Religious Organizations
Lump To Laughter
Phone: (910) 617-4455
Email: Connie@lumptolaughter.org
A ministry-driven non-profit
organization committed to supporting
those affected by breast cancer.
Campus
Christian Fellowship
Phone: (910) 471-5895
Christian
ministry for college students. Glen
Titus, director.
The
Newman Center at UNCW
4802 College Acres Drive
Phone: (910) 792-0507
Holds a
weekly 5:30 p.m. Sunday Mass for
Catholic students. Programs include
Student Night, Breakfast with Al, a
local retired priest, and service
projects.
Cape Fear Gospel Rescue Mission
502 Castle Street
Phone: (910) 343-0366
Thrift
store sells clothing, furniture and
other items; dormitory for men;
nondenominational religious services;
and serves meals to people who live in
the dormitory three times a day every
day. Thaddeus Sidberry, store manager
and chaplain.
Cape Fear Office of Catholic Charities
4006 Princess Place Drive
Phone: (910) 251-8130
Serves six
counties. Provides Hispanic outreach,
immigration services, workshops in
English and Spanish, family and
individual counseling and small food
pantry. Provides disaster response,
advocacy and community development.
Linda Pierce, regional director.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Phone: (910) 762-4322.
Adult Huddle meets noon Mondays at
Carolina BBQ with a different
speaker every week. UNCW, local high schools and middle
schools also have FCA Huddles that meet
at the schools. Hal Hiatt, director.
Jewish Student Organization
E-mail: feinbergj@uncw.edu
Promotes Jewish
religious, cultural, social and
educational activities
to the UNCW
community.
Glory Campaign Meetings
Phone: (910) 619-7558
Christians from all churches come
together to fellowship and bring unity
to the church. 7:30 p.m. third Friday of
the month at Livingstones Tabernacle in
Hampstead, 127 Sloop Point Road. Lanny
Swaim directs meetings.
Episcopal Deanery of the Lower Cape Fear
P.O. Box 68, Shallotte
Phone: (910) 754-4123
Episcopal organization
for 15 churches from Burgaw to
Shallotte. The Rev.
Dave Davis of St. James the Fisherman
Forever Young Group of First Christian
Church
2035 Oleander Drive
Phone: (910) 762-1389
Meets 10:30 a.m. on
second Tuesday of each month in the
fellowship hall of the church. Lunch
follows at a local restaurant. Open to
people 55 years old and older.
Presbytery of Coastal Carolina
807 W. King Street, Elizabethtown
Phone: (800) 277-7479
Presbyterian. Rev. John R. Goodman.
Salvation Army
Administrative office:
820 N. Second Street
Phone: (910) 762-7354
Thrift shop:
Phone: (910) 762-6611
Emergency shelter:
Phone: (910) 762-5948.
Food and clothing,
disaster assistance for fire and flood
victims, utility bills, prescription
drug program, Homeward Bound (long term
stays and counseling), youth programs.
Major Butch and Carolyn
Mallard,
pastor.
International Seaman’s Service Center
Phone: (910) 762-3792
Hospitality for merchant
seamen, spiritual counseling, provides
transportation
to shopping areas, books and magazines.
1-10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 4-10
p.m. Sunday, when ships are in port.
Rev. William A. Shourds, director, and
Ritchie Wammack, chaplain. State port.
Sigma
Alpha Omega
E-mail: omicron@sigmaalphaomega.org
Nondenominational Christian sorority at
UNCW.
Tileston Outreach
412 Ann Street
Phone: (910) 762-5491, ext. 35.
Social
outreach of St. Mary Catholic Church.
Services include clothing for all ages,
food, furniture and household items.
Sister Mary Isaac, contact for Tileston
Outreach. 9-11:30 a.m. Monday-Thursday.
Tileston Clinic
1303 Cypress Grove Drive
Phone: (910) 343-8736
Free medical and dental
clinics 10 a.m. Tuesdays for new
clients. 2:30
p.m. Wednesdays for walk-ins. Diabetic
clinic on second Tuesday of each month
(schedule appointments). Other
specialists include an orthopedic
doctor, a podiatrist, a pediatrician and
a plastic surgeon. Services: free
medical, dental and diabetic program and
pharmacy for the poor and uninsured.
United
Christian Campus Ministry
3403 Winston Blvd
E-mail: uccmwil@yahoo.com
Multi-denominational programs. Student
group is Fellowship of Christian
University Students (F.O.C.U.S.) Serves
UNCW campus and Cape Fear Community
College. Rev. Nancy Cooper, campus
minister.
UNCW Baha’i Club
Phone: (910-962-3051
E-mail: bahaiclub@uncw.edu
Works for the elimination
of all forms of prejudice and the
establishment of the equality of women
and men. Ministers to Baha’i students.
Wilmington Baptist Association
610 S. College Road
Phone: (910-799-1160
Organization of 69
Southern Baptist churches. Services
include food closet, counseling,
inner-city ministry, Baptist campus
ministry, Hispanic ministry, Japanese
ministry, Brazilian ministry. Rev.
Leland Kerr, director of missions.
Wilmington Interfaith Hospitality
Network
411 N. Fourth Street
Phone: (910-762-0339
Eleven host churches
provide a free week’s stay at their
churches for families in
need. Families are in the program for
six to 12 weeks while they find jobs and
housing. Then 15 support churches bring
in food and volunteers for the families.
Transitional housing also is available
for families who do find jobs.
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