GOD'S GLOBAL BARNYARD
This year the Sunday School offering will go toward the ELCA Good Gifts Fair. We will collect money to buy animals to provide food to eat, ferilizer to grow crops and offspring to sell on the market. With one gift, we can help a family escape the cycle of hunger and poverty for good.
FAITH FELLOWSHIP
Faith Fellowship is an outreach of The Arc of Story County. It is an ecumenical faith fellowship for older teens and adults with mental disabilities, their families, friends, and other volunteers. It's mission is to provide an atmosphere in which faith might be nourished and all participants might more fully experience the Christian Community. For questions please contact Pastor Tom at 515-233-2421 or glcpastortom@q.com. Gatherings are the 2nd Thursday of the month beginning again in the fall.
MISSIONARY SPONSORSHIP
GLC also provides prayer support and financial support to our missionaries. Our new family we are supporting are Dirk & Sarah Stadtlander serving in Dakar, Senegal.
20/20 Vision
In 2008, GLC became a Partnership Congregation with the Southeastern Iowa Synod in providing financial and other assistance starting 20 new congregations in 20 years! GLC has accepted a goal of $5000 to be fulfilled over three years.
ST. JOHN’S PARISH – GUYANA
GLC also provides prayer support and also supplies for the six congregations of St. John’s perish. This parish is served by Pastor Errol Inshanally. Pastor Inshanally was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana in 2008.
RIVERSIDE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP
We are part of the RLBC association. Riverside provides summer counselors who help us in our annual Vacation Bible School. We also support them with our prayers and financial support. We also do the upkeep for one of the cabins each year – Defender Cabin. GLC also provides financial camperships to everyone from GLC attending summer camping.
Riverside Lutheran Bible Camp is located just a couple of miles north of Story City.
BETHANY LIFE COMMUNITIES
We are one of twenty-four congregations that own Bethany Life Communities, which consist of a nursery home (Bethany Manor) and independent and assisted living units (Timberland Village). Al and Connie Bergman are our ambassadors to Bethany Life Communities. Several of our members live there. We provide prayer support, financial support, involved with the weekly chapel services, the Thursday Afternoon Program and Lunch in February, the Sunday Afternoon Coffee in November, and pushing wheel chairs so those in Bethany Manor can get to Sunday morning worship.
GOOD NEIGHBOR EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
In cooperation with several churches in Ames, we provide financial support to those in need. Good Neighbor provides the coordination of resources for all who are in need.
LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY
GLC is in partnership with several congregations in the Story City area providing food to those in need. We collect food items continually. Carol Peterson is our representative on the coordinating committee. Loaves and Fishes is located in Story City.
COMMUNITY AND WORLD OUTREACH
Each month GLC identifies one ministry which its supports with its prayers and financial support. Each Sunday the first $35 of loose change and other designated funds will go towards that ministry. In addition to those listed above we have provided funding to: ACCESS, Lutheran World Relief, ELCA’s Hunger Appeal, Prison Fellowship, Faith Fellowship, Friendship Ark, Arc of Story County, The Church of the Damascus Way Prison Ministry, CROP Church World Service, Heifer Project International, Emergency Residence Project, Lutheran Campus Ministry – ISU, and Bread for the World
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA
GLC provides prayer support, financial support, and in-kind support for this statewide agency of the three Iowa synods of the ELCA. We also collect caps and mittens and other items for the children each year.