
Community Ministries
"'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment.
And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
Matthew 22:37b-39

Angel Tree
Warm winter items are collected for local shelters and schools. We get requests for hats, gloves, mittens, boots, scarves, coats.

Good Hope
Food Pantry
Good Hope Food Pantry continues to minister to the community by providing non-perishable food. If you would like to support this ministry, you can either make a monetary donation (make checks payble to Good Hope Food Pantry) or you may bring non-perishable food to Celebration and place it in the bins across from the office. As of now, the food distribution is done on a call-in basis 734-427-3660.

Hamilton School
As a congregation we support Hamilton Elementary School in Westland. Fall of 2020, we provided 500 school starter kits for the students.
With learning being done virtually for the time being, we are considering alternative methods of reading and mentoring with the students.

Thanksgiving
We make boxes with the fixings for Thanksgiving dinner for 20 families through the Bolde Center. The congregation members donate the food required except for the turkeys, pack the boxes and deliver to the Bolde Center for distribution.

Veterans
Clothes, warm items and baby shower gifts are collected for men and women veterans. We also receive requests for items in special need.

Warming Tree
Clothes, warm items and baby shower gifts are collected for men and women veterans. We also receive requests for items in special need.
We continuously add one time service projects, for example:
Bag Lunches for the Homeless in Detroit
Sock for the Homeless
Days for Girls International
Empty Pill Bottles sent overseas
Additional Service Projects
ELCA Advocacy

As the ELCA, we believe God is calling us into the world to serve together. Through our direct service, we aid immediate needs before us. Through our advocacy work, we impact systemic ling-lasting change.
Information that will educate and equip you to be a more effective advocate can be found at these locations:
An advocacy toolkit can be found here: Toolkit