Potential Outreach Activities for 2015

Item

When Does This

Happen?

Volunteer
Opportunity?

INTERNATIONAL
Costa Rica:
Medical Mission Trip
Operating Support for Hogar Escuela
Companion Diocese Officer Support
Support for Esperanza Viva and La Escuelita
through Item Sales
El Salvador Ministry:
College Scholarships for Village Children
Building or other Mission Support

Fall

Yes

Any Time

Yes, $

Fall

Yes, $

December

Yes

When Needed

Yes, $

If Needed

Yes

Bulgarian ISIS Refugee Assistance:

Logistics, translation, and housing support
Purchasing or making gifts that demonstrate
caring

ASAP

Yes, $

Any Time

Yes

Why Would We Do This?

North Carolina has a Companion Diocese relationship with Costa
Rica, and the Hogar Escuela Heredia, which provides day care, preschool, and after-school care for children and job training for their
parents living in the slums, was started from St. Alban's. Esperanza
Viva is the first support program for women with HIV/AIDS in Costa
Rica.
A little money goes a long way in this very poor country, and our
support of college education for Salvadoran youth not only raise
them up but help form the basis of a more stable society.
Bulgaria (which is not a rich country) is the closest non-Islamist
country for many refugees who are fleeing from their lives, which are
threatened by ISIS. Refugees include Christians, Jews, and nonradicalized Muslims, and others.

DOMESTIC/LOCAL
Ada Jenkins Center
Operating Assistance for LearnWorks

Any Time

Yes, $

Already Done

Yes, $

December

Yes

The Angel Tree serves families in need at Christmas, and we are the
faith partner for the Davidson Police and Fire Departments in this
outreach.

August

Yes

Backpacks go to LearnWorks students, and may also go to siblings of

La Escuelita students, and others.

October

Yes

The food pantry at the Ada Jenkins Center also provides pet food,
because hungry people usually have pets that are hungry, too.

Angel Tree
Supplies
Gifts for leftover Angels
Backpacks for Students
Provision of backpacks for students in need
Blessing of the Animals
Pet Food Collection
Davidson-Cornelius Child Development Center:
Building/Building Maintenance Support

Any Time

Yes

Operating Support

Any Time

Yes, $

Spring

Yes

Food Distribution
Supplies
Galilee Ministries of East Charlotte
Spring

Yes

Spring-Summer

Yes

Research-Advocacy

Spring

Yes

Operating Support

Fall-Winter

Yes

Hope for the Holidays (benefits Davidson

Housing Coalition)
Operating Support

December

Yes, $

Operating Support

Any Time

Yes

Supplies or Equipment

Any Time

Yes, $

Fall

Yes

September - May

Yes

Start-Up Support
Habitat For Humanity
Interfaith Build Contribution
Homelessness Work

La Escuelita San Alban

LearnWorks Bridge at Ada Jenkins:

Books
Snacks and Other Supplies

An after-school tutoring program serving elementary and middleschool students, LearnWorks and LearnWorks Bridge empower atrisk students for academic success. LearnWorks Bridge, the middleschool program, began at St. Alban's.

DCCDC is the only full-day sliding-scale day care in North

Mecklenburg, offering safe care for children of low-income working
parents.
The collection and distribution of food as a one-time event from St.
Alban's is being considered as a local equivalent of Stop Hunger Now.
This Diocesan ministry is a combination of a service and worship
center, with inter-agency partners that serve refugees and the poor
in East Charlotte, where over 150 languages are spoken.
The Spring Inter-Faith Build will provide a home for neighbors in
Cornelius, but also provide an opportunity for Christians, Jews,
Muslims, and others to work together to support this community
need.
The Lake Norman area has no homeless shelter and no portal for
accessing homeless services. The nearest shelters are in Charlotte
and Statesville, but there are homeless in the area. This project will
improve access to homeless services, including shelter on cold nights,
for the homeless or near-homeless of the area.
The Davidson Housing Coalition advocates for and manages grants to
build affordable housing for neighbors. We support their annual
fundraiser.
LESA provides Latino children from Spanish-speaking homes with
English and preparation for kindergarten. Studies have shown that
kindergarten readiness is a key element of academic success, and
many Latino children lack the skills and socialization needed to be
ready for kindergarten. LESA fills this gap.
See "Ada Jenkins Center." We also provide books as donations,
snacks (because middle-school students get off the bus hungry), and
enrichment opportunities so that students have equal access to
cultural and other activities.

When Does This

Happen?
Summer

Volunteer
Opportunity?
Yes

Special Needs Support

Any Time

Yes

Christmas Gifts

December

Yes, $

Item
Enrichment Opportunities
Life Compass Family through Ada Jenkins

3rd Friday of Every

Month

Yes

Early Fall

Yes

Spring?

Yes

Monthly

Yes

To support the Ada Jenkins pantry, we focus on cleaning supplies

and hygiene items, which are not covered by food stamps.

Poverty Simulation in collaboration with Crisis

Assistance
Cost of offering program, plus supplies
Prison Ministry
Volunteers and funding support
Red Wagon Sunday
Food and Cleaning/Personal Items Collection
Samaritans Feet Shoe Giveaway
Providing shoes
School Support for Winding Springs
Elementary
Restocking "back-up" school uniforms
Special Drives for Episcopal Relief and
Development:
Disaster Relief Donations

August

Yes

Any Time

Yes

Any Time

Yes, $

Stop Hunger Now

Event Costs

July

Yes

November

Yes

Thanksgiving Turkey Drive for Families

through the Ada Jenkins Center
Food purchase to complete incomplete boxes

We sponsor a mother and three children, helping them move from

poverty to self-sufficiency, through this Ada Jenkins Center program.
Mooresville Soup Kitchen feeds between 100-200 people every
weekday and some Saturdays, with guests who range from mothers
with small children to day laborers to the elderly, disabled, and
homeless.
This educational exercise offered by Crisis Assistance Ministries helps
congregations better understand the dynamics of poverty, hunger,
housing, etc. In addition to making outreach more meaningful, it also
helps with understanding the systemic causes of poverty that can be
addressed through social justice activities.
In collaboration with DCPC, we are working with a team to develop a
prison ministry, yet to be defined.

Mooresville Soup Kitchen:

Volunteering and Operating Fund Support

See "Ada Jenkins Center." We also provide books as donations,

snacks (because middle-school students get off the bus hungry), and
enrichment opportunities
that students
have equal access to
WhysoWould
We Do This?
cultural and other activities.

Thompson's Child and Family Focus

Shoes for kids in residential program

Fall

Yes

Operating support through annual drive

May

Yes

Back-to-school shoes are exciting for everyone, so we partner with

Samaritan's Feet to provide shoes for children whose families can't
afford them.
This high-poverty Latino-African American elementary school
located off Exit 16 has no "back-ups" for uniforms, so we help keep
their uniform "emergency supplies" filled.
We support special calls for funding aid for disasters such as
hurricanes, famine, etc. through the national Episcopal relief agency.
This Christian non-profit provides long-lasting, shippable food packs
to areas hit by famine or disasters, and the packing event is a
wonderful intergenerational event for the parish.
Each year, we collaborate with other churches to provide
Thanksgiving meals for families that otherwise would not have one.
We collect donations, pack boxes, and take them to the Ada Jenkins
Center for delivery.
This Episcopal ministry is one of the premier counseling programs in
the country, and serves the abused/neglected/troubled children and
their families. They also provide residential care for the most
troubled children, one of one a few places in the state that do so.