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Missions in 2006
Our Church’s Wider Mission
– UCC outreach to 85 countries around the world - teaching and healing,
worshipping and seeking justice, saving lives, restoring hope, showing
the light and love of God.
One Great Hour of Sharing
– supporting programs internationally for sustainable development,
emergency relief, social services, refugee advocacy and resettlement,
and for both international and domestic disaster preparedness and
response.
Andover Newton Theological
School – providing scholarship funds to support the next
generation of UCC ministers for New England.
Back Bay Mission – Biloxi,
Mississippi – UCC volunteers coming together to support and
serve Mississippi’s desperate poor.
Bridges (formerly the
Rape and Assault Center) – providing crisis counseling to over 1,200
victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence in this community,
along with prevention education to over 8,000 students in area schools.
Campus Ministry – supporting
on-site ministry for our college students in the area – their spiritual
home away from home during these critical college years. Child Health
Services (CHS) – providing comprehensive health care for over 1,000
disadvantaged kids and 800 adolescents in the Manchester area.
Crop Walk – a Church
World Service project – over 2,000 organizations nationwide raising
over $4M for digging wells, building schools, battling injustice,
and eradicating landmines.
Food for the Poor –
linking First World churches with Third World churches in ministries
of relief and development throughout the Caribbean and Central America.
Granite State Organizing Project
(GSOP) – churches and other member organizations pooling
their energies and talents to support regional solutions to regional
problems in education, health, jobs, and housing.
Greater Nashua Interfaith
Hospitality Network (GNIHN) – a network of 10 churches coming
together to open their doors to the region’s homeless.
Kids Café –
a Salvation Army ministry to disadvantaged Manchester youth. In
addition to providing a nutritious evening meal, Kid’s Café
offers needy children a place of belonging, fun, caring and growth.
Malawi Children’s Village
– providing food, clothing, seeds for crops, and education
to 86 village children who are the orphans of AIDS victims.
Nashua Soup Kitchen
– providing bikes, funding, and volunteers to support Nashua’s poor.
New Horizons – Preparing
300 meals and housing 126 homeless people in Manchester.
Parkhurst – Continuing
our support to a local retirement community by funding activities
for our elderly.
Senior High Youth Trip to
Back Bay Mission – Two dozen ACC high school students and
advisors painting houses and worshipping with minority families
in Biloxi, Mississippi.
SHARE – regional relief,
including food support for 3,800 individuals, 439 food baskets,
32,000 items of clothing for 3000 individuals, and financial assistance
to families in need.
Other mission appeals including
Souper Sunday, Easter Food Basket Appeal, “Neighbors In Need”, Blanket
Sunday, Christmas Gifts for kids and the elderly, and “Veterans
of the Cross”
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Major New Initiatives
Researching, educating our congregation, and recruiting over 85
volunteers for the Greater Nashua Interfaith Hospitality Network
(GNIHN) leading ACC to become the 7th church signing on to a vital
network of churches to make a concrete Christian contribution to
solving homelessness in our area.
Assisting CCA member Chris Matisse in launching
a “Hurt Free Schools” program in Africa and Europe. Extending our
reach with new mission initiatives to Africa and the Caribbean.
Developing a disciplined “due diligence”
process and budget summaries to provide a systematic way to research
and select projects and causes, and give us insight on the funding
process throughout the calendar year.
The result provides significant benefits to our
broader community:
--Giving is balanced between local, regional, national and international
benevolences
--The church has addressed vital need areas in health, education,
witness, hunger relief, violence prevention, literacy, and social
justice
--We provided for both short-term relief and long-term development
--The church targeted aid to vulnerable age groups, from infants to
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