A hallmark of our church is outreach into our local community and throughout the world.
One Square Meal is our featured mission emphasis for the spring and summer. Once each week we prepare and serve a nutritious meal to adults and children living in the Machebeuf Apartments. We also offer fun crafts for the children. Partnering with Catholic Charities and members of Mountain View Church, together we offer this ecumenical outreach into our community.
Other local missions include the following:
- We continue our decades-long support of the Yampah Mountain High School Teen Parent Program through a yearly diaper and wipes drive and occasional donations of baby blankets. Every year we deliver thousands of diapers and wipes to these young parents.
- LIFT-UP, the food pantry in the Roaring Fork Valley, is our mission emphasis in October. We Trick or Treat for LIFT-UP at Halloween. In October 2019 we collected 254.5 pounds of food for LIFT-UP. Throughout the year we collect food weekly and deliver it to LIFT-UP. In January 2020 we delivered 37.5 pounds of food – collected by our children in boxes they decorated and set in the sanctuary during Advent.
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Trick or Treat for LIFT-UP Youth for Christ, once a month we join the students of Glenwood Springs High School for lunch. The Youth for Christ organization helps feed the bodies and souls of students during their lunch break. We offer them a baked potato bar with all the fixins. This is another way that we share the love of God with our community.
- Community Garden: We plant, water, weed, and harvest vegetables from our two community garden plots. We added the second plot in 2020. We contribute lots of fresh veggies to LIFT-UP, to our congregation, and to Garfield County Senior Meals.
- Worldwide missions include the following:
- One Great Hour of Sharing is our yearly Lenten emphasis. The children color cardboard fish banks and give them to the congregation so that they can be filled with offerings. The banks are collected at Easter. The congregation is encouraged to donate generously to this offering, over and above the normal pledges. In 2021 we gave $1,538.16 to One Great Hour of Sharing.
- Peace & Global Witness, another special offering of PCUSA, is collected in the fall. In 2020 we collected $759.
