Winter shelter needs our help

FPC's Winter Emergency Shelter is now open, and the shelter needs our help. Learn more here.

Outreach opportunities

 

Help with our Winter Emergency Shelter

This winter, 20 homeless men have a more stable life and a chance to get back on their feet because of FPC's Winter Emergency Shelter. You can help operate the shetler in a variety of ways. Learn more and sign up here.

 

Habitat trip to Honduras in April has openings

Habitat Greensboro is sponsoring a building trip to La Ceiba, Honduras, April 17-25. La Ceiba is a port city on the Caribbean coast of northern Honduras. This is a unique opportunity to become an active partner with people of another culture. Learn more.

 

Hot Dish & Hope on Greene Street

Since July 8, 2008, Hot Dish & Hope has served a meal each Tuesday at 6 p.m. to anyone who is hungry. The meal includes a short worship service in the Mullin Life Center. Earlier this year, Hot Dish & Hope added a Thursday night meal and service. The event needs volunteers to help serve meals and to provide other support. Use this form to sign up.

 

Donate items: a car, furniture, cans of food

You can help our efforts to connect resources with people who need them, especially if you have a used car you no longer need or furniture you can donate. FPC member Larry Bowden coordinates our Wheels to Work program, which accepts used cars and gives them to working families in need. The Barnabas Furniture Ministry accepts used but in-good-shape furniture, which it donates to families who need it. And every Sunday, everyone is encouraged to bring cans of food to church, which we donate to Greensboro Urban Ministry's food pantry.

 

Help provide a temporary home for homeless families

About four weeks each year, we convert the Memorial Building into a temporary home for families in transition through our partnership with Guilford Interfaith Hospitality Network. This project depends on volunteers to help serve meals, to spend the night at the church and to help our guests get familiar with a new setting. Contact FPC member Dan Kerns, to learn more: dleekerns@aol.com.

 

Special giving opportunities

  • On the first Sunday of each month we collect the Pennies for Hunger offering, which Salem Presbytery uses to alleviate hunger in its 19 counties and around the world. Please bring donations: pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollars -- even checks -- are welcome.
  • On Communion Sundays, usually the first Sunday of each quarter, our special offering benefits the Good Samaritan Fund. The fund helps people in our community who are having trouble providing basic needs such as food, shelter and utilities.