BNF MINISTRIES
Community Meal
BNF offers a free community meal each Saturday at 4:30PM. Volunteers are always appreciated!
Food Pantry
Our weekly food pantry is held every Saturday from 4:45-5:30PM. We distribute several tons of food to food insecure residents each month. Volunteers are essential to the success of this ministry!
SERVE
Each June, the youth from Union Chapel Ministries give one week of their time to SERVE our City. The SERVE team helps us with our efforts to serve our community. Teams clean up and beautify our campus, neighborhood, nearby parks, serve in our Food Pantry, prepare meals, work in our gardens, spend time building relationships with the youth in our summer recreation program and so much more.
Neighborhood Beautification
Each year we are blessed by various youth groups and ministry teams that come to serve with us in our nearby downtown neighborhoods. They also provide yard work for our elderly neighbors.
OUR MINISTRIES
BNF Ministries (Blood n Fire) offers a number of opportunities in which our friends may partipate. You are welcome to join us through serving and/or benefitting from these services. The following are some examples of ministries we offer!
Community Empowerment Kitchen
Our commercial Community Empowerment Kitchen became fully operational in April 2014! This kitchen effectively delivers our BNF Ministries community meal each week and also produced 550,665 meals for youth at centers in our community.
Fall Festival
Each October, neighbors gather at our Fall Festival to enjoy fun, food and fellowship. Games, special activities and prizes along with food, cider and donuts all make this a special community activity enjoyed by all. The support of our partner churches: The Compass Church and Union Chapel help make this ministry possible!
Thanksgiving,Christmas Celebrations
These very special holiday events are greatly appreciated by
all of our friends who love to join us at these celebrations. Fantastic food and music are enjoyed by all. The generous donations and volunteer support of Union Chapel Ministries and other groups make these special ministry events possible.
Community Christmas Store
2023 will mark the 21st annual Community Christmas Store. The store serves parents who need a thrifty place to shop in order to provide Christmas gifts for their children. Eligible parents may purchase two $2.50 gifts per child. Income from the store supports children's programming. Your financial support of the Community Christmas Store provides quality gifts for parents who otherwise might not have a family Christmas.
Guts to Serve
Do you have the "Guts to Serve?" Calling all ministry groups! Consider bringing your youth group, small group, Bible Study group, community group, agency, professsional organization, etc. and get your hands dirty engaging mission. We have all kinds of ways to custom fit a plan for you to serve our community and engage residents in meaningful ways as we share life and love throughout our community!
Vegetable Gardens
Blood n Fire (BNF) loves fresh vegetables from gardens. Friends and partners grow extra vegetables in their gardens to donate to our Community Meal and Food Pantry programs. Please consider donating some of your time to work in gardens or set aside produce from your garden to help us feed the food insecure.