Justice and Mission Matters (JAMM)

Our Missions/Ministries

Backpack Ministry at Cesar Chavez Elementary School.

Quilting Friends - quilts for children who need some extra love and comfort. Meets on the second Thursday of the month from 9am-3pm

Health Ministries Team - Providing resources, education, and programs that health to our minds, bodies, and souls.

Landsby Place - Packaging food from Food for Lane County

Prayer Shawl Ministry - We loving knot shawls to lift up folks who are facing difficult times. Each stitch is woven with love.

Mission Matters!

There is no doubt that justice and mission matter to the First United Methodist Church of Eugene, and this team is all about advancing that work.  We seek Justice, especially for those groups or causes that are downtrodden, or unable to successfully fend for themselves. Further, we identify mission opportunities that can direct the energy of the full congregation toward finding ways to assist those in need. We see social inequities every day on the streets of Eugene with the treatment of the homeless and the hungry.  It is our mission as given by Jesus Christ to reach out to and connect with oppressed people wherever they are.

Our Vision

To be the eyes and ears of our community, sensing places of pain, poverty, oppression, violence, and ecological ruin and their root causes. To create acts of mission, advocacy, and community transformation from what we see and hear and engage our people in these acts. To be in constant reflection on our experiences in order to discern what God calls us to do next.

Our Community Partners:

Refugee & Resettlement Coalition of Lane County

That’s My Farmer

Oregon Community Asylum Network

Community Supported Shelters

Shelter Care

St. Vincent dePaul

Disaster Relief (local and international)

Occupy Medical

NAACP

Centro Latino Americano

Hosea Youth Services

Hope and Safety Alliance (formerly Womenspace)