Faith in Action’s impact ministries offer a wide range of routine and accessible service opportunities. These opportunities for individuals and families help us keep loving engagement with our neighbors always in the forefront of our thoughts and prayers
Jubilee Ministries
Jubilee Ministries offer opportunities for service or charity approximately every seven weeks. These are either material drives where we engage in collections for our neighbors or construction projects where we work in partnership for the common good. For more information on the current opportunities, click onJubilee Ministries.
Get Involved: Lou O’Brien
GAIHN - The Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network
In partnership with GAIHN, we host up to four homeless families for one week in the All Saints Center three times each year. Parishioners provide meals, activities, and hospitality to our GAIHN guests. In 2011, GAIHN families will be joining us the week of February 12.
Get Involved: Peggy Cox and Fran Spicer
Sunday Morning Missions
Sunday Morning Missions are an opportunity to engage in service during the Sunday School hour. Each Impact Ministry offers a gateway to the world of Faith in Action. We encourage every parishioner and every family to be involved in this component of our walk with Christ.
Mission Backpack
Christ Church Faith in Action is reaching out to help children in our community who often don’t get enough to eat when they are home on weekends and school breaks with a new program called Mission Backpack. Partnering with Loaves & Fishes, we will be purchasing kid friendly food, packing bags to send home with children, and delivering them bi-weekly to support the most needy children at Robert E. Cashion Elementary on Fork Shoals Road in Greenville. This is a great chance to make a difference in our community! I encourage you to join us in our efforts to help feed hungry children this school year. We need volunteers who are willing to go shopping, pack 25-100 shopping bags, and deliver bags. What a great way for your family or Bible study group to help for a one-time commitment or in an ongoing capacity--the choice is yours.
Why are we doing this?? Forty nine percent of the children attending Greenville County schools are eligible for free or reduced price meals at school. This is more than 35,000 children in our community! School social workers will select those children who are most at risk for having nothing to eat at home on weekends and during school breaks. These children need our support and we will make a difference to them.Get Involved: Sally Skardon or Heather Meadors.
Stop Hunger Now
In March 2011, the Faith in Action team coordinated a special project with Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. Christ Church parishioners packaged in 45 minutes 35,000 dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals to benefit Haiti. Check out the impact of this event on this Stop Hunger Now video.