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for the day: "If I don't stop just talking about the poor and actually do something to help the poor, I'm geoing to be embarrased to meet God." -Rev.James Forbes Riverside Church New York City Today's Thought: "If we do what we can, God will do what we cannot." |
With our mission
statement - "Plan and carry out the mission work of the church," we
make regular contributions to Our Churches
Wider Mission (OCWM), Lancaster
Seminary, The Lehigh County Conference of Churches, and Congregations United for Neighborhood Action (CUNA).
In addition we participate in the following programs:
DAYBREAK
is a drop-in center located at Alliance Hall in Allentown,
and operated by the Lehigh County Conference of Churches. Our Dubbs
volunteers prepare and serve the evening meal.
We collect donations
in the Souper Bowl of Caring on
football's 'Super Bowl Sunday' to help the Lehigh County Conference
of Churches fight hunger in our communities.
The daffodil is
the symbol of hope to cancer patients. To honor them, our Sanctuary
was filled with daffodils. Our members made contributions to the
American Cancer Society on this
special day and received daffodils.
On Father's Day
we participate in Blanket Sunday.
For a $5.00 donation, a Church World Service Blanket may be
purchased helping to share warmth, hope and love around the world.
Our congregation
deposits food items on a regular basis at the church and they are
taken to the Allentown Ecumenical Food
Bank, which serves our community.
Church
World Service - "Gift of the Heart Kits" are health
kits made from donations from our members to help folks in Hurricane
ravaged regions of our country. Effects from hurricanes Katrina
and Rita in 2005 especially, prompted our members make special financial
donations to our Penn Northeast Conference,
which distributed the funds to those
in need.
One
Great Hour of Sharing is an annual all-church offering
which supports the mission work of our own United Church Board for
World Ministries and our interfaith partner, Church World Service.
Through their efforts, we are able to assist wherever and whenever
disaster strikes in the United States and abroad.
Dubbs Memorial
UCC has long supported the Phoebe Home
in Allentown. We have special offerings, and participate in programs
and events at Phoebe.
In October, donations
of food items are used to decorate our Sanctuary during Harvest
Home. Our children in Sunday School, (photos here),
participate in this offering of food. After our service of giving
thanks to God for all we have, the food is taken to the Allentown
Ecumenical Food Bank. Also,
members of our church raise money for the Lehigh County Conference
of Churches on this day by participating or sponsoring participants
in the LCCC’s Crop Walk. 25%
of the money raised stays here and benefits the Allentown Ecumenical
Food Bank and the Allentown Soup Kitchen.
An annual all-church
offering, Neighbors In Need
benefits our disadvantaged homeland neighbors as well as American
Indian Ministries.
During Advent
a Mission Tree stands in our
Sanctuary. Members are asked to place mittens, gloves, hats and
scarves on the tree to be distributed to inner city children attending
one of the local schools. These items along with toiletries, and
baby items went to members of the DAYBREAK
program and to Pathways at the
Lehigh County Conference of Churches.
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Gift
Of The Heart Health Kits