MISSIONS
Faith requires action
We believe that faith requires action. Sometimes that means filling a gap in our community’s support systems, which is how we began serving our Thursday Lunches to 30+ people experiencing homelessness every week.
Hosting A Night’s Welcome means providing a safe space for the unhoused to sleep during the cold winter months. We host for a month and serve hundreds of warm meals.
On Faith@Work Sundays, we leave worship and let our hands and feet do the talking, serving local nonprofits, shut-ins, and other community concerns.
Presbyterians also know that God is active in every corner of creation, so we seek to go and help the helpers already on the ground.
We partner with local organizations doing great work (several of which this church birthed into existence) including Peake Childhood Center, Peninsula Pastoral Counseling Center, and H.E.L.P (Hampton Ecumenical Lodgings and Provisions). We host the H.E.L.P. food pantry and, with volunteers from churches across the peninsula, create food bags to sustain hungry families through the week.
RISE Against Hunger happens twice a year after worship. Our intergenerational gathering packs 10,000 meals that are sent around the world to enable children to attend schools in under-resourced countries.
An annual mission work-trip sends youth and adults to rehab homes in the many communities still reeling from the effects of hurricanes on the east coast. Recent trips have focused on New Bern, NC and its surrounding towns.
Youth trips (often in partnership with PASSPORT Mission) contain a mission component as they spend a week exploring their faith in community.
We join with Presbyterians around the country in supporting Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and Church World Service to provide relief needs to refugees, migrant farmers, and other vulnerable populations.