Our Activities Include:

Stephen Ministry  A ministry grounded in Jesus’ command to love one another and bear one another’s burden. A Stephen minister walks alongside someone experiencing a critical problem

Scholarships For College Students

  • Methodist Men Scholarship
  • Daisy Jenkins Scholarship
  • Ed Smith Memorial Scholarship
  • Scarborough Memorial Scholarship
  • Stansel Scholarship
  • James Cooper Memorial Scholarship
  • Stubbs Loan Fund

Bereavement United Methodist Women provide a meal for the family.

Tape Ministry Tapes of morning worship available for the shut-ins.

Caring For Our Neighbors

bullet Robeson County Church and Community Center A ministry designed to help emergency needs, literacy tutoring of children and adults and home repairs for the needy. .CSUMC contributes to its operational expenses
bullet Christian Care Center A Corporation for the purpose of feeding the hungry one hot meal per day. They also provide a three day emergency for the needy. CSUMC helps provide volunteers to help serve the meals and they contribute to the operational expenses.
bullet Boys and Girls Club Organization for children ages 6 through 18 at the membership of $1.00 per child per year. They provide guidance in behavior and educational area. Their aim is to gear each child to become a good citizen at an early age, CSUMC contributes to the operational expenses
bullet Family Violence Center A temporary home for abused families. CSUMC provides toiletries , paper products, coloring books and crayons for children.
bullet Scouts
bullet Living Christmas Tree A structure constructed of steel .plywood and wire and decorated with live Magnolia leaves and Christmas lights. The tree is in the shape of a Christmas tree and will hold up to forty adults. This a gift of music for the community by the Children, Youth and Adult Choirs during the Christmas season.
bullet Angel Tree Donations given to purchase Christmas gifts for needy children and senior citizens of Robeson County These donations are given to the Robeson County Church and Community Center.
bullet Rowland Norment School This is one of the primary school of the Public Schools of Robeson County that has been adopted by . Volunteers contributes time and money for books.
bullet Nursing Homes Volunteers visit, circles provide Christmas gifts for a home, and other projects as needed.
bullet Wesley Pines This is a retirement home who serves Methodist and others who desire to live within a Christian community. They are based on the concept that they can provide care and all their needs in retirements years. United Methodist Men meets with the residents on third Sunday morning, They provide transportation to the church for worship services.
bullet Adopt-a-Highway Volunteers collect trash on specified highways on a given date.
bullet Meals-on Wheels This is a non-profit volunteer based service that delivers nutritious midday meal to people who are elderly, disabled, or homebound and are unable to prepare their own meals.
bullet Robeson House This is an emergency shelter for children ages 7 to 17 who are classified as dependent, neglected, abused, undisciplined, and delinquent for ninety days. The children are referred to them by the Juvenile Courts and the Department of Social Services. CSUMC contributes to this organization..
bullet Lunch Bags Provided for the hungry who stop by the church.
bullet Special Needs Assistance Help provide materials and equipment for special needs class at Lumberton High School.
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Helping Hands is a program under development which will create a method for CSUMC members to call in to the main office of the church if they have some odd jobs around their own house that the member is either physically incapable of handling or those things that perhaps a church member cannot afford to hire someone to come to their house to do.  Examples would be hedge trimming, mowing, changing a light bulb, etc.  The church will be developing a list of volunteer workers who can be called upon to assist to get these jobs accomplished.  More information on this program is forthcoming.

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Families First is a program through the Department of Social Services in our community whereby the church will “adopt” a needy family, usually a single mother with children in such a fashion that the mother needs our spiritual assistance in getting her life back on track and could use some advice and assistance from volunteer church members.  The program is financed by DSS.  More information on this program is also forthcoming.

bullet Community Mission Projects Respond to various needs to the community .
bullet CIS (Community in Schools) A Donation is made in support of CIS.

Caring Beyond Our Community

bullet Host Workteams CSUMC provides housing and facilities for preparing meals and for taking showers for out-of-town workteams.
bullet Mission Workteams Short term mission trips for our youth. These are faith-developing and life-changing events. Our youth have gone to the SIFAT in Alabama and several local missions.
bullet UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) Disaster Response
bullet MATCH (Mothers and Their Children) Provide support and resources to maintain and strengthen family relationships and help break the cycle of children repeating their parents mistakes.
bullet Migrant Workers Provides health kits for school and migrant workers.
bullet Methodist Home For Children   CSUMC support this organization with contributions.
bullet Children in Poverty Special offering for Bishop’s Initiative for Hope For Children in Africa.
bullet UMW Mission projects
bullet   Robeson County Church and Community Center

Caring For Others in Foreign Countries

bullet   Samaritan Purse Shoe boxes.  Christmas gifts donated for children of the world,
bullet Kosovo Special offering for relief, shoe box gifts for the children.
bullet Armenia Special offering for Project Agape.
bullet Liberia Missionary salary support and contributions to purchase materials needed in this mission.
bullet Bolivia Contribution to help send a volunteer on Bolivia work mission through Southeastern Jurisdiction of Native American Ministries to build a church fellowship hall, schools and/or churches.
bullet Contribute to the salary of Mary and Herb Zigbuo, Liberia