Providence Presbyterian Church
Congregational Care
The Congregational Care mission statement reads: With God’s help, we seek to promote and support a strong sense of community and belonging within Providence and provide assistance to our church family and friends when there is a particular need.
Services our committee provide include:
Overseas Coupon Program
Our church is participating in the Overseas Coupon Program. Help us support our military families overseas by bringing in coupons which we will then mail to a military base on foreign soil. Coupon exchanges are often offered by military family support centers; and overseas military grocery stores (commissaries) often will take manufacturer’s cents-off coupons past their printed expiration dates (up to six months). Having these coupons reduces the financial burdens on military families. We have adopted Yokosuka Naval Base as the base to which we will send the coupons we collect.
Overseas Coupon Program History and Press Release.
Our work also includes:
- Birthday cards sent to all congregation members
- Congregational card shower – each month a shut in is chosen to receive get well/encouragement cards from our congregation
- Communion delivery to shut-ins
- Prayer shawls and baby blankets delivered when appropriate
- Meal delivery when needed
- Christmas cookie/fruit trays delivered
- Presbyterian Home residents receive Angel Tree gifts
- Transportation provided to and from church when possible
- “Miss You” cards sent to congregation members who moved away
- “Care” boxes delivered to our college students during finals
- Birthday cakes delivery to the Presbyterian Home 3 times a year