Ministries
Ministries are how the church reaches out and is involved with the surrounding community to share God’s love. We believe that it is important to be a church of the community and for the community.
Nursing Home Ministry
Monthly Worship Service provided at local Personal Care Home, often with a small musical Ensemble providing accompaniment. Also providing additional Services on special occasions and presenting of parishioner-made gifts.
Coordinating Fundraising and Donations for Local Non-profits
We host and provide on-going fund-raising and collections for local non-profit agencies, such as the Good Samaritan Food Bank, CAPSEA (Citizens Against Physical, Sexual, Emotional Abuse), Womens Abuse Shelter, Emergency Flood Relief (replacement of Furnaces funded through a grant), and financial relief for families in trouble, especially with serious medical-related needs.
Craft Night
Meeting with community participation in the Parish Hall weekly on Wednesday evenings to create craft projects for local social service entities, such as the hospital. This group also coordinates and provides special programming for the community.
The Children of Abraham Project
The Children of Abraham Project is an interfaith initiative that brings Jews, Muslims, and Christians together in open and honest dialogue. Those who practice these three religions are The Children of Abraham.
We come from different cultural backgrounds and traditions. We do not speak the same language of worship, yet we share a common religious ancestry. We follow different teachings, which are made known to us by sacred scriptures. Yet we come together. We honor and celebrate our similarities, but more importantly we proactively engage our diversity.
If our communities or humanity is to survive and prosper then we must work together to heal and proactively engage those things which divide us. Peace and harmony between cultures and religions is possible, but it must be pursued with education, understanding, and a loving heart.
Part of achieving this peace is through interfaith dialogue which refers to a cooperative, constructive, and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions. Interfaith encounters not only impact how we relate to our own faith traditions, but also how our faith tradition relates to our relationships and encounters with those who believe differently.
Interfaith dialogue allows people of different faiths, different cultures, different theological and philosophical backgrounds; to come together to listen, to learn, to better understand someone else’s story and our shared human experience. And by doing so, we enable ourselves to counteract the bigotry, hatred, and stereotypical images that inundate our society so that we may bring change and reconciliation to the world. The reality is this; love and peace are possible if we allow it to happen; if we stop dividing ourselves and building walls to separate each other. Because in the end, we are of one heart, we are of one love, one family, we are one human race.