Here is a look at some of our annual service opportunities and community efforts.
If you're interested in helping out,
then our Outreach Committee would love to hear from you!
Family Promise - Knoxville currently has no shelters that provide housing for an entire family, which means that couples cannot be housed together, and daughters cannot be housed with their fathers, nor older boys with their mothers. Family Promise allows families to be housed together. Lake Hills partners with Lake Forest Presbyterian Church to provide meals for families who are housed at Lake Forest for a week each quarter. This commitment requires providing an evening meal for 8-15 persons.
UT Care packages - These are bags of personal hygiene items made up to donate to UT Hospital Pastoral Care staff for distribution to family members of patients who find themselves unexpectedly staying overnight there due to emergencies or complications of loved ones. Typically some of our youth assemble 40-50 kits for distribution annually.
Sock Tree - This ministry is typically done in December to January, when a Christmas tree is decorated with socks brought in by our members, to be donated to area homeless shelters. Socks are a tremendous need, particularly in cold, wet months, since this population has limited ability to dry cold, wet socks
Food Pantry - This ongoing ministry collects food donations every month for the FISH pantry in Vestal community, a needy neighborhood in our backyard.
Volunteer Ministry meals - We have several teams who prepare and serve lunch quarterly at Volunteer Ministry Center, a Christian homeless shelter close to the downtown area. The shelter also works toward permanent housing and dental care for its clients. Our monthly "10-cents-a-meal" congregational offering goes to help fund these meals.
Christmas Baskets - One of our most popular projects, congregational families donate 60-70 large food baskets to needy families in our South Knoxville area.
Morgan Scott Project - We collect seed donations in March each year to send to this Christian Coop in rural impoverished Morgan and Scott counties, for distribution to over 350 families to grow their own food.
Habitat for Humanity - We have now assisted with building 6 houses in Knoxville over the past 20 years, the most recent completed in summer, 2021.
Thanksgiving meals - We provide a full Thanksgiving meal for some needy South Knox neighbors, partnering with several other area churches.
Beacon of Hope - Collecting new and gently used toys at Christmas, these are donated to Beacon, a ministry housed in Vestal united Methodist Church.
Seeds of Abraham - Our youth group is part of this organization, an interfaith group of middle and high school students that uses shared service projects to build understanding between young people of different faiths.
Mission Trips - We have annual service mission trips with both adults and youth, now for more than 30 years. (Though the pandemic sidelined us the past 3 years, we hope to restart this meaningful and productive endeavor.)
BENEVOLENCES (monetary donations which accounted for 14% of 2022 budget)
Presbyterian Mission
Living Waters of the World (clean water in impoverished world communities)
Heifer International
Isaiah House (This new Knoxville non profit that has a physical space to provide physical and emotional support for children awaiting foster care placement.)
Interfaith Health Clinic
Remote Area Rescue
Mobile Meals
FISH Pantry
Sunset Gap Ministries (Cocke County)
Volunteer Ministries
Love Kitchen
Habitat for Humanity
The Manor at Northgate Terrace
Flenniken Landing (subsidized senior living in South Knox)
UKIRK (UT Presbyterian Student Center)
UT Care packages - These are bags of personal hygiene items made up to donate to UT Hospital Pastoral Care staff for distribution to family members of patients who find themselves unexpectedly staying overnight there due to emergencies or complications of loved ones. Typically some of our youth assemble 40-50 kits for distribution annually.
Sock Tree - This ministry is typically done in December to January, when a Christmas tree is decorated with socks brought in by our members, to be donated to area homeless shelters. Socks are a tremendous need, particularly in cold, wet months, since this population has limited ability to dry cold, wet socks
Food Pantry - This ongoing ministry collects food donations every month for the FISH pantry in Vestal community, a needy neighborhood in our backyard.
Volunteer Ministry meals - We have several teams who prepare and serve lunch quarterly at Volunteer Ministry Center, a Christian homeless shelter close to the downtown area. The shelter also works toward permanent housing and dental care for its clients. Our monthly "10-cents-a-meal" congregational offering goes to help fund these meals.
Christmas Baskets - One of our most popular projects, congregational families donate 60-70 large food baskets to needy families in our South Knoxville area.
Morgan Scott Project - We collect seed donations in March each year to send to this Christian Coop in rural impoverished Morgan and Scott counties, for distribution to over 350 families to grow their own food.
Habitat for Humanity - We have now assisted with building 6 houses in Knoxville over the past 20 years, the most recent completed in summer, 2021.
Thanksgiving meals - We provide a full Thanksgiving meal for some needy South Knox neighbors, partnering with several other area churches.
Beacon of Hope - Collecting new and gently used toys at Christmas, these are donated to Beacon, a ministry housed in Vestal united Methodist Church.
Seeds of Abraham - Our youth group is part of this organization, an interfaith group of middle and high school students that uses shared service projects to build understanding between young people of different faiths.
Mission Trips - We have annual service mission trips with both adults and youth, now for more than 30 years. (Though the pandemic sidelined us the past 3 years, we hope to restart this meaningful and productive endeavor.)
BENEVOLENCES (monetary donations which accounted for 14% of 2022 budget)
Presbyterian Mission
Living Waters of the World (clean water in impoverished world communities)
Heifer International
Isaiah House (This new Knoxville non profit that has a physical space to provide physical and emotional support for children awaiting foster care placement.)
Interfaith Health Clinic
Remote Area Rescue
Mobile Meals
FISH Pantry
Sunset Gap Ministries (Cocke County)
Volunteer Ministries
Love Kitchen
Habitat for Humanity
The Manor at Northgate Terrace
Flenniken Landing (subsidized senior living in South Knox)
UKIRK (UT Presbyterian Student Center)