Food Insecurity
Love Thy Neighbor
Love Thy Neighbor (LTN) is an outreach of FUMC which provides food for our neighbors in the community who are facing food-insecurity. Every morning LTN provides non-perishable, pop-top ready-to-eat canned foods, snacks and nutrition drinks to the guests of the St. Andrew’s Breakfast Program. We welcome you to support LTN financially.
Learn more about LTN or sign up to volunteer.
Contact: lovethyneighbor2008@gmail.com
Crop Walk
The annual Washtenaw/Ann Arbor CROP Hunger Walk brings walkers and supporters together to help those who are hungry. People from various faiths and groups join in this community wide event; and walkers of all ages walk a 1 or 3-mile route on a Sunday in the fall. Of the funds raised, 25% supports hunger relief efforts in our community and 75% supports the worldwide hunger relief work of Church World Service. During 2025 and 2026 First UMC will be hosting the walk, and we welcome your volunteer support to do so.
Contact: Becky Wong
*Family friendly, youth volunteers welcome
Hope Clinic
Hope Clinic offers hot “to go” meals to consumers every evening (5-6 p.m.) except for Wednesdays and serves 150+ people at each meal. Volunteers are needed for the 4th Thursday of each month at the clinic, 3-6:30 p.m.
Other ways to help with food assistance at Hope Clinic are to volunteer at various other times throughout the week sorting and distributing food in the pantry and farm stand, assisting with pantry appointments or packing food for delivery to shut-ins. Donations of canned goods, breakfast cereal and personal items are always welcome. View all volunteer options here.
Contact: Elaine Logan
Kenya Mission Project
FUMC partners with a rural Kenyan community to provide education and a sustainable feeding program to the poorest of the poor. The Bishop Lawi Imathiu Secondary School (BLISS) serves over 600 secondary school students and was built primarily with funds donated by FUMC Ann Arbor.
In addition, we are getting to know two other primary schools in the community that serve over 700 children living in acute poverty. Much of our recent focus has been on assisting the educational and feeding efforts at Gichunge Primary School. The mission team usually departs for Kenya in February.
Contact: Kathy Macdonald