Churches Change the World in Lakewood

Lakewood and Cove United Methodist Churches participated once again in the CHANGE THE WORLD Event.  CHANGE THE WORLD is an annual event that the United Methodist Church promotes  by encouraging congregations to participate in simple acts of kindness to build community locally and to fight malaria globally.

For the second year in a row, we had over 80 youth, adults and children who worked on 15 projects throughout our community, Lakewood Ohio.  The church collaborated with local community development organization, LakewoodAlive and City of Lakewood through the Department of Aging, as well as others to identify houses that needed extra care.  The projects included, mowing, weeding, tree cutting, pruning, yard clean up, planting flowers, painting a garage, debris clean up, painting a porch, porch repairs, and other minor repairs.

Many of the homeowners were elderly having a difficult time caring for the yards;  others were for families who were simply in difficult situations and needed some extra hands.  The goal of this project was to simply go out into the community and begin to change the world right in our own back yard through simple acts of kindness, hard work and some sweat!

Lakewood United Methodist Church will continue its effort to reach out into the community for the second year with our Faith in the Neighborhood Project.  This summer we will spend 4 days painting and doing minor repairs and yard work on a home. This project will once again be done in collaboration with LakewoodAlive.

If you are interested in learning more about the United Methodist Church or participating in our outreach programs contact Pastor Laura Jaissle  pastorlkj@gmail.com or 216-226-8644.

Check out the photos from Change the world event:    https://www.facebook.com/lkwdumc

We encourage other groups to continue to join in and collaborate with LakewoodAlive to continue to make a difference in our community.   Please contact Laura Krawczyk

Housing Outreach Coordinator  at Lakewood Alive to volunteer today! 216.521.1554 lkrawczyk@lakewoodalive.com