The Garden Ministry has allowed members to honor God in a very special way. Each person has adopted a section of the church’s gardens or landscape to nurture and oversee its care.
As a result, beautiful flowers, trees, and shrubs surround His house of worship, giving God the honor and glory for all of nature and His creation.
Our Support Ministry works with several local organizations supporting individuals and families. Organizations we sponsor include Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
Each year Camp Chapel conducts a Blessing of the Animals service in the fall. Pet owners from the congregation and also from the surrounding community participate, and all are welcome.
We present each pet with a certificate of blessing and a St. Francis Prayer card.
Camp Chapel would be pleased to pray for a special need you may be facing today or a special joy that has touched your life. If you would like to submit a prayer request online, please fill out the form below and we will pray for you. For confidentially last names are not needed.
Each week prayer requests are gathered and lifted up at our Sunday services. This year we have had several healing services, a “praying for our nation” service, and a prayer service dedicated to children and youth. We have also started a Circle of Prayer in which we will lift up your joy or concern. We hope this offers added spiritual support and caring to those who need it.
United Methodist Volunteers In Mission (UMVIM) is a grassroots movement within The United Methodist Church designed to provide an official channel for volunteer service.
Through UMVIM, Christians (lay and clergy) can offer their skills and talents for service in their home country and around the world on short-term assignments at their own expense. Camp Chapel has supported teams who helped restore homes damaged by natural disasters in New York, West Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana, New Jersey and Maine. Camp Chapel also participates in the Baltimore County Christian Work Camp bcchristianworkcamp.org which supports needy families in the area.
The Churches for Streets of Hope (CSOH) is a 501C that was created by several dedicated Christians 10 years ago when several men In Essex froze to death in the streets. More than 30 churches support CSOH.
In addition to supplying and serving meals on the 14th of each month, the Camp Chapel furniture ministry has supplied multiple CSOH clients with furniture and household goods. The congregation of Camp Chapel had also been very generous by supplying warm coats in the winter, gift cards for Christmas gifts and many other donations.
Camp Chapel also sends a monthly stipend to CSOH that goes into a specific fund that supplies funds for security deposit and first month rent as the clients are able to move into housing.
Our Pillow Ministry volunteers have supplied heart-shaped pillows since December, 2000, to patients recovering from heart surgeries at Union Memorial Hospital and lung and thoracic surgeries at Franklin Square Hospital. We extended our project to making rectangular-shaped TLC pillows to help patients at Franklin Square Hospital who were healing from abdominal and cesarean section surgeries.
To date, we have touched over 20,000 patients with our pillows! This simple act of kindness has brought joy to people recovering from invasive surgeries while helping to ease their pain and we believe our pillows spread God’s love in a caring, practical way.
When moving from homelessness into a new home, families can often end up living in a nearly empty house. This community outreach ministry provides gently-used, donated furniture to recently relocated homeless families and individuals in the Baltimore and Baltimore County areas
Items we accept for donation include:
Dressers, dining room tables and chairs, sofas, coffee tables, end tables, chairs/recliners, nightstands, lamps, rugs, small appliances in working order (toaster, microwave, vacuum cleaner, fan, etc.), housewares (dishes, cookware, eating and cooking utensils, cups, glasses, etc.), and clean linens and bedding (towels, washcloths, sheets, blankets, and comforters).
Donated items must be “gently used” or in good enough condition that you would feel comfortable giving to a friend or family member that you will see again. Rugs and upholstered furniture MUST come from smoke and pet free households.
Our ministry works directly with referring social service agencies. Please have your social worker or case worker complete the Client Authorization Form and return the completed form to the church office. The form can be submitted online using the submit button at the bottom or downloaded, scanned, and emailed to the office (office@campchapel.org).
Camp Chapel started collaborating with Perry Hall United Methodist Church’s Food Pantry in February 2019. The pantry accepts contributions not only from members of both churches, but also from people in the community, the Maryland Food Bank, and donation bins in local supermarkets. This mission is not part of Perry Hall UMC’s nor Camp Chapel UMC’s budget; it relies solely on those generous gifts and donations. More than 100 families in Baltimore County receive needed food every month. Many of these families live in the Perry Hall/White Marsh area and range from children to seniors. The pantry also partners with the Maryland Food Bank twice a year for large food distributions. These events happen in spring and fall, and typically help feed about 200 families.
You can support this ministry in a couple of ways. One is to contribute non-perishable items. Please contact the church office at 410-256-5561 for drop off instructions. The other is to volunteer your time at the food distribution site at Perry Hall United Methodist Church.
Food items always in need:
Vacation Bible School is held the week following July 4 each year Monday through Friday from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm.
The brightest week of the summer.
Interactive theme based scriptural lessons presented each day.
