reach out to all people, serve all people and help people to negotiate the complexities questions and hard times of life. Together, we strive for vibrant ministries that are relevant in our ever-changing neighborhood and world, actively engaged in God's mission. It is within the ministries and the connections and relationships that we build where God is at work restoring lives and building the church.
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Community Life
Manna from Heaven (Appalachian Mission)
Through mission trips and monthly donations to this mission in Myra, Kentucky, we help our Appalachian friends in times of stress and need. In addition to a food pantry and clothing closet our volunteers also help to teach and support sutainable gardening and other programs to help folks break the cycle of poverty.
Guatamala Missions
LCR supports our perminant missionaries in Guatamala the Doppenburg family and provides financial and tangible support for the Centre of Hope. Volunteers with this program have the opportunity to walk with our missionaries and local people and learn how God is working in their lives. Mission trip opportunities are provided each year.
Hunger Taskforce
Volunteers coordinate the collection of donations and facilitiate educational opportunities and provide tangible help for those in need.
Navajo Mission
LCR partners with the ELCA Navajo Mission Church and School in Rock Point, AZ.
Disaster Relief
Annually, volunteers from LCR join with other Lutherans across the country to rebuild and provide support in areas where distasters have struck. Previous trips have included New Orleans (Hurricane Katrina), Birmingham, AL, West Virginia, and the East Coast.
Fair Trade (ELCA Good Gifts Campaign)
Each month we sell fair trade items that help to support farmers and their families around the world. From the fair trade coffee we brew each weekend to our fair trade market in the fall we are proud to partner with artisans and farmers both locally and internationally.
Inter Parish Ministries (IPM)
LCR partners with IPM to provide volunteer support in addition to food drives and mobile food pantry events throughout the year.
Monday Meals
Each month LCR partners with community organizations to provide a meal for our neighbors.
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Volunteers knit prayer shawls that are distributed as a means of comfort to patients at local hospitals and to other needign comfort in difficult times.
Migrant Worker Ministry
Volunteers provide meals to migrant workers at Belterra Park Race Track in Anderson Township.
Stitch and Stuff
Volunteers create blankets and quilts that are distributed through our community partners in Guatamala and at the Navajo Mission Project, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Lutheran World Relief.
Faith Formation/Orange Life
Ministry Team Member
Orange Ministry volunteers work to provide opportunities for the whole congregation to learn and serve through our educational ministires.
Small Group Admin
Responsible for workign with the pastors to set the Small Group schedule and to organize leaders and review curriculum.
Small Group Leader
Small group leaders help to facilitate discussion and educational opportunities throughout the year on a varity of topics.
Adult Sunday School Leaders
Leaders facilitate multi-week sessions on Sunday mornings covering a wide-variety of topics.
Children's Sunday School Leaders
Volunteers help facilitate pre-determined curriculum for age groups from preschool through middle school.
Youth Mentor
Adults come alongside high school students to provide encouragement, prayer and peridoic check-ins.
Grandy Greeters
For folks roughly "Grand Parent" age with a heart for children and/or youth. Support Orange Ministry events throughout the year. Partner with a Sunday School class or small group sending birthday cards and praying regurlarly for/with students, families, and leaders/teachers.
Vacation Bible School
Each year several dozen volunteers are needed for this annual summer experience for over 100 children. Do you love to plan outdoor games, act in silly skits or make a mean pitcher of lemonade? Then this is the place for you.
Creative Arts & Media
Inviting & Welcoming Ministry
Members of this ministry work to build bridges within our community through partnerships with organizations and individuals with the goal of deepening relationsihips and furthering a culture of invitation, acceptage and wide-welcome for all.
Immigrant and Refugee Ministry
This group works nationally with the ELCA and locally with oganizations to advocate and provide spiritual and other assistance to immigrants and refugees in our area.
ESL Program
Volunteers turor adults taking English as a Second Language class.
Homework Helpers
Volunteers assist the children of ESL students with their homework.
LGBTQ
Volunteers participate in the Cincinnati Pride Festival and work to engage with community members and to create a culture of acceptance, affirmation and wide-welcome for members of the LGBTQ community.
