Community and World Service Programs at First Congregational Church

 The people of First Congregational Church of Anchorage are committed to providing opportunities for charitable giving and outreach to the community and the world.

The Community and World Service Board consists of 6 active members. We organize activities for the congregation to participate in to benefit people in need and the organizations that help them. We also apportion funds to these organizations, and we designate the recipients of the funds the church raises through special benevolence offerings--for example, at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

 

 

 

 

Community and World Service Board Members
Vivian Coleman
Bob Rinehart
Tom Wood
Mary Mitchell
Kathy Means
Kathy Broome (chair)

Projects the Community and World Service Board has sponsored include:

• Conducting brunches and other activities to benefit the Grandfamilies Network (grandparents raising their grandchildren)
• Making knitted caps and fleece scarves for cancer patients at Providence Cancer Center
• Organizing a potluck dinner and recipe bean bag sale to benefit Bean's Café, Anchorage's free café for the homeless
• Collecting socks for distribution to the homeless at Bean's Café
• Collecting large cans of food for Kids' Kitchen, an after school meal program for needy children in Anchorage run by Elgin Jones
• Sponsoring a student at the Pan American Institute, a school for low-income children in Tijuana, Mexico
• Participating in the Anchorage CROP Walk to raise money for the worldwide poverty-fighting work of Church World Service
• Collecting money for disaster relief in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake
• Preparing lunches for workers at Habitat for Humanity construction sites, housing Global Team members during the summer, and helping to build homes. HFH's mission is to eliminate substandard housing in Anchorage and make affordable housing a matter of conscience and action. 
• Staffing the Hospice table during the holidays. 

Habitat for Humanity

CAWS is establishing a work day the 3rd Wednesday of each month for volunteers from our church, family, and friends to help complete the 2011 housing project, located at 4th and Oklahoma in Anchorage. The work day begins at 8:30 am for orientation, and ends at 4:00 pm. you can work for all or part of the day.  Here's a photo of our work day in October 2011.

Bean's Cafe

Every March during the potluck on the 4th Sunday, CAWS holds a bean-a-fit for Bean's Cafe. The 2012 Bean-a-Fit will be on March 25. Here are a couple of photos of the March 2010 event.