Christmas Services
Come join us in celebrating the birth of our Savior this Christmas season!
The Mandarin Food Bank at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, has a mission to provide emergency food and clothing to those in need in the Mandarin community. They are a ministry run entirely by volunteers. We support the Mandarin Food Bank through offertory giving and by donating gifts-in-kind.
Prison Fellowship believes that a restorative approach to prisoners, former prisoners and all those affected by crime and incarceration can make communities safer and healthier. Their ministry is founded on the conviction that all people are created in God’s image and that no life is beyond God’s reach. Through an amazing awakening to new hope and life purpose, those who once broke the law are transformed and mobilized to serve their neighbors, replacing the cycle of crime with a cycle of renewal.
We participate in Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree program during the Advent season. Incarceration can strain family ties to the breaking point. By providing Christmas gifts on behalf of incarcerated parents, Prison Fellowship Angel Tree allows local congregations, like Mandarin + Longleaf, to extend the hope of the Gospel to families with loved ones in prison.
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is the global humanitarian aid and development organization of the United Methodist Church. We support UMCOR through offertory giving and serve through boots-on-the-ground mission work.
Training, commissioning, assigning and supporting missionaries in the United States and around the world have been at the heart of mission since the founding of the first denominational Methodist missionary society in 1819. Today, United Methodist missionaries serve in about 60 different countries in many types of professional careers, including as pastors, evangelists and church coordinators; teachers and educators; doctors, nurses and other health workers; agriculturists; development specialists; community organizers and peacebuilders.
Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that coordinates the packaging and distribution of food and other aid to people in developing nations. We serve by raising funds to host an annual, church-wide meal-packing event.
The ministry of Operation Christmas Child has an over 20-year history with the members of Mandarin United Methodist Church.
Warren Willis United Methodist Camp and Conference Center, located in Fruitland Park, Florida, is a verified ministry of the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. We support Warren Willis through offertory gifts to help support the Camp and Conference Center. In addition, we support Warren Willis by sending children and youth to summer camp.
The Florida United Methodist Children’s Home, located in Enterprise, Florida, is a Christ-centered organization that believes in family, unconditional love and holistic healing and is committed to faith, advocacy, integrity, and respect.
Branches provides life-changing opportunities to hardworking families and their children to help them break the cycle of generational poverty.
The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
Inspire to Rise, Inc. is a charitable organization focused on holistically helping make the community a little better, happier, and healthier place. They Inspire to help individuals Rise to become their best self. We support Inspire to Rise through offertory gifts and by donating gifts-in-kind.
The mission of ESHC of St. Johns County, Inc. is to truly make a difference in the lives of homeless families with minor children by providing housing and services required for them to remain intact, stabilize their lives, save toward affordable permanent housing, and break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Freedom Crossing Academy is one of our local partner schools and is also home to our Longleaf Church campus.
First Coast Women’s Services is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that empowers women to make informed choices about their pregnancy.
We believe in reaching out to others with the love of Christ. In serving, we receive more than we give and learn more than we teach.
Crown Point Elementary is one of our local partner schools. We support Crown Point by supporting teachers with donations during Teacher Appreciation Week, Back-to-School time and other times of the year.
Cup of Love Jacksonville is a ministry of Social Grounds Coffee that serves the homeless and less fortunate through their coffee ministry.
Campus to City Wesley Foundation is the United Methodist multi-campus ministry in
Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and the surrounding area.