MISSION & JUSTICE
Adult Missions - Early Response Team
Adult Missions - Early Response Team
Adult Missions - Early Response Team
This mission group responds both locally and across the country to aid in early response, recovery, and rebuilding efforts. While we welcome anyone who is willing to serve in mission, due to the nature of the outreach, volunteers must be 18 or older to participate. Some disaster response trips (ERT) requires prior certification; others provide onsite training.
SPAGEHTTI DINNER FUNDRAISER
February 2026
Email Mariann Brush, Director of Missions
mbrush@north-broadway.org for more information
YWCA
Adult Missions - Early Response Team
Adult Missions - Early Response Team
We have been in partnership with the YWCA Family Shelter for quite some time now. Because of critical funding cuts, they are facing urgent action to find other funding solutions. Thank you for your ongoing support of the missions and community partnerships of North Broadway UMC.
Critical Items Collection
Box Fans
Baby Wipes
Men's Clothing and Underwear (must be new and unused)
Children's Socks (must be new and unused)
Email Mariann Brush, Director of Missions
mbrush@north-broadway.org for more information
Blessing Box
Adult Missions - Early Response Team
Back Packs for Hunger
Blessing Boxes are outdoor, publicly located cabinets that allow people to anonymously donate items to bless others in need. It’s an effort to reach out and connect to our community, and to include everyone! We are excited for this new ministry in sharing blessings with each other through not only food and hygiene items, but also with creating a prayer box and an information center to connect others to needed services.
The motto of a Blessing Box is, “Take what you need. Leave what you can. But above all, be blessed.”
Back Packs for Hunger
B.R.E.A.D. (Building Responsibility, Equality And Dignity)
Back Packs for Hunger
Backpacks for Hunger
Our Backpack Ministry partners with Indianola Informal K-8th school, Clinton Elementary and Valleyview Elementary to help support students and families with needed food for the weekends. Currently we are packing 75 bags of food weekly. This is a mission opportunity for families and people of all ages.
Here is an UPDATED LIST of the food we are collecting: Peanut butter (16 oz. plastic jars), spaghettios and other canned pasta (pop top cans), mac and cheese, ramen noodles, chicken noodle soup, alphabet vegetable soup, granola or cereal bars, fruit snacks, shelf stable yogurt squeeze packs, fruit cups, oatmeal, cheese and peanut butter crackers.
Volunteers are needed every Thursday at
1:30 PM to help fill bags with food. We also need volunteers to deliver the bags by noon on Friday at Indianola K-8 School. We ask that you include these families in your prayers.
If you have any questions or would like to volunteer, email Mariann Brush at mbrush@north-broadway.org.
B.R.E.A.D. (Building Responsibility, Equality And Dignity)
B.R.E.A.D. (Building Responsibility, Equality And Dignity)
B.R.E.A.D. (Building Responsibility, Equality And Dignity)
B.R.E.A.D. is a county-wide interfaith ministry that identifies and addresses local justice issues. There are a variety of levels of participation available ranging from attending the annual Nehemiah Action in May, a platform for generating commitment from local officials to work on specific solutions to specific justice issues, to organizing local listening sessions to learn about local justice issues, to serving on solution-focused committees that research national best practices. For more information, visit the B.R.E.A.D. website.
Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center
B.R.E.A.D. (Building Responsibility, Equality And Dignity)
B.R.E.A.D. (Building Responsibility, Equality And Dignity)
The CRC is a local community-based social services agency that brings people together to help individuals and families build upon their strength. Each month we collect various donations for the CRC and host the senior breakfast.
Click the blue button for the current donation requested.
Contact Mariann Brush
Pride & Justice Ministries
Pride & Justice Ministries
Pride & Justice Ministries
Central Ohio Pride Worship Service Friday | June 13 | 7 PM | Hilliard UMC
Pride Parade
Saturday | June 14 | 10 :30 AM |
Ohio State House
Meet at East Rich Street. We will walk this year with NB Children’s Center, NB Boy Scouts and Short North Church. SNC will have a pickup truck decorated.
Questions? Contact Michael Rex, michael.rex@att.net
Justice Ministries meets the second Sunday at 11:30-12:30 PM.
August 10
These potluck meetings provide updates, and training related to our Reconciling Ministries, Immigration, and B.R.E.A.D. Justice Ministries.
Contact: Michael Rex at michaelrex@att.net
Creation Care
Pride & Justice Ministries
Pride & Justice Ministries
Creation Care – This group is for people with a passion for addressing the climate crisis and exploring God’s intentions for stewardship of the earth. The group seeks to deepen our understanding of creation care and to encourage one another to take concrete actions that can make a positive difference.
We meet at 7 PM on the second Wednesday of the month in Rm. 111 and occasionally at group member's home.
Contact Phyllis Fetzer, pfetzer30@yahoo.com or
Joe Blundo, joe.blundo@gmail.com
New Life Community Outreach
Pride & Justice Ministries
New Life Community Outreach
A non-profit ministry located in the Short North Church at 25 W. 5th Ave, Columbus. The NLCO serves its clients in three areas: a health care clinic on Sunday morning, breakfast ministry on Sunday, and a clothing room ministry open on Sunday and Wednesday mornings. It takes a lot of volunteers to make this ministry a success, so email Rev. Wendy Hansen-Smith for more information about volunteering or making a donation.