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Your CHURCH in MISSION:
Fair Haven Concerned
Vermont Conference UCC
UCC Global Ministries
Church World Service - Health Kits
SERRV Self-Help Handicrafts
Heifer Project
CROP Walk for Hunger
Local Missions begin with Fair Haven Concerned, an organization begun fifteen years agony our community churches and groups to provide a safety net for any of us when we might be in need. Our goal is to connect any person in need with someone or some group who will help, and when all else fails, to do it ourselves! April Monaco is our outreach worker, and you can contact her at 265-3666 to get or give help!
Volunteer drivers are especially needed to get people to essential services like medicine, food, and medical care.
Through Fair Haven Concerned we also actively help on the Food Shelf, Bread Distribution and Emergency Fund, the Clothing Drive every fall, the Community Thanksgiving Dinner, the Christmas Giving Tree and Toys for Tots, as well as preparing Christmas baskets for more than 400 neighbors. Fair Haven is more than a name, it is a spirit that spreads through the people and groups of our town!
Nancy Duncan and Camilla Partch with a "mountain of food"
gathered at the ecumenical Bible School for the Food Shelf.
| Around Vermont, our Vermont Conference UCC extends our missions.
Visit their website to learn more about our work there. http://www.vtcucc.org |
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Our hands reach across America and around the world through our United Church of Christ.
Our global ministries are now shared cooperatively with the Disciples of Christ. Explore our shared website to learn more http://www.globalministries.org/ |
We also love to work with Church World Service,
http://www.churchworldservice.org/ the ecumenical worldwide mission group, gathering funds for blankets, and making Health, School and layette kits
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Gift of the Heart Kits Little things do mean a lot -- especially when those little things are brought together as Church World Service Gift of the Heart Kits. |
The contents of each of these "starter sets" are such simple, small things -- pencils, tablets,
washcloths, a scrub brush -- but having or not having them can make a world of difference in an
ongoing development program or when disaster strikes.
That's why Health, Cleanup, Baby, and School Kits are among the items most requested by our
overseas partners each year. The need is great, and we can never have too many on hand.
A life-renewing Health Kit includes
| One hand towel One washcloth One comb One metal nail file One bar of soap (bath size) One toothbrush One tube of toothpaste (4-7 ounces) Six band-aids |
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We also encourage shopping in ways that will help people underdeveloped counties through SERRV http://www.serrv.org/
One of our favorite world missions that give gifts that keep on giving, is Heifer Project International.
Learn more about them! http://www.heifer.org/
In October 2001 we had our first CROP Walk ever, and raised about $8,000
and since then we've been nlessed by growing gegnerosity in our area!!
One quarter of the funds will help the Fair Haven Concerned Emergency Fund purchase
a truckload of food
to deliver in the middle of the winter
and 75% of our money through CROP to help with the disasters in America
and hunger and disasters around the world.
To learn more about our Missions Ministries, Contact our Mary Ann Charron
Pastoral Care is our next ministry...
