Community Outreach
Hygiene Kits
During a special service focused on peace our congregants donated hygiene items and then assembled 37 hygiene kits to be donated to our local food pantry.
Operation Christmas Child
GUMC participates in Operation Christmas Child, serving as a collection site for shoeboxes from all over the area. Each box contains small toys, school supplies, and other needed items such as washcloths, first aid kids, and more!
We would like to thank our very own Marge and Ricky Staulters who spend all year collecting donations for Operation Christmas Child. This year GUMC collected 89 boxes from our church and 314 boxes from area churches. The network that we are a part of collected over 10,000 boxes!!! That is a lot of children that will enjoy the love of Christmas as a result of the generosity of people like Marge and Ricky!!
Our annual collection culminates with a Packing Party in which community volunteers pack already donated items into boxes. Collection for needed items is ongoing: We are collecting small toys, stuffed animals, small craft items, coloring books, crayons, school supplies, socks, toothbrushes, hair brushes, hair ties and barrettes and MORE!
Follow Amelia’s shoebox as it travels from GUMC to a child in need!
Amelia’s 2023 shoebox was sent to Mozambique! Her 2024 shoebox was sent to Liberia! We are already looking forward to 2025!
Souperbowl of Caring
Our annual Souperbowl of Caring was a success. We were able to collect donations for the Galway Food Pantry and enjoyed a great fellowship with one another while feasting on the yummy soups made for us by our Sunday School!
Community Holiday Basket Project
This year the Greater Galway Community Holiday Basket Project provided 91 local needy
families, including elderly, with toiletries and gift cards for groceries over the holiday season. It
also gave gift cards or gifts to 109 children and teens for Christmas. Galway United Methodist
Church donated $970.25 to this project. Thank you for your generous support in making the
holidays happier for many in our community.
And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. ~ Hebrews 13:16
And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. ~ Hebrews 13:16
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And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. ~ Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. ~ Hebrews 13:16 〰️
Handmade with Love
A Galway United Methodist Church Initiative to support Hospice efforts to provide red, white and blue knitted or crocheted blankets to Veterans in Hospice Care. To date our volunteers have crocheted or knitted over 100 blankets since our church began this initiative in the fall of 2021
Greater galway community service assoc. (Ggcsa)
Galway UMC collects food weekly for the Galway Food Pantry.
Galway Food Pantry: Open from 10am - 7pm, Thursdays
Reach us at (518) 882-1316 - Next to Ambulance Building.
You can help us by donating any of the items listed below at the pantry during open hours, in the food drop boxes, or at your local church. Don’t forget – we are Neighbors, Helping Neighbors.
Peanut Butter, Jelly, Crackers, Tuna Fish, Cereal, Pancake Mix, Syrup, Coffee, any Tomato product: spaghetti sauce, diced, salsa
Canned Fruit (any kind), Juice (any kind), Hot Cocoa, Paper Towels, ketchup, Mustard, Toilet Paper, Kleenex, Soap
For Emergency Assistance: Leave word on our tape, and your call will be
returned at the earliest possible time.
