Missions
2027 Mission Project Announcement coming SOON!
Upcoming Mission Opportunities
We are all part of the Mission Team, so click to see all of the details for Upcoming Mission Opportunities and join in!
Community Garden
We maintain a 8’x24’ plot in the Rochester Community Garden located off Woodward Avenue. Our mission is to grow healthy vegetables and donate 100% to the Rochester Area Neighborhood House which is a local food pantry that provides food for families that can’t afford to feed themselves or their children.
Habitat for Humanity
St. Paul’s has worked with Habitat for Humanity Oakland County (HFHOC) and the Rochester Coalition (churches and service clubs of Rochester) to build or rehab one or more new homes every year.
Cass
Cass Community Social Services (CCSS) is a nonprofit, human services organization headquartered in Detroit. We support Cass Community Social Services in its effort to Fight Poverty and Create Opportunity in the city of Detroit.
Baldwin Center
Food, Shelter and So Much More in Pontiac
Baldwin Center in Pontiac, Michigan, provides invaluable services to hurting people, in part because the people of St. Paul’s care.
Neighborhood House
Rochester Area Neighborhood House collaborates with the community and other social service providers to help those neighbors in financial crisis toward self-sustainability.
Red Bird Mission
St. Paul’s supports the Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky, through our Global Ministries Committee, an annual Adult Work Trip each October and the generosity of the congregation.
Henri Dennis School Liberia
St. Paul’s has a long-standing relationship with a school in Liberia (West Africa). God has certainly blessed our church with a mission program that has, and continues to provide, many benefits and blessings for the staff and children of the Henri Dennis School … and for the congregation of St Paul’s.
Neighborhood House Events
Providing food assistance for those in need in our community is an annual tradition at St. Paul’s. We work with the Rochester Area Neighborhood House to provide families in need with grocery gift cards for the holidays. Each year, our goal is to provide assistance to 100 families.
Rummage Sale
United Women in Faith
Each May and October the United Women in Faith and the people of St. Paul’s hold a giant Rummage Sale. All proceeds are donated to missions that benefit women, youth and children. More Rummage Sale information.
Moments of Grace: The Henri Dennis Experience
From a time of darkness in Liberia, new hope emerges in the Henri Dennis School for the people of Topoe village, in partnership with the St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Rochester, Michigan. Moments of Grace: The Henri Dennis Experience follows the team from St. Paul’s on their 2009 mission trip while they witness the reality of life for these resilient and faithful people.
Art Direction and Photography by Robert Cleveland. Video Production by Norman Gilmore.
2026 Mission Project – TWO Missions!
With a lofty goal of $35,000, St. Paul’s will be able to provide cool new athletic shoes to 1,200 school children ($10,000 through Micah 6), and provide care navigation, along with food and housewares to families working either to remain in their homes or to move into permanent housing ($25,000 through both organizations).
Kids Empowered On the Move
Kids Empowered On the Move is an Oakland County organization that helps women and children experiencing homelessness. If they receive a call before a family is homeless, they try to work out solutions with their current housing; if the family is beyond that and are already on the homelessness journey, they help them navigate and move people forward wherever they are. Families are helped with their basic needs, including food, clothing, and shelter, which usually includes emergency hotel rooms as there are only 18 beds for families in Oakland County. Kids Empowered On the Move tries to help families navigate through the system with whatever is needed to move a family to the next level on their homeless to home journey.
To donate, please write ‘MC 2026’ on the envelope and on the memo line of your check made out to St. Paul’s UMC or donate online selecting ‘Mission Challenge 2026 – Kids Empowered On the Move’ on the drop-down menu
We ask for your support.
Micah 6
Micah 6 started with a few friends who graduated from college and wanted to move somewhere that needed good neighbors. In 2012, they purchased and moved into a house at 32 Newberry in Pontiac, then spent a year listening to their neighbors and asking questions, such as: What is/isn’t going well in this neighborhood? Where do your kids go to school? Where do folks work around here? They learned of many challenges, including lack of access to healthy food, lots of homeless friends sleeping in vacant houses, and not much for kids to do when they weren’t in school, then set about tackling some of these issues. They started community gardens, hung out with neighborhood kids, and lived with an open door, offering their homeless friends a place to take showers, do laundry, charge phones, and cook food. This spring, they will open a community center, offering space for social services, youth recreation, and neighborhood programs.
To donate, please write ‘MC 2026 – Micah 6’ on the envelope and on the memo line of your check made out to St. Paul’s UMC or donate online selecting ‘Mission Challenge 2026 – Micah 6’ on the drop-down menu
We ask for your support.
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Contact the office at 248-651-9361
or contact Rev. Elbert Dulworth.