Missions & Outreach

Mission Statement

We feel strongly led to take an active role in assisting those in need in our community by supporting local organizations with our gifts of money and time. Our support includes efforts to address hunger, housing, health care, education and employment needs. Our financial support is frequently linked with the voluntary and professional services of our members.

Ministering to the Local Community

Hunger

Chester County Food Bank

Great Valley Food Cupboard

Paper Mill Food Hub

Philabundance

The Greenhouse Project

Housing

Broad Street Ministries

Gemma Services

Habitat for Humanity

Hayes Manor

Health

Phoenixville Free Clinic

Gemma Services

YoungLives

Ryan’s Case for Smiles

Education

Cornerstone Christian Academy

Employment

Baker Industries

OTHER

We support emergency disaster relief efforts locally and regionally by partnering with organizations.

Great Valley Food Cupboard
Activities include: collect books, games and toys to distribute to children; Pack shopping bags of food for local families including refugees living in the area; Grow and donate vegetables in the St. John’s vegetable garden; Purchase and assemble backpacks for youth with Gemma Services.

Ministering to the Worldwide Community

General Mission: to support the mission work of PC(USA) at the local, state, national and international level. St John’s supports our Mission Partners, Jed and Jenny Koball in Peru. Their mission is part of the initiative to address root causes of hunger in partnership with networks of churches and non-governmental organizations in countries with high poverty rates.

Disaster Relief: St John’s participates in the national church program for emergency disaster relief, hunger. St Johns also donates locally when disasters occur within our own communities

Church World Service: The Baby Bundles Sewing Group makes layettes for expectant mothers in poverty-stricken areas. Also, Hygiene Kit Assembly as St John’s Service Project to support the Church World Service’s national and global community service efforts

Rise Against Hunger: A hunger relief organization that uses volunteers to package nutritious, dehydrated meals that are distributed where needed in the USA and worldwide.

La Estación: A program providing meals and preschool education to children of a poor settlement in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Haiti Health Promise Of Holy Name / Hôpital Sacré Coeur: Medical center providing both inpatient and outpatient healthcare to the sick and the poor in Haiti.