Western Wake Crisis Ministry

WWCM helps our neighbors when they are in need of food, financial assistance, job search assistance and basic health screenings. You can help by donating food in the bin in our lobby, volunteering in the food pantry, or providing financial counseling or job search assistance. Volunteers receive training.

Bike Ministry

We accept donations of used bikes year-round and then hold workdays at the church where members fix, wash, and test ride the bikes so that they can be ridden again. Adults and children can volunteer together! Donate or receive a bike on second Sunday of each month from 12:30-1:30 pm. Additional bike event days will be announced in early Spring 2020. If you are interested in donating or receiving bikes, contact bikes@thepeakchurch.org.

Semillas de Unidad (Seeds of Unity)

Semillas provides tutoring for children in grades K through 8 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. The children are fluent in English, so you do not have to speak Spanish to volunteer. Volunteers receive training. Contact: denisse@fiestacristiana.org

Habitat for Humanity

The Peak will partner with Habitat for Humanity in Wake and Johnston counties to work on a new home development in Garner, about 30 minutes from The Peak. Tasks may vary based on weather, construction progress and other factors. No construction skills are required, nor are you required to bring your own tools. Skilled supervision will be on site. More info will be available closer to these dates. Contact: Phil Welch

Mental Health Ministry

The Peak Church works to eliminate barriers to mental health support, improve access to information for affected youths, peers, and families, and build strong peer support. ​Contact: The Peak’s Mental Health Ministry

Our sister churches, Fiesta Cristiana & Apex UMC, offer more ways to serve others. Consider participating in one of the following mission areas:

Apex Immigration Services

Organization: Apex Immigration Services
Website: www.apeximm.org
Contact: David Brown
Email: dbrown@apeximm.org

The Apex Immigration Services’ vision is to help immigrants and refugees build a better life for themselves and their families by enabling them to live and work in the United States as legal permanent residents or United States citizens. We accomplish this by providing a comprehensive source of information on immigration issues and immigrant rights, low-cost immigration legal services for the cases AIS can handle, and a referral network of additional resources for assistance beyond the scope AIS’ mission.

Feed the Kids

Organization: Feed the Kids
Contact: Jenn Orr
Email: jennorr01@gmail.com
Campus: Apex UMC

Feed the Kids was born out of a desire to leverage the work of local parents who were already invested in feeding kids in our area.  The movement was started by some local parents when they recognized that a few students in their children’s classroom, who had free and reduced food available during the week, had nothing on the weekends. We continue to work together to provide nutritious food and other basic necessities to disadvantaged students in Western Wake and Chatham County.

Methodist Home for Children

Organization: Methodist Home for Children
Website: https://www.mhfc.or

Based in Raleigh, the Methodist Home for Children works to ensure safe, nurturing homes for children while working to eradicate the social and family problems that lead to abuse, neglect, family disruption and abandonment. The Methodist Home for Children works with both residential and community-based services to provide some of the most vulnerable children in North Carolina with nurturing and safe homes in which they can imagine a future in which they’re equipped to succeed.

Adopt a Highway

Organization: Adopt a Highway
Website: https://www.ncdot.gov/programs/aah/
Contact: Chris Finch
Email: cfinchapex@earthlink.net
Campus: Apex

Clean up a stretch of Salem Street from the water tower to the Hwy. 64 overpass. Work days are announced in the bulletin and Crosspoints. This project is sponsored by the United Methodist Men, and our church as worked on this stretch of highway for over 25 years.

Appalachian Service Project

Organization: Appalachian Service Project
Website: https://www.asphome.org/
Contact: Jack Rosko
Email: jcrosko@gmail.com
Campus: Apex

While your home probably shelters you and your family from cold and wet weather, many Central Appalachian families experience fall’s damp chill, winter’s ice and snow, and spring’s showers quite differently. Help make their homes warmer, safer, and drier by volunteering in the fall, winter or spring at an Appalachia Service Project Center in Kentucky, Virginia or West Virginia.

Apex Outreach Service Project

Organization: Apex Outreach Service Project
Contact: Tanner Johnson
Email: tanner.johnson@apexumc.org
Campus: Apex UMC
Date: Third Week in July

The Apex Outreach Service Project (AOSP) provides the opportunity for youth and adult volunteers to serve God by serving others. For one week each summer, youth and adults from our family of faith communities make repairs on the homes of seniors in Apex and surrounding areas. Those who participate should be prepared to work hard and examine their Christian response to the needs of others. Typical work includes: painting, replacing siding, flooring, building ramps, etc. Volunteers stay at the Apex UMC Discipleship Center.

