Ministry is serving others. It happens whenever you take steps to grow in your love of God and neighbor.

How We Serve Our Neighbors
  • Tuesday After School Program for youth (middle to high school age) is a free program open to all kids that is a time of spiritual and leadership development and unwinding, chillaxin and sharing together.
  • We support the local Food Pantry at SMILE by contributing groceries each month. Canned and boxed items are brought into worship on the first Sunday of the month.
  • Also, on the first Sunday of each month, we join in preparing a meal for an average of 20 people at Project Echo – a homeless shelter in our county.
  • Every fall, we collect a variety of needed items for Safe Harbor, the shelter for abused women & children of Calvert County. In 2010, we collected 36 bags of items,
  • We continue to sponsor the Adopt-a-Highway Road Clean-Up and tend to HG Trueman Road between Sneads and St. Paul UMC,
  • We lead monthly & weekly worship services at Solomons Nursing Center and the Riddle Center of St. Mary’s County.
  • We contributed to the Patuxent Highschool JROTC Scholarship Fund with a Memorial Day offering in 2011.


S.M.I.L.E. -

an ecumenical ministry that operates a thrift store and food pantry. Persons can connect with emergency and on-going assistance through SMILE. Members of Olivet have supported this ministry from it's inception and continue to volunteer and offer regular financial support. Visit their website at http://www.smileinc.org/

Project Echo

- we support this nonprofit agency that provides emergency assistance to homeless people in our community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Each month, we provide a meal to the residents. You can learn more about this ministry to residents of Calvert County at their website www.projectecho.net

How We Serve Around the World
  • Through the coordinating efforts of the women of Olivet, we created and packed School Kits and Health Kits for worldwide distribution through the ministry of United Methodist Committee on Relief.
  • In 2011, we gave financially to the work of UMCOR in response to disasters around the world, such as the tsunami in Japan.
  • Every fourth Sunday of the month, we take up an offering to send a missionary in Liberia named Suzanne Porter.