Opportunities to Serve
In Our Community
Food Cupboard
People from Pearce, Pearce 4 Kids, and our community provide a supply of nonperishable food and personal care items to over 1,000 individuals each year through our Food Cupboard. A great team of volunteers, combined with generous donations, make this outreach to families in need possible.
Contact: pearce@pearcechurch.org
The Backpack Program
In partnership with local community organizations, Pearce provides food-insecure children in our community with food for the weekend when they aren’t in school.
Contact Sue Smout.
The Hygiene Hub
Our mission is to provide personal hygiene products and support to individuals, families and students in the Chili and Churchville community in such a way that uplifts them both inside and outside.
The Hygiene Hubs is open the 1st Tuesday of every month from 6:30-7:30pm.
For more information contact our Outreach Pastor.
Coffee & Jesus
Every Thursday morning members from Pearce partner with our sister church, Heart & Soul, to serve the North Clinton Neighborhood with a warm cup of coffee, a light meal, and a friendly smile. Beyond providing food, we seek opportunities to encourage, pray, and share the light of Jesus with those we meet.
Contact the Outreach Pastor for more details.
Family Promise
FamilyPromise, formally known as Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network or RAIHN, works with churches in Rochester who host homeless families one week every quarter or support the congregations that do host. While volunteer opportunities are limited, we need our community now more than ever. Check here to learn about Family Promise and how you can help this organization meet the needs of some of the most vulnerable families in our community.
Contact our Outreach Pastor.
Thanksgiving Community Food Ministry
Each year, we join with other location churches and organizations to provide boxes of food to families in our community for Thanksgiving. Thank you for your generosity!
New Hope Immigration Legal Services
New Hope Free Methodist Church, in the city of Rochester, is providing low-cost Immigrant Legal Services to help new residents navigate the confusing world of forms and government applications.
For more information click here.
Here at Pearce
Tech
We have an amazing Tech Team who make sure our worship services are meaningful to everyone, both in-person and online. Some positions require expertise, but some are perfect for anyone willing to learn. Training is provided.
Contact: kovach_brian@pearcechurch.org
Food Cupboard
Our Food Cupboard Team works together to help provide a generous supply of food for over 1,000 individuals each year. Volunteers and donations from our church family and community help make this outreach possible. We also join with FoodLink throughout the year to offer a Mobile Food Pantry, providing perishable food items to anyone who needs them.
Contact: pearce@pearcechurch.org
Food Service
Our Food Service Team prepares and serves food for events at Pearce, from full sit-down dinners to cookie receptions. There’s something cooking every day!
Contact: catering@pearcechurch.org
Snow Removal
Our Snow Removal Team of volunteers helps to shovel snow and apply ice melt around our building and parking lots. If you love Winter, like to be out in the weather, or just want to help make Pearce a safe and welcoming place, this might be the opportunity for you!
Contact: pearce@pearcechurch.org
Meal Train Ministry
Our Meal Train Ministry team serves those in our church family who need a helping hand during challenging times with providing meals. Click the link to be part of this great team!
Contact:Wendy Strong
Around the World
JR & Becky Crouse | Ecuador
JR serves as the field coordinator for VISA teams for much of the Latin America Area. He also works with the Ecuadorian churches in exploring creative ways to bless and impact their communities, particularly through agriculture and creation care initiatives. Becky assists with Christian education training and is part of a team of writers for the Latin America Area website. Both are working alongside the Ecuador Free Methodist Church in Community Church Planting.
The Andersons | Young Life Central & Eastern Europe
The Andersons lead the Young Life work in six countries in this area, training and developing national staff and leaders to reach out to young people in their local cities and towns, and developing new ministries in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Chris & Yuko Wilkins | Japan
The Wilkins minister in preaching, teaching, discipling, beseeching; to the Church, in the home, and in the street, wherever we meet! Acts 17:17, II Timothy 2:2, Matthew 28:20, II Corinthians 5:20.
A Couple Serving in the Middle East
Serving as the Director of International Development and administering the sponsorship program for new immigrants. They serve with Bridges for Peace.
Linked with Love
Linked with Love is Pearce’s partnership with the Nzige Preschool: located on a hilltop in southeastern Rwanda, Africa. Pearce families are asked to consider making a commitment to sponsor a child from the school. To date, more than 100 children in Nzige have been sponsored by families at Pearce, but there are still children waiting for sponsors.
