What is Beyond Sunday Shared Ministry?

A Volunteer and Service/Justice Coordination Program for Fountain Street Church, providing opportunities for Fountain Streeters of all ages and abilities to give of their own particular gifts, and to nourish their spiritual growth by reaching out to their community. This would include three categories: Action Toward a Personal Level, Church Community Action, and the Local/Beyond Local Community Action.

The membership is divided approximately by zip codes into six DISTRICTS, identified by different colors. On Sunday mornings you can easily identify which District members live in by the color of their nametag sleeve. Each District has between one and four leaders, who coordinate the activities and facilitate the Ministry work within their District, such as contacting people to provide meals to a member who just lost a loved one, or sending cards, and providing rides to someone recovering from surgery. Other things Beyond Sunday Districts are commonly involved in are:

• District-wide Potlucks
• Church Work Days
• Gatherings that create small group relationships
• Social/service oriented activities and outings (local benefit walks, working in food pantries, soup lunches, helping at memorials, providing crisis support to others in the church community, etc)
• Giving Trees - for staff, church community, local charities, schools for supplies and school libraries, etc)
• Aligning each Fountain Streeter with several individualized opportunities to 'plug in' to something that gives them joy, fills that empty space, and utilizes their gifts to provide for the world in some way.

How Do I "Connect" with Beyond Sunday?

To read the latest for your District, just click on the link at the upper right, and move your mouse over your appropriate District color link.

Call Paula Roelands, Beyond Sunday Coordinator, at Church, at (616) 459-8386 ext. 225 or e-mail her at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   to express your interest in being involved.

Our Church Building:
Though most of our recent improvements were for fire safety, many help to decrease our environmental impact.  For instance, our newer exterior doors are more efficient in their R value rating, and also in their ability to seal out the weather with improved fit and weatherstripping.  We have also had a significant decrease in our heating costs this year primarily due to the sale of the steam plant and preventative HVAC maintenance.  We have replaced a number of less efficient heating components with newer more efficient ones and now contract routine quarterly maintenance which has improved our heating efficiency.  As part of the life safety product, we upgrade a lot of our less efficient electrical services boxes and components which will hopefully yield savings in the future.  We will continue to work with both efficiency and environmental sustainability in our upcoming improvements to the building facilities and use.