Network Parish-in-Focus Series: St. Luke’s Church, Akron, Ohio
A Mid-western Anglican Church with a Big Heart for the World

One thousand sheets of drywall are loaded onto tractor trailers headed for Pearlington, Mississippi to rebuild churches and homes. Is this the loading dock of a FEMA warehouse?
One hundred and fifty donated bicycles are repaired and loaded onto a container bound for Liberia to provide transportation for pastors and workers. Is this a project of Schwinn International?

Hundreds of pounds of donated formula, medical supplies, clothing and food are collected for shipment to the Children’s Infectious Disease Hospital in Kharkov, Ukraine. Is this a Compassion International offering?

No, these are typical scenes you can see in the parking lot of St. Luke’s Church in Akron, Ohio, a Network parish with a missions ministry that reaches around the globe. St. Luke’s, a 40-year-old parish of 500 congregants, commits one-third of its annual budget to support missions in countries like Ukraine, Mexico, Brazil, Kenya, Liberia, Uganda, and Afghanistan as well as supporting ongoing local and domestic outreach. the rest