Outreach Opportunities

Within and Beyond the Gate

Upcoming Outreach Opportunities

October - Thanksgiving Food Box Collection

October 18 - Micah Community Dinner

October 29 - Good Samaritan Dinner

We are blessed to be a blessing.....

This is the time of year when we come together to provide food boxes for families in the Fredericksburg City School System who are living with food insecurity on a daily basis.


We'll be collecting food and packing boxes all month with a final packing on November 9th following worship.


Contact Krista or Tom Lovell with questions or to volunteer to deliver packed boxes to the schools.


How can we best care for our neighbors?

For decades, our congregation has offered direct aid to neighbors in need through the Good Samaritan Fund.  The uses of these donated dollars–aimed at living into the parable of the Good Samaritan–have varied over the years. Sometimes, our church provided a tank of gas for a stranded traveler, other times a meal or a place to stay overnight. Most recently the funds administered by the pastoral staff paid utility bills of community members facing cut-off notices for electricity or water in their homes. Many churches in the past provided this type of aid, but few do this now. Our Good Samaritan Fund has become unsustainable as community needs have grown. 
Pastor Elizabeth Milford and the Outreach Committee invite you to help us discern how The Presbyterian Church may  continue to offer forms of direct aid to overlooked neighbors. How can we help people out of crisis and set them on a path of healing as the Samaritan did? Join us in Fellowship Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. to share a light meal and discuss how God is calling us now to care for the neglected and hurting among us. Let us know you are coming by signing up on Realm.


Volunteers are encouraged to join in a rebuilding mission trip to the Asheville, NC-area on Nov. 2-8 to help residents who are still recovering from Hurricane Helene last September. Record-breaking rainfall and devastating winds took the lives of 107 people and destroyed or damaged homes, highways and bridges in western North Carolina.  Help is now needed in the rebuilding phase. 


Teams from The Presbyterian Church and St. Matthias United Methodist are forming to work on projects identified by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. 


Anyone can participate. You do not need to be a carpenter or electrician or plumber to contribute. Helpers are needed just as much as craftsmen and tradesmen. If you are interested in participating, please contact Barry Jones or Steve Spratt to learn more and get added to the team’s email list.  

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