Habitat for Humanity El Salvador

Organization: Habitat for Humanity – El Salvador
Website: https://www.habitat.org/where-we-build/el-salvador
Contact: Bob Lempp
Email: blempp@gmail.com
Campus: Apex

AUMC volunteers travel to El Salvador to build homes with Volunteers in Missions or Habitat for Humanity El Salvador. Those on the mission work as part of an international team to help build homes for the poor. El Salvador is far away, but it is a place of great poverty and great need. A typical income is $4 per day. Many jobs can be seasonal and there is a great lack of opportunity. Between 1980 and 1992, a civil war killed 60,000 people; left thousands of children orphaned and further hurt the fragile economy. The economic conditions are further complicated by natural disasters. In 1998, Hurricane Mitch caused extensive flood damage and in 2001, a series of devastating earthquakes caused widespread destruction of housing. Right now, there is a need for 500,000 homes.

Paper with a Purpose

Organization: Paper with a Purpose
Contact: Lori Fahs
Email: lori.fahs@sbcglobal.net
Campus: Apex

Paper with a Purpose gathers monthly in the Fellowship Hall to make cards to be used by prison ministries such as MATCH and Pardoned by Christ (and other organizations). No card making experience necessary.

Prom Shoppe

Organization: Prom Shoppe
Contact: Stacy Kivett
Email: stacy.kivett@gmail.com
Campus: Apex

The Prom Shoppe, an outreach ministry of the Apex UMC Family of Faith Communities, works to alleviate the financial burden of a prom dress during difficult economic times. The shop provides prom dresses — as well as shoes, jewelry and accessories — to area teens. It serves the entire Wake and Chatham County areas.

Family Promise

Organization: Family Promise (WIHN)
Website: http://www.wihn.org/
Contact: Pam Keenan
Email: pkeenan58@yahoo.com
Campus: Apex

Family Promise (formerly Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network) is a nonprofit corporation that responds to the needs of homeless families in Wake County. The specific purpose of Family Promise is to provide temporary stability to homeless families as they work toward permanent independence. Apex UMC hosts up to five families in the CLC four times a year, for a week each time. In order to have successful host weeks, we need to have approximately 50 volunteers to help in the following areas: setup/take-down, overnight host, evening host, van drivers, laundry crew and dinner host.

Youth Engaged in Service (YES)

Organization: Youth Engaged in Service (YES)
Contact: Tanner Johnson
Email: tanner.johnson@apexumc.org
Campus: Apex UMC

YES (Youth Engaged in Service) is a mission weekend developed specifically for the middle school youth of our faith communities. It is designed to be an introduction to mission work – why we do it, for whom we do it and how we do it. Participants will experience the same things they can expect to encounter during more intense, week-long projects like AOSP and ASP, but in a condensed timeframe. All 6th-8th grade youth are eligible. Work projects will range from landscaping to childcare to working at a local food pantry.

Zoe Ministries

Organization: Zoe Ministries
Website: https://wearezoe.org/
Contact: Ellen Daniels
Email: tudortower@bellsouth.net
Campus: Apex

The ZOE Ministry’s Giving Hope Empowerment Project is about community-building, empowering lives, and God-sized dreams. The core focus of Giving Hope is to empower orphans and child-headed families in Africa to become self-sufficient in 2-3 years so they will not require lifelong assistance from outside relief programs. The program brings them back into both their local communities and into the loving, nurturing body of Christ.

While they learn and grow in the Giving Hope program, an annual investment of about $300 per family for 2-3 years yields life-giving change for generations to come. By the end of 2014, ZOE hopes to have 28,000 children active in a ZOE empowerment program in Africa, India and Guatemala. Apex UMC has the opportunity to change lives and futures of thousands of suffering children. Please consider linking hearts and resources with ZOE Ministry as we all work together to care for some of the most vulnerable children on the face of the earth.

Ministry of Bridges

Organization: Ministry of Bridges
Contact: Sandi Velez
Phone Number: 919-441-7588
Campus: Fiesta Cristiana

Bridges seeks to serve individuals in the triangle that are in prison through studies, classes, workshops, and special events. It also seeks to help people to reintegrate into society.