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Helping people at every age live wisely

The mission of LifeWise STL is to help individuals and families achieve economic well-being by providing high-impact, relationship-based programming and by addressing systemic barriers to their success.

LifeWise STL uses a model that is based on educational programming fused with personalized and supportive coaching. This evolution led us to choose LifeWise STL as our name, which conveys what we are all about — helping people at every age live wisely.

Youth sorting clothes at LifeWise
Youth packing socks at lifewise
Youth sorting at Lifewise
Youth in Lifewise pantry
Youth working in Lifewise pantry
Lifewise Education
Youth in Lifewise store
Volunteers wrapping at LifeWise StL Holiday Mart
Holiday wrapping at LifeWise StL Holiday Mart
Youth Mission
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Back-to-School Event for LifeWise

donate & serve opportunitities

Manchester UMC works with partner agencies in collecting much needed items for their clients as well as ways to volunteer time.

THANK YOU, Volunteers!

On Saturday, August 12th, Manchester UMC volunteers served at LifeWise StL’s Back-to-School event where over 400 children and their families passed through the store and picked out their own brand new backpacks, school supplies, and new sneakers! 

Thank you all who gave their time to help St. Louis student start the school year with these much needed items!

Tushies Toes

Donate Most Needed Items

  • Boys’ Socks size:  S
  • Girls’ Socks sizes:  M & L
  • Men’s Underwear sizes:  M & L
  • Women’s Underwear sizes: 7 & 9
  • Boy’s Underwear sizes:  S, M, L & XL
Bring these items to the LifeWise Collection Bins, located near the main office.

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Let There Be a Big Bang

Science teaches that the universe began 15 million years ago with a “Big Bang.” Genesis teaches that God created the “heavens and the earth” by speaking it all into existence. Human beings are composed of the same elements as the stars, which connects us to God’s creation in a very

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Pastor's Note

The God Particle

September 19, 2023 “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.” – Albert Einstein Our worship series, “She Blinded Me With Science,” is

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Pastor's Note

Let There Be A Big Bang

September 12, 2023 Albert Einstein said, “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.”  Scientific ideas and theological concepts are often woven together in beautiful ways. Not only are science and theology compatible, often they are complimentary. Some of the most cutting edge science has profound theological implications. And

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