Reach Out & Mission Partners
First Church focuses on one of our Reach Out Partners each month to help raise awareness and money for their cause. Please read below and consider a donation today.
Reach Out for April 2024: JOURNEY HOME
Journey Home has spent more than a decade committed to ending chronic homelessness in the Greater Hartford region. They have been able in less than two years to match 72% of those experience chronic homelessness to housing, which means they have been housed or will be housed very soon.
A Hand Up: A Program of Journey Home, works to support those who are currently transitioning from homelessness to housing by connecting them to donations of household goods and furniture Together they are filling a huge gap because clients are often moving into housing after experiencing homelessness with nothing but what they can carry on their back. Yet, many people have excess furniture and household items in their homes without a place to put them other than the landfills.
Together with your support they will be able to end homelessness.
For more information: Journey Home, 255 Main Street 2nd floor, Hartford Ct 06106 Tel: 860-808-0336 website https://journeyhomect.org/.
To donate online thru the church: HIT THE BUTTON BELOW
or you can donate directly at: https://journeyhomect.org/
Thank you for your support.
Pictured: Jenny Clark, Janice Carter-Hall, Marcia Watson, Ginny Vocelli and Carole Carter honored during Worship.
Covenant to Care: For over 30 years, the Covenant to Care Adopt a Social Worker program has been an important part of the mission of First Church. Let us celebrate and thank Janice Carter Hall and Carole Carter who have coordinated this program for our church the past 7 years and are passing the torch to Maryanne Barry and Diane Bohman.
Mission Partners
At First Church we understand that we truly are the body of Christ, and our outreach missions reflect our belief in showing kindness and compassion to all of God’s creation. First Church Outreach is involved in helping people who struggle with food insecurity and homelessness, and we are particularly involved in working for equity and social justice. These are a few of the organizations that First Church members actively support: