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.

Backpacks for Kids

FLRB is partnering with Syre Elementary school to provide extra food support for children who receive free or reduced breakfast and lunches. Each week a team from FLRB packs and delivers bags of food which fit in the children’s backpacks. This food, which is sent home for the children’s weekend meals, is greatly appreciated by their families.

To help, click here to order from amazon (items will be sent directly to FLRB)
OR
purchase items from the list below and bring them to the bin near the church office:

Chocolate Milk (8 oz shelf stable)    
Belvita Breafast Biscuits
Fruit cups (4 oz.)                                            
Fruit Snack pkg
Instant Oatmeal packets
Ritz Cracker Sleeves                                              
Hot Chocolate Packets
Progresso soup (15 oz)
Chewy Granola Bars
Creamy Peanut Butter (16 oz)                       
Kraft Easy Mac
Small Juice Box (100% juice)                              
Tuna Fish or Chicken pouches
Applesauce Cups (4 oz)                                 
Cheese and Cracker pkg
Peanut Butter and Cracker pkg
Nutri-Grain Breakfast bars

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:

Summer Outreach Project – Refugee Starter Kits

Thank you so much for the outpouring of generosity! These donations will make a difference for refugee families in our community.

In these challenging times for refugee families, one way our church can help is by donating items for refugee starter kits. Lutheran Community Services Northwest is continuing to provide support to newly arrived refugees who come to the agency for help. Many of these families have the bare necessities for setting up housekeeping; therefore, a very practical way to help is by providing them with household kits.

Completed: School Supply Drive
Inasmuch and the Outreach Team joined forces this summer to ask for donations of school supplies. These supplies will help fill the school kits which are sent to Lutheran World Relief and distributed worldwide. Thankyou for your generosity! We have collected the necessary items.

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.