Ecumenical Partnership
Volunteers work to build bridges and create deeper relationships with our brothers and sisters of other Christian traditions in our community.
Interfaith Partnership
Volunteers work to create connection and deeper relationships with our neighbors of other faith traditions.
Racial Unity
LCR works with several community partners to raise awarenes among our neighbors regarding issues of racims and seeks to build deeper, more meaningful relationships between people of all races.
EarthCare Ministry (Community Garden)
This team addresses issues like sustainability and care for the earth. Activities include annual Sunday School earth-keeping series and Children's Earth Day Sunday. Other focus areas include special worship service planning, recycling and support of the Garden of Eatin'.
Community Engagment
Inviting & Welcoming Ministry
Members of this ministry work to build bridges within our community through partnerships with organizations and individuals with the goal of deepening relationsihips and furthering a culture of invitation, acceptage and wide-welcome for all.
Immigrant and Refugee Ministry
This group works nationally with the ELCA and locally with oganizations to advocate and provide spiritual and other assistance to immigrants and refugees in our area.
ESL Program
Volunteers turor adults taking English as a Second Language class.
Homework Helpers
Volunteers assist the children of ESL students with their homework.
LGBTQ
Volunteers participate in the Cincinnati Pride Festival and work to engage with community members and to create a culture of acceptance, affirmation and wide-welcome for members of the LGBTQ community.
Ecumenical Partnership
Volunteers work to build bridges and create deeper relationships with our brothers and sisters of other Christian traditions in our community.
Interfaith Partnership
Volunteers work to create connection and deeper relationships with our neighbors of other faith traditions.
Racial Unity
LCR works with several community partners to raise awarenes among our neighbors regarding issues of racims and seeks to build deeper, more meaningful relationships between people of all races.
EarthCare Ministry (Community Garden)
This team addresses issues like sustainability and care for the earth. Activities include annual Sunday School earth-keeping series and Children's Earth Day Sunday. Other focus areas include special worship service planning, recycling and support of the Garden of Eatin'.
Outreach
Manna from Heaven (Appalachian Mission)
Through mission trips and monthly donations to this mission in Myra, Kentucky, we help our Appalachian friends in times of stress and need. In addition to a food pantry and clothing closet our volunteers also help to teach and support sutainable gardening and other programs to help folks break the cycle of poverty.
Guatamala Missions
LCR supports our perminant missionaries in Guatamala the Doppenburg family and provides financial and tangible support for the Centre of Hope. Volunteers with this program have the opportunity to walk with our missionaries and local people and learn how God is working in their lives. Mission trip opportunities are provided each year.
Hunger Taskforce
Volunteers coordinate the collection of donations and facilitiate educational opportunities and provide tangible help for those in need.
Navajo Mission
LCR partners with the ELCA Navajo Mission Church and School in Rock Point, AZ.
Disaster Relief
Annually, volunteers from LCR join with other Lutherans across the country to rebuild and provide support in areas where distasters have struck. Previous trips have included New Orleans (Hurricane Katrina), Birmingham, AL, West Virginia, and the East Coast.
Fair Trade (ELCA Good Gifts Campaign)
Each month we sell fair trade items that help to support farmers and their families around the world. From the fair trade coffee we brew each weekend to our fair trade market in the fall we are proud to partner with artisans and farmers both locally and internationally.
Inter Parish Ministries (IPM)
LCR partners with IPM to provide volunteer support in addition to food drives and mobile food pantry events throughout the year.
Monday Meals
Each month LCR partners with community organizations to provide a meal for our neighbors.
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Volunteers knit prayer shawls that are distributed as a means of comfort to patients at local hospitals and to other needign comfort in difficult times.
Migrant Worker Ministry
Volunteers provide meals to migrant workers at Belterra Park Race Track in Anderson Township.
Stitch and Stuff
Volunteers create blankets and quilts that are distributed through our community partners in Guatamala and at the Navajo Mission Project, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Lutheran World Relief.
Opperations
Ministry Team Member
Orange Ministry volunteers work to provide opportunities for the whole congregation to learn and serve through our educational ministires.
