C4C is a missional event taking place monthly. C4C Youth Community strives to build passionate youth leaders who minister to Clarkston refugees through sharing spiritual gifts by:

• Building and Managing Food and Clothes Closet
• Developing relationships and providing consistent support to both nearby residents and refugees
• Helping the refugees assimilate into their new community and country
• Involving the greater community including the OGUM members, friends, other congregations and donors

Leadership:

If you’d like to participate, a waiver form is required. You can download that form here.

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love and in purity.” – 1 Timothy 4:12

Continual Needs

Food Needs:

• canned beans
• canned veggies
• canned tomatoes
• canned fruit
• canned chicken / tuna
• peanut butter
• pasta sauce
• 1 lb. bags of dried beans
• soups and stews (Chili)
• cooking oil
• tea
• juice

Money:
For $141.00, we were able to buy onions, potatoes, carrots and Gala apples to serve 24 families. Money is always helpful so that we can provide fresh produce each month

Miscellaneous:
*plastic gloves

Family Service Project:
As always, we encourage families to serve together so that families may experience first hand God’s blessings and seeing Him work in the lives of people and events. Please consider C4C as a family service project. If every family made one contact and introduced the C4C project to an individual, a church, or a business for financial support then we will be able to make this monthly project sustainable and hopefully grow it quickly to a weekly program. We also will need help sorting clothes and food between our open dates along with purchasing groceries from the store and Atlanta Farmers Market. There is still much to be done and we need your gifts to help us.

To make a financial donation: 

Please mail a check payable to Oak Grove UMC / write on tag line: C4C
Oak Grove United Methodist Church
Attn: The Youth Department: C4C
1722 Oak Grove Road
Decatur, GA 30033

To donate food or clothing: 

Please drop food or clothing donations off in the Oak Grove church office or in the Youth Building.
Monday – Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday mornings: 8:00 a.m. – Noon

History of C4C

Several years ago, God placed on the heart of our former youth minister, Matt Dierdorff, the desire to lead our youth in serving the refugees and families of the Clarkston Community. It was Matt’s love for this community that the name Caring for Clarkston, C4C, was created. One year ago, God gave our youth community a vision of opening a food and clothing pantry in the Clarkston Community Center (CCC). With the leadership of Bob Swett and the desire by Will Berg to envision an Eagle Scout project that would have a lasting impact, it was decided that the Revolution Community would be obedient to God’s call on us.

In January of 2011, a group of adults and youth met together for a day of visioning and discerning how God would want us to proceed. Beth White led our team on how to create a mission statement for our new found vision of creating a food and clothing pantry. After many hours of conversation and writing and re-writing by the youth, the following mission was adopted:

The Revolution Community Project: C4C strives to build passionate youth leaders who minister to the refugees and families in need at the Clarkston Community Center through sharing spiritual gifts.