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Missions and Social Action

God uses our talents, our passions, and our hearts to show His love and care to others. It is the hope of our Missions Ministry and Equipping Ministries that each person at CPC will choose at least one mission in which to get involved. CPC offers many opportunities for local, national and international outreach. If you need help deciding how and where to share your gifts, contact the Missions officer liaison.

This ministry is charged with dispersing the stewardship funds allocated to missions and fostering mission activities of the congregation. Funds are dispersed either directly to organizations and causes at the local, regional, national and international levels; or allocated as seed money to congregational mission teams to encourage service-oriented mission work.

Ministry members meet one night a month to plan mission activities and review on-going mission work; make appropriate contact with members of the congregation to encourage mission efforts, particularly the establishment of mission teams; stay abreast of the various organizations that provide mission service; and determine how these organizations can be supported by the church.

For more information, contact the Ministry officer liaison.

The Carying Place Inc., based in Cary, teaches homeless families with children necessary life skills for attaining independent living, and provides them with short-term housing support services. The Transitional Housing Program (THP) gives families an opportunity to stabilize their financial situation, leading to permanent self-sustaining housing.

Volunteers fill various positions, each requiring different degrees of commitment and training. Jobs include partners who meet with families regularly, short-term childcare providers, Selection Committee members and Moving Team members.

For more information, contact Todd or Melinda Crouse.

This nursing home is located near CPC on West Chatham St. Visits are made on one Saturday each month to sing hymns and interact with the residents for about an hour.

For more information, contact Barbara Turner.

The Christian Community In Action (CCA) serves area residents facing emergency or crisis situations. Individuals in need of food, clothing, temporary housing, lodging and medicine receive aid. The Dorcas Thrift Shop, staffed by volunteers, sells quality donated clothing, furniture, small electrical equipment, kitchen and other miscellaneous items. Donations of these items are accepted at the shop. All earnings provide primary support for the CCA ministries.

Crisis Ministry volunteers assist with providing people in need with financial aid.

• Client Interviewer screens clients for appropriate assistance or refers them to other agencies (or both).
• Food pantry procurer purchases perishable foods to supplement the donated foods.
• Food pantry volunteers sort and stock food donations.

Dorcas Thrift Shop volunteers are responsible for a variety of tasks that keep the sales room stocked and ready for customers.

• Sorter goes through the donations to prepare the items for the pricers.
• Pricer checks clothing and other items for quality and attaches the price tags.
• Runner takes the priced items to the sales room.
• Cashier and bagger handle the checkout for customers.
• Day manager is responsible for the day-to-day management for the volunteers and customers.
• Assistant day manager works with the day manager and assume those duties when the day manager is absent.

Other Needs:

• Prayers for our ministry
• Margaret Keller Scholarship committee members to interview adult scholarship applicants (flexible hours)
• Dorcas Thrift Shop shoppers
• Donations of gently used goods for the Dorcas Thrift Shop
• Childcare Scholarship Committee members
• Or volunteer to help communication between your church and CCA –a church liaison.

CCA offers a wide variety of areas so you can put your special talents to best use.

For more information, contact Marilyn Faber.

Teams from CPC traveled to Gautier and then Gulfport, Mississippi for one-week missions to assist residents with repair and rebuilding following the August 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastation. Work included painting, hanging siding, installing plumbing fixtures, and general "handy clean-up".

The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) mission team will be going to Louisiana again this year to help with the rebuilding of homes devastated by hurricane Katrina. The mission trip is planned for the first full week in October, (2nd thru 9th, 2010). The first day in camp will be Sunday and the work week is Monday through Friday. We will be leaving Cary on Saturday.

Our camp this year will be in the Ninth ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, which is located in the northeast section of town. The PDA Olive Tree Camp is located in a former Presbyterian church. More information about the camp can be found on the PDA website.

If you are interested in going on this work trip, please contact Jon Raymond : Phone 233-3575 or Click here to send an email.

An orientation meeting will be held at the church in July to provide participants with an idea of what camp is like and the work we will be doing. Please watch the Link for details on the meeting.

The Glenaire Retirement Complex includes assisted living and nursing care centers for the elderly. Visits are made on two Saturdays per month to sign hymns and interact with the residents for about an hour.

For more information, contact Barbara Turner.

Transportation is provided for residents of Glenaire wishing to attend worship services or events at CPC. Contact the Bus Team Lead.

Relocation and resettlement assistance is being provided to a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Needs includes material items, transportation and child-care.

For more information, contact Tia Van Scoyoc.

A program to reach at-risk children, Loaves and Fishes is based at Milner Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh. Children in K-12 grades are helped with various programs such as after-school homework aid, enrichment sessions, mentoring, special events and parent’s meetings.

Volunteers help tutor, mentor, assist with enrichment sessions, meals, parties, transportation and provide materials. Training is available.

For more information, contact Barbara Turner.

