We have a very active Mission and Outreach Committee that does incredible and needed work in our community and beyond. Prior to the Pandemic, we served a hot breakfast with live music once a month to the Vallejo homeless and low-income seniors (up to 140 meals) and provided up to 70 sandwiches once a month to those in homeless encampments.
Below is a list of all the work we did in 2023 & 2024:
- $5000 to OCWM (Our Churches Wider Mission)
- $400 each to One Great Hour of Sharing, Neighbors in Need and Strengthen the Church
- Creation of an Action Plan to assist people who come to our door in need
- Started our own food pantry for our members who are food insecure
- Donated $1350 through the UCC for Earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria
- Donated $5500 to the recent Hurricane victims in the US
- Easter Lily fund is a collection of contributions that would be for “lilies”, but instead funds “Starter Kits” for aged-out foster youth being installed in their first apartments through “First Place for Youth” (a local non-profit). These are placed in the front of the church as part of our decorations for Easter.
Easter Decorations with items for foster youth
- Worked with Vallejo Together in feeding the homeless sandwiches
- Summer Mission Project of providing filled backpacks to low-income kindergarteners at Stefan Manor Elementary in Vallejo
- Collected $1150 to send through UCC to Maui after the disastrous fires
- Sent $400 to the humanitarian crisis in Israel/Gaza through Doctors without Borders and the World Central Kitchen
- “Gently Used Coats and Jackets” Drive to provide warm and waterproof outdoor wear to donate to our homeless friends on the street
- Provided 25, 20-lb. turkeys for the annual Thanksgiving Feast for the Homeless at 1st Baptist Church in Vallejo.
- Provided Christmas gifts and gift cards for gas/groceries to help low-income Benicia families through Benicia Family Resource Center, a local non-profit.
- Christmas Poinsettia Fund raised money for underwear, tarps, sleeping bags, etc. for the Homeless.
Backpacks for Children being blessed
