OUTREACH
At Parkway UCC
All ages can participate in outreach and mission work
at Parkway United Church of Christ!
There’s always giving going on at PUCC.
Members
and friends of all ages have:
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Collected, delivered,
and organized clothes at the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition’s Kids Store
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Cleaned trails at the
Wild Bird Sanctuary
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Gave “Hugs and Kisses”
to canned goods at a Food Pantry
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Collected diapers for
Neighborhood Houses’ Caroline Mission
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Collect non-perishable
food items for the Isaiah 58 Food Pantry (monthly)
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Given a baby shower for to
benefit Neighborhood Houses
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Created Christmas bags
for children in Nicaragua through the Rainbow Network
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Raised money and helped
work on houses for Habitat for Humanity
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Supported Bread for the
World
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Collect hats, gloves,
mittens, and scarves for Evangelical Children’s Home
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Donated full shopping
bags to local homeless shelters and outreach programs
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Collected money for
Neighbors In Need, Eden Seminary, Lydia’s House, Neighborhood Houses, La
Clinica, Back Bay Mission,
Evangelical Children’s Home, Emmaus Homes, Circle of
Concer, The Christmas Fund, Heifer Project, and many other organizations.
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And much more!
Parkway
UCC also continually collects:
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ink cartridges to be
recycled
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sample-size toiletries
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On the first Sunday of
every month, Parkway UCC collects non-perishable food items for the Isaiah 58
Food Pantry.
This collection is known as Give A Meal Sunday.
2nd MilE GIVING FOR lent and easter 2008
These organizations have been selected by our Christian Services
Commission and we have set a goal of $6,000 that will be
divided equally
among these four life-giving ministries.
Lydia’s House in St. Louis
Lydia’s House
works in faith to end domestic violence by being a place of healing and a voice
of hope for
abused women and
their children. The agency provides safe, confidentially-located furnished
apartments for
up to two years,
assists women in creating and implementing goal plans that will help them live
independently,
and increases
community awareness of domestic violence.
Neighborhood Houses
At Community
Centers in St Louis City, Neighborhood Houses provides safe places for children
and youth.
Here the kids participate
in fun educational, recreational, and cultural activities everyday so that they
can develop
the skills they
need to succeed in school and life. Families receive support through our Food
Pantries,
Thrift Shops and
Parish Nurse program.
Back Bay Mission in Biloxi,
Mississippi
Back Bay Mission
provides direct services to poor families while creating new independent
service agencies.
Because of past
and current UCC investment in Back Bay Mission’s work, over $10 million in
vital services are
delivered
annually to South Mississippians in such diverse areas as education, legal aid,
health care, feeding programs,
early childhood
development, family counseling, housing, and domestic violence.
{Back Bay Mission
is still trying to recover from hurricanes}
Heifer Project
International
Today, millions
of people who were once hungry will be nourished by milk, eggs and fresh
vegetables.
Families who for
generations knew only poverty will be building new homes and starting
businesses.
Children who once
headed out to the fields to do backbreaking work will be heading into
schoolrooms to learn to read.
And people who
never thought they’d be in a position to help someone else will be experiencing
the joy of charitable giving.
How is this
possible? With Heifer’s proven approach
– recipients agree to share the offspring of gift animals with
others in need, making them equal partners with Heifer in the fight to end world hunger. HPI can transform villages at a time.