Provides members and the community-at-large with information on social, economic and political issues.
Outreach Ministry: Zion Hill Job Bank
DEACONS MINISTRY:
Deacons are servants to the congregation, being responsible for expressing the Church's concern for the general welfare of each member, through personal visits, telephone calls, cards, letters, etc. Deacons assist the Pastor with ordinances of baptism and communion and by taking communion to those unable to attend worship services. Deacons minister to the sick and shut in and assist the elderly members with their needs and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ wherever they are called. On Wednesday evenings Deacons conduct prayer service beginning at 6:30 in the evening. Deacons also assists the Deaconess Ministry in serving a hot meal every fourth Sunday at Odyssey III. Deacons adhere to our church motto of "Living to Love and Loving to Serve."
Outreach Ministry: Zion Hill Elderly & Congregation
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The Deaconess Ministry is comprised of wives or spouses of Zion Hill deacons as well as widows of deceased deacons of Zion Hill Baptist Church. The Deaconesses are guided by Paul’s first letter to Timothy as stated in 2:11 “Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.”
Zion Hill Deaconesses play an important part in the preparation of the two sacraments of the church: The Lord’s Supper and Baptism. Deaconesses are to:
» Assist in the spiritual matters of the Church as determined by the Pastor,
» Assist the Deacons Ministry through visitation of the sick and shut in members and sharing in administering communion on such visits,
» Care for the communion linen, glasses, and trays,
» Assist all candidates in the preparation for baptism,
» Comfort those in mourning and distress,
» Visit the sick, deprived, destitute and administer services as needed, and
» Prepare and serve dinner at the Church for bereaved families as directed by the Pastor.
As a part of the Deaconesses outreach program, on the fourth Sunday of each month at 8:30 a.m. a full breakfast for 60 or more persons is purchased and prepared for the residents at Odyssey III.
Deaconess meetings are scheduled for the Saturday before the first Sunday at 11:45 a.m.
Outreach Ministry: Odyssey III
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The Evangelism Team is a group of believers committed to taking the gospel of Jesus Christ to the “uttermost parts of the world!” This ministry goes out to spread the message of hope, restoration and the love of Christ in neighborhoods, communities and the city.
Outreach Ministry: Genesis Shelter
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A ministry for members born in the month of February.
Outreach Ministry: Grady Memorial Hospital Family Support Service
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The mission of the Zion Hill Health Ministry is to help to promote wellness throughout the Zion Hill Church Family. We seek to fulfill this mission through fostering a better understanding of the interrelated nature of spiritual, mental and physical health. Church-wide health seminars and health fairs are sponsored during the year, and a Health Ministry volunteer is present for most Church activities.
Meetings are held quarterly, on the 3rd Saturday at noon. A background in the health field is not required to join and work in the ministry.
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The July Birth Month Club is a very active and vital ministry with a hardworking group of members that are proud to be associated with such a dynamic ministry.
The Outreach Ministry that the July Club supports is the Zion Hill Community Development Corporation. The club provides lunch once a month to the clients and staff, which is a full meal with meat, vegetables, fruit and dessert. Thirsty Thursday is a quarterly community outreach sponsored by the CDC to provide much needed information to the community at large. The July Club provides refreshments and participates in the program. One of the exciting annual efforts of the CDC in which the July Club takes part is “Lordstroms.” This program provides a place where community residents can shop at no cost for the Christmas season. The July Club helps in the set-up, gift wrapping, refreshments, and in any way that is needed.
Like other ministries in the church, the July Club serves continental breakfast for Saturday church school and Sunday morning breakfast for one month per year.
Being born in July is not a prerequisite for participating in the July Birth Month Club.
Outreach Ministry: Zion Hill Congregate Care Home & Zion Hill Community Development Center
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The June Club Ministry is open to any member of the Church regardless of the month in which they were born. We meet the 4th Sunday of each month immediately after the 8 o’clock worship service.
The June Club Ministry is committed to serve the women and children at the Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children in helping to restore hope, light new pathways and be an instrument of God’s love. We cook and serve dinner to approximately 125 women and children each 5th Sunday throughout the year. During fall and winter months, we donate MARTA tokens, school supplies, knit hats and gloves to all the children and women. Additionally, toilet articles are donated to the Shelter.
Once a year we adopt a family (mother with children) who has left the Shelter. We completely furnish their apartment home with all household needs, clothing for the mother and children, food, toiletries, and paper goods. June Club Ministry members volunteer their time in the clothing room sorting and distributing clothes and in the Shelter’s office.
Outreach Ministry: Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children
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The membership of the March Club Outreach Ministry is comprised primarily of persons born in the month of March although we have and continue to gladly welcome others interested in providing support to our community through multiple outreach activities. The March Club supports several concurrent projects and the keys to our success as an outreach ministry include the willingness of the members to take on projects, the diverse skills and backgrounds of the members and a desire to fulfill our church motto focused on love and service.
The March Club Outreach Ministry has long been in the forefront of service to God through our service to our community. We have a history of handling several simultaneous projects including, the adoption of families, volunteer support to public agencies such as Goodwill Industries, adoption of public school classes, and support of the Zion Hill CDC.
Our support of families coming out of homelessness, an activity that we have been involved in since the early 1990s, includes providing physical personal needs, household items, educational direction and job counseling. These have included both single parent and two parent families referred to us from shelters in the metropolitan area. We also adopt senior and disabled citizens often providing assistance with health care referrals, food subsidies and home health care assistance. As an organization, the March Club has provided support to individuals for more than twenty years.
For more than fifteen years, the March Club volunteered with Goodwill Industries as book cataloguers and book salespersons for the bi-annual book drive. Goodwill then utilized the funds in their training program to provide job skills and job referrals to unskilled parents in the north Georgia area.
About eight years ago, the March Club began adopting a public elementary school class based on the needs of the specific teacher. We have provided school uniforms, copier equipment and paper, educational and instructional guides and basic school supplies.
Outreach Ministry: Goodwill Industries & Adopt-A-Family/ Blalock Elementary School First Grade Class
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The Zion Hill Missionary Ministry promotes Christian missions through programs of studying, prayer, community missions and stewardship. The Missionary’s outreach initiative is My Sister’s House of the Atlanta Union Mission. The Missionary’s purchase, prepare and serve lunch for this group every fourth Saturday of the month.
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OUTREACH MINISTRY TEAM:
The Outreach Ministry Team works closely with several community service organizations and ministries of the church to seek opportunities to serve and to be certain that Zion Hill’s outreach efforts are having the maximum impact possible of the population that is being served.
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SMS provides volunteer assistance to the senior and/or disabled members of Zion Hill to ensure that their basic needs are met. This includes helping to provide food, clothing, housing, health & wellness, entitlements, transportation, benefits, business matters, home management, and government services. SMS also serves as a liaison between other in-house ministries to co-coordinate the aforementioned services. Ministry meetings are held bi-monthly on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.
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