Can one day change a city for the better? This article was originally published on the With You in the Weeds website. The ForColumbia team has republished it here by permission. Most ministries start out with one or two passionate people who are dedicated to a specific cause. A dozen people all working for a […]
By Carla Fletcher ForColumbia Exec Team How does ForColumbia work behind the scenes? It would take way more than one blog post to describe the details. However, we asked Carla Fletcher, ForColumbia’s database manager, to give us a sneak peek into how 2000+ volunteers have been placed at over 100 serving sites, year after year, […]
By Lauren Eisleben ForColumbia 2024 Exec Team As of today, 52 local Christian churches have committed to partner with ForColumbia 2024 on April 27th. One of the most common questions we get asked during this season is, “How do all those churches work together, coming from various different backgrounds and worldviews?” We can only give […]
By Gretchen Shults Church Recruitment Team The ForColumbia 2024 Exec Team is in full swing as this is published. As of the second week in February, 50 local Christian churches have signed up to partner for our annual Day of Service on Saturday, April 27th. Now in its tenth year, the members of the Exec […]
Welcome to the 2024 ForColumbia season! Thanks so much for reading, praying, spreading the word, and signing up to participate as a ForColumbia volunteer on April 27, 2024. 2024 is our 10th year of serving Columbia, side by side. Where has all the time gone?! As we look back to when it all began in […]
By Shelly Mayer Director, ForColumbia 2024 [email protected] As we enter into 2024, the ForColumbia exec team has heard from some of the folks who were involved in ForColumbia 2015. That was when this annual day of serving our city, side by side, all began. Let’s take a moment and read some of Shelly Mayer’s words […]
One of the more rewarding fruits of nine years of serving along dozens of other churches through ForColumbia is the relationships that come out of it. On that note, it will definitely be worth your time and attention to this recent six-minute video. Listen to what Pastor Jay Dudley of Tabernacle of Grace Ministry says […]
By Gretchen Shults, ForColumbia Exec Team In 2016, the second year of ForColumbia, my pastor asked me if I wanted to serve as the spokesperson for our church for an upcoming day of service. He mentioned in our brief conversation the simplicity of the ForColumbia mission: To partner with other Christians in our community to […]
By Lauren Eisleben For the past six years, around this time, all three kids in our family will start asking, “When is ForColumbia?” And, “Do we get to help sort and pass out T-shirts again?” ForColumbia’s annual day of service has become a highly anticipated event on our family calendar, much like a vacation or […]
Since 2015, ForColumbia has had a single mission, namely to put time and resources to good use loving and serving our neighbors, without any agenda, as a way of glorifying Christ and living our lives for His glory. Each year, we have the privilege of loving and serving our neighbors in a very literal fashion. […]
ForColumbia was founded in 2015 to bring Christians together to freely share the love of God by serving our community, side-by-side. We do this by organizing volunteers from Christian churches throughout mid-Missouri to serve individuals, non-profit organizations, and other public venues in an annual city-wide day of service.