Our church currently supports Dan and Elizabeth Turn in Madagascar and Rick and Kathy Land in Haiti. Dan Turk works on a reforestation project in Madagascar. His wife Elizabeth is a nurse and works with a variety of public health projects. Rick and Kathy Land work with the Cormiers Development Project, emphasizing sustainable agriculture projects including reforestation, fruit trees, vegetable gardens and fish ponds in the Cormiers region.

For more information, contact the Missions Ministry officer liaison.

Moms Supporting Moms is a support group for women experiencing symptoms of postpartum depression and/or anxiety. Meetings are held twice a month in Cary at CPC, and twice a month in Raleigh at Rex Hospital.

For more information, contact Anne Wimer.

This group of dedicated members strives to enable and equip members of the congregation to grow as peacemakers in their families, in the congregation, in the community and in the world. The members of the team meet regularly to plan and execute events such as World Communion/PC(USA) Peacemaking Sunday; Martin Luther King Sunday; a forum, Voting Your Values; and assist in missions such as Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together, the Central Children’s home in Oxford, NC, and the Carying Place.

Monthly Peacemaker meetings are held on the third Sunday of each month in the parlor, beginning 15 minutes after the close of the 11am worship service.

For more information about Peacemakers, contact Mary Chambliss.

The large penny jar is located in the kiosk in the narthex. Our pennies are designated for the Presbyterian Hunger Fund, to help needy people around the world.

Presbyterian Campus Ministry (PCM) in Raleigh serves students at NCSU, Meredith College and Peace College. Over 120 students have participated in the Wednesday night weekly gathering, with a home-cooked meal, a program relating to Christian discipleship, singing and prayer. Another 80+ students, mostly University Scholars, have participated in the Peace Lunch Forum, a weekly social justice discussion planned by a faculty committee and guided by the Social Witness Policy of the PCUSA. There are weekly Bible studies, a PCM Music Team, a vesper service on Sunday night, intramural PCM soccer, volleyball, and softball teams, a Saturday service project once a month (gleaning, Habitat construction, homeless shelter), monthly Friday Fun Nights, candle-light execution vigils at Central Prison, PCM Worship Team leadership of worship at a local Presbyterian church, and block seating and tail-gating NC State football and basketball games. Most students attend Sunday morning worship at West Raleigh Presbyterian Church, where the office and Student Center are located, but some attend other churches including White Memorial, First Raleigh, St. Andrews, North Raleigh, Cary, and Kirk of Kildaire. Several of these congregations employ PCM students as youth ministers.

With a staff of one campus minister (Rev. Scott Phillips), one administrative assistant, and one cook, PCM at NCSU is governed by a Board of Directors (PCMCR) appointed by 15 Raleigh area partner churches.

Presbyterian Campus Ministry Home Page
Rev. Scott Phillips email address
 

CPC supports the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts by chartering seven troops and supplying them with meeting space. Boy Scout Troup #232 and Cub Pack Troup #232, Sr. Girl Scout Troop #1860, and Brownie Troops #1452 and #1105 meet on Mondays. Brownie Troops #1221 and #25 meet on Thursdays. Volunteer opportunities exist.

For more information about Boy Scouts contact Tom Stuart; for Cub Scouts contact Julie Henry; for Sr. Girl Scouts contact Teddy Witherspoon; for Brownies contact the Office Manager.

Once again, Cary Presbyterian Church is partnering with other Cary-area churches to build a home for Habitat for Humanity, this time for the Ngouaka family, which includes four children. The parents of this family will work alongside us, building sweat equity. The home will be built on Mullens Drive in Cary, near I-40, Trinity Rd, and Chapel Hill Rd. The build should take five to six months. The groundbreaking ceremony and first date of the build is set for Saturday, April 17, 2010.

Click Here to download the proposed building schedule.

Work days are on Saturdays, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. CPC will work about every 3 weeks, in a scheduled rotation with the other churches. We need about 5-8 volunteers each work day to work all day, or we can have more volunteers by working half days. No building skills are needed; if you do have a building skill, you are urged to join to lend your expertise. Adults of all ages are welcome; you must be 16 or older to build, and 16-17 year olds will need a form signed by a parent. We also need people to make lunches for the whole work crew when it is our turn. There may also be opportunities for people who want to help build on a Wednesday or Friday.

If you are interested in joining in this opportunity to make a big difference in a family’s life, or have questions, please contact one of the people below and let us know how you can help. Closer to each work day, we will call out for volunteers and schedule you for a work slot. Thank you very much for uniting in this ministry to build healthy, affordable homes for God’s people in need.

Donations of gifts-in-kind, such as labor by skilled contractors or tradespeople who can do landscaping, drywall, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, or building materials, are also needed and appreciated.

Mike Levy: Click here to send an email
Tom Cadwallader: Click here to send an email
Jeff Clark: Click here to send an email