Deuteronomy 10:12
What does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
What does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Our Mission Outreach
The mission programs and opportunities we support include:
- Dogwood Acres Presbytery Camp and Conference Center
- E.C.H.O. (Emergency Care Help Organization)
- Gideons International
- Habitat for Humanity
- UKirk Tallahassee (Presbyterian Campus Ministry at FSU)
- Presbytery of Florida
- Refuge House: homeless and/or those in need of shelter
- Chelsea House: homeless, assistance, training
- Girl and Boy Scout programs
- Theological Education Fund for Presbyterian Seminaries
- Kearney Center: shelter and meals
- Thornwell Home for Children, Clinton SC
- Thornwell Building Families, Quincy FL
- Montreat National Presbyterian Conference Center
UKirk Tallahassee
Lafayette wholeheartedly supports UKirk Tallahassee, the Presbyterian Ministry at FSU: financially, through Board representation, through service projects, and through occasional provision of dinners on Thursday nights, just prior to UKirk Tallahassee's "Listening Point." To learn more, visit PUC's website at www.ukirktallahassee.com.
Dogwood Acres Camp and Retreat Center
Dogwood Acres is the outdoor ministry of the Presbytery of Florida. The mission of Dogwood Acres is to provide a retreat environment in which individuals and groups can grow in faith, and enjoy wholesome recreation and Christian fellowship in a natural and unspoiled part of creation. View the website or, better yet, visit in person to experience first-hand the beautiful gift that is Dogwood Acres. Contact Ben Powell, Camp Director, for more information and to schedule retreats. You may also contact Kay Lachat at Lafayette Presbyterian Church for volunteer opportunities, including serving as retreat host for scheduled groups or participating in workdays and year-round projects at the camp.
Buddy Bench Ministry
Sammie's Buddy Bench Project is inspired by a 9-year old in Fort Wayne, IN. This project collects bottle caps to be turned into Buddy Benches for schools. The benches, in Sammie’s words, are there “if someone is lonely, they can go sit on the bench and others know to go up and ask them to play.” She doesn’t want anyone to feel alone and at times would have used it herself. Also, it’s a place for new kids to sit and for those feeling left out or wanting to make a new friend.
Anyone can collect caps to have a bench made, so many organizations throughout the country needed caps for their benches. We delivered approximately 60 pounds of bottles for a bench to be made for a school in south Florida with no postage costs! Our researching also provided an option for recycling #5 prescription bottles that we initially collected.
Gimme 5 Recycling, with the help of Whole Foods Market, accepts #5 bottles for recycling into common household kitchen accessories, which through their program helps the homeless. For some time now, we have been dropping off bottles at Whole Foods Market who provides a special bin for collecting these.
So now in combination with The Buddy Bench Project, Gimme 5 Recycling, and Waste Pro USA, we have a good program to provide bottles AND caps for various uses.
WHAT TO COLLECT:
- Clean plastic bottle caps of any type for Buddy Benches.
- #5 prescription bottles for Gimme 5 Recycling.
- Other bottles that are not #5 or the labels won’t come off.
Our Lafayette ministry will be helping the disadvantaged, children who need friendship with the help of a simple bench, as well helping the environment.
Anyone needing caps for their bench project can contact Lafayette Presbyterian Church for a donation of caps.
E.C.H.O. (Emergency Care Help Organization)
Lafayette members regularly donate items to the E.C.H.O. center on S. Gadsden St. in Tallahassee to help those who need immediate assistance with food, clothing, and furniture. During the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons there are special drives, and we participate in the "Souper Bowl of Caring" each February.
Shelter Missions
Lafayette supports the Kearney Center, the Refuge House, and Chelsea House through donations and volunteer services
Crafts for Missions/Prayer Quilt Group
This group of caring ladies crafting handmade items for missions developed out of our Prayer Quilt Group. The Prayer Quilt program is currently inactive, but an occasional lap quilt or pieced pillow has been created.
The Crafts for Missions group currently meets on the fourth Thursday of each month. They meet in our Christian Education Building at 1:30PM. The meetings are very informal and fellowship is a large part of the meetings. The group provides items for several different missions. The different missions are focused on in a rotating basis, depending on current need. New craft ideas and missions are always encouraged.
Currently the group contributes to the following missions:
The Crafts for Missions group currently meets on the fourth Thursday of each month. They meet in our Christian Education Building at 1:30PM. The meetings are very informal and fellowship is a large part of the meetings. The group provides items for several different missions. The different missions are focused on in a rotating basis, depending on current need. New craft ideas and missions are always encouraged.
Currently the group contributes to the following missions:
- Operation Christian Child Shoe Boxes is one of our major missions. Some of the items that are crafted for the boxes include loom knitted hats, jewelry, crouched items of various types, jump ropes braided from T-shirt strips, sunglass cases, various toy animals, small skirts and shorts, and many other items.
- To PSUSA Disaster Assistance the group sends flannel baby blankets, fleece baby and youth blankets, loom knitted hats, and various layette items.
- Courage Through Cancer is a local mission and the group provides soft loomed knitted hats for chemo patients.
- Little Dresses for Africa is a mission that sends simple but very cute dresses to under developed countries.
- Westminster Oaks is a mission close to our hearts. Adult dinning scarves are provided to residents, especially in the Health Care Center.
- Thornwell Children’s Home has been sent colorful pillow cases designated for children that come to Thornwell in a crisis situation.
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