LOCAL

Here in Crestview, the missions of First Methodist are as diverse as our people. However, we particularly focus on serving on the front line in providing adequate shelter and food for those most in need. 

We offer up to 4 Benevolence grants every week for folks who have a home but need a little help keeping their water or power turned on.  

We provide food for the hungry in emergency situations through our Food Pantry which is provided for by benevolence grants.

On Saturdays, we also run a Soup Kitchen that serves anywhere from 80-100 people every week. We have over 60 volunteers involved in feeding the hungry each year with homemade nutritious meals, since 2010.  The Soup Kitchen mission is funded by donations and collaboration with local grocery stores and bakeries

Embrace Florida Kids located at 428 McLaughlin Ave.

The Embrace Florida Kids Teen Center offers an Educational Support Program to have access to study hours, tutoring sessions, and study skills training. The Employment and Vocational Support and Volunteer Placement Program is available to gain assistance in writing resumes, training for interviews, completing job applications, earning volunteer hours, and learning the appropriate attire and behavior for interviews and jobs. Embrace Florida Kids also coordinates and hosts a career fair every six months for the youth. Finally, our Social Engagement Program is set forth to interact in positive situations with peers, grow in spiritual development, and develop healthy social skills. A Foster Parent Night Out is hosted quarterly and churches are encouraged to volunteer to host these nights with food and activities for the youth. Foster parents can also benefit from the clothes closet and supplies closet at the Embrace Florida Kids Teen Center.

DOMESTIC

We don't just go to our local community.  We also routinely send mission teams to places of need around our country. 

Since 2009, we have sent a team yearly to Sager-Brown Mission in Louisiana.  This First Methodist mission provides home repairs and wheelchair ramps for those in need.  

Our youth have traveled all over the southeastern US serving in inner cities and rural missions.  

We also support several seminary students; sending new ministers into the world is part of our mission!

INTERNATIONAL

We believe the good news of Jesus is good news for all the world. Through our connection with the Global Methodist Church, we support a number of missionaries, relief agencies and programs such as the "Imagine No Malaria" campaign that has cut the number of malaria deaths in Africa by more than half. 

We also provide direct support to overseas missionaries, and several of our members have served as extended-term missionaries in Poland. "Pastor Kris" is a full-time pastor in Poland whose church is supported, in part by our monthly gifts.  When we can, we send teams to supply hands-on aid for these missions, but we are always praying and giving to do our part in helping their work  flourish.