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Community Resources

The work of the Board of Mission and Social Concerns is to foster awareness of human needs and to answer these needs.  Our goal is to involve all members and friends of our congregation in this outreach.  Our church reflects the passion of our members for helping others locally, nationally, and globally.  The board works to provide education and leadership for this goal.  At every opportunity we aim to reach out to improve the quality of life for people in our community and in our world and help in whatever ways we are able.

Our goals for the coming year

• Actively participate in the work and financial needs of Helpline, our local coordinating agency
  for helping local people in need.
• Plan, cook, and serve monthly meals at the Christian Aid Center.  Our goal is to involve an increasing number of our congregation in this work.  We donate magazines and books,
  and offer aid to the Christian Aid Center as needs arise.
• Promote understanding and implementation of our role as an open and affirming church, in coordination with the educational outreach of our active "..And Affirming" committee.
• Provide increasingly active outreach to the Latino community in the Walla Walla valley
  through a coordinated program and through actions of our leaders and members.
• Bring attention to local, national, and global issues of social justice and offer active plans
  to help our congregation become involved.
• Offer the use of our church facilities as meeting sites to many local 12-step programs.
  See the side bar to link to the schedule of meetings.
• Donate to and work with our local "Pantry Shelf."
• Hold rummage sales twice yearly and donate the proceeds to mission and outreach needs.
• Adopt a dozen families during the Christmas season and provide each person with gifts
  and the family with a generous food basket for the holidays and the weeks after.
• Actively advocate and work for economic justice and world peace.
• Generously support the United Church of Christ in their support of the needy
  in the United States and worldwide.