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Mission Overview
What You Can Do
Housing Mission Activities
Hunger & Poverty Mission Activities
Social Services Mission Activities
National & International Activities
Local Habitat Program
Summer Mission Project
Lewinsville Retirement Residence
Chesterbrook Residences

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO

MISSIONS OF THE MONTH
March 2010

ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING

For over fifty years Presbyterians have supported the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering during Lent. We will receive this Offering on Palm/Passion Sunday, March 28. This proceeds go toward three worthy programs in the PC(USA):

  1. Presbyterian Hunger Program (36 percent). For ministries working to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes, responding with compassion and justice to poor and hungry people in local communities, in the nation and throughout the world, as well as ministries addressing homelessness and affordable housing.
  2. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (32 percent). For disaster response and ministries with refugees.
  3. Self-Development of People (32 percent). For partnerships with groups of people who are oppressed by poverty or social systems, who want to take charge of their own lives, have organized to do something about their own condition, and have decided what they need to do to produce long-term benefits for themselves.

There will be envelopes provided in the pews for the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering. Please give generously to this Mission of our church.

 

Contribute Non-perishable Food Items, Used Clothing, and Other Items

Non-perishable food items are collected on the first Sunday of each month for SHARE. Canned goods and dry items requiring no refrigeration, please. Staples such as tea, sugar, vegetable oil and cereal, toothpaste, laundry detergent and bar soap are always needed. Place your donations  in the boxes that will be found in the Narthex.

You Can Volunteer for a Project in a Role Tailored to Fit Your Personal Schedule and Situation

See the complete listing of projects on this website:

You Can Support  Special Campaigns and Collections When They Are Announced

Special campaigns will be conducted to meet unforeseen needs and emergencies, in particular for natural disasters.  Relief efforts for hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters will be the subject of special appeals, because funds for such contingencies are very limited in the current budget.

 

Look for our Mission Handbook, available at Lewinsville Presbyterian Church. All information in the Handbook is also found on these Outreach webpages. There are approximately 25 separate activities listed under four major headings: Housing, Hunger and Poverty, Social Services, and National and International. This Mission Handbook contains information about all the Mission projects that Lewinsville supports as of August 2009.

 

Updated March 7, 2010