Current Ways to Serve
Backpack Buddies
We pack ~55 bags of food at the beginning of each month for Lacy Elementary School students who are food insecure. The food we provide ensures that kids will have food to eat over the weekends when away from the meals provided at school. During the school year, we typically pack on the first Thursday of each month at 1 PM. Many hands make light work and anyone's welcome to help out! Contact Rev. Janet Baucom for more details.
Meals on Wheels
We have 5 teams that deliver the Meals once a month: the 3rd Friday of the month, roughly 10 AM - 12 PM. A team consists of 2 volunteers (one to drive; one to deliver the meal). Substitutes are greatly needed. Contact Judy Allen to join the team and learn more.
Highland Community Victory Garden
Join us on Saturday mornings at 9 AM (mid-February - early November) as we plant, tend, and harvest fresh produce for local families in need. All are welcome! All ages, all abilities, no gardening expertise required. Contact garden co-coordinator Donna Wolcott to learn more.
Click here to learn more about our Community Victory Garden.
Helen Wright Center
Highland members provide monthly dinners for the women at the Helen Wright shelter in downtown Raleigh. Interested in helping? Contact Highland's coordinator Barbara Knight.
Habitat for Humanity
Highland partners with Habitat for Humanity of Great Raleigh each spring to help build affordable homes in our area. There are also advocacy and volunteer opportunities available year-round. Contact Highland's Habitat coordinator Tripp Pearce for more info.
Family Promise
Family Promise supports unhoused families with temporary accommodations, job search support, and financial counseling for future success. About one week per quarter, Highland helps provide meals and groceries to families staying at the Family Promise apartments. Contact Hope Dodson to assist with our next week of service.
Celebrating the Garden
Highland's Community Victory Garden has finished its 11th growing season and has donated over 10 tons of fresh produce to the Interfaith Food Shuttle. The NC Conference featured our gardeners and their stories on Everyday Grace TV, a ministry of the Conference. Enjoy their feature of our beloved ministry!
Disaster Response
Highland's Disaster Response Team is a uniquely-equipped group of first-responders who are able to do tree work in areas recovering from severe weather events. Partnering with Avent Ferry UMC and led by Cullen Whitley, this group has helped families all across eastern North Carolina and are often some of the first folks called when disaster strikes. This group was featured in a video by our North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Interested in supporting their work or joining their team? Contact team leader Cullen Whitley.
Outreach Team
The Outreach Team helps to coordinate and equip all the people of Highland to serve as Christ's hands and feet in the world. Contact Rev. Janet Baucom for more information.
Congregational Care
The Care Ministries team works to ensure members of the Highland community are cared for in times of need. You can become part of the regular visitation team or be added to a call list to help when you can. Contact Rev. Janet Baucom to volunteer, or to share a request for prayer or visitation