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Title: Riverdale Presbyterian Church


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  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church
  • Mission Committee
  • May 2006

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  • Message from the Committee Co-chairs
  • One of the major goals of the Mission
    Committee is to serve mainly the Bronx
    Community. However, we also respond to the needs
    of the larger community both local and
    international such as the victims of Katrina, the
    East Asian tsunami, and, more recently, the
    earthquakes in Pakistan.
  • We work with agencies and organizations that
    provide basic human needs, some of which are
    identified in this presentation. The Committee
    supports programs that aid the hungry, homeless
    and people with AIDS. We donate to programs that
    provide youth with educational services, help
    families in need, the elderly and offenders, as
    well as to programs of the Presbyterian Church,
    the New York Presbytery and the Synod.
  • The need to help others is very strong among
    the members of the Mission Committee we enjoy
    helping others and this gives us a chance to help
    people on a much broader scale, including the
    World Community. We invite others to join us in
    this endeavor and make a difference.
  • Regina King and Pat Gourdine, Co-chairs
  • For I was hungry and you gave me food,..thirsty
    and you gave me drinka stranger and you welcomed
    me naked and you clothed mesick and you visited
    me
  • in prison and you came to me Mathew 25 35-36
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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Why we are The Mission Committee is the
ministry by which RPCs faith is put into action,
meeting specific human needs in the larger
world. Thus also faith by itself, if it does
not have works, is dead. James 217 Working
with other committees, the Mission Committee
brings to our congregation opportunities large
and small, near and far to share Gods blessings
and love with our neighbours in our community
citynationworld. who we are
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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How we do A committee of Session, the Mission
Committee meets once a month to discuss the
concerns and events that have moved our faith
community and the ways were called to respond,
with attention and generosity, to those
concerns. inasmuch as you did it to one of
the least of these My brethren, you did it to
Me. Matthew 2540 Whether helping to organize
the Midnight Runs or Alternative Gifts, reviewing
Accessibility Campaign Tithe Grant applications
or prayerfully considering how to word appeals
for donations for disaster relief, there is
always place for one more voiceor a whole choir
of voicesseeking to be Christs hands, feet, and
eyes in the community and in the world. what we
do
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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  • The programs on which were currently working
  • Alternative Gifts
  • Midnight Run
  • Food Pantry Donations
  • Eyeglasses Donations
  • Accessibility Campaign Tithe Grants
  • Supporting PCUSAs ministries Presbyterian
    Disaster Relief, Presbyterian Peacemaking
    Program, One Great Hour of Sharing
  • Blessed are the poor in spirit... those who
    mourn the meek those who hunger and thirst for
    righteousness the merciful the pure in heart
  • the peacemakers... Matthew 5 3-9
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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  • Alternative Gifts
  • A program which offers other ways in which
    holiday or special event gift-giving can be done.
    The donor purchases an item or service that helps
    disenfranchised or under-served communities and
    presents a card to the recipient notifying that
    person of the item or service that has been
    purchased in her/his honour.
  • This past Christmas, the holiday Alternative
    Gifts market sold over 4,500 in gifts that aid
    others in need worldwide as well as in our
    community.
  • On Communion Sundays, the congregation at RPC
    has the opportunity to buy alternative gifts for
    occasions in each month.
  • Mothers Day will bring the chance to buy
    blankets that go to refugees of natural and
    man-made disasters.
  • Fathers Day Alternative Gifts will allow us to
    buy gardening tools to aid those struggling with
    subsistence and sustainable organic gardening  in
    order to survive.
  • ...Freely you have received, freely give.
    Matthew 10 8
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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  • Midnight Run
  • The Midnight Run program provides food,
    clothing, blankets and toiletries to the
    homeless. These are gathered/sorted/loaded into
    vans.
  • Active RPC participants are Mission Committee
    and Youth Council, and weve been blessed to be
    joined by Riverdale Synagogue members and Boy
    Scout Troop 240.
  • The evening of the Run, all gather in RPCs
    auditorium to prepare 100 to 125 brown-bag meals
