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 Wekiva
Presbyterian Church is actively involved with missions programs,
both within our local community and around the world. Here are just
some of the mission activities our congregation supports.
The Sharing Center
The Sharing Center is
a non-profit charitable organization that helps to provide material
needs for a family so that they may be more receptive to a spiritual
experience. Their services include food, clothes, gas vouchers,
prescription vouchers, rent and utility assistance as well as consideration
of any physical help that would allow a client to be back on the
path to self-sufficiency.
 The
Sharing Center is in need of volunteers. If you would like to volunteer
in the thrift store, boutique, food pantry, office or warehouse,
call 407-260-9155. Training is provided. You may choose your hours.
Open Monday - Saturday 9am - 5pm.
Pantry items
most needed now are: bath soap, shampoo, toothpaste, detergent,
dry milk, juice, coffee, teabags.
To schedule
pickup of large items at your home or office call 407-332-0925 ext
4.
Duvall Home
The Duvall Home is a
nonprofit organization with no restrictions as to age, sex, race
or national origin; operated by the Presbyterian Special Services,
Inc. in relationship with the Presbyterian
Church (USA) and licensed by the State of Florida, Department
of Health and Rehabilitative Services. Learn
more about this wonderful ministry for handicap children and adults
at the Duvall
Home web site
Keep saving
those Campbell Company labels! Because of the generosity of those
in our congregation who bring in their Campbell product labels,
and others who do the same in churches throughout Florida, the Duvall
Home was able to obtain a seven-passenger van. It took them over
500,000 labels to make this purchase. The needs at Duvall Home are
ongoing, for such items as audio-visual equipment, a computer, and
computer programs, so please continue to donate your labels.
Labels to collect:
- Any type
of Campbell's Soups
- Any Campbell's
Bean Products
- Campbell's
Tomato Juice
- Franco-American
Products
- Swanson Canned
Food or Frozen Products
- Pace Picante
Sauce or Salsa
- Pepperidge
Farm Products - Save Bags
- Prego Spaghetti
Products
- RECIPE Canned
Dog Food Products
Good News Prison Ministry
Good News Prison Ministry
gives spiritual guidance and counseling to prisoners in Orlando
jails.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity
is a group of Christian citizens concerned with providing decent
housing for God's people in need. Habitat raises money, recruits
volunteers an constructs or renovates inexpensive but sturdy homes
for responsible low-income families. With Habitat's assistance,
these families purchase the houses at cost. Learn more about this
program's history and how you can get involved at the Habitat
for Humanity web site.
Click
here to view Wekiva Presbyterian's Habitat Project completed in 2005
Loaves & Fishes
Loaves and Fishes is
an outreach ministry in Apopka, Florida and is supported by local
churches within the surrounding communities. Their mission is to
help homeless and needy families with food, clothing, counseling
and financial assistance. Loaves and Fishes provides services for
approximately 600 families per week in the name of Jesus Christ.
Current needs are: household
items, baby items, baby formula, toiletries, peanut butter, and
jelly.
Thornwell Homes
Thornwell's doors were
opened on October 1, 1875, to eight orphaned Confederate children.
Founded by William Plumer Jacobs, it was his unrelenting belief
that God so willed this endeavor. Thornwell always has had a full
program of educational, spiritual, and physical care for children.
It is a fully-accredited independent school high school.
Thornwell is committed
to use all available facilities and an abundance of love, patience,
and discipline to nurture young people toward responsible Christian
citizenship. Wekiva Presbyterian Church supports Thornwell financial
donations and prayer.
2 Cents Per Meal
Faith and
Compassion Demonstrated Through Prayers, Understanding, and Gifts.
Two Cents per meal is
a hunger ministry of the Central Florida Presbytery. Wekiva Presbyterian
Church participates in this partnership program by encouraging individuals
and families to contribute two cents per person for each meal eaten
during the day. Those moneys are then collected in worship service
on the second Sunday of each month and sent to the Presbytery for
use in specific relief and self-help development projects of our
partners around the world
The Two Cents Per Meal
program, a denomination-wide partnership of Christian faith and
compassion, began in Central Florida in 1982. Simply, each member
of the household sets aside two cents for each meal they eat ($1.80
per person per month). This is collected once a month.
Current partners are:
locally, Second Harvest Food Bank, a private nonprofit organization
which collects and stores donated food for distribution to charitable
feeding programs; nationally, Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization
(ECHO), which is fighting world hunger through ideas, information,
and seeds; and internationally, St. Barnabas Agricultural School
in Haiti, which trains students in agriculture, animal care, nutrition,
and Christian values, and the Fisherman's Association of Aquadilla,
Puerto Rico, a group of 26 who fish to provide food for their families
and to sell to improve their standard of living.
Since its creation, Two
Cents Per Meal has raised $1.4 million dollars. Isn't it amazing
how so little can become so much?
Scholarship Program
The scholarship fund
was started by Russell Swain in memory of his wife, Patricia Swain.
Patricia Swain Scholarship Fund provides money to those in college
from our congregation who have expressed their goals in life and
how the Wekiva Presbyterian Church has been an important part of
their goals and their lives. Scholarships are awarded in June.
Adult & College
Mission Trips
Opportunities are available
for Adult and College-age Mission Trips.
Your
opportunity to participate begins now! Forms will be available at
all times in the church office and at special sign up tables after
church services or click here to
fill out your form online. The committee is hopeful that the entire
congregation will support this exciting project by participating
in this unique opportunity. The cost is $100.00 per brick.
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