Blue Mountain Community Church Community Care & Benevolence Ministries

Our Mission is to help our generation come to know, love, and serve Jesus by meeting their needs in the physical realm , share the Gospel with them and draw them into the kingdom of God!

Our Vision is to be the extension of God's hands to meet the financial, spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of the body of Christ at Blue Mountain Community Church. Also, we are to be a loving, yet uncompromising witness to our community of God's faithful saving nature!! This is the way the early church made sure that no one was in need in the Body of Christ. Acts 2:37-47

Our ministry is based on three scriptures:

I John 3:15 - "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and truth.

James 1:22 -"Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only!"

Colossians 3:23 - "Whatsoever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not unto men!!

Those who serve in this ministry are active in the following ways:


1. Serve those in need

        Pantry & grocery supplies for those in need

        Help those recuperating from operations, childbirth,
hospitalization, etc.

o       Prepare meals, clean, childcare

        Visit the hospitalized and shut-in

        Provide Occasional Transportation

o       Church

o       Shopping

o       Job hunting

o       Doctor, dentist

o       Government assistance

o       Appointments

2. Are encouraged and supported to minister at scheduled equipping gatherings.


3. Are available to help small group leaders in meeting the needs of the body!!

        Blue Mountain Community Church members convey their physical needs to their small group leader, who in turn contacts the appropriate persons in the Community Care or Benevolence Ministries for the help needed. Anyone in need and not attending a small group would make an appointment to share their need with the Pastor.

        Remember, the Lord loves you and wants you to be able to say "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want" (Ps. 32:1)

Specific Areas of the Ministry:

1.      Community Care Cards, Visits, Phone calls , encouragement to the hurting of our Body.

2.      Food Pantry. The Body of Blue Mountain Community Church brings food items weekly to share with those who are in need of food. Worshippers place these donations on a table in the back of the sanctuary on Sunday morning. The food items are then stored in the food pantry until needed. Pease bring non-perishables only.

        Sue Schaffer

3.      CACPAC -(Christian Action Council of Palmerton Area Churches). Blue Mountain Community Church is a member of this group of Palmerton area churches that is organized to help meet various needs in the community. They have a food pantry, furniture bank , and financial help is available to those in need!!! They also organize National Day of Prayer, Community Worship Services, and other community/church events.

4.      Decorating, serving, ordering paper products for dinners, making charts for dinners.

        Pat Eckhart

5.      Wedding consultant and decorating

        Cindy Lafaw

Financial Aid

1. A request for financial aid must first be given to the small group leader

2. The small group leader consults with the small group coaches

3.To receive financial aid more than once, counseling is required and a budget will be set up for individuals in need.

4.The small group leader will talk to the person weekly to encourage them to live within their budget.

5. When someone new to the church asks for financial aid, it will be explained to them that we like to help folks through their small group, that financial counseling is available, and that both small group attendance and financial counseling will be required for financial help a second time.