Outreach

Hope Center
Resurrection has served a monthly meal at Lexington’s HOPE Center for more than 10 years. We serve dinner on the fourth Friday evening each month from 5-6:00 p.m. We also purchase, cook and serve a Christmas Dinner to the guests of the HOPE Center. We are always looking for new volunteers to help with this ministry. If you would like to help, contact the Parish Office for information.

The Hope Center in Lexington, Kentucky, is a homeless shelter for adult men. It is also much more. In addition to providing food and shelter, the Hope Center operates a variety of programs that address the individual causes of homelessness and that return clients to responsible, independent lives.

Church Bus
Resurrection owns a 24-passenger bus that is used by other churches and organizations as well as for outreach/mission and diocesan-sponsored activities. The bus is clearly part of our identity as a church. With proper maintenance, this diesel-powered vehicle should continue to serve the church, the diocese, and other groups for many years to come.

Moveable Feast
Monday thru Friday, Moveable Feast volunteers deliver hot, fresh meals to people living with HIV/AIDS in the Central Kentucky area. Twice a week, clients receive bags of groceries that can provide one-third of their nutritional needs. Typically, grocery bags include items such as fresh fruits and vegetables, breads, and cereals.

For more than 7 years, The Church of the Resurrection has shared in this ministry by delivering hot meals on the third Friday night of each month and we are almost always short-handed!

Haiti - Our Companion Diocese
The Church of the Resurrection is deeply involved with our Diocese's Companion relationship with Haiti. The Rector is the Diocesan Co-Chair of the Committee and works to inform and invite the parish community to share this ministry. We have several people who have made trips, pilgrimages and/or medical mission trips to Haiti. Elizabeth Hunter, Lizeth Fowler, Michelle Chesser, and others have traveled there and done ministry with friends in Haiti.

Parishioner Ximena McCollum has served as the Director of the Annual 5K Walk/Run city-wide fundraiser: HOPE FOR HAITI 5K. Many of our parishioners, especially youth members have helped with this annual event to raise awareness of the needs in Haiti and to raise money in support of our Companion Diocese ministries. In 2005, the Broughton family hosted 8 Haitian guests to their home and we took them on our church bus to visit many sites in our diocese and throughout the state of Kentucky. Recently, our Vacation Bible School Director, Mary Beth Magyar focused our study on learning about our Diocesan relationship and ministry with Haiti.

Our mission is to encourage and facilitate the people of the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington in building relationships with the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti that lead to mutual understanding, prayer, care, and respect with an emphasis on the ministries of the University Episcopale D’Haiti at Port-au-Prince. We ask our parishioners to pray regularly for our Companion Diocese.