Change the World Day volunteers at the Claude Moore Farm in McLean. Photos contributed
More than 350 members of Messiah United Methodist Church in Springfield took church to the community on Sunday, Sept. 7, performing 30 mission projects including repairing a boardwalk maintenance at Hidden Pond Nature Center; serving meals at Rising Hope UMC (Route 1 corridor), Capitol Hill UMC (DC) and Fisher House (military veterans); sorting donations at area charity thrift stores and building fences at picnic tables at Camp High Road, a United Methodist camp in Manassas.
The day of service — in which the combined manpower performed a year’s worth of community service — is part of a United Methodist initiative called “Change the World Day.”