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Outreach
"We have wonderful sermons, music to soothe your soul, and traditions like giving of ourselves to the less fortunate, participating in community activities, and being proactive in pursuing social goals."

Creation, The Fourth Day, by the Stanley Church School
Click one of the links below to learn more about Stanley's outreach activities:
Outreach Organizations     Communion Sunday     Community FoodBank     One Great Hour of Sharing      NEW! Holy Joe's Cafe      Environmental Concerns

Outreach Organizations:
These are some of the organizations we at Stanley Church support with our time and money. Most have websites you can visit to find out more about that organization: Communion Sunday:
On the first Sunday of every month, Communion Sunday, a special offering of food for the Interfaith Food Pantry is collected during Worship. Please remember to contribute! What can I contribute?

Community FoodBank:
One of our partner organizations is the Community FoodBank, in Hillside, NJ. Stanley Church sends volunteers to the FoodBank once a month on Saturday mornings. Call the church office or check the calendar for the date of our next trip. Carpools leave the church parking lot at 8:15 am. Please call the church office at 973-635-7723 to let us know you'll join us.

One Great Hour of Sharing:
Each year during Lent, Stanley Church and the United Church of Christ unite with Christians in eight other Protestant denominations as well as with Church World Service to collect an offering for One Great Hour of Sharing. We are called to make a difference in the lives of people everywhere, whether it be with those fleeing violence in Sudan, those suffering with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, those reeling from devastation in Indonesia, those starving in India, or those recovering from a disaster in the United States.

Donations to OGHS go to:
  • Build sustainable communities by supporting self-help programs in more than 80 nations, enabling them to rise above hunger, diseases, and illiteracy.
  • Respond to disaster by providing emergency and long-term assistance to people in the aftermath of weather disasters, fires, civil strife, or other natural or human-caused events. On average, OGHS responds to a disaster once every 2.5 days.
  • Minister to refugees by using advocacy and help, hope and hospitality for people who have been uprooted from their homes.
OGHS is part of a remarkable network of service and caring that is efficient, effective and faithful. Administrative costs are typically less than eight percent annually.

This offering is administered through Wider Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ. All gifts to OGHS are tax deductible and 100 percent goes to the designated area of response. Non-designated gifts are also encouraged and they allow OGHS to address future hidden and forgotten emergencies around the world.

Holy Joe's Cafe:
Stanley Church supports a Coffee House Ministry for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan by making a donation to the UCC Coffee Project. This project sends Equal Exchange Coffee to military chaplains in Baghdad. To learn more about this ministry, click here.

Environmental Concerns:
1. Buy a Water Conservation Kit!
Water is a gift that is essential for life. Despite a seeming abundance of water in the US, our current habits of water usage are not sustainable. Fresh, drinking water is a scarce resource. The United Nation reports that only 1% of all water on earth is available for human use. While 70% of the world’s surface is covered by water, 97.5% of that is salt water. Of the remaining 2.5% that is freshwater, almost 70% is frozen in ice caps and glaciers.

During Coffee Hour on Sunday mornings we encourage you to purchase GreenFaith’s Water Conservation Kit. The kit provides the average household with the opportunity to save over40,000galonsof water per year. Each Water Conservation Kit costs $32.00 (includes shipping cost) and contains the following:
  • The award-winning Earth® low-flow showerhead
  • A toilet tank bank that saves 0.8 gallons per flush for traditional toilets.
  • 2 Faucet Flow restrictors
  • Small dye tablets that detect toilet leaks
For more information, go to www.greenfaith.org.

2. “Green” Tips for an Eco-Friendly Vacation
  • Stay in “green” hotels; visit (http://greenhotels.com)
  • Re-use your hotel linens.
  • Use glass hotel cups instead of plastic.
  • Turn off lights when you’re not in your room.
  • Use public transportation when available.
  • Purchase locally made goods for gifts and souvenirs.
  • Fly Right: visit www.cleanair-coolplanet.org to see how to offset carbon emissions generated by your flight.
  • Choose a hybrid rental car
 

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