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  • Ministries, Missions, Giving
    • MINISTRIES
      • Children's Ministries
        • Featured Page: Older Church Building - New Life All Around - Serving Young Adults, Youth and Children of our Community
        • Camp in the Community 2025
        • Early Learning Center
          • ELC Payment and Document Center
      • Youth Ministries
        • Youth Forms
        • Youth Group: UMYF
        • Youth Calendar
        • Sunday School
      • Adult Ministries
        • UMW
          • UMW INFORMATION
        • Conference Room Class
        • Friendship Sunday School Class
        • Open Door Sunday School Class
        • Pathfinders - Sunday School Class
        • Questors Sunday School Class
        • Scripture Study Sunday School Class
        • Fifth Sunday Breakfast and Program
      • Music Ministries
        • Chancel Choir
      • Prayer Ministries
        • Prayer Requests
        • Prayer Shawl Ministry
    • MISSIONS
      • Backpacks For Liberia
      • FUMC Food Pantry
      • UMCOR Cleaning Buckets
      • UMCOR Hygiene Kits
      • Operation Christmas Child
      • Clare's Closet
      • The Bridge
      • Brother's Keeper
      • Little Free Pantry
      • Kairos Ministry
      • Family Promise (IHN)
      • Czech Republic
      • Good Samaritan
      • Holston Home for Children
      • Medical Mission to Mexico
      • Melting Pot
      • BABMOC Bear Another's Burdens Ministry of Christ
      • Other Missions
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      • Commitment Form 2025
      • Online Giving
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      • The Building Fund
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    • 2025 Worship Video Archives
    • worship video archives 2024 and prior
      • Worship Video Archives Beginning 2024 6 9
      • Worship Videos Archive since Advent 2023
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      • Safety and Security Welcome Group
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        • AV Team
      • Leadership Pillar
      • Wednesday Night Fellowship Team
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      • SPPRC (Staff, Pastor, Parrish Relations Committee
      • Stewardship Committee
      • Endowment Committee
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First United Methodist Church

Missions

1st Church JC has a rich tradition and history of involvement with missions from our neighborhood, our city, our state, our country and our world.


Missions include:
Clare's Closet, FUMC Food Pantry, Brother's Keeper, Good Samaritan, Family Promise (IHN),  Melting Pot, The Wesley Foundation, Camp Bays Mountain, Holston Home for Children,

The United Methodist Women serve prayerfully and financially many of their own missions, the youth go on mission trips, the children have done local mission work, Sunday School classes take on numerous projects including Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets and Salvation Army Angel Child program, Operation Christmas Child Shoebox ministries, Nothing but Nets, Health Kits for UMCOR, Buckets for Emergency Relief Work for UMCOR, and more. International Mission work includes giving through UMCOR for emergency work, Partners in Mission with the Johnson City District and the Czech Republic.

If you know of a ministry which is not mentioned here that 1stChurch participates with please let the web team know and we can add it to our lists.

The Outreach Pillar/Committee and Finance committee is responsible for overseeing the budget aspects of missions. If you have a specific request for use of funds in the budget for a specific project, please contact the outreach committee chairperson. There is a form to send and it is available on the Forms and Documents page of the website.

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  • Home
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  • Backpacks For Liberia
  • Camp in the Community 2025
  • About Us
    • Reaching Embracing Serving
    • Church Staff
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    • Methodist F.A.Q.
    • Contact Us
    • General Property Layout and Entrances
    • Directions
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Worship Services / Times
    • Visitor Page
    • Favorite Links
  • Programs/Activities
    • Committed to Christ
    • Basketball Team/Schedule
    • Women's Bible Study
    • Wednesday Night Fellowship
    • Three Rivers District Events
    • Loaves and Fishes Leaps and Bounds
    • More Loaves and Fishes
    • Camp Bays Mountain
    • Boy Scouts Troop 36
    • UMCmarket or Amazon Smiles
  • Ministries, Missions, Giving
    • MINISTRIES
      • Children's Ministries
        • Featured Page: Older Church Building - New Life All Around - Serving Young Adults, Youth and Children of our Community
        • Camp in the Community 2025
        • Early Learning Center
          • ELC Payment and Document Center
      • Youth Ministries
        • Youth Forms
        • Youth Group: UMYF
        • Youth Calendar
        • Sunday School
      • Adult Ministries
        • UMW
          • UMW INFORMATION
        • Conference Room Class
        • Friendship Sunday School Class
        • Open Door Sunday School Class
        • Pathfinders - Sunday School Class
        • Questors Sunday School Class
        • Scripture Study Sunday School Class
        • Fifth Sunday Breakfast and Program
      • Music Ministries
        • Chancel Choir
      • Prayer Ministries
        • Prayer Requests
        • Prayer Shawl Ministry
    • MISSIONS
      • Backpacks For Liberia
      • FUMC Food Pantry
      • UMCOR Cleaning Buckets
      • UMCOR Hygiene Kits
      • Operation Christmas Child
      • Clare's Closet
      • The Bridge
      • Brother's Keeper
      • Little Free Pantry
      • Kairos Ministry
      • Family Promise (IHN)
      • Czech Republic
      • Good Samaritan
      • Holston Home for Children
      • Medical Mission to Mexico
      • Melting Pot
      • BABMOC Bear Another's Burdens Ministry of Christ
      • Other Missions
    • Giving
      • Commitment Form 2025
      • Online Giving
      • Endowment Giving
      • The Building Fund
  • Communications and Media
    • 2025 Worship Video Archives
    • worship video archives 2024 and prior
      • Worship Video Archives Beginning 2024 6 9
      • Worship Videos Archive since Advent 2023
      • Worship Video Archive since Feb 2023
      • Worship Video Archives Beginning Nov 2022
      • Worship Video Archive beginning 6/5/2022
      • Worship Video Archive beginning 2021 8 8
      • Worship Video Archive Prior to August 2021
    • Church-Wide Email Sign Up
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    • Safe Sanctuaries Information
    • Volunteer Rosters
    • 2025 Church Directory
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      • Connections/Communications Pillar
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      • Safety and Security Welcome Group
      • Outreach Pillar
      • Worship Pillar
        • AV Team
      • Leadership Pillar
      • Wednesday Night Fellowship Team
      • Finance Committee
      • SPPRC (Staff, Pastor, Parrish Relations Committee
      • Stewardship Committee
      • Endowment Committee
      • Facilities/Trustees
        • USE OF CHURCH FACILITIES
    • Forms and Information Documents
      • ONLINE FORMS
    • Time and Talent Survey
    • Photo Album General Tab
      • Photo Album
      • Photo Album Not Sorted by Year Yet
      • 2023 Photo Album
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      • 2021 Photo Album
      • 2020 Photo Album
      • 2019 Photo Album
      • 2018 Photo Album
      • 2017 Photo Album
      • 2016 Photo Album
      • 2015 Photo Album
      • 2014 Photo Album
      • 2013 Photo Album
      • 2012 Photo Album
      • 2011 Photo Album
      • ELC 5K Event
      • Food Pantry Photo
      • Faces at First New Pics
  • Church Calendar
    • Calendar
      • Revised Common Lectionary
        • Definition
        • Church Year/Liturgical Colors
        • Weekly Readings
  • Online Giving
  • Early Learning Center