Missions at First Church
Missions: Changes the world! Missions at First Church is an active team that coordinates service and justice work in our community, country, and world. Specifically, they collaborate with our church community to provide access to shelter, food, and clothing through contributions and good works.
Our Missions Committee is particularly active in winter and spring. They meet quarterly to dream, strategize, and plan current, upcoming, and new projects to serve our community and beyond.
We meet monthly and consider any ideas for fundraising and distribution to worthy causes. The meetings are open to all.
Check out below some of the projects and enterprises our Missions team is involved in!
- Monthly collections to the Bridgton Food Pantry
- Annual contribution to neighboring food pantries
- Backpack project in August for local school children
- Maintenance of our Little Blue Library
- Provide gift bags to our “Home Alone” church members
- Mail birthday cards to all our church members
- Collaboration to provide clothing needs requested by Jeanette’s Closet
- Fundraisers to support our Teen Mission projects
- Provide funding and gift cards to Tucker’s House
- Support the UCC Gun Safety Coalition
- Financial support for Special Olympics
- Financial support for Pilgrim Lodge Scholarships
- Encourage participation for the Rotary Reading Program, Big Brother/Big Sister Program
- Provide annual donations to Church World Services with Health Kits and/or other requests
- Five for Five-Quarterly collections and donations to UCC sponsored charities
- Annual collection and donation to Honduras based Daisy’s Children and Heifer