Missions - Evangelical Congregational Church in Dunstable, Massachusetts

Evangelical Congregational Church
Dunstable, Massachusetts

Missions

The Evangelical Congregational Church Missions Program endeavors to challenge and encourage the growth in the congregation's responsibility to active involvement in and support of missions worldwide.

Missions is our church's financial and prayerful support of local, national, and international projects, programs, and peoples. We currently support groups and missionaries that are reaching people in all corners of the world.

Our outreach programs encourage sponsors and support the hands-on involvement by our church members who want to volunteer in both secular and religious organizations. We try to be forever in the act of giving.

Outreach | Missions Programs

Outreach Programs

Our outreach programs encourage sponsors and support the hands-on involvement by our church members who want to volunteer in both secular and religious organizations

Food and Clothing Programs
Our church sponsors donations of food to the Open Food Pantry of Greater Lowell on a weekly basis, and everything from diapers to toys to personal items to clothes to the other local charities we support on a monthly basis. We are currently collecting gently worn coats for the homeless adults and children of the Salvation Army in Nashua.

Nursing Home Ministries
We currently have ministries at two local nursing homes. We meet at the Apple Valley Nursing Home in Ayer, MA (actually "connected" with the Nashoba Hospital) on the first Thursday of the month at 10:30am, and the Westford Rehabilitation Center, on Rte 110 in Westford, usually on the third Tuesday of the month at 2:00pm. Our ministry is to bring the presence of God into these facilities that house believers and nonbelievers alike, by offering music, God's message of Salvation, and love.

Christmas Projects
Dunstable Congregational Church members respond generously to the call for Christmas gifts for local and international agencies.

Life Boat Prison Ministry

Missions Programs

Missions is our church's financial and prayerful support of local, national and international projects, programs and people. We support the following organizations:

Heifer Project International
1015 Louisiana St
Little Rock, AR 72202
800-422-0474
www.heifer.org
Heifer Project International works in partnership with organizations and churches like ours to provide two dozen kinds of food and income-producing animals to people in nearly 40 countries, helping hungry families feed themselves and care for the earth. At the Overlook Farm in Rutland, MA, our church has been able to help with the pumpkin planting and harvesting, as well as contributing through the Ark Program.

House of Hope
812 Merrimack St
Lowell MA 01854
978-458-2870
www.hopelowell.org
House of Hope is a temporary shelter to provide advocacy and shelter for homeless individuals and families.

Nashua Children's Home
125 Amherst St
Nashua NH 03064
603-883-3851
www.nashuachildrenshome.org
Nashua Children's Home provides care and stability to children unable to remain with their families, special education services for students who have been unsuccessful in public school settings, and support for families
struggling to remain intact.

Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter
PO Box 3116
Nashua NH 03061
603-889-7770
www.charityadvantage.com
Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter provides meals, emergency shelter, transitional housing, job and educational assistance, food baskets and the soup kitchen for anyone in need.

New Life Ministries of New England
PO Box 148
Manchester Nh 03105
603-624-8444
New Life Ministries of New England is a Christian organization geared toward meeting the special needs of women with drug or alcohol related problems.

Open Pantry of Greater Lowell
200 Central St
Lowell MA 01852
978-453-6693
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell provides a weeks worth of food to hungry clients in need.

The Salvation Army
150 Appleton St
Lowell MA 01852
978-458-3396
www.salvationarmy-usaeast.org
The Salvation Army is a worldwide evangelical Christian church, human service agency and nonprofit corporation. Its mission is to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. Locally, Salvation Army volunteers ring the familiar bell to raise money to assist the community by paying medical expenses, providing food, utility bill payments and helping with other emergency needs

Our church supports missionary families working for the following organizations, in the following countries.

African Inland Mission / Kenya
PO Box 178
Pearl River, NY 10955
845-735-4014
www.aim-us.org
AIM's purpose is to reach unreached people groups through evangelism and church planting, as well as train national church leaders through Bible schools, seminaries, and lay-leadership training.

Arab World Ministries / France
PO Box 96
Upper Darby PA 19082
800-447-3566
www.awm.org
Arab World Ministries is dedicated to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Muslims of the Arab World, disciple them, and help them to form vibrant local churches

Biblical Education by Extension (BEE) International / Uzbekistan
PO Box 25520
Colorado Springs, CO 80936-5520
www.beeinternational.org
Bee International provides training systems to equip people in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to serve in pastoral roles and lead new local churches.

Campus Crusade for Christ / France
PO Box 628288
Orlando, FL 32809-8288
800-826-0768
www.ccci.org
Campus Crusade for Christ International is an interdenominational ministry committed to helping take the gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations. They cooperate with millions of Christians from churches of many denominations and hundreds of other Christian organizations around the world to help Christians grow in their faith and share the Gospel message with their fellow countrymen

Christar
Box 14866
Reading PA 19612-4866
800-755-7955
www.christar.org
The Mission of Christar is to establish churches within the least-reached Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Asian communities worldwide, and train and send out from their own congregations missionaries into the field.

The Navigators
PO Box 6000
Colorado Springs, CO 30934
719-598-1212
www.navigators.org
Navigator staff help Christ's followers "navigate" spiritually, coming alongside to support them as they search the Word of God to chart the course of their lives. The hallmarks of their ministry are one-to-one relationships and small-group studies focused on discipleship with college students.

Trans World Radio
Box 8700
Cary, NC 27512
800-456-7897
www.gospelcom.net
Trans World Radio is an international Christian broadcasting ministry that has been proclaiming the Good News for nearly 50 years. Listeners in over 160 countries can hear God's Word taught in over 180 languages and dialects.

Village2Village

February 12, 2008