What do you do during a pandemic and it is your turn to host the Sunday evening meal? Zoom the gathering of course! Members of the Trinity Ministries mission team took a meal to the men of Trinity House and then participated in the meal through a Zoom meeting. God finds a way!
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Tucker First UMC in Missions
July 3, 2020
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Red Cross Blood Drive
Sunday, July 12
8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Tucker First Wesley Center
The Red Cross Blood Drive for Sunday, July 12 is full. All the donor slots have been filled. Praise God!
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Five Blood Drive Volunteer Slots Still Available
7:45 am - 9:45 am - Two volunteers needed
9:45 am - 11:45 am - One volunteer needed
11:45 am - 2:00 pm - Two volunteers needed
You can sign up to be a blood drive volunteer at
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Last week to Support Wellroot's
"Read and Feed" Program
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Alyson Ackerman, Community Cultivator at Wellroot Family Services, and daughter Claire (photo right) gratefully accept lunch supplies from Tucker First for thirteen foster children. Thanks to your generous donations to Faith Promise, Children First missions is providing food for three weeks to six foster families this summer in support of Wellroot’s Read and Feed program that provides lunch supplies and books to foster children.
New and gently used books are needed before July 9. Please put donations in a tub at the Activities Center on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. Thank you for faithfully supporting these projects to serve children in need in our community.
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All Lunch Buddy volunteer slots have been filled for the summer! Thanks to the many volunteers who have signed up to serve 85 lunches each weekday through July in support of our Children First Lunch Buddy program.
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Chick-fil-A team members from the Jimmy Carter Boulevard store provided lunches to children at Tucker Mobile Homes on Thursday, June 25.
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Make a Super Pack for Smart Lunch/ Smart Kids
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DeKalb County is continuing to serve children through its Seamless Summer Lunch program on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Therefore, Action Ministries' Smart Lunch/ Smart Kid program is providing Super Packs to children in need on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Action Ministries is a mission of the North Georgia Conference of the UMC.
The Smart Lunch/ SmartKid program serves over 7,000 kids from 100 sites throughout Georgia in an effort to #EndHungerPeriod. Tucker First Activities Center serves as a Dekalb County distribution hub for the summer lunch program.
You can see how to assemble a super pack by going to
for a complete list of items for the Superpack.
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Volunteer Needs at NETWorks
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NETWorks continues their all outdoor distribution with pre-packed bags of grocery items. Hours remain Wednesday/Friday/Saturday from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Many of their regular volunteers are self -isolating and volunteers from low risk groups are needed to help pack and distribute bags of groceries. No experience necessary; training will be provided.
To Pack Bags of Groceries (indoors) (T/W/T/F):
To Help Distribute Bagged Groceries (outdoors) (W/F/Sat):
You must sign-up in advance to volunteer; walk-in volunteers will be unable to serve as NETWorks is closely managing volunteer numbers to maintain social distancing.
NETWorks is located at 2380 Fourth Street. They are in a shared building with Habitat for Humanity, directly behind Tucker First Baptist Church. Find out more about NETWorks and their needs by going to
www.networkscoop.org
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Buy a mask. Empower women. Protect our community. One of our mission partners, Corners Outreach. is selling masks made by the women in their organization. Your mask purchase supports metro Atlanta mothers in caring for their families.
The organization is passionate about providing jobs for women in the community so they can continue to stay home with their children while bringing in a living wage. Often individuals working in essential jobs make insufficient income. These workers earn more than minimum wage and those wages are determined by local living costs. This mask will protect the most vulnerable from risk in our community.
Corners Outreach creates an equitable and thriving community by establishing jobs for workers, celebrating the assets of diverse families, and making life better through education. To purchase a mask, go to
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Help Your Community and
Get Your Lawn Looking Beautiful
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Throughout the year, our Children First mission program, provides homework help volunteers to Corners Outreach. We would like to highlight another part of the Corners program – Corners Industries Lawn Services. The company employs the parents of students and allows them to be paid better wages and work less hours so they can take a bigger role in their children's lives. If you are interested in having your yard cut or have landscaping needs, request an online quote by going to
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Annual School Book Bag Drive Changes
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Our United Methodist Women (UMW) are postponing their annual back to school book bag project, typically held in July, until sometime in the fall.
To provide a more focused approached to helping our area schools, the UMW is partnering with Idlewood Elementary and Tucker Middle School to collect supplies specific to each school.
Watch for announcements in the fall on how you can help or donate.
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Appalachia Service Project
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The date for this year's Appalachia Service Project (ASP) mission trip is October 10-12. The mission team will leave on Thursday, October 10 and drive to Johnson City,TN, spend the night, work Friday and Saturday and leave the work site about 4:00 pm. If you have questions or would like to participate, please contact Kay Entrekin at
kayjohne@gmail.com.
To find out more about ASP and their mission, click on the photo below from last year's mission team.
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Trinity Ministries hosted a zoom meeting with members of the Tucker First Mission team on the fourth Sunday. What a wonderful ministry!
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Please Be In Prayer for Our Missionaries
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Tyler and Shalynn Crawford
Tyler is a home-grown missionary having grown up at Tucker First. He and his wife are missionaries to college students through Christian Ministry Fellowship in Globalscope Germany. Tucker First missions program provides financial support to his ministry.
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Florence Kaying
Florence is a Global Ministries missionary in Mozambique working with women and children. Tucker First, through the UMC General Board of Global Missions, has established a covenant relationship with her. Additionally, our United Methodist Women also support Florence Kaying.
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Kabila Mukuni Claude A Mujil
Tucker First is supporting a seminary student in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who is attending Katanga Methodist University. His name is Kabilia Mukuini Clalude A Mujil and he is 29 years old and has BA in French and African Languages.
The University is also one of many schools supported by the General Board of Global Ministries.You can find out more by clicking on the photo.
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Tucker First UMC
5095 LaVista Road, Tucker, GA 30084
770-938-3030
Tucker First News is a publication of the Tucker First Missions Committee.
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