Serving Our Community

Serving Our Community in Omaha

We have several opportunities for our members to get involved in the Omaha community.

 

AA meetings

This men’s group meets at Saint Michael on Thursday evenings. For more information on Omaha’s Alcoholics Anonymous program, visit their website.

Project Hope

We regularly collect food, household items, and clothing for this ministry. We do need people to help deliver this to Project Hope on a regular basis. Contact the church office if you can help, and visit Project Hope’s website for more information.

Habitat for Humanity

Dust off those hammers, put on your boots, roll up your sleeves and volunteer to join Saint Michael’s Habitat for Humanity Team. Our church is one of ten churches who unite each summer to form the Faithful Builders Coalition. Our coalition is one of the best run and successful building groups here in the Omaha area. We are looking for skilled and unskilled workers as well as food volunteers. Watch for information in the newsletter and Sunday bulletin.

Kountze Food Pantry

Along with financial support, several of our members work at this downtown food pantry on a regular basis. Contact the church office for current list of food items needed. During winter months coats, gloves, hats, mittens and scarves are collected. You can learn more about the Kountze Food Pantry and Pantry Garden here.

Siena Francis House

Saint Michael helps to serve the evening meal for Siena/Francis House the 2nd Friday of each month from 4:45 to 7 PM. We need 8 people to sign up to serve (fill a coffee pot, set a table, wait tables, etc.) at 5:00 PM. Please sign up on the kiosk in the Gathering Place. Individuals, families (minimum age 10) or groups are welcome.

Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministry

The Mission Statement for Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministry is:

“We are called by God to be a Christ-centered, Spirit-powered ministry to equip, teach and excite people for discipleship through camp experiences, to provide our conference and retreat guests with places set apart and serve with sacred hospitality to nurture leadership for service in the church and world.”

Each summer, Saint Michael has several children/youth attend camp at Carol Joy Holling Camp in Ashland, Nebraska. Our Ash Wednesday offerings go toward partial scholarships for those attending CJH Camp.

Camp isn’t just for kids either! Each year, several retreat opportunities are available at CJH. Or, reserve space for your group and have a retreat of your own. Our WELCA ladies have had many retreats at the camp.

Each year, on the last Saturday of July, CJH holds a Quilt Auction Fundraiser. All of the funds go directly to support their summer camping programs, making possible the policy of the Board of Directors that no child will be turned away because they can’t pay the fee. With the exception of one year, since 1997, Saint Michael has had at least one quilt donated for the auction.

Besides the auction, there is a barbecue lunch served and tours of the camp with fun activities for the whole family.

  • NLOM Annual Quilt Auction

Soul Stitchers

(Prayer Shawl Ministry)

Prayer Shawl Ministry is an outreach of our Prayer Ministry here at Saint Michael. Prayer Shawls are made with intentional prayer and love. We give them to those who are facing health difficulties, members who are no longer able to come, to church or for those who have faced the death of a loved one. This Ministry combines the skills of knitting or crocheting with our Prayer Ministry and Spirituality to bring forth a gift given with love, kindness, warmth, and prayer.

We have a group of about 25 women who meet monthly to share in the work of making pocket prayer shawls. These are perfect to hold and keep with you at all times – a constant reminder of God’s love and the support of those who prayerfully made the pocket prayer shawl. We plan to use these as a form of outreach ministry and we will be placing them in the meals we pack during the holidays for the food pantry. Anyone who is interested in joining this prayer ministry is welcome. We are willing to teach anyone who wants to learn how to make the pocket prayer shawls!

If you would like a prayer shawl or know of someone you would like us to send a prayer shawl to along with our prayers, please contact Jody Kollath, Spiritual Care Director.