Mission Partners
Our church family has a blast living out our Matthew 25 mission!
Local Mission PartnerS
We Are
Matthew 25• Earth Care Congregation
We Support
1500 Trees• Share The Harvest• Center for New Beginnings • Coalition of Care • Food Pantry • Salvation Army • YES Club Monday Dinners • Mental Health America- Licking County• Coalition of Housing • Fostering Further/Starting Strong • Licking County Emergency Warming Center Task Force • Blessing Box • Community Dinners•Drop In Center
Nobody should age out of foster care alone.
At Fostering Further, we’ve seen 18-year-olds age out of foster care and face struggles like homelessness, pregnancy, and incarceration. That’s why we created our Starting Strong program, which offers resources to young people 18-24 who have emancipated from foster care. Adulting classes, transportation, driving lessons, and a place to live are all services of this organization, and more.
SHARe THE HARVEST
Each Saturday morning during the months of June through October, volunteers from First Presbyterian Church of Granville collect unsold fresh produce and other food items from the Granville Farmers Markets and distribute them to the Salvation Army.
To learn more, call the church office at 740-587-0178.
The Center for New Beginnings Shelter & Services provides a safe place for women and their children as they seek freedom from domestic violence. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and has state-of-the-art security to protect them from the violent past they have left behind. While at New Beginnings, they are provided the resources and skills needed to build a new life: individual and family counseling, weekly support groups, and child advocacy. There are educational programs for the community plus a 24 Hour Crisis Phone Line.
LICKING COUNTY COALITION OF CARE
The Coalition of Care is a non-denominational partnership of 52 local churches dedicated to helping people who need emergency assistance. First and foremost, the organization acts, as a clearinghouse:
Verifying needs, and making referrals to community resources
Obtaining financial assistance with utility and rental bills, medicines, and transportation needs
Spending one-on-one time with each client to ensure sensitive listening and caring, individualized support
With the overriding purpose of insuring that no one in our area goes hungry, the Food Pantry Network acquires, stores, and distributes nutritious food to the financially deprived and otherwise needy in Licking County.
It is a cooperative, working through affiliated food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, youth camps and after-school programs. The Network utilizes over 300 volunteers in fighting the war against hunger in our own backyard.
The Salvation Army serves the needy, hungry and hurting in 37 counties in Ohio, providing meals, a homeless shelter, a food pantry, youth programs and mentoring. Their Christmas Cheer program is the largest holiday toy, clothing and food distribution in Licking County.
Y.E.S. (which stands for Youth Engaged in Service) is a free after-school program for at-risk teens 11-18 years old. It provides a safe and caring place for community, learning, and a hot meal, including:
Skills for positive youth development
Academic support and computer lab
Educational programs
Recreational activities and field trips
Community service
Food, clothing, personal hygiene items
