St Luke

outreach

Our Projects

Help LVC Furnish Volunteer Apartments
Founded in 1979 by Luther Place Memorial Church, Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) is an independent non-profit organization, recognized as a social ministry of the ELCA. The LVC is in the process of setting up apartments in Atlanta for volunteers to live in starting this August and they need furniture and household items. The list of the items needed is on the bulletin board. Please look around your home for any household items you no longer need. LVC would appreciate any help you can give. For more information about this organization, go to www.lutheranvolunteercorps.org.

Wheelchair Request
Lutheran Services of Georgia is in need of wheelchairs for use by incoming refugees.  If you have a wheelchair that is no longer needed, let us know.  If it is possible, please bring it to the church and we will contact LSG for pick-up.

8/1 Help Fill the BCM Food Pantry.
Please help us meet our next quarterly goal of 75 bags of nonperishable donations or cash equivalent for Buckhead Christian Ministry by Sunday, August 1. You can find a list of needed items on the Social Concerns bulletin board. Drop your bags in the fellowship hall or your check (with the notation BCM in the memo line) in the collection plate. Questions? Contact Jane vonSeggern (jvonse@comcast.net).

St Luke Pitches in with Disaster Relief
St. Luke’s special collection in late May raised $750.00 for Lutheran Disaster Response. The funds will benefit our brothers and sisters in the Southeastern Synod who were affected by recent disasters in our region, including the Gulf Coast oil spill. A big thanks to all who contributed!

St Luke Annual Yard Sale
Furniture donations that went unsold at St. Luke’s annual yard sale have been donated to Lutheran Services of Georgia (LSG) for refugee families arriving in the United States. Our contacts at LSG say the agency is expecting more refugees this summer than they helped in all of 2008. Thanks again to Tim Young and David Wilson for their tremendous work to make the yard sale a success benefiting so many in our community.

Brewster's Ice Cream Coupon Books.
The Social Concerns Committee continues to offer Bruster's Ice Cream coupon booklets for $10 each. Among other goodies, each one features multiple buy-one-get-one-free coupons good even for waffle cones! They are a a great deal and never expire. All proceeds benefit Social Concerns projects. Please see Tim Young (timothy.abram.young@gmail.com) or David Wilson to purchase one.

Our Partners

ELCA World Hunger

ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) World Hunger is a connected, comprehensive, and compassionate program that helps individuals and communities lift themselves out of poverty into self-sufficiency. Through our giving and caring, through our advocacy and action, we make a life-saving difference.

ELCA Disaster Response

When flood, fire, or storm wreaks havoc on a community, the ELCA is there to empower, provide relief, and educate for future preparedness. We help to bring God’s comfort, healing and renewal to those affected. And when the dust settles and the headlines change, we stay to provide ongoing assistance to those in need.

ELCA Good Gifts Catalog

ELCA Good Gifts, the giving catalog of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, lifts up more than 65 gift ideas filled with meaning and love. ELCA Good Gifts are a special way you can help make a significant impact on the mission and ministries of our church while giving a gift to a friend, pastor, teacher, neighbor or other loved one.

Buckhead Christian Ministry

Buckhead Christian Ministry (BCM) is a faith-based, non-profit organization that fights hunger and homelessness in North Atlanta by providing food to the hungry, paying rent and utility bills of those facing eviction. BCM's housing program assists families moving from homelessness to more permanent housing. BCM was founded in 1987 as an Emergency Assistance Program in a small office on Peachtree Road. Since then, BCM has grown to be a city wide agency supported by 28 churches, corporations and businesses, private and public foundations, civic groups, and thousands of individuals.

Lutheran Services of Georgia

Lutheran Services of Georgia is a social service agency which combines the resources of staff, financial donors, various governmental agencies, volunteers, and Lutheran congregations in its efforts to bring quality programs and services to the people of Georgia.

Lutheran Volunteer Corps

Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) unites full-time stipended Volunteers with financial supporters, non-profit organizations and ministries to work for peace with justice across the nation. In addition to working for justice, LVC Volunteers live together in intentional household communities of 4-7 people to encourage simple, sustainable living.

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of consciense and action.

Heifer International

Heifer’s mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. With gifts of livestock and training, we help families improve their nutrition and generate income in sustainable ways. We refer to the animals as “living loans” because in exchange for their livestock and training, families agree to give one of its animal’s offspring to another family in need.

Lutherans Concerned / North America

LC/NA works for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Lutherans in all aspects of the life of their Church and congregations. We provide a place of comfort and safety. We reach out to teach that Christ's message, the Gospel, is for everyone equally. We call for the blessing of committed and covenanted same-gender relationships, and for the ordination of those called to minister.