Filling the Gap Ministries

06/04/2026

Serving humbles the heart and strengthens families who serve together. Get involved.

We’re getting ready for our next Oceana County Mobile Food Pantry with Feeding America West Michigan at the Oceana County Fairgrounds on Friday, June 19, and we could use a few more helping hands.

These evenings are powered by volunteers who show up ready to serve with kindness and care. Together, we help make sure families leave with fresh food and the support of their community behind them.

Distribution begins at 5:00 PM.
Volunteers arrive between 4:00–4:30 PM.

This distribution is supported by the Urgent Needs Fund of the Community Foundation for Oceana County helping strengthen food access throughout Oceana County.

If you’ve got a couple of hours and a heart for serving your neighbors, we’d love to have you.

Sign up here: https://volunteer.unitedwaylakeshore.org/need/detail/?need_id=1224199

When volunteers show up, community resiliency grows.

05/08/2026

This is our home church. All ages welcome so get involved.

We’re having an informational meeting Sunday, MAY 17
Q&A session to go over general schedule and expectations of that week. The meeting will take place at our Shelby Campus at 12:30pm. Come with any questions you may have, we look forward to seeing you there!
269 S State St.
Shelby
Missions Trip Dates: July 20 - 24 (M - F) There is no cost for the trip

05/06/2026

Feeling blessed to have been able to help out locally in Evart, MI the last couple days with Samaritan’s Purse. Always a humbling experience and yet fun with friends (new, old, from near and far) doing the work God has called us too. We love that we can help people in some of their hardest times and lessen the burden of disasters recovery for them.

04/25/2026

This is one of the organizations we deploy with for Disaster Relief and we are so thankful they are coming to help in our areas. We too will be going to help for Day Volunteering on Monday 5/4/26 and maybe more depending on work schedules. If you are interested in going with let me know directly.

04/02/2026

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-- Amy & Neal Martell

03/25/2026

We are excited to announce that we got word of being awarded our very first grant for Disaster Relief courtesy of Wilbur-Ellis. Thank you Dennis Devitt for making this happen for us! We greatly appreciate the support. We are trying to raise $45,000 to purchase a mini-excavator and this $2,500 will be the first towards this goal.

03/20/2026

Does your business or workplace give out grants to organizations, etc? Or do you know one that does? We are looking for monthly support, grants and/or one time donations for our non profit Filling the Gap Ministries to purchase a mini excavator and general operations. We would greatly appreciate any leads. Thank you in advance. 🙂

03/18/2026

We did day volunteering 3/16/26 with Samaritan’s Purse in Union City. We invited our church, a friends church, our employees from Big John's Pizza and kids to come with us. We ended up having 15 in our group come and serve. Many of whom was their first time. So thankful to be surrounded by people who want to love and serve. God put us in the very exact location that the 3 adults lost their lives. It was so heartbreaking to see all the devastation and knowing lives were lost there. While cleaning up God put it on my heart to be praying for all these people specifically. So please keep praying for this area as they have a long road ahead and things will never be the same.

03/17/2026

This is how we spent our day today with Samaritan’s Purse, a couple of our kids, an employee, some friends from our church and another church in our area. Always a blessing to be a blessing.

The sound of heavy machinery and the smell of smoke were as constant as the wind on Monday as cleanup from the Union City tornado entered its second week. Read the full story through the link in the comments.

03/10/2026

We want to give a shout out to Priscilla and Aquila Ministries for being the first of our friends to donate to our newly established nonprofit ministry. Also, a big thank you to Judy Kurtz for being our first Big John's Pizza customer to donate. May God bless you all. Thank you! 🥳🙌