Care and Serve
The members of Prince of Peace are very generous in both time and money towards our Social Ministry mission. We offer a variety of service projects for members to participate in and we support many organizations through donations of goods, time and money.
Our ministry focuses on three areas: Congregational Concerns, Local Concerns and Global Concerns.
Congregational Concerns
Prince of Peace members work together to provide meals for families in our congregation who are sick or coming home from the hospital. In addition to our Pastors, Prince of Peace also has lay members who visit shut-ins and those in the hospital as well as providing rides and other help for members during times of need.
Caring for Creation is important to members of Prince of Peace. Our congregation members tend a community garden, buy clean wind energy for our church building, and our Creation Care Team helps to educate members on ways they can better care for the creation God has given us.
Local Concerns
Prince of Peace works actively with Gaithersburg HELP by providing volunteers, food and budget support. Gaithersburg HELP provides emergency assistance to families in the Gaithersburg area. Its largest function is providing food, but it also provides financial and prescription assistance in transportation to medical appointments and social service agencies, helps pay for prescriptions, matches , provides guidance on other public programs, and contributes to the Upper Montgomery Assistance Network.
Prince of Peace members work with Habitat for Humanity and Thrivent to renovate foreclosed homes in Montgomery County. When finished, the homes will be sold to a needy families through Habitat for Humanity. This is one of the ways we’re working together to provide direct help to our local neighbors.
School supplies and backpacks are provided by Prince of Peace members each year in preparation for the new school year. To do this, we work with Interfaith Works, a community ministry of Montgomery County which each year provides nearly 3000 needy children with essential supplies to help them learn and grown.
National and Global Concerns
The ELCA World Hunger Appeal is one of the ways we act together to help those throughout the world who are need of food. ELCA World Hunger improves the lives of people in need in the United States and around the world by providing relief for people in poverty, assisting communities, advocating for changes in laws and educating members of the ELCA. Prince of Peace donates money and makes additional appeals for the collection of change and educates our members.
We love coffee and we love our neighbors who grow it! So, Prince of Peace participates in the Fair Trade Coffee Project , which ensures that more of the money we spend on coffee reaches the farmers who actually grow it. Fair trade coffee is a simple solution that means the difference - quite literally - between surviving and not surviving for small-scale coffee farmers.
Quilters gather each Tuesday at Prince of Peace to make quilts which are donated through Lutheran World Relief and Church World Service. These quilts are used for a variety of purposes and are distributed to victims of natural disasters thoughout the United States and the world.