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Methodist Early Learning Preschool

 

Capital City Taekwon Do

 

Boy Scouts Troop 1

 

Thorpe Gordon Elementary Mentoring Program

First United Methodist Church is a Partner in Education with Thorpe Gordon Elementary School, providing approximately 30 mentors who spend one hour a week with a assigned students. The program also provides supplies and food Backpack Buddies. Children are sent home with food for the weekend and they also receive school supplies at the beginning of the school year. Dee Dee Shelton coordinates the mentoring program for FUMC, however you can also contact Jana Fox at jfox@jcfumc.org for more information.

YMCA LifeLine for Senior Fitness

Tired of being tired? Want to get up and do something? Want to meet some new people who, like you, are looking for a boost in their life? Know you need to do something but just don't know what to do?

Experienced mentors welcome you, show you the "how tos" of fitness, provide realistic feedback on how you are doing while monitoring your workouts, all in a non-threatening, supportive environment.

Classes are held every Monday and Wednesday from 10:00 to 11:00a.m. in the Discovery Center on the Upper Level Discovery Zone Room 360. These classes are open to older adults.

A Brief Description of the Classes you may experience in the LifeLine program:

Basic Exercise Class:

A very low impact class to improve cardiovascular health, strength, flexibility, balance and coordination. Exercise tubing which is provided may be used.

Circuit Train:

A low impact intensity class that will elevate the heart rate to stimulate caloric burn. Light hand weights will be utilized to increase/maintain upper body strength and muscle tone. All movements are performed while keeping a minimum of one foot on the ground.

Flexibility:

Provides a link between sedentary lifestyle and an active lifestyle. It keeps you flexible and helps prevent common injuries; reduces muscular tension; is peaceful, relaxing and noncompetitive.

Food 4 Kids

This is an ecumenical program providing lunches for community children who may otherwise not have much food to eat during the summer months when school is not in session.

Upward Basketball

Upward is a Christian-based basketball and cheerleading league. The season is from the first part of January through the beginning of March. There are teams and cheer squads for 1st through 8th graders. Contact Chris Abel at cable@jcfumc.org or Jerry Kelly at jkelly@jcfumc.org for more info or visit the national Upward website at www.Upward.org.

Afghans for Angels

"Afghans for Angels" is a ministry made up completely of volunteers who make and distribute handmade baby blankets to all hospitals in Missouri to give to parents who have suffered the loss of their infant through miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death.

Why Do We Do This?

The death of a child, whether by miscarriage or later on, is a totally devastating event in a parent's life. While this is sometimes a very difficult subject to speak of, it does happen nonetheless.

Our "Afghans for Angels" are placed lovingly around these infant angels when they are held by their families for the brief time in which bittersweet hellos and sad goodbyes are said. The parents are then allowed to keep these afghans as a token of remembrance of their baby. Just having something soft to hold is often comforting.

How Can You Help?

"Afghans for Angels" is always looking for more volunteers to help create these blanket gifts. If you can knit, crochet, quilt, or creatively decorate purchased blankets, we would love to have your help. Any donations of yarn in baby colors, or soft quilting materials to make blankets and monetary donations to help with postage costs are also very much appreciated.

If you would like more information contact Falba Core, Missouri Director for Afghans for Angels, at 2104 St. Mary's Blvd, Jefferson City, MO 65109 or call (573) 634-2136.