Serve Your City

Why Serve

Through Jesus, we experience freedom from living a self-centered life.  He enables us to see and meet the needs of others so that we can experience the joy of blessing others. God causes us to be eager to serve those in need. He continues to expand our hearts to care about an ever-widening range of people, needs, and injustices.

How We Serve

It is our desire to form relationships with those we serve. We go forth hoping to make friends and see ourselves as learners, in need of what those with different backgrounds and in different settings/circumstances have to teach us.  We see our benevolence ministry as one of reciprocity – we are gaining as much as we are giving and more often than not, we have found that we are the greatest beneficiaries. We go out into our city as treasure hunters looking for the treasure in others and, in the process, we are profoundly changed.

Jesus looked with compassion and did something. He is calling out to all of us to follow him.

“They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.” Gal 2:10

Opportunities to Serve

There are many ways to get involved in serving our city. You will work along-side other people from CF and many people from other churches in the following ministries:

Citywide

  • Love INC of Columbia
    Love, INC is a clearinghouse for churches to pool resources/strategize together to serve those in need in Columbia (Randy Hodill or Jane Williams at office@columbialoveinc.org 256-7662)
  • The Love Seat
    The Love Seat is operated by Love INC of Columbia and helps provide furniture to households in need

Children

Care and Concern

Homeless/Incarcerated

Internationals

  • Visit the Serve Your World page for information about how you can serve refugees and other internationals living in Columbia.