Current Social Ministries

Every three months, there will be a Special Ministry highlighted. 

In January/February/March, we donated breakfast food items to the ORLC Ministry Center. For the January, Febuary and March, we will be donating non-perishable breakfast food items for the breakfast meal served every Wednesday at Our Redeemer’s Ministry Center. Please pick up a flyer for details and place your donations in the designated bin in the narthex.  

Items that can donated include:  

· Grandola Bars  · Fruit Bars    · Bevita Biscuits

· Individually Wrapped Pastries  · Individually Wrapped Muffins

· Individual Cereal Cartons   Cans or Bottles of Juices

The food will be delivered to Our Redeemer every week.  Thank you for your support of this ministry.

Please also remember our ongoing ministries that continue each month: Pastor’s Pantry, Hands of Love, gift cards and bus passes, canned food, and gently used clothes. The designated bins and donation boxes are in the narthex.

The Women’s Ministry is a group of women from our congregation who meet on the second Saturday of each month at 10:00 A.M. in the fellowship hall, to listen to inspirational messages, to pray together, and to plan activities and perform services which support the life of the church and our community.   All women at Mt. Calvary are welcome to join us.  

Through our Pacifica Synod Matthew 25 Grant, the Women’s Ministry continues to provide Care Kits with water, snacks, socks, and hygiene items to our neighbors who are housing insecure. whounhoused, unsheltered and food insecure.

The Women’s Ministry is providing Care Kits for our neighbors in the community   Each Care Kit contains facial tissue, wipes, hand sanitizer, granola bars, fruit snacks, trail mix, disposable trash bag, a pair of socks, a water bottle, and a Christian message of love, hope, and encouragement.  These Care Kits are available to the congregation at no cost for pick up in  the Narthex on Sunday mornings to distribute to individuals they meet in the community.  

 New Grief and Loss Support Group Weds from 11 am - 12:30  

at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church

Consider joining this group if you are struggling with:

o loss of a loved one

o job loss, housing loss

o loss of health, 

o grief for our world.

You do not need to be a member of Mount Calvary to attend.  

Space is limited to eight participants.  There is no cost.

 Contact Pastor Carole Parmeter Dyer, Facilitator   

562.209-2768/mtcalpastor@att.net

Be part of the Lutheran World Relief Quilt and Kit Ministry.  Quilts will be sent around the workd to those in need. 

Hands of Love meets every Tuesday from 11:00 AM - 2 PM  in the Fellowhip Hall.  

A Weekly Bible study  is held every Wednesday at 2pm in the church library.  Come and hear the Scripture readings for the upcoming week, read a short commentary and discuss! This is a wonderful small group ministry and is a great way to deepen your faith and relationship with the Holy One!  If you would like to deepen your faith life and connect with our beloved community, this is a great place to do it.   Come and spend time together sharing  and studying the Word of God.  All are welcomed; no previous Bible Study experience necessary! 

Wednesday, March 18 Mount Calvary Reads at 4:00 p.m. in Pastor Carole’s office   The next book chosen by the group is The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. “A pair of siblings with a close bond lean on each other throughout a lifetime of bitterness over the stepmother that wronged them, returning again and again to their childhood home.”