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Outreach

Children's Rescue Mission  - Teupasenti, Honduras

Founded in 1998 following Hurricane Mitch, CRM provides food and training for the children and young people of Teupasenti, Honduras. In 2002, our church raised $5000 to match a $5000 grant from Heifer Project International to start a farm in conjunction with the mission. In 2003, 7 members of our congregation traveled to Teupasenti to experience the mission, farm and community first hand.  Read about that trip.

Church World Service

• Disaster Relief – provides relief, following natural disaster, in the form of blankets, tents, food and clothing.
• Blanket Sunday – provides blankets for persons displaced by natural and human made disasters.
• Tool Sunday – provides tools, such as hammers, seeds, water pumps, sewing machines and plows to development projects across the world.

Community Kitchen of Torrington -  a soup kitchen in Torrington, CT

Covenant to Care - pairs social workers and churches to help with providing for the needs of children in crisis.

Elon Homes - a residential home for children with emotional needs in Elon, NC

Gideons - provides Bibles to hotels, hospital and to service people

Greenwoods Counseling Service - resources counseling services for those in Litchfield County

Habitat for Humanity - Honduras building houses for God’s people

Heifer Project - providing animals to help families be self-sufficient

High Watch Farm  - a residential home for those recovering from substance abuse.

Housatonic Youth Service Bureau - provides training and counseling to the young people of the Litchfield Hills.

Kent Affordable Housing - seeks to provide affordable housing in Kent

Kent Nursing Association - provides medical services for those in Kent who are homebound or recently released from the hospital.

Loaves & Fishes (New Milford) - a soup kitchen in New Milford, CT

Neighbors In Need - provides food, shelter, education and wellness programs across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. These programs focus especially on women and Native Americans.

New Milford Hospice - provides services for those near the end of life.

Oratory of the Little Way - a center for healing ministry

One Great Hour of Sharing - provides funds for emergency aid and relief, and development programs in developing countries.

Our Church’s Wider Mission - supports the work of the United Church of Christ, in Connecticut and nationally throughout the United States.

Women's Support Services    provides resources, training and counseling to women in crisis

The Hunger Site

Red Cross, Blood Donations

UNICEF

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