ALDERSGATE

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Chelmsford, MA 01824

Telephone: 978-256-9400

email:  aumc@comcast.net 

Aldersgate is a family of faith called out by Jesus Christ to serve our congregation, community and the world through loving, witnessing, and teaching God's word.
 

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Outreach:

Our Mission
The mission of the Outreach ministry at Aldersgate is to express the love of Christ to our neighbors by providing physical  and spiritual help to those in need.  Toward this goal, we are involved in a number of local, national and international ministries. In the local community, we participate and support St. Paul’s feeding ministry, my father’s house, various food pantries, holiday gifts to those in need, the Paul Center, Lincoln School and Habitat for Humanity. At the national and international level, we support several ministries including Methodist camps, UMCOR relief, World AIDS, and our Nicaragua covenant.

Outreach is supported by the church pledges but does raise monies to go above and beyond to help in many mission areas.  We raise monies for extra mission projects by running two rummage sales during the year and also we have started a program called change for change. This program works by collecting all change put in the offering plate and designating this to mission areas in need.  We have supported The Paul Center in Chelmsford, Methodist Camps and scholarships, prison ministries by a memorial donation made in Jim Wetherall's name, pastor's discretionary fund for parishioner's in need, Children Without Shoes International, Global Aids Fund, Lowell Wish Project, St. Paul's Feeding Ministry, The Open Pantry in Lowell.  This change for change program only running for two years now has been able to give away over $3,000 in change collected. What a difference a little clinking in the offering plate can make......Change being collected now will go to Haiti and Chile in response to their needs.

Our Biblical Mandate

Matthew 25:34  . . . . , "Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;  35  for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,  36  I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.'  . . . .. 40  . . .. . , "Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.
Matthew 28:18 - And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age." 
Acts 1:8 - But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."