Ways to Give
1. Give Online through our secure online portal or via PayPal. On the giving portal, you can set up a one-time gift or a recurring gift, using your bank account or via a debit card.
2. Text-2-Give: Send a text to 570 – 260 – 3535 with the amount you would like to contribute. Make sure to include the dollar sign before the amount. (Example: $25) Within a few minutes, you’ll be sent a text with a link to register. Click on the link and enter your cardholder name and debit card information. Once your registration is complete, you will receive a text verification and a receipt via email. For future giving, simply send a text with the amount you wish to give, and it will process automatically.
3. Traditional Offering: You can fill out a check or give cash into the baskets at any Sunday service. There is also a monthly envelope mail service you can sign up for by contacting the church office at 570 – 322 – 3572.
4. Amazon Smile: is a website operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features as on Amazon.com. The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the charitable organizations selected by customers. How does AmazonSmile work? When first visiting AmazonSmile, customers are prompted to select a charitable organization (First United Methodist Church) from almost one million eligible organizations.
Second Mile Giving
January & February: Shepherd of the Streets
The Shepherd of the Streets Ministry is often the first responder for persons in financial need. The ministry provides for: clinical pastoral counseling, bedding and hygiene items, medical transportation assistance, medical, dental, and visual assistance referrals.
March & April: International Justice Mission
In Ghana, children as young as three are enslaved in the fishing industry, forced to do hard and dangerous work to earn a profit for their masters. IJM works to free these children and to bring those in the slave trade to justice.
May & November: Dwell Orphan Care
Dwell Orphan Care exists to support foster and adoptive families in Lycoming County, PA and beyond, so that children have a safe, loving, forever home in which to dwell.
June: Expectations
Expectations provides a variety of pregnancy and relationship services to expectant mothers and fathers. These services include pregnancy testing program, ultrasound program, healthy pregnancy classes, labor and birth courses, healthy marriage/relationship program, adoption education, and other programs to assist parents.
July & August: Local Mission Efforts / Community Outreach
TRANSFORM is our local mission experience where we offer the tangible love of Jesus in our community through house projects and building relationships.
September: Helping Hand
This fund is to provide emergency assistance to those in our community who are experiencing economic crisis or difficulty.
October & December: Family Promise
Family Promise of Lycoming County (FPLC) equips families to break the cycle of homelessness. They seek to build a society in which every family has a safe home, a sustainable livelihood and the opportunity to build a better future for themselves and their community.