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MISSIONS... POSSIBLE !
Church World Service web page
The Board of Community and World Service is the arm of our church designated
to oversee mission donations and disbursements. The Board with your help, supports
outreach programs in our community, our state, nationally, and internationally.
The mission work of our church is done basically in three ways:
The first is through “special offerings.” Five Sundays a year you are asked to help with an extra
cash donation which is used for Neighbors in Need (poverty in the U.S. and Puerto Rico), Veterans of the
Cross (to support retired clergy and their spouses), Blanket Sunday and Tools of Hope (to help the
impoverished around the world), and One Great Hour of Sharing (disaster relief around the world.)
The second is when we ask for your help with donations of goods such as: our Food Drive, where
we collect and deliver canned goods to the Red Cross and to the Wallingford Emergency Shelter; the
Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt to fill food baskets; the Angel Tree at Christmas; the Easter Baskets filled for
families and children who would otherwise go without; the Community Dinners where we help out with
both donations and time. Your response is always generous!
The third area where the mission work of our church is enabled is through mission pledging.
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What is church without an active mission program? How better to serve our faith
than to share God’s generosity to us with others. In our church it is the Board of
Community and World Service that has the honor and responsibility for organizing
opportunities for outreach and overseeing that your pledge dollars go where they
can do the most good. In these difficult times, the Board is especially gratified that
mission pledging has continued to flourish and grow. A big THANK YOU to all.
For without you the food baskets would be empty, the Community Dinners unmanned, the holiday and
Easter Baskets unfilled.
I think we can all be proud that our church has become increasingly aware and active in mission work.
From participation in the Walk for Hunger in November that enabled us to deliver a jeep full of food to
Wallingford’s Emergency Shelter, to work with the Bawa Health Initiative in Cameroon, to providing the
funds to support a school teacher in Liberia, to sponsoring what has become an annual mission trip for our
senior high youth. So many ways to put our faith into action!
Making a Difference with Our Mission Giving
A Report from the Board of Community and World Service
• Thank you to all those who have made a mission pledge for 2012. Your pledges and
contributions to mission allow the Board to distribute grants for local/ state, national and
global mission activities. Without your financial support, these and other grants would
not be possible. For a full list of 2011 grant recipients, please see the Annual Report or
request a list from the church office.
• Many thanks to those who participated in the Angel Tree Project. We were able to provide
over 80 Christmas gifts to children and youth through our DCF/Covenant to Care program
with local social workers.
January, 2012 Mission Grants
• Bawa Health Initiative (BHI) - The Bawa Health Initiative (bawahealth.org) is making a
difference in the health of children and families in Bawa, Cameroon by providing water
filters for safe drinking water, distributing ITN (insecticide treated bed nets) to help
prevent malaria, providing medication to treat parasitic helminth infections, and by
working to construct a primary health clinic in the village.
• A grant to Christine W. for a St. Joseph’s College Habitat for Humanity /Alternative
Spring Break mission trip to Virginia.
The giving never
stops here and for that we thank God
and all his people.
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