CURRENT SERVING OPPORTUNITIES

Do you love gardening? Consider joining the Weed Folk Team to help keep the grounds beautiful and inviting. The Buffalo Grove campus has been divided into areas and each needs a volunteer for weeding, watering and planting. Each volunteer can set their own schedule. Many thanks to those continuing to care for an area they adopted in prior years. If you are interested in helping at Buffalo Grove please contact Sue Entwistle at (224-612-2967 or Entwist@aol.com) or sign up in the Fireside Room. If you are interested in helping with the landscaping at the Deerfield campus please reach out to Mary Meyers at (630-222-1930 or mary2835@icloud.com) or Pat Lundquist.

During May, Sunday School students at the Buffalo Grove campus  will assemble "Summer Fun" bags for children whose parents /guardians visit the Food Pantry during the summer months.  Our Children's Ministry Team is looking for donations of the following:

Donations can be dropped off in the Fireside Room at Buffalo Grove through the end of April.  

The Mission Team invites all interested adults to travel to Mayfield, KY, June 8-15, to help with the continuing rehabilitation from a massive tornado in 2021. To learn more, we will hold aninformational meeting at the Deerfield campus on April 21 at 11:30 am and the Buffalo Grove campus on April 28 at 12 pm.

Habitat for Humanity in Lake County is hosting a faith build program that will last all of August, where various faith groups are working on building low-income housing. The Kingswood United Methodist Men’s group has signed Kingswood up for a workday on Saturday August 10, from 8 am to 3 pm. All church members are welcome to join us on that day. Being early in the month we’ll probably be doing framing, but that all depends on how the work progresses on earlier days. Habitat is limiting the size of the group to 12 people with the possibility to have another group on August 24, again limited to 12 people. You can sign up  for either day, but we encourage you to do it early so we can confirm to Habitat that we will have a crew on August 24.  Contact Norm Belew with questions.

The Food Pantry at the Buffalo Grove campus provides food on an emergency basis to families and individuals from Wheeling Township, which includes surrounding suburbs.  Through the generous donations of food items from Kingswood and other community members, we are able to serve 40-60 families each week.

PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) is a serving ministry of Kingswood Church, seeking to provide temporary shelter, meals, and support for our brothers and sisters without homes and housing.  We have opportunities to serve in both Buffalo Grove and Deerfield.