Mission Organization: Neighbors in Need (Dickinson’s own newly created mission!)
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in...I was sick and you looked after me".......Matthew 25:35
Dickinson's Involvement:
Whether through financial appeals to the congregation, food drives, clothing drives or other forms of outreach, Dickinson Presbyterian Church has always strived to give witness to Christ's love by responding to those in crisis. In 2005, DPC's Mission and Outreach committee decide to formalize the church’s crisis response ministry through the establishment of Neighbors in Need. The aim of DPC's Neighbors in Need program is to provide a centralized network where people within the congregation and throughout the local community can receive financial support for unexpected concerns.
Click here to read more about Neighbors in Need.
Click Here to download the Neighbors In Need Financial Assistance Request Form.
Mission Organization: Neighbors in Christ
Dickinson's Involvement:
This Newville organization provides emergency financial and other assistance to help people with rent, utility bills, food, clothing, and health care. A board of volunteers meets each Saturday to review all requests for assistance. Board members are volunteers appointed by their churches. To volunteer, contact your local church.
Those seeking assistance can meet the board from 9 to 10 a.m. each Saturday at First United Presbyterian Church, 111 W. Big Spring Ave, Newville.
Donations may be sent to Neighbors in Christ, P.O. Box 71, Newville, PA 17241.
Mission Organization: World Surgical Foundation
Dickinson's Involvement:
All around the world there are children and adults who cannot get the healthcare they need. In many places, the technology is not available. In others it is just too costly. The World Surgical Foundation Inc. (WSF) takes healthcare where it is not otherwise available. From poor villages in developing countries to free clinics in an American city, the WSF makes healthcare accessible.
Since its inception, the WSF has sponsored several surgical teams that have brought equipment, medications and boundless energy to various islands in the Philippines completing approximately 25-40 surgeries a day over a ten-day period.
The WSF promotes continued patient care and medical self-reliance by teaching resident physicians state-of-the-art surgical techniques and showing them how to use the donated equipment and supplies that will stay in the local hospitals, which are far from large cities, after the mission.
Not a religious or political organization, the WSF is proud to work with notable local and international organizations like:
- American College of Surgeons Operation Giving Back
- International College of Surgeons
- Map International
- AmeriCares
- CURE
- The Albert Sweitzer Hospital in Haiti
- Interchurch Medical Assistance Group
- The International Red Cross
- Community Check Up Center, Harrisburg, PA
- Hamilton Health Center, Harrisburg, PA
and many other local and international organizations. The Mission also helps organizations with similar goals.
To Make a Donation
WSF invites you to become involved either financially or as a volunteer to help in their medical relief efforts. For more information about volunteer opportunities please call Nancy Cohen at 717-232-1404 or fax your information to 717- 232-1405.
They accept Visa, Mastercard and Discover credit cards. Please call 717-232-1404 to process a credit card payment/donation.
Donations to WSF can be sent to P.O. Box 1006, Camp Hill, PA 17001-1006, made payable to WSF. We also accept donations of stock. Their tax identification number is EIN 23-2905618. All contributions are tax deductible and will be acknowledged by letter.
Mission Organization: Project S.H.A.R.E. Foodbank
Dickinson's Involvement:
Project S.H.A.R.E., which operates out of 5 N. Orange St. No. 4, Carlisle, serves Carlisle, Mt. Holly Springs, Boiling Springs, Plainfield, Gardners, Carlisle Springs, and surrounding areas.
It provides supplemental food distribution the third Thursday of each month from 8 a.m. to noon and the following Saturday from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. to individuals and families who meet income requirements. A box of 50 items including canned, fresh and frozen food are available to low-income families.
Volunteers are needed to lift boxes, to count food containers, to help people carry groceries and to help register people for the program. Volunteers also are needed to help recipients pick vegetables at local farms.
To volunteer or make a donation, call Elaine Livas at 249-7773. Those interested also may contact her at share@pa.net or visit the website at www.projectshare.net.
Project S.H.A.R.E. also offers cooking classes for adults and children at its Orange Street facility.
S.H.A.R.E. stands for Survival Help And Recipient Education and is sponsored by the Carlisle Area Religious Council.
Others Missions that D.P.C supports:
Truck Stop Ministry - Carlisle sees thousands of truckers pass through each and every day. The Truck Stop Ministries provides pastoral support to truckers. Each year in December Dickinson church provides homemade cookies to this worthy cause, to be distributed to the truck drivers.
New Life for Girls - is a Christian, non-profit residential rehabilitation program for troubled girls and women. Founded in 1972, New Life for Girls is committed to meeting the emotional, physical, spiritual and academic needs of female drug addicts, alcoholics, and delinquents. They offer deliverance and restoration through the power and love of Jesus Christ. Dickinson church supports these women by donating Christmas presents each year.
For More Information Please Mail or Call:
New Life for Girls
Box 170
Dover, PA 17315
(717) 266-5614
Or email at NLFGDover1@aol.com |
