Special Mission Projects
Alternative Gifts Market – A Christmas project as a mission to undeveloped areas of the world. It involves local people giving authentic, life-giving gifts of food, animals, medical supplies and actual surgeries, materials to build shelters, clothing, and gifts of food growing materials.
Blanket Sunday – An annual collection for blankets distributed by Church World Service.
Christmas Joy Gift – An annual collection to support retired Presbyterian Clergy, retired missionaries, and racial/ethnic schools.
One Great Hour of Sharing – An annual collection for disaster relief, feeding the hungry and training people to better their lives.
Pentecost Offering – An Annual offering by the congregation to support the denomination’s work with children at risk in poor, third-world situations, and with youth and young adults around the world.
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Missionary Support – We keep in touch with all of our missionaries through email, letters, and phone calls. Missionaries routinely send us their prayer needs and their news. When in the area, all of our missionaries try to touch base with their supporting churches. In addition to addressing us at the pulpit, we host potlucks, at-home dinners and other events to welcome our friends and learn of their work.
Short-Term Mission Trips – Our very active youth ministry program has supported annual domestic work trips to several places in the eastern U.S. We have also sent teams to Grand Bahama Island to work with the Haitian immigrant community to make repairs following a hurricane. In three consecutive years our youth and adults assisted Grand Bahama with school and other building construction, teaching women to sew, building a fishing boat, teaching Bible classes, and generally showing God’s love for His people.