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From the Missions Board
A large part of life at First Church is our mission of service and outreach, both to the community and the world.
Our Missions Board supports a multitude of organizations, both local and global, while our Special Grants Committee awards monies to various organizations and individuals in need. Below are some of our ongoing outreach ministries.
To the Community
- Donations to local food pantries
- Cook meals for local shut-ins and ill
- Grants program
- Scholarships
- Support Hospice of the North Shore Beverly Hospital
- Chaplaincy Services Daybreak
- Wellspring in Gloucester
- HAWC in Salem
- Habitat for Humanity
- Gifts for Tewksbury Hospital residents
- Gifts to Boston City Mission Society
- Use of church building by a variety of community groups, including local scouting
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To The World
- Mission Muffins for the Heifer Project
- OXFAM
- One Great Hour of Sharing
- National Disaster victims
- Project Hope
- Reeve Farm in South Africa
- Support for Palestinian refugee children in Jerusalem
- Support for refugee families
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First Church Gives to Haiti
The Missions Board has designated funds that will immediately be sent to Haiti through the organization Partners in Health. If you’d like to contribute personally, please send your check into the Church Office – designating “Missions – For Partner’s in Health”. Thank you!
Harvest Hands
Through the kind donation of Steve Lindland of CompanyStuff, Missions recently sent 32 boxes of clothing to Harvest Hands in Mexico. Harvest Hands Ministries, located in Anthony, New Mexico, supports and develops religious programs, feeds the hungry, and gives relief to the oppressed.
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