Community Service Ministry
Our Mission:
Community Service Ministry (CSM) is a long-standing committee of the Community Church that encourages, coordinates, and delivers services and financial support to the local community with a strong emphasis on hands-on activities that improve the lives of those less fortunate in our community. The CSM provides opportunities for church members to volunteer and helps them learn ways to serve the community and live out their inward and outward spiritual journeys.
Community Service Ministry (CSM) is a long-standing committee of the Community Church that encourages, coordinates, and delivers services and financial support to the local community with a strong emphasis on hands-on activities that improve the lives of those less fortunate in our community. The CSM provides opportunities for church members to volunteer and helps them learn ways to serve the community and live out their inward and outward spiritual journeys.
Crop Walk
WE NEED YOU! Put your mad skills to good use! Community Service Ministry is looking for an energetic volunteer to take the lead for the Crop Walk Project. If you are interested, please contact us at csm@c3huu.org
What is CROP Walk?
The annual Chapel Hill/Carrboro Crop Hunger Walk, benefits Church World Service (www.churchworldservice.org) and the IFC food programs. The walk is a four-mile stroll along the streets of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and through the UNC campus. There is a shorter route available as well. Entertainment & activities are ongoing during registration and continue throughout the afternoon. Come join the fun at the next walk and support Crop Hunger Walk. For more information: http://www.ifcweb.org/cropwalk.html
WE NEED YOU! Put your mad skills to good use! Community Service Ministry is looking for an energetic volunteer to take the lead for the Crop Walk Project. If you are interested, please contact us at csm@c3huu.org
What is CROP Walk?
The annual Chapel Hill/Carrboro Crop Hunger Walk, benefits Church World Service (www.churchworldservice.org) and the IFC food programs. The walk is a four-mile stroll along the streets of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and through the UNC campus. There is a shorter route available as well. Entertainment & activities are ongoing during registration and continue throughout the afternoon. Come join the fun at the next walk and support Crop Hunger Walk. For more information: http://www.ifcweb.org/cropwalk.html
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Interfaith Council
What is IFC? For over 50 years, Inter-Faith Council for Social Services (IFC) has provided concrete help to local people struggling to feed their families, hang on to their jobs, and meet their basic needs. The Community Church was a founding congregation of the IFC and continues to contribute the money, groceries, leadership and volunteers needed to help IFC help families. IFC provides year-round services to individuals in need in our community. Meals are served at the IFC Community Kitchen 365 days a year. The Community House offers shelter and other services to homeless men. Project HomeStart provides services and transitional housing in a homelike atmosphere for women and children. Low-income families receive nutritious groceries at the Food Pantry and specific help with needs such as clothing, utilities and referrals for other services at the Main Street office.
You can help... Join a volunteer team that cooks and serves meals every month. Bring canned goods to church for the Food Pantry.
Volunteer at Community House, Project Home Start, or Main Street. Community Church contributions from Share the Plate help to make all this remarkable work possible.
Read more about these and other innovative services such as Food First and Community House at www.ifcweb.org.
Through Community Service Ministry efforts, Community Church members have the opportunity to prepare and serve meals at the homeless shelter once a month.
(SIGN UP HERE!)
What is IFC? For over 50 years, Inter-Faith Council for Social Services (IFC) has provided concrete help to local people struggling to feed their families, hang on to their jobs, and meet their basic needs. The Community Church was a founding congregation of the IFC and continues to contribute the money, groceries, leadership and volunteers needed to help IFC help families. IFC provides year-round services to individuals in need in our community. Meals are served at the IFC Community Kitchen 365 days a year. The Community House offers shelter and other services to homeless men. Project HomeStart provides services and transitional housing in a homelike atmosphere for women and children. Low-income families receive nutritious groceries at the Food Pantry and specific help with needs such as clothing, utilities and referrals for other services at the Main Street office.
You can help... Join a volunteer team that cooks and serves meals every month. Bring canned goods to church for the Food Pantry.
Volunteer at Community House, Project Home Start, or Main Street. Community Church contributions from Share the Plate help to make all this remarkable work possible.
Read more about these and other innovative services such as Food First and Community House at www.ifcweb.org.
Through Community Service Ministry efforts, Community Church members have the opportunity to prepare and serve meals at the homeless shelter once a month.
(SIGN UP HERE!)
