Special Sundays are designated Sundays throughout the year that provide opportunities for giving. These special offerings are earmarked and support designated ministries.
On these Sundays, we empower our congregations to give toward causes and organizations that promote sustainable life change. These offerings help offer refuge in times of disaster, promote peace and justice, provide scholarships, reach out to the community, teach skills to encourage self-sufficiency, and share the love of Jesus Christ with God’s people everywhere.
For 2025, Soapstone UMC has chosen:
June 8 – Refugee Family
September 14 – UMCOR
We will collect an offering on each of these dates using a special offering envelope during worship, or you can give online here. Read about each of these below.
Welcoming a Refugee Family – In partnership with Questscope, Soapstone United Methodist Church is honored to sponsor a refugee family from Syria who arrived in Raleigh in September 2024. The family—a mother, father, 14-year-old daughter, and two sons, ages 12 and 6—has begun a new chapter with hope and courage.
Since their arrival, Soapstone members have worked together to find the family safe housing, enroll the children in local schools, and support the parents with English language classes and job search assistance.
The Soapstone Refugee Fund is being used to help cover the family’s living expenses as they work toward financial independence through employment.
We are grateful for the faithful and compassionate efforts of our Soapstone members and friends who have directly supported the family.
Your continued prayers and support make this ministry possible. To learn more about how you can help, please contact the church office.
UMCOR – Sunday, September 14 we will collect an offering supporting UMCOR’s work of alleviating human suffering around the world including disaster relief and supplies, disaster risk reduction, health, and humanitarian development. Gifts to the UMCOR cover UMCOR’s costs of doing business. This helps UMCOR keep the promise that 100 percent of any gift to a specific UMCOR project will go toward that project, not administrative costs. The UMCOR Sunday offering is the primary funding stream for the administrative costs of UMCOR. Learn more here.