The purpose of the Stewardship Team is to increase awareness of what stewardship is, and encourages the giving of the member's time, spiritual gifts and money.

• Annual Stewardship Campaign
• Church Budget Preparation
• Liaison with Financial Secretary and Treasurer
• Coordination with Payroll Services
• Time and Talent
• Treasurer
• Financial Secretary
• Collection Counters
• Budget Planning Team

The purpose of the Evangelism Team is to encourage and plan ways for the Salem members to intentionally reach beyond themselves to share the Gospel with others. The team works to support, guide and nurture the following ministries

• Hospitality
  • Issues of welcome
  • Visitor follow-up (plant delivery and phone calls)
  • Hosting seeker-friendly events to which members may invite others
• Incorporation
  • New member orientation, receptions and mentors
  • Telephone ministry towards inactive members
  • Pictorial Directory
• Neighborhood Outreach
  • Brochures
  • Advertisements
  • Web Site
  • Direct Mail Campaign
  • Community Events

The Caring Connection is a congregational support ministry that was established to help the members of Salem assist each other in times of need. Our primary goal is to help and support the congregation with this responsibility so that all the members of Salem feel connected and cared for. However, there are often needs or crises that are beyond the scope of individual support and the caring connection was created to be the liaison during these times.

Most of our support is through providing meals/gift cards for members who are ill or have prolonged hospital stays; however, our committee is prepared to help with any request from transportation to fundraising.

The Caring Connection is also responsible for the distribution of communion to members who are unable to attend and receive the sacrament at our church services. We have trained members who volunteer to distribute communion at a member's request.

At Salem, members also stay connected by a devoted group of prayer warriors. They are contacted either by phone, answering machine or email. One coordinator sends prayer requests through the phone link and the other coordinator passes along prayer requests through the email link. Prayer requests can go directly to either of these coordinators, through the church office or in the offering plate during services.  A current list of prayer requests for the congregation and our extended family is provided in the Beacon each month. A prayer chain coordinator updates this list monthly.

Salem is mindful about the needs of our members and the Caring Connection ministry strives to keep our members connected to and thus cared for by one another.

• Communion
• Meals
• Transportation
• Phone Calls

The purpose of the Outreach Team is to lead and enable the congregation to serve God and God's people in our community within and beyond our family of faith by sharing our beliefs, talents and resources. The team, through the generosity of Salem's membership, currently supports with our talents and resources the following.

A special offering for the Kansas City Community Kitchen, which feeds 300 to 400 hungry people five days a week.

• Provides food and serves six Saturday meals per year at Children's Memorial Lutheran Church . 
• Monthly food drive for the Johnson County Human Services & Aging Food Pantry, which serves our immediate community.
• Coordinates Meals-on-Wheels deliveries, which are vital to our elderly community.
• Gathers and delivers items for SafeHome.
• A special offering for the children of the Oaks Indian Center to assist with basic needs of children living at the center.
• Gathers and delivers gifts received from our Annual Christmas in September for MLM Christmas Store.
• Organized walkers and contributors for the annual October Crop Walk, which helps fight hunger both in our own area and around the world.
• Provides benevolence monies to the Shawnee Community Center.