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Mission and Social Action Committee - Consisting of seven members, helps guide the church toward an enlightened Christian conscience. The Committee educates the congregation regarding the mission and social action programs of the United Church of Christ and raises up opportunities for the congregation to contribute in many ways to this program.
The Committee also helps provide numerous opportunities for people to contribute in many ways through a more local level – through soup kitchens, environmental programs, partnerships with a school for at-risk adolescents, and to people in need during the holidays and at other times, and partnership with churches in Haiti. The Committee also sponsors various educational opportunities in the area of social responsibility, sometimes in cooperation with the Christian Education Committee.
One goal of the Mission and Social Action Committee is to provide as many opportunities as possible for church members to participate in programs and projects, and to involve as many people as possible. The Committee attempts to choose projects that are not only worthwhile in themselves, but also meaningful to the congregation.
Committee Members:
Bonnie
DeBlois
Rob DeBlois
Betty Graham
Vivian Dionne
Linda Sable
Lori
Engustian
Bruce Saunders
Jim Siegfried
Upcoming Soup Kitchen ~
Please sign up to donate food or to serve. Chickens are $5.00 each.
We also need cornbread and brownies or cookies. Thanks!
We would like to remind all those who
make a mission pledge on the right side of the pledge envelope to please keep
this payment up to date. We are experiencing a shortfall in this money which
goes to the Conference for mission concerns. If anyone also whishes to make
a one-time donation, this would be greatly appreciated!
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Adopt-A-Highway
- Part of our mission is to keep the environment clean. We are part
of the State of Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation Adopt-A-Highway
clean up program. From April to November we go out once a month
with volunteers from within the church to pick up litter and keep our
highway clean. |
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HABITAT
FOR HUMANITY In the past, members from this congregation have worked on
Habitat sites from Mexico to Rhode Island. The most recent project
was last Spring when several people worked on a house that was being renovated
in Olneyville, Rhode Island by Habitat in conjunction with UCAP.
In the Fall of 1998, several members of our congregation participated
in a Walk for Habitat and raised about $450.00 for Habitat projects. |
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Soup
Kitchen - Seekonk Congregational Church along with eight other
churches, participate in the Christian Community Soup Kitchen. This
is done on a rotation basis, which means that each church is responsible
for serving those in need every nine weeks. The Park Place Congregational
Church, UCC is the location for the Soup Kitchen and it serves every Saturday
from 4 - 5:30 p.m. Members of each church are asked to cook the
designated meal (which is determined by each individual church) and this
might include a main dish plus corn bread and brownies. Fruit or
salad often accompanies a meal as well, and volunteers help as servers. |
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Neighbors
in Need - A special offering of the United Church of Christ to
meet the needs which might include disaster relief and justice for those
in the United States.
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Angel
Tree - At Christmas time this committee sets up an Angel Tree with
names of children and families which are given to us by various sources.
With each name a gift of what is needed or wanted is purchased by church
members and then the gifts are collected, sorted and distributed before
Christmas. |
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Partnership
with Haiti - For the past several years we have
aided our partners in Haiti through gifts of clothing, sheets, school
supplies, toys for the orphanage and especially monetary donations.
Most of these benefit children in the school just outside of Port-au-Prince
or to help pay for the construction of a multi-purpose building to be
used as a church, school, daycare facility, and clinic. Members
of this congregation have also traveled to Haiti. $3400 was raised to
drill a well in the village of Archaie which has been dedicated to the
Memory of Jimmy McDonald. Thanks to all who made this possible. |
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One
Great Hour of Sharing - is made
up of many denominations working together for over the past 50 years for
emerging relief, self help, disaster relief - worldwide. |
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Urban
Collaborative Accelerated Program (UCAP) - The Seekonk
Congregational Church has been involved with UCAP for the past eight years.
UCAP is an alternative public school located in Providence, Rhode Island.
It serves middle school students who are at risk of dropping out of school.
Students are from the public schools in Providence, East Providence, Pawtucket
and Central Falls. Each Christmas, members of the church collect food so that UCAP can distribute food baskets to families of the school's most needy students. At different times, church members have also contributed money or other goods to help the school and its students in special circumstances, such as when a student's home burned down. |
