Mission

Christ Presbyterian Church puts strong emphasis on giving money, time, and goods to those in special need. Recipients of our monetary gifts span the globe, but we are especially interested in charities that support residents of Somerset and Hunterdon counties and charities in which our church's members are active. Click here to see a list of organizations we support, a brief description of each organization and a link to their web site where available.

Some of the special Mission projects are described below:

In February 2007, volunteers from the church began a mission to increase the food gathered for the The Food Bank Network of Somerset County. To accomplish this, teams led by elder Joe Cheben spent a few hours each weekend outside local grocery stores asking shoppers to donate food to the Food Bank. By the beginning of May over 2000 pounds of food had been donated and the work is continuing. Some of the stores allowing this ministry at their stores are the Pluckemin A&P, Pluckemin Kings, Somerville Pathmark, Warren Kings, Warren A&P.
		In February 2006, two Christ Presbyterian Church members, Lynne Ann and Mary spent a week in D'Iberville, Misssissippi as part of a larger team working for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance assisting in post-Katrina cleanup and reconstruction. Their story is told in pictures and words on the Katrina Mission page.
		In 2004, eight church members spent a week in Nicaragua supporting El Porvenir, an organization which provides wells and sanitary wash areas in the country's poorer areas. Our group helped build a latrine and a shower/wash area near a recently completed well. Since it is hard to get heavy building equipment over the roads to remote villages, a lot of the work done by machines in our communities is done by hand in these remote villages. Also one does not just order a truckload of gravel or cement. Instead, gravel and rock are brought from local streams in pickup trucks and wheelbarrows and cement is mixed by hand. The pictures show a rock delivery, the partially finished shower area, and the group just before departing.

In 2003 we supported a vacation Bible school at the Presbytery's Elizabethport facility.

		In 2002, twenty three church members spent a week in Gary, West Virginia, helping the McDowell County Mission with several projects, including rebuilding a house damaged by a flood, renovating rooms in the communitie's Dove Learning Center to provide a library, and installing computer equipment in the newly renovated area.

In 2001, a group of twenty church members spent a week in Nicaragua, providing a medical mission for over 200 needy persons, a vacation Bible school, and clearing land for a church play ground.