Memorial Garden Youth Project

Youth Day Of Service Success

growing to serve. immanuel lutheran church lcms. joplin missouri.

30+ Volunteers Thanking God, Giving 200+ Hours

What a beautiful day! From setting up for the Easter Breakfast and Egg Hunt to washing windows and trimming bushes to tearing out weeds and old bushes to shoveling and spreading several tons of gravel and replanting the memorial garden behind the school, your youth made us proud on the Saturday before Easter! Great job, Immanuel Youth! 

Thank you to several adults who donated their time, equipment and expertise to make sure Immanuel Youth had success. Several donations of cash, landscaping materials and gift cards allowed us to invest $1000+ into the landscaping project this year. Stop by and see what these volunteers accomplished together.

Youth Day of Service Photo Gallery

  • Youth volunteers laying black landscape fabric along a walkway outside the brick building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers sorting snacks and supplies at a table in a room with a wooden cross on the wall at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Growing to Serve. Youth Ministry. Day of Service. Immanuel Lutheran Church LCMS. Joplin Missouri.
  • Volunteers setting potted flowers and shrubs into a fresh gravel bed beside the building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • A group of volunteers working with shovels and picnic tables in a gravel landscaping bed at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Two volunteers working outside on a sunny day, one bending over a blue bucket and another carrying a length of pipe at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers raking and spreading gravel around an outdoor air conditioning unit beside the building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers unrolling black landscape fabric over a bare bed beside a brick entrance at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Two volunteers with shovels and a roll of landscape fabric standing on a lawn beside a bare dirt strip at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • A circle of youth and adult volunteers talking together outdoors beside potted plants and a folding table at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • A volunteer on a stepladder cleans the tall glass entryway windows while another works below at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers working a landscaping bed with rakes while a skid steer loader stands nearby at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Two volunteers trimming shrubs along a lawn beside the building on a sunny spring day at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • A volunteer digging a landscaping bed with a shovel outside the entrance, with a skid steer loader parked behind, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • A volunteer guides a skid steer loader carrying a bucket of soil along the street beside the church property in Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers shoveling gravel off a flatbed trailer into wheelbarrows beside the building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • A group of youth and adult volunteers gathered on the lawn while two kneel over supplies at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers raking a newly finished gravel courtyard with young shrubs planted along the building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers watering a newly planted young tree beside the building with a garden hose at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers bending over garden beds with rakes and shovels along the brick building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • A quiet gravel courtyard with two picnic tables beside the brick building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Youth volunteers standing and kneeling on the lawn with buckets of supplies on a sunny spring morning at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Volunteers raking gravel and turned soil across a courtyard beside the brick building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.
  • Youth volunteers digging and clearing a garden bed beside a brick building at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri.

About The memorial Garden

May 2011. Joplin Tornado Damage. Immanuel Lutheran Church LCMS. Joplin Missouri.
May 2011 tornado damage

Located behind the Martin Luther School building, the Memorial Garden was constructed in May of 1997 as an updated entrance to the back of the school, leading into the “Luther Room.” Over the years, special trees, bushes and flowers have been added in thanksgiving to God for the lives of loved ones.

The first such memorial was installed to remember Dustin Mallory, an Immanuel youth who died following a tragic auto/pedestrian accident in 1997. Out of necessity, the garden has been replanted several times, most recently following the May 22, 2011 Joplin Tornado. The work completed by our youth last weekend helps to give thanks to God for all of His good gifts.

Thrivent Action Team Grant

Live Generously logo with a red heart and blue cross emblem beside bold lettering.

Our Day of Service and Easter Breakfast were made possible in part by an Action Team Grant from Thrivent Financial. Our group of volunteers was given a box full of tee shirts as well as a $250 Community Impact Card, providing seed money to get our project going. Thrivent members and policy holders are eligible to apply for two of these grants each year. Thanks for helping us to make an impact on our community, Thrivent!

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