Small Group Admin
Responsible for workign with the pastors to set the Small Group schedule and to organize leaders and review curriculum.
Small Group Leader
Small group leaders help to facilitate discussion and educational opportunities throughout the year on a varity of topics.
Adult Sunday School Leaders
Leaders facilitate multi-week sessions on Sunday mornings covering a wide-variety of topics.
Children's Sunday School Leaders
Volunteers help facilitate pre-determined curriculum for age groups from preschool through middle school.
Youth Mentor
Adults come alongside high school students to provide encouragement, prayer and peridoic check-ins.
Grandy Greeters
For folks roughly "Grand Parent" age with a heart for children and/or youth. Support Orange Ministry events throughout the year. Partner with a Sunday School class or small group sending birthday cards and praying regurlarly for/with students, families, and leaders/teachers.
Vacation Bible School
Each year several dozen volunteers are needed for this annual summer experience for over 100 children. Do you love to plan outdoor games, act in silly skits or make a mean pitcher of lemonade? Then this is the place for you.
Worship
Worship Planning
Volunteers work with the pastors to plan worship services.
Children's Sermon
Volunteers plan and lead a portion of the worship service dedicated to our children.
Communion Volunteers
Volunteers help to set-up communion before worship and to distribute communion during worship services and special events.
Bell Ringer
Volunteers help us to begin each worship service by ringing the Reformation Bell.
Worship Assistant
Volunteers help to lead worship through prayer, reading of scripture, and distributing communion.
Music
Inviting & Welcoming Ministry
Members of this ministry work to build bridges within our community through partnerships with organizations and individuals with the goal of deepening relationsihips and furthering a culture of invitation, acceptage and wide-welcome for all.
Immigrant and Refugee Ministry
This group works nationally with the ELCA and locally with oganizations to advocate and provide spiritual and other assistance to immigrants and refugees in our area.
ESL Program
Volunteers turor adults taking English as a Second Language class.
Homework Helpers
Volunteers assist the children of ESL students with their homework.
LGBTQ
Volunteers participate in the Cincinnati Pride Festival and work to engage with community members and to create a culture of acceptance, affirmation and wide-welcome for members of the LGBTQ community.
Ecumenical Partnership
Volunteers work to build bridges and create deeper relationships with our brothers and sisters of other Christian traditions in our community.
Interfaith Partnership
Volunteers work to create connection and deeper relationships with our neighbors of other faith traditions.
Racial Unity
LCR works with several community partners to raise awarenes among our neighbors regarding issues of racims and seeks to build deeper, more meaningful relationships between people of all races.
EarthCare Ministry (Community Garden)
This team addresses issues like sustainability and care for the earth. Activities include annual Sunday School earth-keeping series and Children's Earth Day Sunday. Other focus areas include special worship service planning, recycling and support of the Garden of Eatin'.
Mindfulness Community
Inviting & Welcoming Ministry
Members of this ministry work to build bridges within our community through partnerships with organizations and individuals with the goal of deepening relationsihips and furthering a culture of invitation, acceptage and wide-welcome for all.
Immigrant and Refugee Ministry
This group works nationally with the ELCA and locally with oganizations to advocate and provide spiritual and other assistance to immigrants and refugees in our area.
ESL Program
Volunteers turor adults taking English as a Second Language class.
Homework Helpers
Volunteers assist the children of ESL students with their homework.
LGBTQ
Volunteers participate in the Cincinnati Pride Festival and work to engage with community members and to create a culture of acceptance, affirmation and wide-welcome for members of the LGBTQ community.
Ecumenical Partnership
Volunteers work to build bridges and create deeper relationships with our brothers and sisters of other Christian traditions in our community.
Interfaith Partnership
Volunteers work to create connection and deeper relationships with our neighbors of other faith traditions.
Racial Unity
LCR works with several community partners to raise awarenes among our neighbors regarding issues of racims and seeks to build deeper, more meaningful relationships between people of all races.
EarthCare Ministry (Community Garden)
This team addresses issues like sustainability and care for the earth. Activities include annual Sunday School earth-keeping series and Children's Earth Day Sunday. Other focus areas include special worship service planning, recycling and support of the Garden of Eatin'.