Mission & Service
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The members of FPC support mission work in Muskegon County, the Presbytery of Lake Michigan, nationally and the world.
 
Through annual budget giving, the church supports the programs of the General Assembly and the Presbytery, including seminaries, colleges, mission, churches, food programs, disaster relief and other activities.
 
Through special offerings and activities, the members of FPC also support non-budgeted programs.  FPC is a Covenant Church member of Bread for the World, a national interdenominational organization that lobbies Congress on behalf of hungry people.
 
Through our Mission Council budget and special offerings, we help support local agencies including Every Woman's Place, Love In the Name of Christ, Mission for Area People, the Church World Service CROP Walk and Blanket Sunday, the Muskegon Rescue Mission, Community enCompass, Faith in Action International and Heifer International, among others.
 
The Hunger Committee is under the guidance of our Mission Council.  This ministry participates in the Muskegon area CROP Walk, MAP Supper House, Bread for the World Bread Sales, the Cents-Ability Offering, as well as Presbytery, Synod and church-wide hunger issues.
 
FPC youth are also involved in mission through activities with Mission for Area People, the 30-Hour Famine, SouperBowl of Caring and church school offerings.
 
Our adult mission team spent two weeks in Nicaragua and our youth spent a week at the Heifer International Ranch in Arkansas.
 
 
 
 
 
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE
BLANKET+ SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
 
Church World Service Blanket+ Sunday will be celebrated on February 12th, however financial contributions to CWS and blankets to be delivered locally will be received throughout February.
 
During the late spring, severe storms, floods and tornadoes devastated large areas of the Midwest and South. CWS responded rapidly with baby kits, school kits, hygiene kits, clean-up buckets and 1,150 blankets.
 
In Texas during the September and October wildfires, CWS provided assistance to over 7,000 families whose homes were destroyed.  Blankets were distributed along with the many kits CWS provides to people in emergency situations.
 
The CWS Eblanketmergency Response Specialists continue to work with State and Federal Volunteer Agencies in these areas as well as other Long Term Recovery Organizations to provide long term recovery assistance.
 
In Somalia during the disastrous famine this past summer CWS was at the border between Somalia and Kenya providing emergency care to the thousands of refugees as they fled Somalia.  CWS working with several international organizations, none of which was allowed to enter Somalia, were the first stop for women, men, children and infants as they entered Kenya.
 
Contribution envelopes will be in the pews and new or nearly new blankets of all sizes, including baby blankets will be collected in the Wickham hallway.  At the end of February they will be delivered to Every Woman's Place and the Women's Shelter of the Muskegon Rescue Mission.
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