Community Outreach
Sudanese Children Education Ministry:
This outreach ministry provides educational funds for children in Sudan to go to boarding school in Kenya. This is a way that Sudanese children who live in villages and towns where there are no schools to be educated. These children will return as Christian leaders for their communities.
Red Cross Blood Bank:
Help when the Red Cross Blood mobile comes to St. Martha’s about four times a year. Serve cookies and juice or what ever.
Food Pantry Volunteers:
Our church furnishes help to the Dean Fricke pantry. People are always need to be trained and either take over a regular time or substitute for others. It involves sacking groceries for the needy. You can also help by bringing your used paper bags and leaving them under the table in the back of the sanctuary.
Nursing Home Ministry:
Each September St. Martha’s does services in the early afternoon at the Papillion Manor. Prayer, hymns, short homily and fellowship.
Daughters of the King:
This is a lay order for women interested in prayer and service. Meetings are once a month. A twelve – lesson training period is necessary before taking vows, but anyone interested in the Order or any specific program is welcome to come to meetings whenever they wish.
Daughters of the King is a lay order for women who are interested in prayer and service. Meetings are held once a month. A twelve lesson training period is necessary before a new member can take the vows of membership. Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend meetings to learn more of the order. Call the office at 402 331-1564 for more information.
Crop Walk:
In October, all the churches in Papillion join in this walk for the poor of the world. Watch the bulletin for announcements. There are other things to do besides walking.
Boy Scout Troop 461:
Boys ages 11-17, they work on character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness, working on character building.
Millennium Development Goals
The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the
commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's
main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction,
education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality,
AIDS and other diseases.
