Service and Mission Report 2009

The Service and Mission Committee promotes, organizes and supports many activities throughout each year.

A Mission Yard Sale in the Spring of each year raises money to help defray some of the expense for domestic and international mission trips.

The following is a list of local, domestic, and international service and mission activities that members of the congregation have participated in this past year.

Local: Good Shepherd Kitchen, Loaves & Fishes, Meals on Wheels, CROP Walk, Bloodmobile, maintain Helping Hand Fund, Habitat for Humanity, Girl & Boy Scout Programs, health kits for women’s shelter.

Domestic: Appalachia Service Project (ASP), West Virginia Ministry of Advocacy and Workcamps (WVMAW), Youth- Timothy Project in Asheville, NC; and Louis & Susan Sutton’s ministry in Philadelphia (WEC).

International: Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes; Heifer International contributions for Tim & Gloria Wheeler’s ministry in Honduras; Salem Presbytery’s medical mission clinics and construction work trips to Chiapas, Mexico.