In addition to financially supporting these ministries, members of the congregation also volunteer their time to feed and clothe those with special needs.

Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) is a program designed to help displaced families get back on their feet after a crisis has occurred in their lives. The families who are accepted in the program are homeless and in search of employment. The goal of the program is to help them find appropriate housing, improve their job skills through education and help them find gainful employment.

Once every nine weeks, our church becomes home for up to fifteen homeless people who reside in our facility from Sunday afternoon through the next Sunday morning. Volunteers from our church provide transportation between the church and the interfaith center in Newport on a daily basis. Groups of volunteers from support churches, as well as Immanuel members also prepare and serve evening meals and breakfast every day the families are with us. Others spend the night at the church to help meet any needs that might arise overnight. Still others give of their time to play with the children and youth who are our valued guests.

Our IHN group is always in need of additional volunteers to help with this special ministry of hospitality.

The Immanuel Service Project is a "home-grown" outreach ministry that grew out of participation in the Appalachia Service Project in the late 1980's.

For several years, ISP was a ten-day mission project that worked out of the Morgan-Scott Project in rural East Tennessee.

Volunteers did repairs that made it possible for disadvantaged families to remain in their homes. Thanks to the generous support of our congregation, ISP teams were actually able to construct completely new homes for three families.

Groups also built a covered deck, handicap ramp, and benches for the Free Food Store at the Morgan-Scott center.

In recent years, ISP has evolved into a group that not only works through the Morgan-Scott Project in Tennessee, but also teams up with a local organization called People Working Cooperatively to do home repairs for families and individuals living in Northern Kentucky. Recently, ISP helped to renovate a small United Methodist Church in Flemingsburg, Ky.

Immanuel members and friends participate in a number of outreach ministries during the holiday season.

Last year children, youth and adults did Operation Christmas Child, a project that filled empty shoe boxes with toys and gifts for children in third world countries.

The church also continued to do the Angel Tree Project, a ministry of Prison Fellowship that makes it possible for Christians to purchase and deliver toys to children of men and women who are in prison. In addition to these projects, the church also participates in the Christmas gift program at Ida Spence Mission. Members purchase gifts that are given to children who reside in a Federal Housing Project in Covington.

Also, our United Methodist Women circles are actively involved in a variety of outreach projects both locally and around the world.