Westminster
HomeThe Volunteer Ministry Center, located in downtown Knoxville, was established in 1987. It exists as part of the network of essential services to the homeless and others in crisis in cooperation with the Knoxville religious community. The VMC provides services that address immediate and longer-term needs for the basic necessities of life, and it challenges and assists the homeless to achieve a level of independence and self-sufficiency.
One of Westminster's important mission projects involves preparing and serving some of the meals at the VMC. A group from our church does the breakfast on third Sundays and the lunch on fourth Sundays. This is not only a way to help the powerless in our community but also a way to get to know those with whom you worship at church each Sunday!
The breakfast coordinator is always looking for early risers in the congregation. On the third Sunday of each month, the volunteers head for the VMC about 5:50 a.m.!.
For the lunches that are prepared and served on the fourth Sunday of each month, the coordinator and volunteers go to the VMC at 10 a.m.
Westminster's "Two Cents a Meal" offering, received on the first Sunday of each month, goes for purchasing the food used to prepare these two meals (the cost for this food is between $200 and $250 a month). Currently we are feeding over 100 people every month at each of these meals. Look at it this way: by setting aside just two cents for each meal that you eat, you help enable Westminster to provide about 200 individual meals each month for the needy! (If you happen to forget to bring your pennies, or if you would like to make an additional donation, "folding money" or checks are wecome, too.)
2/1/2007