On this page, you will find a summary of outreach ministries at First Lutheran Richmond Beach. Our outreach ministries include projects close to home and around the world.
Local community partners include: Hope Link Food Bank, Mary’s Place, Compass Center, Community Lunch Program on Capitol Hill and many more.
Outreach Update
A huge THANK YOU for your faithful, generous support of all of this year’s Outreach efforts. Your donations of hygiene items this spring was overwhelming! This week, a small, but mighty group sorted, organized, packed, and delivered all those items to Immanuel Community Services, Lynnwood Hygiene Center, Operation Nightwatch, God’s Little Acre, and the Elizabeth Gregory Center. Your generosity will be a blessing to so many in our hurting world.
Backpacks for Kids
For the school year, FLRB partnered with Syre Elementary school, providing extra food support for children who receive free or reduced breakfast and lunches. Each week a team from FLRB packed and delivered bags of food which fit in the children’s backpacks. This food, which was sent home for the children’s weekend meals, was greatly appreciated by their families.
Stay tuned in the fall for new details.
Ronald Commons Cafe Volunteering
First Lutheran, in partnership with Richmond Beach Congregational Church, Ronald Methodist and the YMCA, has continued to provide 120 hot meals to the food insecure every Thursday for the last eight years at Ronald Methodist Church on Aurora in Shoreline.
First Lutheran is responsible for providing volunteers for planning, setup, cooking, serving, dishwashing and cleanup on the third and fifth Thursdays of each month.
An on-line signup is available. Please contact the church office (office@flrb.org) to get connected.
Past Outreach Efforts:
Hopelink Can Madness Food Drive for March – Thank You!
This is a March-Madness-style food and fund drive where local businesses and community groups—including First Lutheran of Richmond Beach—compete to stock the shelves of Hopelink’s five no-cost food markets during a season when donations typically drop. Each week, participating teams face off in one-on-one brackets, with winners advancing until a champion is crowned. We can continue to compete each week for a second chance shoot out. This is a great event and an amazing way to help our community.
Thank you to all those who donated and participated in the HopeLink Can Madness. We were one of 16 businesses that competed. We did not win overall; however, we did win a couple of weeks. Overall, the 16 businesses at the end of week four had collected 7,600 pounds of food and raised $4000. This helps to keep the food banks going during a time of low donations! Thanks again to the children and youth who helped lead this collection and fundraiser!
Christmas Outreach—Thank you!
Lack of access to fresh water is still one of the biggest challenges to overcoming poverty in developing countries. It’s also one of the most powerful opportunities to create change. With a simple well, as many as 500 families can gain access to clean, safe water.
This year the December Outreach focus was on the congregation providing wells through ELCA’s Good Gifts program. Thanks to your great generosity we exceeded our goal this year and were able to fund four wells through the ELCA good gifts program. Your donations will help provide water in areas of vast need and will make this a brighter year for those who benefit.
Refugee Starter Kits
Thank you for your generous support this past summer for our outreach project of collecting household items for refugee families. First Lutheran sent 10 household starter kits to Lutheran Community Services Northwest. Not only is LCSNW very grateful for our support, but told us that the timing was perfect. They were going to be resettling 6 new refugee families, who had been granted Visas to enter the US.