Ministry Opportunities

Christiana UMC members directly and/or financially support the following Ministries

Christiana UMC Feeding Ministry - Free Community Meal - 3rd Thursday of each Month - Everyone Welcome - 6PM

Christiana UMC School Supply Giveaway - (Collect supplies all year for community giveaway each August)

Octorara Families Annual Hats, Scarves, and Mittens Drive

Susan Fuller - Missionary to Russia  

Don and Chiqui Donaldson - Missionaries to Guatemala

Cornerstone Pregnancy Care Services (CPCS) - Gap and Oxford, PA   

LeRoy and Heidi Whitman (and Family)  - Wycliffe Bible Translators for the Mixtecs of Mitlatongo in the mountains of southern Mexico (P.O. Box 628200 Orlando, FL 32862-8200 - leroy_whitman@sil.org

Lumina of Lancaster County - Lancaster, PA   

Harrison House - Christiana, PA 

United Methodist Church Connectional Ministries

Donations and Memorial Offerings can be mailed at any time to Christiana United Methodist Church  P.O. Box 45 Christiana, PA 17509 - Please include instructions if you want your donation or memorial offering used for a special purpose or ministry.

Christiana UMC Leadership Council for 2013

Lay Leadership Council:  Don Briner (Interim Chair), Jill Stafford (Lay Leader), Nancy Warren (Treasurer), Hank Oleyniczak (Finance Committee Representative), Mary Dickens (Board of Trustees Representative), Mary Lynn Oleyniczak (Staff-Parish Relations Representative), Pastor Elaine Bortman (Lay Leadership Development),  Vacant (Lay Member/Representative to Annual Conference), Nancy Warren (Secretary), Linda Chichester and Deb Wiker (Christian Education Co-Chairs), Gale Wirebeck (Worship), Mary Lynn Oleyniczak (Missions/Evangelism), Vacant (Members at Large)

Finance:  Nancy Warren (Treasurer) - Committee: Hank Oleyniczak (Chair), and Nancy Warren

Board of Trustees:  Mary Dickens (President) - Committee: Barbara Breiner, Thomas Hirst, John Stafford, Mary Dickens, Brayton Hershey, Jerry Newswanger, Dick Rineer, and Mary Dickens

Staff-Parish:  Mary Lynn Oleyniczak (Chair) - Committee: Anne Crawford, Fred Mallalieu, Glenn Maxwell, Jack Thomas, Gale Wireback, and Kaye Meyer

Committee on Nominations and Lay Leadership: Pastor Elaine Bortman, Jackie Newswanger, and Nancy Warren

Missions & Evangelism:  Mary Lynn Oleyniczak (Chair), Linda Mallalieu, Ned Wiker, Pat Hoover, Fran Scott, and Jackie Newswanger

Education:   Linda Chichester/Deb Wiker (Chair), Nancy Warren, Jill Stafford, Ned Wiker, and Nancy Warren

Worship:  Gale Wireback (Chair) and Nancy Warren

United Methodist Men:  Jim Cauller

Conference Lay Delegate: Vacant

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever

believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:16