Our Service to the Community and Others
First Presbyterian Church is a founding and supporting member of Hands on Hartford, formerly Center City Churches, Inc. The Church supports this urban ministry with generous budgeted gifts, Groups of youth and adults volunteer to serve meals at MANNA Community Meals, MANNA Senior Cafe and to work at Peter's Retreat. Individual members also serve on the board and volunteer in its programs.
Hands on Hartford, formerly Center City Churches, in partnership with others, strengthens community in Hartford by responding faithfully to people in need through programs that change lives and renew human possibility.
The following programs are operated by Hands on Hartford:
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First Presbyterian Church's annual Strawberry Festival held in June supports the following ministries:
2008 FPC Youth Mission Trip $500
2008 FPC Adult Mission Trip $750
West Indian Foundation (hurricane relief) $500
Monroe Scholarship (A FPC Program) $1000
Weekend Backpack Program $250
(A Hands on Hartford Program)Presbyterian Disaster Assistance $250
Camp Coast Care (Adult Mission Trip site) $250
For the past seven years the youth of the Church have spent a week each summer on a mission trip. Last Summer they went to San Antonio, Texas and worked with a variety of social service agencies serving the poor and handicapped, in 2006 they traveled to the Mississippi Gulf Coast doing Hurricane Relief following Katrina, one year they worked in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Challenged by the youth the first adult (actually intergenerational) Mission Trip was held in February 2007 working with the same agency the youth had worked with the previous summer. A second intergenerational mission trip will travel to Mississippi in February 2008.