Local missions

On the first and third Sundays of each month (Communion services), we collect special offerings for special outreach. Donations are received for the local food shelf and for the Deacons' Fund, for distribution to those in need by the deacons.
Each year in the late fall, members of the congregation contribute new towels and wash cloths to the Christmas Shop at the Addison County Community Action Group. And in the spring, members collect "spare change" in baby bottles for donations to the Care Net Pregnancy Center and share special food shelf offerings in the "donate your weight" program.

Around the globe

Our church members are actively supporting those who've been a part of our fellowship as they now serve in the field in Africa:

• Tom and Meghan Langsdorf: see their blog at http://tmlangsdorf.blogspot.com
• René Marshall: see her blog at http://renemarshall.blogspot.com

 
Local Church Planting

Youth
We also support Addison County Young Life and its outreach to teens. Young Life is a fun, sometimes crazy, but always safe place for high school and middle school kids. We usually meet at someone's home on a weeknight during the school year, and we go to an awesome camp in the summer.

Romania
Since the late 1990s, a group of youth and adults from our church travels to Romania to offer an English-language camp for teenagers, in an ongoing partnership with Vox Domini Baptist Church in Timisoara.

10000 Villages
Each fall on a Saturday in late November, our church meeting space is converted to a shop with goods provided from around the globe. Proceeds from sales go back to the artisans through Ten Thousand Villages. "Since 1946 Ten Thousand Villages has supported the work of literally tens of thousands of artisans in over 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, making us one the largest fair trade organizations in North America. Working with more than 100 artisan groups, we purchase fine pieces from craftspeople with whom we have longstanding, nurturing relationships…helping to bring dignity to their lives. We market quality products from diverse cultures around the world made by people that we know and care enough about to do business in a manner that together we consider fair. We strive to operate as a business with a compassionate mission so that we can provide vital, fair income to artisans. Our dream is to one day see that all artisans in developing countries will earn a fair wage, be treated with dignity and respect and be able to live a life of quality."

CROP Hunger WALK (Church World Service)
Each October members of the church seek sponsors as they walk in the local CROP Walk. Proceeds benefit local food shelves as well as worldwide hunger and disaster relief through the Church World Service.
The Addison County Crop Hunger Walk usually takes place on the first Sunday in October.