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.
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 support IFC. 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 HomeStart, or Main Street. Community Church contributions from Share the Plate help to make all this remarkable work possible.
In November of each year, the IFC uses funds collected during the Holiday Meals Share-the-Plate collection to provide special meals to families.
Read more about these and other innovative services such as Food First and Community House at www.ifcweb.org.
Throughout the year, church members will find a shopping cart just outside the sanctuary for collection of canned goods. Community Service Ministry delivers these donations to the IFC Pantry. Meals are served at the IFC Community house located at 100 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (map it ).
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 support IFC. 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 HomeStart, or Main Street. Community Church contributions from Share the Plate help to make all this remarkable work possible.
In November of each year, the IFC uses funds collected during the Holiday Meals Share-the-Plate collection to provide special meals to families.
Read more about these and other innovative services such as Food First and Community House at www.ifcweb.org.
Throughout the year, church members will find a shopping cart just outside the sanctuary for collection of canned goods. Community Service Ministry delivers these donations to the IFC Pantry. Meals are served at the IFC Community house located at 100 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (map it ).
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School Supplies / Backpacks Drive
In 2023 our backpacks were part of a Family Fun Day that Hargraves and Chapel Hill Parks sponsored, that included a number of activities:
Special thanks to our pack fillers, who worked steadily on August 12 in the Jones Building to assemble the teacher requested supplies in each pack. Special thanks to Stephanie Bailey for help delivering packs to Hargraves Community Center in time for Family Fun Day. Chatham Schools Social Workers picked up the packs for Chatham schools. School Supplies Project 2024 will kick off again next July. As always, thank you for your support. Questions? Contact Teri Brooks (teribrooks at gmail .com) |
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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.
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 have the opportunity for a safe, affordable home.
Our church has a strong history of building safe, affordable homes with our neighbors in need. Since 1994, we’ve worked with Habitat and area churches to build 23 single-family homes, a duplex, and four townhouse blocks for low-income senior citizens.
Working with us most recently are:
And these families work with us for at least 350 hours to help build their homes, so our work and donations provide them with “a hand up, NOT a handout.”
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.
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County (HHOC) offers home ownership to local families who otherwise may not have the opportunity for a safe, affordable home.
Our church has a strong history of building safe, affordable homes with our neighbors in need. Since 1994, we’ve worked with Habitat and area churches to build 23 single-family homes, a duplex, and four townhouse blocks for low-income senior citizens.
Working with us most recently are:
- St. Thomas More
- United Church of Chapel Hill
- Holy Trinity Lutheran
- Chapel of the Cross
- UNC’s Newman Center
And these families work with us for at least 350 hours to help build their homes, so our work and donations provide them with “a hand up, NOT a handout.”
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.
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
The Inter-Faith Council (IFC) has a special program at Thanksgiving and Christmas when many of the Food Pantry clients receive seasonal groceries to provide a festive holiday meal for their family.. The Holiday Meals Share-the-Plate collection in November is an opportunity for our congregation to ensure that families in our community enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. A gift of $25 helps a family of four enjoy a holiday meal that includes a turkey or ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, fresh produce, 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. Your generosity will ensure that as many families as possible will sit down to a nutritious, festive holiday meal this year.
The Inter-Faith Council (IFC) has a special program at Thanksgiving and Christmas when many of the Food Pantry clients receive seasonal groceries to provide a festive holiday meal for their family.. The Holiday Meals Share-the-Plate collection in November is an opportunity for our congregation to ensure that families in our community enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. A gift of $25 helps a family of four enjoy a holiday meal that includes a turkey or ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, fresh produce, 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. Your generosity will ensure that as many families as possible will sit down to a nutritious, festive holiday meal this year.