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Cokesbury Memorial United Methodist Church
Missions

Cokesbury takes a collection each month for one of the following missions. There is a line item in our budget to underwrite each monthly collection with $150.00.

January: The Fuel Fund of Maryland
February: Harford Homeless Shelter at Riverside (a project of the Faith Communities and Civic Agencies United)
March: Harford Family House (formerly Holy Family House) in Aberdeen
April: UMCOR
May: Suzanna Wesley House
June: FISH (local feeding program serving the Edgewood and Joppa area; Our Church School also collects nonperishable food for FISH every month)
July: Charlie Riley Community Service Scholarship Foundation
August: Big Brothers/Big Sisters -- Central Maryland (Two of our members work for the organization and two other members are Big Sisters. Others support the organization by using GoodSearch.com as their regular search engine.
September: The Fuel Fund of Maryland
October: UNICEF. Also, we distribute and collect trick-or-treat boxes for UNICEF.
November: FISH
December: United Methodist Church Board of Child Care


We collect coats and new white cotton underwear that we donate to the Chaplaincy Service at the Harford County Detention Center for distribution to needy inmates.
Also, we respond to various natural disasters and the like with special offerings as required.
In addition, our unit of the United Methodist Women has a number of mission projects.
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