    (sandwich, sweet, beverage, fruit ) in the
    winter, soup is also prepared.
  • At around 9.30 10.00 PM the caravan departs
    from the parking lot and makes assigned stops
    (between four and six) on Manhattan streets where
    homeless are sleeping or assembled.
  • All of the food, clothing and blankets are
    distributed and caravans return to RPC within
    three to four hours.
  • They desired only that we should remember the
    poor,
  • the very thing which I also was eager to do.
    Galatians 2 10
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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  • Food Pantry Donations
  • Begun in 1980, the Kingsbridge/Riverdale/Marble
    Hill Food Hunger Project is an inter-faith
    cooperative "...not-for-profit organization
    dedicated to alleviating the problem of hunger in
    our communities where, perhaps, we least expect
    to find it... sponsored by participating
    religious institutions, supported by community
    and financial institutions, and individual
    donations.
  • The KRMH Food Hunger Project provides
    supplementary kosher grocery packages for the
    most homebound elderly through the YM/YWHA of
    Riverdale's Friday hot meal program and also
    distributes food supplies to individuals and
    community agencies via the Church of the Mediator
    which houses the organizations Pantry.
  • Distributes holiday gift packages to children,
    needy families, recent immigrants, and the
    homeless, and brings special cheer to homebound
    seniors, women, men and children in shelters.
  • HELP! Volunteers are needed to collect, pack and
    re-distribute boxed food pack 100 grocery bags
    once a month at the Y contribute food, cash or
    in-kind support by providing a site to hold a
    fundraising concert or do our holiday gift bag
    preparation.
  • ...Happy the onewho gives food to the hungry.
    Psalm 146 5, 7
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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  • Eyeglasses Donations
  • Initiated about two years ago following Ron and
    Toni Meekins trip to Africa, RPC collects all
    types and prescription-strength eyeglasses. Were
    aided in this by Boy Scout Troop 240 which also
    collects and provides eyeglasses for this
    program.
  • The eyeglasses are carefully packed and mailed.
    To ensure that the package(s) arrive unopened and
    complete, the package contents are identified as
    containing religious pamphlets.
  • Eyeglasses are then distributed by doctors to
    people who have never had any eye care.
  • Donations can be left in the box located at the
    auditorium entrance.
  • ...we know that when He is revealedwe shall see
    Him as He is.
  • 1 John 3 2
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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  • Accessibility Campaign Tithe Grants
  • Session has tithed (10) funds from both the
    Capital and Accessibility Campaigns to the
    mission work of this congregation these are
    administered by the Mission Committee.
  • Criteria for the granting of these funds were
    established and include, but are not limited to
  • Programs that benefit Bronx residents but will
    also consider programs that serve populations
    outside of our borough
  • Requests that will have a financial impact on
    the program being supported
  • Programs that have RPC volunteer involvement and
    will foster on-going contact between RPC and
    grant recipients
  • Programs that use its financial resources
    effectively
  • You are the body of Christ and individually,
    members of it.
  • I Corinthians 12 27
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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  • PCUSA Ministries
  • Presbyterian Disaster Relief Swift response to
    humanitarian needs caused by disasters of all
    kinds. In recent times, RPC assistance has
    supported recovery after the East Asia tsunami,
    Hurricane Katrina in the southern US, and the
    earthquake in Pakistan.
  • Presbyterian Peacemaking Program 25 of this
    annual offering (World Communion Sunday in
    October) remains in the local community for
    peace-making work of the congregations
    designation. The balance is sent to support
    peace-making efforts nation- and world-wide.
  • One Great Hour of Sharing This offering
    supports human needs and community projects
    throughout the nation and world which provide
    hope, health, and healing.
  • But do not forget to do good and to share,
  • for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • Hebrews 13 6
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006

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  • Mission Committee Members
  • Regina King, Co-chair
  • Yvonne Armstrong
  • Joyce Beverley
  • Becky Dyasi
  • Marc Feldman
  • Jo Cameron, Pastor
  • to serve Him with one accord.
  • Zephaniah 39
  • Patricia Gourdine, Co-chair
  • Sixto Medina
  • Bertrade Ngo Ngijol Banoum
  • Marion M. Stone
  • Meg Rosenberg Wilde
  • Nancy Thomson
  • Riverdale Presbyterian Church Mission Committee
    May 2006
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