Missions
Local missions
Ministerial Alliance
Soup Kitchen
Meals are served on weekdays per a rotating schedule with other churches in Marion. Volunteers help prepare and serve a meal to those in need at the Marion Ministerial Alliance soup kitchen. If you are interested in helping, contact Nancy McShannon.
Nursing Home Ministries
There is always room to serve, sing, visit, listen, and pray within our nursing home ministries. We minister to Marion Rehab and Nursing Facility and Parkway Estates/Manor. Contact the church office, or Jodi Reinhard if you would like to be a part of this ministry.
Red Cross
Blood Drive
Aldersgate hosts an American Red Cross Blood Drive several times a year in the ALC (Gym). Contact the church office to learn about our next blood drive.
The Lighthouse Shelter
On a rotating schedule with other churches and organizations in Marion, volunteers help prepare and serve dinner to the homeless at the Lighthouse Shelter. If interested in volunteering, contact Brenda McVicar.
Austin Dickson
Fellowship of Christian Athletes Area Representative Williamson and Saline County of Southern, IL.
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FCA Partnership
Austin's Vision:
To Engage coaches and athletes through genuine relationships by sharing our lives and the gospel. (1 Thessalonians 2:8)
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To Equip coaches and athletes to grow in Christ through Gods word. (Ephesians 4:12)
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To Empower coaches and athletes to engage,
equip, and empower others to know and grow in Christ. (2 Timothy 2:2)
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Visit the link below to support Austin:
https://my.FCA.org/austindickson
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Foreign Missions
Brad and Maria Festen
Brad and Maria Festen have been members of Wycliffe Bible Translators since 1994, serving in the Central African Republic (CAR) from 1998 to 2017. They lived in a small village in the Southwestern part of the country for ten years, doing linguistic analysis and helping to start the Mpyemo Bible translation project, which transitioned to local leadership in 2011.
In 2017, the Festens returned to the USA for medical reasons. Now Brad is continuing to help with the Mpyemo translation via the Internet, and Maria is working in the home office of TeachBeyond, another mission organization. Even though they are now based in the USA for an indefinite period, Brad and Maria want to support the Mpyemo project in any way they can, and help bring it to completion. Your partnership in prayer and financial support is greatly appreciated.
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Click here to visit the Wycliffe Bible Translators Site.
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Click here to visit their support page.
Bevan and Laura Stein
Bevan and Laura have served in Slovakia with International Messengers since 1996. Together they organize teams of young adults from local Slovak churches to provide weekly programs in state orphanages and offer summer camps. In addition, Laura specializes in equine therapy to disabled children on their small-acreage ranch and Bevan specializes in out-reach to bikers and is an itinerant preacher in the "Evanjelicka" Church of Slovakia.
If you would like to support their ministry, please make your check payable to "International Messengers" and mail to :
International Messengers
PO Box 618
Clear Lake, IA 50428
Designate your gift to "Stein ministry-XBS account"
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Click here to visit the Father's Heart website.
Hal and Annamarie Hamilton
The Hamiltons serve Christ from the U.S. through Cornerstone International. Hal is the Director of Mobilization and Recruitment for Cornerstone International. Annamarie is finishing her Master’s degree in Counseling at ORU. They are the parents of five young adult children and two grandchildren. Please pray with them as they pray, recruit, train, deploy and care for those called to cross-cultural mission work.
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Click here to learn more about Cornerstone International.
Paul and Judi Utley
Paul and Judi reach the people of Thailand and Southeast Asia through the production of the Jesus Film. Their goal is to make copies of this tool available in over 200 languages worldwide.
John and Lisa Hamilton
John and Lisa serve as pastors to an unreached and unchurched urban population in Uruguay, South America.
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Click here to learn more about One Mission Society.
Josh and Rachel Weakly
Josh and Rachel Weakly serve in campus ministry with Navigators on the campus of Indiana University at Bloomington, IN.
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Click here to visit the Navigator's website.
September 10, 2020 - Weakly Update