- Lunch - 3rd Wednesday of the month
- Dinner - 1st Friday of the month
- Dinner- 3rd Tuesday of the month
School Supplies Project
We received a thank you note from John French, at the Chapel Hill Police Department. "Again I would like to thank you and the church for your contributions to the Chapel Hill community and to the youth. We ran out of backpacks within an hour and started a wait list, hoping for additional bags from other communities. You put a lot a smiles on kids' faces going back to school and they really liked the bags this year." John
A Big thanks to the congregation for great generosity. Once again we filled and delivered 168 backpacks to some smiley faces in Orange and Chatham County.
Special thanks to Deb Ross for filling every inch of her car with backpacks and making the Chatham County delivery!
Special thanks to Kathy Putnam, Marilyn Alexander, Maureen O'Rourke, Shannon Richards, and Sally Schatz who filled the packs with assembly line precision !
Contact Eleanor Armstrong at 919-942-2840, if you would like to help in the future. School Supplies Project 2018 will start again next July. As always, thank you for your support!!
We received a thank you note from John French, at the Chapel Hill Police Department. "Again I would like to thank you and the church for your contributions to the Chapel Hill community and to the youth. We ran out of backpacks within an hour and started a wait list, hoping for additional bags from other communities. You put a lot a smiles on kids' faces going back to school and they really liked the bags this year." John
A Big thanks to the congregation for great generosity. Once again we filled and delivered 168 backpacks to some smiley faces in Orange and Chatham County.
Special thanks to Deb Ross for filling every inch of her car with backpacks and making the Chatham County delivery!
Special thanks to Kathy Putnam, Marilyn Alexander, Maureen O'Rourke, Shannon Richards, and Sally Schatz who filled the packs with assembly line precision !
Contact Eleanor Armstrong at 919-942-2840, if you would like to help in the future. School Supplies Project 2018 will start again next July. As always, thank you for your support!!
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Charles House
Charles House is a well-established daytime eldercare home providing individualized, homelike care for seniors who have physical or mental difficulties. For 25 years it was in Carrboro, but is now off Sunrise Road on the edge of the Carol Woods campus. It is an independent non-profit, not officially tied to Carol Woods. Elders can come for varying number of days in the week and for varying hours, depending on the needs of their families. This allows family members to go to work or to have much needed respite time. There is a high ratio of trained staff to participants. This is supplemented by volunteers and students from UNC health care fields who get practical experience. In addition to the daycare facility, there are two local very small residential homes which follow the same philosophy, but care for people who no longer can live with their families. Volunteers can help at either location on a weekly schedule or only come one time, depending on what suits their desire. They can contact dean@charleshouse.org for much more detailed information.
The Charles House website can be found here.
Charles House is a well-established daytime eldercare home providing individualized, homelike care for seniors who have physical or mental difficulties. For 25 years it was in Carrboro, but is now off Sunrise Road on the edge of the Carol Woods campus. It is an independent non-profit, not officially tied to Carol Woods. Elders can come for varying number of days in the week and for varying hours, depending on the needs of their families. This allows family members to go to work or to have much needed respite time. There is a high ratio of trained staff to participants. This is supplemented by volunteers and students from UNC health care fields who get practical experience. In addition to the daycare facility, there are two local very small residential homes which follow the same philosophy, but care for people who no longer can live with their families. Volunteers can help at either location on a weekly schedule or only come one time, depending on what suits their desire. They can contact dean@charleshouse.org for much more detailed information.
The Charles House website can be found here.
OKAY (Opportunities for Kids and Youth)
OKAY is a network of women from various local churches, concerned about children from low-resource families. During summer, spring break, and other school breaks, these children probably stay home, watch TV, play video games, care for younger siblings, or get into trouble. This only exacerbates the achievement gap -- children who don’t have some structured activities during the long summer school breaks are proven to do worse in school.
OKAY strives to provide these children with a healthy environment by:
Community Church members are involved in and continue to provide important leadership for this community effort, including Connie Gates (founding member), Emma Friedman, and Lynn Harmon.
To volunteer, share ideas or expertise, donate, or find more information, contact Connie Gates.(conniegates@juno.com)
OKAY is a network of women from various local churches, concerned about children from low-resource families. During summer, spring break, and other school breaks, these children probably stay home, watch TV, play video games, care for younger siblings, or get into trouble. This only exacerbates the achievement gap -- children who don’t have some structured activities during the long summer school breaks are proven to do worse in school.
OKAY strives to provide these children with a healthy environment by:
- Bringing awareness to the general community about the situation
- Informing families of affordable programs
- Encouraging development of programs in the community
- Supporting existing affordable programs through funds, resources, volunteers, and love
Community Church members are involved in and continue to provide important leadership for this community effort, including Connie Gates (founding member), Emma Friedman, and Lynn Harmon.
