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Quick Mission Facts
- APC supports more than 25 mission projects locally, nationally and world-wide.
- Mission projects are funded by:
- Benevolence portion of the church budget ($63,490 in 2006)
- Special offerings for specific needs, many of an emergency nature
- Mission part of the Century Campaign, APC’s current capital campaign
- APC conducts mission trips to do service projects in poverty areas (Guatemala) and times of crisis (following Hurricane Katrina).
- The Mission Committee is planning for a scholarship fund to help with travel costs to mission work projects.
- Additional mission projects are supported by the Board of Deacons, Vacation Bible School, the Youth Program and the Mission Awareness Commitee.
Summary of Mission Giving: click here
Outreach to our Community
Camp Kirkwood – The Presbytery’s camping program in the Pocono Mountains for youth in grades 5 to 12. www.kirkwoodcamp.org
Community Food Cupboard – Provides free food for people in need.
CROP Walk – An ecumenical event raising funds for local hunger programs. www.churchworldservice.org
Elder Net of Lower Merion – provides social services to the frail elderly and younger disabled people in their own homes. www.eldernetonline.org
Headstart Learning Tree – A Presbytery pre-school program for inner-city children in Philadelphia.
John Gloucester House – This outreach program for children in SW Philadelphia is supported with gifts for its “Happy Birthday Jesus” party in December. www.jghouse.org
Momobile – APC supports this local program for at risk mothers and children through its mitten, hat and scarf tree at Christmas.
Philadelphia Urban Ministry Institute – APC supports a membership for the Presbytery’s hunger action enabler (who worships at APC) to attend this emerging inner city program. www.fpcgermantown.org
Presbytery of Philadelphia – Undesignated mission projects in the greater Philadelphia area. www.presbyphl.org
Retired Pastor’s Fund of Philadelphia Presbytery – This fund supports Presbyterian pastors whose retirement incomes are not adequate to meet their living expenses.
PresbyHomes & Services Broomall Presbyterian Home – This gift helps pay for nursing home care for those who cannot afford health care, including some APC members. www.presbyhomes.org
Presbyterian Children’s Village – Two gifts help provide a chaplain at the Village which houses and provides services for children unable to live in their own homes and a satellite center in SW Philadelphia. www.pcv.org
Synod of the Trinity – Undesignated mission programs at the Synod level. www.syntrinity.org
Welcoming the Stranger – This Lower Bucks County ministry provides classes for immigrants and refugees in English, computer skills and citizenship preparation. www.welcomingthestranger.org