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Ionia First United Methodist Church
Services & Missions
Ionia First United Methodist Church supports many community services,
as well as national and international missions.
Missions for March
Lane 3
(Personal Energy Transportation)
(Click this link to watch a short video about our missions)
At our West Michigan Annual Conference, our church received the Helen Smith Hunger Award. This award recognizes one mid-size church in our conference who is outstanding in working to fight hunger in our community and around the world.
It is truly impressive that Ionia First has provided a weekly Soup Kitchen in Ionia for 16 years and collected the most funds for the Crop Walk for so long that we’ve lost track! So rejoice! Press on! It is clear that Ionia First has been a leader in mission giving and how the Conference knows about it, too!
CLICK HERE for a video of the presentation
Habitat for Humanity
Ionia Area Habitat for Humanity is a Christian housing ministry. Their goal is to build homes with families and sell houses at cost and no interest to families who are in need.
Ionia First Pastor Larry Brown is on the board of this organization.
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Soup Kitchen
Since 1991 Ionia First has made and served a wholesome community dinner once a week in our Fellowship Hall.
All are welcome to join us every Monday night at 6 PM.
To volunteer to help in this program contact:
Joan MacDonald
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Food Pantry
We at Ionia First, along with many other local churches and organizations, donate food and funds to this important group.
Housed at our sister church, Zion United Methodist Church, the Ionia Food Pantry helps to meet the nutritional needs of our community.
 The pantry is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30
For More information call: 616-527-1910
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Christian Service Center
Located on Main St. here in Ionia
(next to the Ionia Theatre)
The Christian Service Center distributes clothing and household items to the community.
 Ionia First helps to staff center every fourth Wednesday of the month.
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 The Friends of Jesus Fund was established in response to local churches in Ionia that were unable to assist with the expensive needs present in the community.
Further difficulty came in determining the legitimacy of individual needs.
Without wanting to abdicate the individual churches God-given responsibility to care for the needy, this fund was created so the faith community could band together to meet greater needs.
EightCAP’s experience in doing adequate screening and needs assessment was welcomed as no individual church felt qualified for this work.
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Ionia First
United Methodist Church
105 East Main St
Ionia, Michigan
48846
Phone: 616-527-1860
Fax: 616-527-1780
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BIBLE VENTURES
GENESIS GENESIS GENESIS
We are zooming along through Genesis with our preschoolers through 5th graders! They have learned so much about the people God taught lessons to in the Old Testament. We’ve learned that those people can teach US lessons too. We’ve also seen how God was with people back then and that He promises to be with us.
Now we are headed into learning about Jacob (we’ve already learned about Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah and the rest of the family). Jacob had a twin brother, Esau, and things weren’t always smooth between them, to say the least! So he had LOTS of adventures that got him into LOTS of trouble. But, you know what? God was with him through it all! When he did good things and when he did bad things. God NEVER gave up on Jacob and...He won’t give up on us! If you’d like to read his story, try reading Genesis 25:19 through Genesis 35. I know it is long, that is why it is taking almost a month and a half for us to learn about him at Bible Ventures. Then, we will study Joseph. Now, there’s a hero you’ll want to know about!
Come and join us each Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. in the fellowship hall. We enjoy a good Bible story together, play a game, have a snack, and learn even more about our wonderful God.
*Important Note: There will be an Easter Egg Hunt at 9:30 a.m. during Bible Ventures on Easter Sunday.
