Community Outreach

ANGEL FOOD - HELPING FAMILIES BY PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY FOOD AT WHOLESALE PRICES ! ! !

 Check out their website by clicking above.

This program offers families the opportunity to purchase quality food at a lower wholesale price.  More than  500,000 families use

Angel Food each month distributed by over 4,300 churches.  

If the rising price of food has your family stressed, why not give it a try? 

If you have any questions, please call Sue Moynihan at 447-2307 or 912-7701.

RESOURCES FOR THE HOMELESS -

MALTA

This Christian ministry works on the streets with the homeless as well as runs a "Transitional Living Center" for single men.

New London Homeless Hospitality Center

Provides a drop-in center (19 jay St.) during the day for the homeless where they can receive mail, use the Internet, get access to showers, see a visiting nurse, etc.  as well as an overnight shelter located at St. James Episcopal Church (76 Federal St.).

F.R.E.S.H. New London

Is a gardening program that seeks to improve nutrition as well as provide food for those in need in New London (over 7,000 lbs. of food since 2005).

Covenant Shelter

A safe and warm place to sleep for the homeless as well as other services, the shelter is located at 42 Jay St. in New London.

New London Community Meal Center

Located at 12 Montauk Avenue, the meal center serves lunch and dinner (over 70,000 meals a year to 35,000 people) to those in need of a good, warm meal.

PRAYER -

We believe very strongly that our local church should be a blessing to our community in a variety of ways.  We PRAY for the needs of our community - for strong marriages and families,   for the poor, sick, and elderly, for our government officials, our police & firefighters, and so on.   If you have a situation in your life you'd like the church family to be praying for, please contact us.  God works through prayer and He most definitely answers prayers.

MATERIAL ASSISTANCE -

Physical help is provided for those in need through our "BENEVOLENCE FUND".  These funds go to help those struggling financially with help for rent, utilities, food, etc.  It's not a large fund but we can help some people in difficult times.

Also, our FOOD PANTRY is designed to be a supplement for those in need of food.  We provide bags of groceries along with a small gift card for perishable items (milk, bread, eggs, etc.).  The pantry is available by appointment with the church office (443-1126). 

We also often take part in Project Angel Tree at Christmas - bringing gifts to the children of prisoners - and / or Operation Christmas Child - providing shoeboxes full of gifts to needy children around the world.

FAMILY-FRIENDLY EVENTS -

Throughout the year, we have several events for families here at the church.  Some of the  ones we often do are our VBS SUMMER DAY CAMP in June, participating in HARKNESS FAMILY DAY in September, the AWANA FALL FUN FAIR in October / November, and different CHRISTMAS programs that have varied from Sunday School Christmas Pageants to Christmas Choir Musicals to a Live Nativity with real animals on the front lawn.  The community is always welcome so keep an eye on the web site and come on out.

FBCW MISSIONS...

The purpose of our mission program is to encourage our congregation to do its part

in the fulfillment of Christ’s Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20)

To do that our Mission Committee has worked at:

1.       Increasing the congregation’s connection with our existing missionaries.

2.       Encouraging short mission trips for both teens and adults.

3.       Presenting specific needs and providing financial aid through Faith Promise Projects.

Our current missionaries are...

NORTH AMERICA:

James & Sharon Walsh -

Tanalian Bible Camp in Alaska

Bill & Norma Jean Jancewicz - 

Neskapi Indians in Canada

Stan & Joan Farmer -  His Mansion in NH

Ken & Karen Hoffmeyer -  AWANA Missionary

for New England and New York City

John & Sue Slaiger - Providence, RI

Abe Sandler - ministry to Jews in Philadelphia

Pat Butler - Artslink in Atlanta, GA

                                                                                      Josh Guido - Child Evangelism Fellowship of CT

                                                                               Isaac & Serena Kimball - Campus Crusade for Christ

                                                                                     CareNet Pregnancy Resource Center of SECT

                  CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA:  

Leo & Hirma DiGilio - Mexico

Moises & Maria Mariscal - Guatemala

                                                            Tim & Nancy Shelburn - Paraguay

                                Carol James - Brazil

New Website for Paraguay: www.ntm.org/paraguay/

EUROPE:

David & Ute Poysti - Germany

Sue Barrett - Germany

AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST:

Graham & Joanne Peacocke - Botswana

Dave Burgoyne - United Arab Emirates (UAE)

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM:

Christian Aid - supporting an indigenous pastor in China

Rosalie Ranquist - Florida / Papua New Guinea

John & Marilyn White - Papua New Guinea

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son

and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things

that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always,

even to the end of the age.  Amen."

MATTHEW 28:19-20