Mission Giving Recipients
The following organizations are designated by the Mission Committtee as beneficiaries of MPC mission giving. Click on the icon or the underlined red lettering for the link to more information.
Bethesda Mission - a mission in downtown Harrisburg that seeks to provide food, shelter, clothing, and the good news of Jesus Christ. (www.bethesdamission.org)
Bread for the World - an international organization that seeks to provide
food for the world by bringing about legislative changes.
Christian Churches United - an organization sponsored by many Central
PA churches to provide temporary shelter and food to those in extreme need.
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 needs.
Cumberland Vista - a ministry of CROSS (Christian Residential Opportunities and Social Services) that provides a home and residential services to developmentally disabled adults. Various groups from the church regularly go to Cumberland Vista for evenings of games and pizza.
Domestic Violence Services - of Cumberland and Perry Counties, which provides
temporary emergency shelter and counseling for those seeking relief from domestic violence.
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. The Deacons of MPC organize people to serve meals at Downtown Daily Bread two times every month. (downtown daily bread)
Ecumenical Food Pantry - a food pantry that receives donations from many Central
Pennsylvania churches and is housed in Messiah Lutheran Church. Volunteers from
MPC help staff the Ecumenical Food Pantry on a monthly basis.
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)
Fruit Belt Farm Workers - a ministry to migrant farm workers in Adams County.
Honduras partnership of the Presbytery of Carlisle - The Presbytery of Carlisle has been working on a partnership with the Presbyterian Church of Honduras. Carlisle Presbytery has a number of congregations in direct relationship with the Wrights and with Tim and Gloria Wheeler, also in Honduras. The Wrights’ position was created as a result of conversations between the presbytery, led by the Rev. Mark England-Kreiger, the Honduran church and Presbyterian World Mission officials in Louisville.
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.
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.
Meals on Wheels, Mechanicsburg - provides one meal/day delivered to
the homes of elderly in Mechanicsburg.
Medical Benevolence Foundation - an international organization associated with the PC(USA) that provides clinics and medical care in underdeveloped countries. (
www.mbfoundation.org)
New Hope Ministries - in both Dillsburg and Mechanicsburg. A local organization
that provides emergency food and, in some cases, funding for families in need.
Outreach Foundation - also a mission of the PC(USA), which helps congregations develop relationships with global partners in God’s mission. (www.theoutreachfoundation.org)
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 (safeharbouronline.wordpress.com)
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.
Mechanicsburg Presbyterian Church