To volunteer, share ideas or expertise, donate, or find more information, contact Connie Gates.(conniegates@juno.com)
Habitat For Humanity: “A Hand Up, Not a Handout”
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County (HHOC) offers home ownership to local families who otherwise may not otherwise have the opportunity for a safe, affordable home. Churches and organizations partner to contribute part of the construction costs and their labor as they build homes alongside future homeowners, who invest at least 325 hours of labor. This helps keep costs low for Habitat families, who pay closing costs and monthly mortgage payments to Habitat. As Habitat homeowners pay their mortgages, the money is used to build homes with other Habitat families. Since 1984, HHOC has built more than 270 homes locally. In cooperation with other churches and community groups, Community Church of Chapel Hill has built 20 of these homes in 20 years. Our partners in our Building Hope cooperative this year are Catholic Community of St. Thomas More, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, United Church of Chapel Hill, Newman Catholic Center and University Baptist Church College Ministry.
We raise funds for our share of the construction costs through two Share the Plate collections each year. For more information on volunteering to help with construction, please contact our volunteer construction coordinator, Dave Morgan at morgandb@gmail.com.
Channel your inner Bob-the-Builder...volunteer for the next Habitat build! Community Service Ministry can help you realize your volunteer potential. Contact us at csm@c3huu.org
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County (HHOC) offers home ownership to local families who otherwise may not otherwise have the opportunity for a safe, affordable home. Churches and organizations partner to contribute part of the construction costs and their labor as they build homes alongside future homeowners, who invest at least 325 hours of labor. This helps keep costs low for Habitat families, who pay closing costs and monthly mortgage payments to Habitat. As Habitat homeowners pay their mortgages, the money is used to build homes with other Habitat families. Since 1984, HHOC has built more than 270 homes locally. In cooperation with other churches and community groups, Community Church of Chapel Hill has built 20 of these homes in 20 years. Our partners in our Building Hope cooperative this year are Catholic Community of St. Thomas More, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, United Church of Chapel Hill, Newman Catholic Center and University Baptist Church College Ministry.
We raise funds for our share of the construction costs through two Share the Plate collections each year. For more information on volunteering to help with construction, please contact our volunteer construction coordinator, Dave Morgan at morgandb@gmail.com.
Channel your inner Bob-the-Builder...volunteer for the next Habitat build! Community Service Ministry can help you realize your volunteer potential. Contact us at csm@c3huu.org
El Centro Hispano
The Community Service Ministry has had a long standing relationship with El Centro Hispano (ECH). ECH is a community-based organization dedicated to strengthening the Hispanic/Latino population and improving the quality of life of the Hispanic/Latino residents in Durham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and the surrounding area. . El Centro Hispano, the largest grassroots Latino organization in North Carolina, provides services to more than 10,000 people annually, through four core programs: Education, Support Services, Health Promotion and Community Organizing.
The Community Service Ministry (CSM) supports El Centro Hispano by providing funding, translating services, and Board representation. Most recently, Community Church raised one third of the cost for the Center for Employment and Leadership, opened at the Carrboro location(201 W. Weaver St). The center provides a safe place for day workers to seek fair employment and opportunities to further their education.
BRUNCH FUNDRAISER A WONDERFUL SUCCESS Thank you all who attended the event, and to all of the dedicated volunteers that made it possible. We raised $655 to support the workers of the Center for Employment and Leadership at El Centro Hispano On October 8, a Share the Plate will be held for these organizations. Pilar Rocha Goldberg, Director and CEO and members of the staff will be available to provide information and answer your questions.
The Community Service Ministry has had a long standing relationship with El Centro Hispano (ECH). ECH is a community-based organization dedicated to strengthening the Hispanic/Latino population and improving the quality of life of the Hispanic/Latino residents in Durham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and the surrounding area. . El Centro Hispano, the largest grassroots Latino organization in North Carolina, provides services to more than 10,000 people annually, through four core programs: Education, Support Services, Health Promotion and Community Organizing.
The Community Service Ministry (CSM) supports El Centro Hispano by providing funding, translating services, and Board representation. Most recently, Community Church raised one third of the cost for the Center for Employment and Leadership, opened at the Carrboro location(201 W. Weaver St). The center provides a safe place for day workers to seek fair employment and opportunities to further their education.
BRUNCH FUNDRAISER A WONDERFUL SUCCESS Thank you all who attended the event, and to all of the dedicated volunteers that made it possible. We raised $655 to support the workers of the Center for Employment and Leadership at El Centro Hispano On October 8, a Share the Plate will be held for these organizations. Pilar Rocha Goldberg, Director and CEO and members of the staff will be available to provide information and answer your questions.
