PILGRIM MINISTRIES

CARING MINISTRY TEAM

If you need assistance or would like to volunteer to help serve with our Caring Ministry Team, please contact the church office.

Pilgrim's Caring Ministry is made up of a large team of members who provide encouragement and prayer, meals, and other services when needed.

Galatians 6:10
​As followers of Christ, we are called to love and serve one another and “to do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.”  

​Our Mission

• Maintain regular ongoing contact with church family to create awareness of needs and concerns.
• Provide support & encouragement to our church family, including addressing specific needs as determined on a case-by-case basis.
• Disciple (train) other church members to participate in meeting needs.

Areas of support for our congregation:

• Providing meals
• Visiting home-bound or hospitalized
• Assisting with or arranging transportation
• Assisting with or arranging errands
• Assisting with care for home or property (small items)
• Assisting with funeral support (food for family or receptions)
• Assisting with technology needs

MEN's MINISTRY

The goal of the Pilgrim's Men’s Ministry is to facilitate the spiritual growth of men in our community by providing opportunities to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ, their families and each other. The opportunities include bible studies, projects to serve upon together, or just hanging out. We invite you to join us for one or more of these gatherings!
 
Activities include:
• Regular Saturday morning Bible study at Pilgrim
• Wednesday morning Men’s Prayer Breakfast at Perkins in Painesville
• Weekly work groups 
• Burger Night at Winking Lizard in Mentor on the third Thursday of every month. 

PRIME TIMER'S MINISTRY

Led by Pastor Bob and Jan, Prime Timers is a special ministry for people age 55 and over. Many of Pilgrim's retirees and friends gather at least monthly for fellowship. A number of lasting friendships have begun at Prime Timers events!

Prime Timers meets regularly on the 2nd Monday of each month for a luncheon at the church at noon. If you have questions, please contact Pastor Bob, visit or call at ​440-255-9403.

SPORTS MINISTRY

From basketball to volleyball mixed with roller hockey, pickleball, boating, and cross-country skiing, Pilgrim has many sports ministries for participation. We welcome our community's youth to play on our outdoor courts anytime.

Currently playing:

• Pickleball on Thursdays limited 6 players - if you're not in this league, please contact office for available hours to play.
• Mens Basketball on Thursday Nights & Saturday Mornings
• Volleyball on Wednesday Nights

Please check calendar on the Activities Page for dates/times and call the office at 440-255-9403 about participation.

WOMEN's MINISTRY

The Women's Ministry provides opportunities for the women of Pilgrim to come to a living faith in Christ, encourage and equip women to grow in their relationship with the Lord, and promote nurturing relationships between women. Many activities take place throughout the year ranging from retreats and outings to Sundae Sundays to fun get togethers like the Lady's Blahs Party!

COMMUNITY MINISTRIES & MISSIONS

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

We have recently had the opportunity to team up with the Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity to help them in their mission to bring affordable housing to the Greater Cleveland area communities and the families that live in them. We have partnered to carry out block beautification projects. These projects bring many residents and volunteers together to beautify and celebrate a neighborhood one block at a time, through minor exterior repairs, landscaping, planting, clean-ups, and much more.

MISSIONS WE SUPPORT

Hannah's Home
Provides a safe and nurturing home for single young women who are pregnant. Their focus is on bringing women to a personal relationship with Christ and teaching them the skills necessary to make eternal changes in their lives and in the life of their child.  Learn more >>
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The City Mission of Cleveland

The City Mission empowers men, women, and children in crisis to overcome their unique, complex paths to homelessness.  Learn more >>

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Project Hope for the Homeless
Project hope responds to the human hurts and hopes of persons in Lake County who are homeless, providing emergency shelter, caring and ongoing guidance, in the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ.  Learn more >>

Pilgrim supports Project Hope for the Homeless in many ways. The Missions Team commits a monthly monetary donation and members of our congregation faithfully prepare a meal for  residents each month. Our Sunday School also helps raise funds and Youth Group is involved with service projects.

INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS

CHAD MISSION

​We are learning to walk alongside these Chadian believers as fellow humans growing in justice, mercy, and faithfulness, so that they become compassionate refugee aid workers, school teachers, Bible translators, and evangelists.

Nathanael, Church of the Lutheran Brethren Missionary

Can you imagine living in an area where you don't know the language and the most important tool is a simple garden hoe? Nathanael and Carrie can. They and their family are part of disciple making movement in Chad, living in a village among an unreached people group who speak Bagirmi. The family is reaching people with the Gospel as they continue to study the language and build relationships with new friends. 

Several projects are underway: a Bible Story project, famine relief for war refugees, Bible translation, a cattle project, and growth of the elementary school in the village. In each of these projects, Nathanael ends up handing the management to his Chadian brothers and sisters.

Pilgrim provides salaries for two teachers in the village at the Gethsémané de Meube school in Boudamasa that Nathanael has helped form and build.  We also provide funding to support the project of translating the Bible into the local Bagirmi language.

So what about that hoe? It is the main tool used for planting sorghum or millet in clay fields. It's also used for bongoro, to help the plants live in dry conditions. The hoe is also used to carry things and it can also be used as a seat.

MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR CHRIST

​We couldn't do what we do in the world if it we did not have the love and generosity of our church, Pilgrim Lutheran Brethren.

Marcia Skelton, MSFC Founder

Led by Marcia and Scott Skelton, Medical Supplies For Christ (MSFC) provides missionaries with quality medical equipment and supplies to assist them in preventing, or alleviating the suffering of people in underdeveloped countries where health care barely or doesn't exist. Marcia's and Scott's first purpose is to bring Bibles in appropriate languages to tell people about Jesus. They only go on mission trips where they can do this!

Through the years, Marcia and Scott have served with their ministry to Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Belize, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cameroon, Kenya, Thailand and India. They also volunteer, bring Bibles and first aid supplies to  Kentucky Mountain Mission/Youth Haven  Bible Camp in Beattyville, Kentucky every summer.

MSFC is a part of Technical Exchange for Christian Healthcare (TECH), a community of Christian ministries connecting members with appropriate resources, information, and education, maximizing their mission impact by improving the quality of global healthcare​.

Pilgrim hosts an annual fundraiser to benefit MSFC, each year in either August or September. Most years the fundraiser is a fabulous Fish Fry with either walleye or perch caught in our Great Lake Erie by members of our church. If the fish don't cooperate, we still have the fundraiser and call it a "Fishless Fry" - still fabulous.