Providing food, housing, health care to people in need in our community and around the world.

COM Special Collections

Spring:  One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS)
Fall:  Neighbors in Need (NIN)
Winter: The Christmas Fund

Living your faith!

• Act to bring hope to people in need by participating in events listed in the newsletter.
• Cook or serve a meal at the Wright Center for Women (one 3rd Sunday evening).
• Bring a food bag of groceries to feed a household through the Urban Ministries Food Pantry (1st Sundays).
• Walk to raise funds to help those who are hungry (CROP Walk, usually 1st Sunday in October but Oct. 12, 2008).
• Ask a member of the AIDS Care Team about their Care Partner; pray for their work.
• Spruce up a playground or read to a child at Method Child Development Center.
• Ask a CUCC representative to the board of RICH Park Housing about what is happening at these ministries.
• Be a substitute driver for Meals on Wheels.
• Swing a hammer as part of the Appalachia Service Project summer work team.
• Support with your prayers, time, talents, and money the agencies who bring hope and help to those in need in our community and around the world.

• Service Organizations which received financial support from CUCC in 2007 (pdf)

  Clip Boxtops for Education symbols from General Mills products or UPC barcodes from Campbell's products to support Elon Homes for Children and place them in the box on the kitchen counter (below the glasses).  Questions?  Contact Mary Pruneau.
• Set the direction of CUCC's service through monthly discussion with the Community Outreach Ministry.

Monthly Meetings
2nd Tuesday, 6:45pm
Contact:  Geri Bowen

What does the Community Outreach Ministry do?

The church's constitution calls for the Community Outreach Ministry (COM) to introduce the congregation to opportunities to serve in local, state and national communities, as well as the wider United Church of Christ.  In these many ways CUCC, through its Community Outreach Ministry, is living up to the scripture according to James with its good works, so that its faith may live.

What do people like about serving on the Community Outreach Ministry?

"I've always been interested in getting involved in the part of the church which works directly at touching people in the community.  I want to learn about the long-term relationships with groups which we [CUCC] have built so I can get involved.  Christianity is about getting involved with, relating to, helping people that are in need." - Joe

"When I serve on the Community Outreach Ministry, I feel that I am organizing exactly what Jesus asks us to do 'feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, helping those who need help,'  'treating others as I would like to be treated.'  It feels like what I'm supposed to be doing." - Geri

"Because the congregation strives mightily to 'live' its motto - nurturing spiritual growth and working for social justice, all in an atmosphere of warm, human caring." - Marge