Serve
Serving at Hyde Park is a concrete way to live out our mission to Make God’s Love Real.
Serve at Hyde Park
Serving with one of our age-group, adult, or missions ministries not only helps grow someone else’s faith, but chances are it will grow your’s too! We have heard countless stories from volunteers who found a deeper spirituality through serving and making a difference in our church community.
Tell us about yourself, and we’ll contact you this week about upcoming opportunities.
Ministry with the Unhoused
- Open Arms Sunday Morning (Sundays at 8 a.m.)
- Bike Repairs (Weekly)
- Cold Weather Shelter
- Manna Bags (Monthly)
- Mission Smiles Dental Clinic (Semi-annually)
- Love INC
- Metropolitan Ministries
- Salvation Army
Mission Partners
State and International Partners
- Cuban Partnership
- El Ayudante (Nicaragua)
- Heifer International
- Methodist Seminaries
- Seth Mokotimi Methodist Seminary (South Africa)
- Phakamisa (South Africa)
- Residing Hope Children’s Home
Justice Initiatives
- Affordable Housing
- Creation Care
- Fines and Fees
- HB1365 Response
- Hillsborough Organization for Progress and Equality (HOPE)
- Racial Reconciliation
- Public Transportation
Mission Trips
At Hyde Park United Methodist, mission travel is about building relationships with our international partners. We serve alongside them, share resources, and learn from their ministries and contexts. With open hearts and minds, we listen for the ways God speaks through these experiences. Each team goes as representatives of our church and returns to share what they’ve learned.
Our current partners are in the Granma region of east-central Cuba, León, Nicaragua, and areas outside Durban, South Africa.
Nicaragua 2026
Next trip: Nov. 2-8, 2025
A small team of 4 will be traveling this November to reconnect with our partner and plan a subsequent trip. We partner with El Ayudante in Leon. https://eanicaragua.com/ Please pray for our team, our hosts and each person we encounter with the Love of Christ.
For more information about the trip, email Heidi Aspinwall.
Cuba 2026
Next trip: February 19-26, 2026
We partner with the Methodist church in Cuba. We are connected in a sister church relationship with Bayamo, Guanito and Piloncito all within the Distrito de Sierra Maestra.
Cost of the trip is $1500. A deposit of $600 is due Nov. 3.
Note: Passports must be valid until August 26, 2026.
South Africa 2026
Next trip: 2026
We have two long term partners outside of Durban: Seth Mokotimi Methodist Seminary and Phakamisa – a wholistic social service agency born from Pinetown UMC.
For more information about the trip, email Sita Monti.
Rwanda 2026
Next trip: June 22 – July 1, 2026
Travel with congregants of other Bay area UMC churches to visit four ZOE Empowers locations. On this trip you will see “our” sponsored group of young adults and children in their second year! Also you’ll visit groups, in their very first year, another in their third year and others that have completed the program and are living self-sufficiently. You’ll see the entire cycle from despair to independence. https://zoeempowers.org/
For more information about the trip, email Beth Potter.
