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The
following organizations are designated as "Primary" beneficiaries of
Mission Committee giving: |
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Bethesda Mission - a mission in downtown Harrisburg
that seeks to provide food, shelter, clothing, and the good news of Jesus (www.bethesda-mission.org). |
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Central PA Food Bank - provides food to nearly 1600
residents of Central Pennsylvania (www.centralpafoodbank.org) |
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Christian Churches United - an organization sponsored
by many Central Pennsylvania churches to provide temporary shelter and food
to those in extreme need. |
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Delta Community - an organization that assists single
parents and their children with housing needs (www.delta-community.org). |
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Downtown Daily Bread - a soup kitchen sponsored by the
Pine Street Presbyterian Church and other local Presbyterian Churches that
serves a midday meal to those who need it 365 days a year (www.downtowndailybread.org)
The Deacons of MPC organize people to serve meals at Downtown Daily Bread
two times every month. |
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Ecumenical Food Pantry - a food pantry that receives
donations from many Central PA churches and is housed in Messiah Lutheran
Church; volunteers from MPC help staff the Ecumenical Food Pantry on
a monthly basis. |
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Habitat for Humanity - a housing
ministry that is both local, national, and global. MPC gives to both
Cumberland Valley Habitat for Humanity in Carlisle, and Habitat for Humanity
of the Greater Harrisburg Area. In 2008, MPC was named "outstanding
congregation" by HFH of Harrisburg. Many of the mission trips sponsored by
MPC are to affiliates of Habitat for Humanity, such as Horry County Habitat
for Humanity in South Carolina, and Habitat for Humanity in Mexico. (www.habitat.org)
Volunteers from MPC work regularly at HFH of the Greater Harrisburg Area,
and some groups that come from other locations to work there (such as
collegiate challenge groups in the spring) stay at our Youth Center. |
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Medical
Benevolence Foundation - an international organization associated with
the PC(USA) that provides clinics and medical care in underdeveloped
countries (www.mbfoundation.org)
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New Hope
Ministries - in both Dillsburg and Mechanicsburg. A local organization
that provides emergency food and, in some cases, funding for families in
need (www.newhopeministries-pa.org)
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Truckstop
Ministry - a ministry of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches that
serves thousands of truckers who use I-81 and the PA turnpike and stop at
truck stops at the interchange of these two roads in Carlisle. |
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Cumberland
Vista - a ministry of CROSS (Christian Residential Opportunities and
Social Services) that provides a home and residential services to adults
with mental retardation (www.crossinc.com)
Various groups from the church regularly go to Cumberland Vista for
evenings of games and pizza. |
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In
addition to these organizations, the Mission Committee gives money to the
following organizations as "Secondary" organizations: |
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Allison Hill Community
Ministries - provides educational programs for children and youth in the
Allison Hill area of Harrisburg. |
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Bread for the World - an
international organization that seeks to provide food for the world by
bringing about legislative changes (www.Bread.org). |
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Krislund Camp - our church
camp, which the Presbytery of Carlisle owns with the Presbytery of
Huntington and the Presbytery of Northumberland, located in Madisonburg, PA,
near State College (www.krislund.org). |
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Contact Harrisburg - a
24-hour 7-day-a-week listening, information, and referral service which can
provide callers with a contact telephone number to the human services organization(s) which might be able to meet their need. |
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Domestic
Violence Services - of Cumberland and Perry Counties, which provides
temporary emergency shelter and counseling for those seeking relief from
domestic violence. |
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Fruit Belt Farm Workers -
a ministry to migrant farm workers in Adams County. |
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Interfaith
Shelter - a shelter that is located on the grounds of the Harrisburg
State Hospital and can house up to 55 individuals at a time. This shelter
is unique to the Capital area because it accepts families as a unit so that
children do not have to be separated from parents. |
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Meals on
Wheels of Mechanicsburg - provides one meal/day delivered to the homes
of elderly in Mechanicsburg. |
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Menaul
School - a private school in Albuquerque, NM, for children in grades
6-12; one of our denomination's racial-ethnic schools (www.menaulschool.com). |
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Safe
Harbor - a long-term shelter at the former James Wilson Hotel on High
Street in Carlisle. Provides housing and self-enhancement programs for the
homeless and potentially homeless single adults and families. |
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Frontier Fellowship - an
organization that works with the Worldwide Ministries Division of the PC(USA)
to establish indigenous churches among unreached groups of peoples (www.pff.net). |
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Outreach Foundation - also
a mission of the PC(USA), which helps congregations develop relationships
with global partners in God's mission (www.theoutreachfoundation.org). |
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The Mission
Committee also supports the Kids Haven program of Capital
Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, an after-school program, with tutoring
volunteers. |
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In
addition to all the above organizations, the Mission Committee is becoming
increasingly involved in the Honduras partnership of the Presbytery of
Carlisle and has given $10,000 for the building of a church in Honduras. |
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Mission Trips |
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Every year
members of MPC venture from this area for national and international mission
trips. On alternate years, these trips are international trips, such as our
trips to Mexico with Habitat for Humanity International in 2003, 2005, and
2007. National trips are to such organizations as the Beach Castles program
of First Presbyterian Church in Myrtle Beach, SC, which works with Habitat
for Humanity of Horry County. The Confirmation Class makes an annual trip
to The Pilgrimage in Washington, DC, to work and learn about poverty in our
nation's capital. |
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