Help maintain the POP property by gathering together to weed the landscaping. Volunteers should bring gloves & weeding tools. Come for any length of time
Save the date for our annual Weekend of Service! At Prince of Peace, our mission is to live and love like Jesus, working toward a world restored with grace and peace. One way we do that? By stepping out together to serve.
Details are coming soon!
Spend a couple hours on Saturday, July 25 helping grill hot dogs and sharing a meal with kids and parents in Loveland as they pick up their backpack from the LIFE Food Pantry's Back to School Event!
popluther.org/gods-work-our-hands
At Prince of Peace, our mission is to live and love like Jesus, working toward a world restored with grace and peace. One way we do that? By stepping out together to serve.
Each year, we set aside one weekend to pause our routines and turn the church inside out. This is our chance to bring love, hope, and helping hands into the community—and we need you with us.
Sign-ups are now open!
Explore a wide variety of service projects with trusted partners across the city—indoors, outdoors, hands-on, behind-the-scenes—there’s something for every age and ability.
While you're at it:
Grab a list* of needed items for our POP Food Drive (or [click here for the list](#)).
Pick up your “God’s Work. Our Hands.” shirt*—first one’s free, replacements are $10.
Worship Schedule Reminder:
On Sunday, September 7, there will be no 10:30 AM service while we’re out serving. Come early at 8:30 AM or join us Saturday night at 5 PM.
Let’s be the church in action.
Let’s live and love like Jesus—together.
Come serve with us! Every donation of time, talent or finances is equally important and every donation makes an incredible difference in the lives of the poorest of the poor and disaster victims. All are invited to come to Matthew 25 for an afternoon of volunteering. Sign up at this link.
Parents & Grandparents play a unique and vital role in passing on faith to the next generation. Join us for this engaging workshop day where you'll discover practical ways to share your faith journey and ideas to create meaningful spiritual connections with your grandchildren - whether biological, friends and neighbors, or kiddos from church. From "Faith Webbing" to hands-on service projects, you'll gain the tools and confidence to make everyday moments count. Because you never retire from sharing God's love! Join fellow grandparents (and surrogate grandparents!) at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Loveland for this special opportunity to strengthen your family's faith legacy.
We are looking for new, used, and broken bikes for Queen City Bikes that share them with Mauritanian refugees in need. Queen City Bikes not only donates bikes, but teaches these refugees how to repair them. Around 3,000 refugees live in 2 apartment complexes in Lockland, Ohio, and have no means of transportation to get to their jobs or English as a second language classes. Some of their jobs and classes can be up to a 10 mile round trip! These bikes provide new freedoms and opportunities for these refugees, and help improve their everyday lives.
Click here to learn their whole mission.
Don’t have any bikes? Bike locks and lights are also being collected during this drive!!!
We are looking for new, used, and broken bikes for Queen City Bikes that share them with Mauritanian refugees in need. Queen City Bikes not only donates bikes, but teaches these refugees how to repair them. Around 3,000 refugees live in 2 apartment complexes in Lockland, Ohio, and have no means of transportation to get to their jobs or English as a second language classes. Some of their jobs and classes can be up to a 10 mile round trip! These bikes provide new freedoms and opportunities for these refugees, and help improve their everyday lives.
Click here to learn their whole mission.
Don’t have any bikes? Bike locks and lights are also being collected during this drive!!!
Hoxworth is coming back to Prince of Peace and we know many who would love to share the gift of life!
Thank you for your generosity!
Sign up to give - a reservation is required.
Interested in learning more about a potential service opportunity week in the Asheville, NC area in early 2025? Join us as we plan for a trip like that together. We will aim to serve with Lutheran Disaster Response of the Carolinas through Lutheridge Camp.
Join with Sarah Frick and others from Prince of Peace at the Tikkun Farm Multi-Faith Volunteer Day. RSVP online and email Sarah to let her know you’re coming too!
Join us as we gather on the third Saturday of the month for our Multifaith Volunteer Day. We welcome people from all spiritual communities to serve together for the greater good. We begin at 9:30am with a sacred experience in nature, and followed by work on service projects.
Enjoy warm soup, fresh bread, and decadent desserts provided by local sponsors, and take home a beautiful handmade pottery bowl donated by local artists, all for only $25. Proceeds benefit the Loveland LIFE Food Pantry.
There are only openings left at the 1:00–2:30 seating so act quickly!
Learn more and get your tickets at https://lifefoodpantry.org/emptybowls/
We help serve a lunch, read books, play games, and support the ongoing work of NEST Community Learning Center. We need 6-8 volunteers ages 12+ at each site daily (Monday-Thursday).
Help us pray blessings on our expanded POP Community Garden, our gardeners, and the LIFE Food Pantry as we prepare for planting enough vegetables to share with our neighbors. Join us in the garden after worship!
Ministry Team Leader Meetings bring together leaders from various groups across the congregation to equip one another to live and love like Jesus. The purpose is to share information about ongoing ministries in our community and collaborate on ways to support, resource, and communicate effectively. These meetings aim to build collaboration opportunities, fostering a world of grace and peace.
