During the winter months there are those in need of a warm place to sleep and have a hot meal. We help staff and prepare a hot meal to serve to those who are in need.

What is a Prayer Partner you ask?

Ruth and Mike formed a special bond with Filipe and his family when they met in 1998. Brenda, our translator and guide, had cared for Felipe when they were both taking refuge in the San Salvador Cathedral during the war; he had lost his legs to a land mine. Through the years Ruth and Mike watched the changes in his family as his children grew, in number and size, admiring his new house when the family moved, etc. So when Mike’s prayer child Maritza graduated and moved on, it was natural that Mike would become a prayer partner with Felipe’s 9 year old daughter Maria Reina.

Her face lit up when Mike told her he was her “padrino” (godfather). He looked her in the eyes and told her what that meant. It meant that he had an obligation to pray for her regularly, to write to her at least once a year, watch her grades and to give a picture of his family so that she could pray for him. Her obligation was to study, do her best in school and write back.

So even if you never travel to El Salvador each delegation that goes will meet with your prayer partner and extend their greeting and yours deepening the bonds between communities.

In support of this ministry – scholarships for the children to be better equipped to go to school – we participate in many activities such as these:

• Wine tasting at Bargetto’s
• See’s candy sale
• Dinners at Shadowbrook.

Imagine being hospitalized.  Now imagine being homeless.  Now imagine both at the same time. What would you do if both were true and you had no place to go?  That was the inspiration behind the Recuperative Care Center.   Every two weeks we purchase and deliver food staples to the Recuperative Care Center providing the food for 10-15 people recovering from a hospital stay, but without a place to transition.

The program provides 24-hour shelter with meals, housekeeping, security, and onsite case management including medication management support, clinical social work and case management. RCC is not a licensed care facility, but instead combines 24-hour shelter with care and services tailored to meet the needs of homeless adults. If you would like to participate in this ministry contact the Outreach committee.

“We show our work of faith, labor of love and steadfast hope in Christ when we take food to the homeless who are recovering from a hospital stay and need a clean warm place to sleep and heal before facing the challenges of homelessness again: the kingdom of heaven in the Recuperative Care Center.” Sermon quote 10/19/14

The Committee has established relationships with the Social Justice Task Force of the Presbytery, Rising International, a non-profit organization that supports victims of human trafficking and domestic abuse, and Encompass, a non-profit organization that works with youth transitioning out of foster care to gain life skills and housing.