We are very active in our mission to serve as Christ served. We partner with several local, national, and world organizations to serve those in need. If you don't find a project that interests you, share your ideas with the Outreach Committee.
" I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty, and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. "
Matthew 25:35
This month we support Community Alliance with our Green Envelope offerings. Community Alliance is an integrated health care organization that offers a whole-person approach, including psychiatric services, mental health, substance use counseling, primary medical care and a range of rehabilitation, employment, community supports and family and peer support. They meet individuals where they are, and work to address their specific needs. Community Alliance’s quality of care has earned top-tier national accreditation scores. The hope, integrity and respect they bring to people who struggle with mental illness, and other mental health challenges, is why they are a place where recovery is a reality. Community Alliance’s mission is to help individuals with mental illness achieve their unique potential to live, work, learn and contribute in a community of mutual
support. Community Alliance believes in the potential of recovery for all individuals with mental illness and dedicate resources to support the journey of each individual served. Find out more at Community-Alliance.org!
For the month of May we will be collecting items that can be used by the individuals and families that Community Alliance serves. Bring your donations to the box in the fellowship hall. Your generous gift makes a real and powerful difference, whether that means helping someone to get the psychiatric or medical treatment they need, get off the street and into housing, find a job, or simply regain hope for their future. Suggested items:
A ministry of Morning Star to help those in recovery!
Morning Star Lutheran Church is part of a 15-church coalition working together to build a new home each year with Habitat.
Table Grace Ministries is empowering people through their cafe, mobile food truck, job training programs and so much more!
Jesus tells us to welcome the stranger. As a major outreach initiative, we are partnering with Lutheran Family Services to host refugee families and help homeless vets. Join us as we provide continuing support and encouragement in this program.
Join the prayer shawls knitters and crocheters on Sundays. Please take a prayer shawl if you know someone in need of comfort and prayer.
The LFL is stocked with a variety of good, quality books that we hope will interest you and our neighbors. Take a book or leave a book...LFL books are always free!
AA meets at Morning Star weekly on Tuesdays at 5:30 PM & 8 PM and an all women's group on Wednesdays at 6:30 PM. Click on the link for more information.
This Depression BiPolar Support Group meets weekly at Morning Star on Thursday nights at 7 pm. Click on the link or call 402-502-HOPE (4673) for more information.
Al-Anon members are people just like you, who are worried about someone with a drinking problem. The Morning Star Chapel is the location for a weekly Al-Anon meeting on Wednesdays at 12 Noon.
Morning Star participates in the annual ELCA God's Work, Our Hands day. Congregations across the globe give a day of service back to the community. Stay tuned for what we will do this year!
Each Christmas Morning Star is proud to partner with Lutheran Family Services and Westside Boys & Girls Club to provide gifts for those who cannot afford them.
Food For Friends started about 20 years ago by a member of Morning Star, Bob Donovan, who saw a need to feed his "working poor" brothers and sisters a Thanksgiving meal. These were individuals, some he knew and some he didn't know, who worked hard every day but never seemed to earn enough around the Holidays to have those special meals. A Green Envelope offering started with the first few years seeing approximately 50 families with Thanksgiving meals delivered by Morning Star volunteers.