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Outreach

The mission of the Outreach Team is to enable the church to express its love and concern for people in need. We provide both financial and hands-on opportunities to serve locally and around the world:

• Housatonic Habitat for Humanity. Our church participates in work days and contributes financially to this worldwide charity, which helps people build affordable housing.
   
• Dorothy Day Hospitality House. The fourth Saturday of every month is King Street Church's day at this cooperative facility in downtown Danbury. Seven or more adults and young people from our congregation prepare and serve a hot meal to approximately 70 people in need.
   
• Daily Bread Food Pantry and AIDS Food Pantry. We regularly donate food to these Danbury charities.
   
• AIDS Adopt a Family program. We participate in this program at Christmas time.
   
• Salvation Army. Every Christmas we decorate a tree with angels, each bearing a child's wish that any member may choose to fulfill.
   
• American Red Cross. We stage an annual blood drive at the church.
   
• Food Baskets. In our annual Scavenger Hunt, our youth group and Scout troops collect hundreds of pounds of boxed and canned goods that the congregation delivers with turkeys and other perishables to families for Thanksgiving.
   
• UCC Child Sponsorship Program. Our church sponsors four children, three from Tibet and one from the Philippines. Members of our Sunday School send the children holiday packages. We regularly receive letters from both children, detailing their progress in school.
   
• Annual Offerings. We participate in Our Church’s Wider Mission, Harvest Sharing, One Great Hour of Sharing, the Christmas Fund, Neighbors In Need, and the Church World Service Blanket Sunday.
   
• Hanahoe Clinic. We provide financial support to this clinic for needy children, based in downtown Danbury.
   
• ShareFest. We plan to participate in the 2007 ShareFest of Greater Danbury. A cooperative project of many Christian churches in our area, ShareFest is a spring weekend of “hands on” work projects, as well as food, clothing, and blood drives, culminating in a Sunday evening Community Celebration Service. (Click here to read about the 2006 ShareFest.)
   

• WestConn Ministry. We support this program's activities on the Danbury campuses of Western Connecticut State University.

• Thrift Shop. Located in the church basement, this store sells an amazing variety of used clothing and household gear to budget-conscious families throughout the region. It is run by our Women's Society, which donates part of the proceeds to local and global missions.

Questions?

Ask Becky McKee -- outreachchair@kingstchurch.org.