Prince of Peace is excited to sponsor the Great Symmes Easter Egg Hunt as a Community Outreach Event where we have a chance to connect with our neighbors and share a little bit of God’s love! Come with your family to participate or volunteer at the event!
To volunteer, we’ll need help at the Prince of Peace booth greeting people and connecting. Another group will help with the behind-the-scenes of the event helping kids swap tickets for prizes. Sign up here or at Prince of Peace on the bulletin board.
Volunteers needed 9:30 AM to Noon
Kids Activities begin at 10:15 AM
Be a part of POP's spring service day at Clutter2Care in Mason. We'll enjoy fellowship while we work to organize and sort donated items. Clutter2Care is a local non-profit thrift store that donates store earnings to meet the needs of at-risk and marginalized children in our local area as well as in Haiti. All ages and abilities are welcome to serve. Click here to sign up.
Clutter2Care Warehouse, 8703 Fields Ertel Road, Cincinnati, OH 45249
Join us for a time of helping together. Volunteers will pack rice, fortified soy protein, dried vegetables, and a blend of 21 vitamins and minerals into bags that will then be sealed, boxed, and prepared for international shipment to children who need it most. Open to all ages and abilities. This event is open for the first 80 people so sign up soon to save your family’s spot!
Fill and drop off Holiday Meal bags for LIFE Food Pantry!
Click here to see a list of items needed and to sign up to contribute a ham: popluther.org/advent
Make plans to attend the 2nd annual LIFE Empty Bowls event October 14th from 11-2:30 at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. For just $25, you can enjoy warm soup, fresh bread, and decadent desserts provided by local sponsors, and take home a beautiful handmade pottery bowl donated from local artists. All proceeds will benefit the Loveland LIFE Food Pantry, which provides food and financial assistance to our local neighbors in need.
In addition, you’ll have an opportunity to win fabulous gift baskets donated by local businesses and the community. If you are interested in being a donor this year, please contact emptybowls@lifefoodpantry.org
Information on how/where to purchase tickets will be announced soon! Check out our website for the latest details. https://lifefoodpantry.org/emptybowls/
One weekend every year we make a commitment to pausing our patterns and turning the church inside out to serve all weekend long. Service opportunities with new and old partners across the city will be available for people of all ages and abilities. Head to this page to learn about all of the opportunities.
Could you join us to greet kids, prepare sandwiches, play a game, or listen to kids read during NEST's annual summer program? Adults and youth (7th grade and above) are needed. Register here or at the sign up sheet on the bulletin board.
Community Garden Blessing
Sunday, April 23
11:45 AM
Come see the work that has begun and pray for God's blessings in our Community Garden.
The Prince of Peace Rummage Sale is around the corner! We will be accepting donations from April 23-27 (large item pick-up will be Sunday, April 23). We need both donations and help to organize. More details to come! Contact Tanner with any questions.
Meet at the Little Miami Inc. visitor center in downtown Loveland (at the bike trail by Nisbet Park) anytime during these hours. Supplies, drinks and T-shirts provided. Target areas will be directed by the Loveland Environment Committee RAIN OR SHINE. For additional information, call Gary Benesh at 513-250-7652 or Email at ggbenesh14@gmail.com.
Tikkun Farm Crock Pot Meal Program
Help Prep Meals
Weekend of April 21-23
Volunteers are once again invited to chop and bag fresh ingredients at home in support of Tikkun Farm’s crockpot meal program. Could you help prepare provided items, such as onions, carrots and celery? Finished kits containing everything needed for a nourishing meal will reach 320 families, including disabled adults, single parents, homeless families living in hotels, and others needing food support. Click here to sign up.
Serve Together at Tikkun Farm
Saturday, April 1 at 9 AM
Spend a morning at the farm as we help with springtime garden and construction projects at Tikkun. There are tasks for all ages and abilities – you can even pet the alpacas! Together we can be a hopeful, helpful part of Tikkun’s mission after their devastating fire on Christmas Eve.
Sign up here.
Make a donation towards Hoops for Haiti that will foster life-giving impact for Haiti’s poor. All proceeds will be sent to The Haitian Timoun Foundation.
Whether or not you complete a bracket, we invite you to support the cause! We hope to help HTF raise $50,000 towards summer camp for kids in Jacmel led by young adult leaders from across Haiti!
For each bracket entered we ask for a $25 minimum donation. Donate here!
A link to the HTF Hoops for Haiti Bracket will be posted when brackets are available at: https://www.popluther.org/hoops
All 8th grade and high school students are invited to join us for a Discipleship Tour meeting! Discipleship Tours are engaging 5-day trips with our students where we grow in faith by having worship and devotions nightly. We connect in community and serve the world by being the hands and feet of Jesus doing a variety of different service projects and volunteer sites. Even if you're not completely sure about attending this year, please attend this meeting to find out more about it! If you cannot make it, please reach out to Tanner.
You’re invited to shop for a local family’s holiday meal so that all may have hope this Christmas. Distributed through LIFE food pantry, holiday meal bags will help support 100 families in need in Loveland. Pick up a donation bag and shopping list in the Gathering Space. Then, drop off filled bags to the coat alcove by December 18. Volunteers are also invited to come together to transport bags or pick up pre-paid perishables at Kroger or ALDI on 12/18 or 12/21.
