Missions & Compassion Ministry
Missions & Compassion Ministry
Overview
The Compassion Ministry was founded in 2015 with the following goals:
Thank you
Thank you to the congregation and our volunteers for your support of the Missions & Compassion Ministry. Missions & Compassion is grateful for your prayers, donations, time volunteering, and sharing with our neighbors. Let’s continue together to help those in need in our community.
Overview
The Missions & Compassion Ministry has six key ministries: Missions, Food Distribution, Compassion Cooking Teams, Grant Elementary School support, Unhoused Outreach and Community Outreach/Social Justice.
The Compassion Ministry was founded in 2015 with the following goals:
- To reconnect with people in the community at Japantown and San Jose area
- To rebuild the community together through love and justice
- To rejoice with our neighbors by sharing what we have to offer
- The idea that our downtown San Jose community should be better off because Wesley United Methodist Church is there and cares.
Thank you
Thank you to the congregation and our volunteers for your support of the Missions & Compassion Ministry. Missions & Compassion is grateful for your prayers, donations, time volunteering, and sharing with our neighbors. Let’s continue together to help those in need in our community.
Overview
The Missions & Compassion Ministry has six key ministries: Missions, Food Distribution, Compassion Cooking Teams, Grant Elementary School support, Unhoused Outreach and Community Outreach/Social Justice.
Missions:
Through our Missions ministry, we had 13 participants walk in the CROP Walk on May 17. The CROP Walk raises money to fight hunger worldwide. Wesley contributed over $4,000 in donations at this event. Missions & Compassion also held a Rise Against Hunger event on November 7. During this event, 60 volunteers helped package meals to be sent globally to underserved communities. Volunteers aided our Nichigobu by providing forty rolls of
maki-sushi for Day of Remembrance, a Japantown Nichomachi Outreach Committee annual event. Additionally, funds were sent to the missionaries to support their work in their communities.
Through our Missions ministry, we had 13 participants walk in the CROP Walk on May 17. The CROP Walk raises money to fight hunger worldwide. Wesley contributed over $4,000 in donations at this event. Missions & Compassion also held a Rise Against Hunger event on November 7. During this event, 60 volunteers helped package meals to be sent globally to underserved communities. Volunteers aided our Nichigobu by providing forty rolls of
maki-sushi for Day of Remembrance, a Japantown Nichomachi Outreach Committee annual event. Additionally, funds were sent to the missionaries to support their work in their communities.
Food Distribution:
Our Food Distribution ministry has experienced significant growth since it was established in March 2020. We established a partnership with Second Harvest and received our first delivery on March 24, 2023. This partnership ensures that families receive a consistent supply of essential items on a weekly basis. Compassion supplements any additional items that our neighbors need such as meat and eggs when they are unavailable through Second Harvest. We have been able to apply for grants through Second Harvest for gift cards for the supplemental food. Our dedicated volunteers diligently sort through the produce to ensure that only quality items are distributed to our neighbors in need.
Any unusable produce is discarded. Our neighbors in need include walk-ins, primarily elderly residents in our neighborhood, families from Grant Elementary School, as well as their friends and neighbors. Additionally, it extends to those facing homelessness at St. James Park.
Our Food Distribution ministry has experienced significant growth since it was established in March 2020. We established a partnership with Second Harvest and received our first delivery on March 24, 2023. This partnership ensures that families receive a consistent supply of essential items on a weekly basis. Compassion supplements any additional items that our neighbors need such as meat and eggs when they are unavailable through Second Harvest. We have been able to apply for grants through Second Harvest for gift cards for the supplemental food. Our dedicated volunteers diligently sort through the produce to ensure that only quality items are distributed to our neighbors in need.
Any unusable produce is discarded. Our neighbors in need include walk-ins, primarily elderly residents in our neighborhood, families from Grant Elementary School, as well as their friends and neighbors. Additionally, it extends to those facing homelessness at St. James Park.
Compassion Cooking Teams:
Our Compassion cooking teams prepare weekly meals to be distributed at St. James Park along with bags of food items for our unhoused neighbors. They have provided consistent meals throughout the year.
Our Compassion cooking teams prepare weekly meals to be distributed at St. James Park along with bags of food items for our unhoused neighbors. They have provided consistent meals throughout the year.
Grant Elementary School Support:
We are grateful for our relationship with Grant Elementary School. Our tutoring program continues to support students from our local community. During the school year, our tutors are able to support the intervention teachers by working with small groups of students. Our tutors have set up regular meetings with the staff at Grant Elementary to create a plan that makes the greatest impact on the students at the school.
Unhoused Outreach:
Each week we deliver a bag of specially selected items to our friends at St. James Park. These items include canned food with pull tops, soft fruits, snacks, juice and water. Additionally, during food distribution, a group of volunteers prepare a hot meal to distribute at the park. About 50 bags of food and hot meals are distributed every week to our unhoused neighbors.
We are grateful for our relationship with Grant Elementary School. Our tutoring program continues to support students from our local community. During the school year, our tutors are able to support the intervention teachers by working with small groups of students. Our tutors have set up regular meetings with the staff at Grant Elementary to create a plan that makes the greatest impact on the students at the school.
Unhoused Outreach:
Each week we deliver a bag of specially selected items to our friends at St. James Park. These items include canned food with pull tops, soft fruits, snacks, juice and water. Additionally, during food distribution, a group of volunteers prepare a hot meal to distribute at the park. About 50 bags of food and hot meals are distributed every week to our unhoused neighbors.
Community Outreach/Social Justice:
The Missions & Compassion ministry collaborates with PACT (People Acting in Community Together), an organization focused on addressing significant social issues. Mark Teagle is the Co-Chair of the Board. We had a group participate in the No Kings protest earlier in the year.
The Missions & Compassion ministry collaborates with PACT (People Acting in Community Together), an organization focused on addressing significant social issues. Mark Teagle is the Co-Chair of the Board. We had a group participate in the No Kings protest earlier in the year.
We are grateful for the support and collaboration that enable these ministries to exist. As we go into the new year, Missions & Compassion looks forward to new opportunities to show God’s love throughout the world.
Posted in Charge Conference 2026