• Caring Ministries: Pat and Willard Ware provide a food ministry on a one time emergency basis for those in dire need. This service is primarily for the benefit of families with children and the elderly. Contact the church office for referral.
• Crib Ministry: This ministry provides diapers, wipes, baby clothes, and toiletry items on an emergency basis for young mothers. Contact Sherry Hart for information on this ministry.
• Roanoke Area Ministries (RAM) receives funds from the church to help those needing help with utilities, rent, clothing, transportation, etc.
• Our members cook and serve lunch at RAM House the 4th Saturday of every month.
• Members of the Edith Long Schisler Circle cook and serve dinner for the Community Outreach Program every 1st Tuesday during the school year.
• Members of the various Sunday School classes provide Christmas for 5 children in the Community Outreach Program.
• Members of the church provide Christmas gifts for 20 patients at the Catawba Hospital.
• Greene Memorial is a supporting church with St. John's Lutheran in the Interfaith Hospitality Network. Four weeks each year, the two churches house and feed homeless families.
• The Summer Enrichment Program, a free day camp for at-rish children of Roanoke City, is held every July. Greene Memorial along with 7 other southwest city churches sponsors the camp.

Global Missions

• Global Mission Partner Church: For the past 5 years our church has achieved this status, and have qualified again for 2007. In order to do so, we provide $2,500 annual support to John Elmore, a United Methodist missionary serving in Chile. Another $1,000 supports a Person in Mission, a local individual, who serves the church in Chile. Another requirement is that the church pay 100% of its apportionments.
• Volunteer in Mission: Our church organized and led a mission trip to Ecuador, the first week of August 2004, where 13 adults and 4 youth from Greene Memorial and other churches on the Roanoke Distict helped to renovate a Methodist church parsonage in the city of Santo Domingo de los Colorados. This work was coordinated by our former missionary, the Reverend Daniel Godwin.
• New Global Missionary: Due to lack of educational opportunities for their children, our former missionaries, Daniel and Lisa Godwin, found it necessary to leave their mission field in Ecuardor and return to their home in Florida. As a result we have entered into a new covenant relationship with John Elmore, a missionary commissioned by the Board of Global Ministries, who serves in Chile. He leads numerous construction projects building churches and parsonages in the Northern part of that country. His ministry is described in detail at the following web site: http://www.gbgm-umc.org/umc-chile/
• Special Offerings: Over and above our budget items, special offerings are taken throughout the year for our various missionary activities, such as missionary support, the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and World Communion. The One Great Hour of Sharing Offering for United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) raised almost $6,300 last year.
• Mission Study: Throughout the year special programs are offered to the congregation to provide information regarding the activities of all the mission outreach teams.

Mission Trips

• In July 2007, two of our members (George Devlin and Larry Lance) will be going on a Roanoke District VIM trip to Chuisamayac Guatemala to work on a combined medical and construction project. The mission team consisting of 20 people from the Roanoke area is being led by Jean Broyles (Northview UMC). About two thirds of the team are in the medical profession and will be working in clinic’s in local church’s. The remaining participants will work on a water project. The team will leave Roanoke on July 21st and return on the 29th.
  
  Chuisamayac is a remote (not on any map) Mayan village located about two and half hours west of Guatemala City. It is in a poor area of the country where infant and maternal mortality rates are high and medical care and medicines are in great demand. The local missionaries, Jim and Diane Thompson operate one main clinic in the village of Paquila and several others when medical teams visit. Please visit http://www.bocacostamm.org/letter8-2.htm to learn more about the Boca Costa Medical Mission.
• Greene Memorial has been on 19 different Habitat for Humanity mission trips. A total of 71 different members ranging in age from 1 to 82 have been on the trips. So far the team has been to 13 different states. The Habitat mission trip for 2007 will take place August 4th thru 11th in Erie Pennsylvania with a projected cost of $125.00 per person.
• Ten Greene Memorial members took part in construction mission trip to Gulfport Mississippi in October 2006 to work on hurricane Katrina damage. Tentative plans are in the works for another construction mission trip to Gulfport Mississippi in April 2007.