Missions...

2012

  • East Side Ecumenical Lenten Services--Feb. 22 to Apr. 6

  • Sign Up for 2012 Haiti Mission Trip, March 1-8.

  • Serving the Homeless: Project Home, February 2012

    • 2011

  • GUEST PREACHER, Right Reverend Dr. Festus Asana, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon, November 13, 10:00 a.m.

  • SIGN UP NOW! Project Home, February 2012

  • VIEW PHOTOS: 2011 CROP WALK, October 9

  • "Feed My Starving Children" Local Mission Outreac, June 18.

    • 2010

  • Peacemaking Offering, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 to Benefit HIV/AIDS Pandemic

  • "Feed My Starving Children" Mission Project, Sat., July 10, 2010

  • Project Home: For 25 Nights in April 2010, They Called AHP Home!

  • Haiti Trip Report, May 28-June 5, 2010

  • African Community Fundraiser, May 16, 2010

  • Haiti Earthquake Report: St. Joseph's Home for Boys- January 2010

    • A Few of Our Ministries...

    Arlington Hills Presbyterian Church is deeply committed to helping those in need in our community and in our world. We recognize the body of Christ in a global sense. Among the ministries we support are:

  • Minnesota Food Shelves is a year-round food collection ministry that includes: March Minnesota Foodshare Month, CROP Hunger Walk, and the Thanksgiving Food Drive in coordination with the Salvation Army, Merrick Community Food Shelf, Union Gospel Mission, and the St. Paul Area Council of Churches.

  • Project Home: We transform our Fellowship Hall into carboard-walled rooms, housing for the homeless, generally during the month of April each year. Members and friends of members volunteer for two shifts: evening and overnight. We greet families as they arrive for the evening, play with children, assist with homework, serve snacks -— those staying overnight serve breakfast. While families received a balanced meal at the Family Center in St. Paul prior to their arrival, but volunteers frequently treat our guests to pizza, hot dogs, ice cream sundaes, and other favorite treats. Project Home is a program of the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches. Read more about Project Home at link.

  • Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is committed to feeding hungry children throughout the world. We volunteer twice a year at the FMSC facility in Coon Rapids, Minn., to pack nutritious meals made up of rice, soy, vitamins and dehydrated vegetables, which are then sent to organizations who partner with distributors that distribute the meals worldwide. Read more about FMSC at link.

  • St. Joseph's Home for Boys in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Members of our congregation first made a mission trip to Haiti in 2000. Haiti,considered the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, is one whose people are deeply challenged with starvation, malnutrition, disease, homelessness, illiteracy, and violence. In 1985, Michael Geilenfeld, a former brother with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, started a small home for five boys to bring them off the streets and offer them a Christian family life. Twenty-four years later there are now three homes that serve roughly 200 children through a variety of programs. Graduates from the first home run a home for disabled children in the mountains above Port-au Prince. This home, called Wings of Hope, also serves day students that attend educational programs there. A third home for boys, Trinity House, is located in the coastal town of Jacmel. In addition to the home, a school at Trinity House, Lekol Sen Trinitie, offers education to neighborhood children whose families cannot afford to pay for school. Other children are served through a Saturday Restavek Program, and there is a bakery and a coffee project at Trinity House as well. In 1985, Michael Geilenfeld, a former brother with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, started a small home for five boys to bring them off the streets and offer them a Christian family life. Twenty-four years later there are now three homes that serve roughly 200 children through a variety of programs. Graduates from the first home run a home for disabled children in the mountains above Port-au Prince. This home, called Wings of Hope, also serves day students that attend educational programs there. A third home for boys, Trinity House, is located in the coastal town of Jacmel. In addition to the home, a school at Trinity House, Lekol Sen Trinitie, offers education to neighborhood children whose families cannot afford to pay for school. Other children are served through a Saturday Restavek Program, and there is a bakery and a coffee project at Trinity House as well. St Joseph's Home for Boys and Wings of Hope were damaged beyond repair in the 2010 7.0 magnitude earthquake. A smaller home next door to the former St. Joseph's Home was purchased to serve as home base while the rebuilding project commences. The Wings of Hope children are currently housed in a rental facility and plans for building a new home for them are underway. Read more at the "Hearts With Haiti" website: link.

     


     

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