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TABLE
Did you know that over 30% of Chapel Hill/Carrboro elementary school children qualify for subsidized school meals? The same is true for 24% of middle schoolers and an average of 60% of preschoolers in the area. But what happens on weekends when schools are closed and these kids do not have access to their free meals?
TABLE is the only area non-profit to focus exclusively on childhood hunger by providing healthy, emergency food aid to over 400 Chapel Hill/lCarrboro children every week through the Weekend Backpack Program (WBP). TABLE also supports Snack Chef, which sends volunteers to local after-school programs to teach children how to make healthy snacks to share with their families. Summer TABLE, an extension of the WBP, delivers weekly nutritious food, including fresh produce from local farms, to kids 6-8 weeks during the summer months.
Donations to the Share-the-Plate collection are used to support these efforts. TABLE welcomes volunteers and you can go to their website, www.tablenc.org to learn about ways you can help.
Did you know that over 30% of Chapel Hill/Carrboro elementary school children qualify for subsidized school meals? The same is true for 24% of middle schoolers and an average of 60% of preschoolers in the area. But what happens on weekends when schools are closed and these kids do not have access to their free meals?
TABLE is the only area non-profit to focus exclusively on childhood hunger by providing healthy, emergency food aid to over 400 Chapel Hill/lCarrboro children every week through the Weekend Backpack Program (WBP). TABLE also supports Snack Chef, which sends volunteers to local after-school programs to teach children how to make healthy snacks to share with their families. Summer TABLE, an extension of the WBP, delivers weekly nutritious food, including fresh produce from local farms, to kids 6-8 weeks during the summer months.
Donations to the Share-the-Plate collection are used to support these efforts. TABLE welcomes volunteers and you can go to their website, www.tablenc.org to learn about ways you can help.
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Holiday Meals
Inter-Faith Council (IFC) has special programs at Thanksgiving and Christmas when many of the Food Pantry clients receive seasonal groceries to provide a festive holiday meal for their family. With the help of community volunteers and congregations like ours, IFC provides holiday meals to almost 1,000 families. The Holiday Meals Share-the-Plate collection in November is an opportunity for our congregation to participate in this effort and ensure that families in our community enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. A gift of $25 helps Inter-faith Council (IFC) offer a family of four a holiday meal that includes a turkey or ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, fresh produce (in collaboration with Farmer Foodshare) bread and dessert.
In the past ten years, Community Church members have been very generous in their donations, raising funds to provide Thanksgiving dinners for between 100 and 140 families each year. This is a very concrete step to address the food insecurity and poverty that has increased during the Great Recession. North Carolina is ranked the 5th hungriest state in the country, with one of the highest percentages of children under 18 who are food insecure on a regular basis (26.7%, over 1 in 4 children). Your generosity will ensure that as many families as possible will sit down to a nutritious, festive holiday meal this year.
Community Church members are also encouraged to contribute to the IFC Christmas Dinners program. If you are interested in volunteering some of your time in these efforts at IFC, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at 919-929-6380, ext. 30 or email
volunteer@ifcmailbox.org.
Inter-Faith Council (IFC) has special programs at Thanksgiving and Christmas when many of the Food Pantry clients receive seasonal groceries to provide a festive holiday meal for their family. With the help of community volunteers and congregations like ours, IFC provides holiday meals to almost 1,000 families. The Holiday Meals Share-the-Plate collection in November is an opportunity for our congregation to participate in this effort and ensure that families in our community enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. A gift of $25 helps Inter-faith Council (IFC) offer a family of four a holiday meal that includes a turkey or ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, fresh produce (in collaboration with Farmer Foodshare) bread and dessert.
In the past ten years, Community Church members have been very generous in their donations, raising funds to provide Thanksgiving dinners for between 100 and 140 families each year. This is a very concrete step to address the food insecurity and poverty that has increased during the Great Recession. North Carolina is ranked the 5th hungriest state in the country, with one of the highest percentages of children under 18 who are food insecure on a regular basis (26.7%, over 1 in 4 children). Your generosity will ensure that as many families as possible will sit down to a nutritious, festive holiday meal this year.
Community Church members are also encouraged to contribute to the IFC Christmas Dinners program. If you are interested in volunteering some of your time in these efforts at IFC, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at 919-929-6380, ext. 30 or email
volunteer@ifcmailbox.org.
For more information about Community Service Ministry or to volunteer for service contact us at csm@c3huu.org