Congregational Care
Resurrection is blessed to be filled with people who love and care for one another. Our Caring Visits Ministers are trained members of our community who go out into the world to bring Holy Communion, prayer, and faithful companionship to in our community who cannot make it to worship in person either because they are bound to their home, or because they are in the hospital. Their ministry of presence bears witness to Christ's light outside the walls of the church, in the lives of God's people.
If you would like to recieve vists from a Caring Visits Minister, or if you feel that God is calling you to become a Caring Visits Minister, please contact Pastor Wyatt here.
There is nothing quite like receiving a handwritten and handmade card from someone who cares about you. Resurrection Card Writing Ministers write and make cards for all manner of occasions, and send them to people in our community. It is our way of caring for our community and reminding them that God loves them. If you feel that God is calling you to become a Card Writing Minister, whether you have any experience with card writing and making, or not, please contact Pastor Wyatt here.
Coping With Grief, is a ministry to people dealing with a significant loss in their lives. This is a 9-week course that meets weekly. The class is limited to 6 participants. However, if there is a larger group than 6, a second group will be scheduled for 6 pm the same day. These sessions are offered quarterly.
This group provides a support community for people caring for loved ones with cognitive decline (Dementia, Alzheimers). The group will be reading and discussing ‘The Dementia Care Partner’s Workbook’ by Edward G. Shaw, MD, MA.
The Helping Hands Ministry offers free maintenance on simple home projects for anyone in the community. Simply click below or call the church office at 520-575-9901.
If you have a special skill that you would like to share with your church family, you are invited to become a Helping Hands Minister. If you are interested in learning a new skill while serving your church community, you are invited to become a Helping Hands minister. There is no experience needed! If you would like to become a Helping Hands Minister, simply click below or call the church office at 520-575-9901.
Holy Grounds is the ministry that provides coffee and doughnut holes after worship on Sunday mornings!
This support group provides encouragement from meeting with others who have Parkinson’s disease. The meetings provide an opportunity to discuss experiences and feelings and to share solutions to common problems.
Consider sharing your gifts of hospitality by serving as an Altar Care Assistant, Usher, or Communion Assistant!
Community Care
The church provides a location for the American Red Cross to use for blood donations. Please read the Vision or This Week for dates.
Anna Lawrence is a 3-8 school on the southwest side of Tucson. Resurrection volunteers work with school staff and the Comm. Food Bank of So. AZ to provide dry goods, produce, and bread to an average of 140 families as part of each of the 15 or so pantry days we operate during a school year. Anyone interested in knowing more should contact Jerry_Olson36@msn.com
WHY WE DO IT
Casas por Cristo exists to open the door for local pastors and churches to share the love of Jesus Christ by serving.
WHAT WE DO
Our mission is to build and serve.
Build
We are builders. That’s who we are. We build homes for families that need to be reminded that Jesus loves them. We build relationships between volunteers, families, and pastors that would otherwise never have met. We strive to build the Kingdom of God by partnering with other local churches and ministries. We strive to build opportunities for growth by creating structured experiences that cause our volunteers to be stretched beyond their comfort zones.
Serve
Through this building process, God allows us to interact with our teams, local families, pastors, churches, vendors, and fellow missionaries. We do not want to take any of these interactions for granted. We believe that these are unique opportunities presented to us by God to serve each other.
The team members of this ministry arrange receptions for the families and friends of loved ones who have passed away.
Please contact the church office at 520-575-9901 or email rlc@orovalley.org to volunteer.
Lutheran Campus Ministry at U of A
Future Leaders in Ministry: Hosts annual golf tournament where proceeds help defray costs of seminary tuition for future ELCA Pastors.
Members of the group knit or crochet prayer shawls, which are given to members, families of our members, or others in need of comfort.
Primavera Foundation now provides:
- Emergency shelter and services through a men’s shelter, a women’s shelter, a scattered-site family shelter and two day drop-in centers
- Participation in coordinated entry through Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness (TPCH) with homelessness intervention and prevention and rapid rehousing
- Transitional housing
- Safe, affordable housing at 11 properties with 145 units
- Community building and engagement through gardens, public policy education and convenings
- Workforce development through Primavera Works, a temporary staffing agency
- Homeownership and financial education classes and workshops.
This ministry supports the Primavera Men's Shelter in Tucson. Empty orange prescription pill bottles with removed labels are collected. The Shelter uses the bottles to distribute toiletries such as shampoo and soap.
The pill bottles are collected in the church office at the Oro Valley Campus.
The members of this group meet twice a month to prepare quilts for veterans, babies, and other charities who can use the quilts.
Meeting Date: September through May on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.
Meeting Time: 10 AM to 2 PM
Location: Music Room in the Sanctuary Area at the Oro Valley Campus
Contact: Marguerite Hepner at 520-797-7311