Advent Outreach Projects

 

Alternative Gift Fair

Refugee & immigrant children

Provide Christmas gifts for immigrant & refugee children in our community through Faith Action International. We are adopting 50 kids. Choose a child here. Return gifts to the Welcome Center by December 4.

Hot Dish guests

  • Donate $20 Walmart gift cards in the Welcome Center by December 1. You can also donate cash or a check (HDH gift cards on the memo line) for gift cards. Leave at the reception desk or mail to the church.
  • Donate sleeping bags, tarps, blankets, socks & gloves, sweatshirts, and hand & toe warmers for a Cold Weather Gift Fair (Community Service provided 250 hats & scarves). Drop off in the Welcome Center by December 15.
  • Support hunger ministries with honor cards for those you appreciate. Suggested donation $5/card. Available at the reception desk in the Welcome Center.

Community food pantry

  • Our annual Do It for Dolly Food Drive-by, in memory of Rev. Dolly Jacobs, will be held December 11 from 11 am to 1 pm. Drop off food in the semicircle in front of Redhead Hall. Donations go to Greensboro Urban Ministry’s food pantry.

Earth Care

  • During the holidays Americans throw out an extra 25 million tons of garbage. As an Earth Care Congregation, let’s do what we can to reduce that. Reuse gift bags, ribbon & bows. Use recycled paper. Send e-cards. Recycle everything you can! FPC’s recycling center, behind the Shetler Building at the corner of Elm Street & Fisher Avenue, has containers for glass and styrofoam.