The Important Stuff That We Do
For a little church, we do a lot of neat stuff. Here are ways you can get involved:
- Food Co-Op: Disabled and elderly neighbors participate in our bi-weekly food co-op.
- Coventry Place: We conduct monthly worship services at this retirement home
- Hunger Walk in March: we raise money to fight hunger and poverty in Metro-Atlanta.
- Seminary Interns: We have a wonderful relationship with Columbia Theological Seminary and support interns from that institution in our church.
- Community Garden: Our community garden was created for our Myanmar refugee families. It has now been expanded into a Community Garden.
- Hagar’s House: We served meals and make new friends at this shelter for women and children.
- Volunteer Tutors: We volunteer to assist teachers at Avondale Estates Elementary School.
- Collaboration with Eastminster Church and Memorial Drive Church: We pool our resources to help our refugee members.
- Poverty Is Real: We participate in and support this musical event in Decatur to end homelessness.
- We are active members of Presbyterians for a Better Georgia, a partnership of various metro Presbyterian congregations who support public policy to serve “the least of these.”
- Haiti Project: We collaborate with several churches on a mission program in Haiti to build and sustain Eco-villages.
- Neighborhood Summit: We hold meetings of all of our neighborhood groups and associations so we can learn what we’re all doing and what the issues are that we face as neighbors in Decatur.
- Decatur Emergency Assistance Ministry (DEAM): We collect a lot of food for this vital agency.
- Clifton Men’s Shelter: We join our youth each Super Bowl Sunday to host the “Souper Bowl” fundraiser at the men’s shelter in Atlanta.
- We host a community Advent Festival in which our members and friends come together to make Advent crafts and to worship together as the Advent season begins.
- Host the Our House Thanksgiving Dinner for children and families of Our House (daycare center for homeless children) with a special holiday dinner and program.
- AA: We host two AA groups each week.
- Girl Scouting: We host three Girl Scout troops.
- Nativity Party for children of Hagar’s House: We present a special Christmas program for the children of the homeless shelter.
- We provide support our missionary families: the McGills (Malawi) and Gartrells (Brazil) and the Hmars (India).
- We maintain an emergency fund for our refugee families from Mynamar.
- We volunteer as teacher aides at Avondale Elementary School.
- We actively support Decatur Cooperative Ministry.
- We provide a summer Vacation Bible School for our church children as well as refugee children living in the Clarkston area.
- We donate the building and land for use by Our House, a daycare center for homeless children.