Throughout the year St. Peter youth and adults participate in Service Sundays. We learn together about an organization or cause and engage in a service project as we live out our Core Value to Give Generously. Service projects have included:
- Food Bank of Iowa – School Backpack Program and School Pantry Program
- IHYC (Iowa Homeless Youth Center) – Fleece Blankets for Youth service by IHYC
- Lutheran World Relief – Personal Care Packages
- Salvation Army Breakfast Casseroles – Preparing breakfast casseroles for the Mobile Breakfast canteen that feeds the Des Moines area homeless & near homeless populations.
- Fall Outreach Sunday – St. Peter serves the Grimes Community by providing fall cleanup help
- Grimes Storehouse – Regular collections of food for the food pantry, quarter tube collection, seasonal collections
- Urbandale Food Pantry – Donation of birthday boxes for families supported by Grimes Storehouse
- Companion Congregation in Myamba, Tanzania support including Sponsorship of Myamba Student (Tuition for Hearing Impaired School)
- Outreach to Homebound Members, creating and delivering special gifts from St. Peter
- Tying fleece blankets for Mercy Hospital
- Making denim shoes for SoleHope
- Well Walk for ELCA Walk for Water
- Filled boxes for Operation Christmas Child
- Random Acts of Kindness
- Childhood Cancer (Children’s Cancer Connection & Alex’s Lemonade Stand) Fundraiser
- Spurgeon Manor – Gift bags with personal care items, word searches etc.
