Mission Projects of South Church

A Better Chance (ABC) House
134 Main Street
Andover, MA 01810
www.abetterchance.org

A Better Chance is a national nonprofit organization that recruits talented students of color to place them in outstanding independent and public schools. South Church helps to support the Andover chapter, the oldest in the country.

Andover Newton
Theological School
210 Herrick Road
Newton Centre, MA 02459
www.ants.edu

Andover Newton is a graduate theological school that trains students for Christian ministry. The school draws students from a wide range of religious traditions; its students have included many current and former South Church leaders.

Bread & Roses is a local hands-on hospitality mission. Currently, more than 150 guests are served dinner five nights per week. South Church volunteers shop, cook and serve on the fourth Thursday and third Saturday of each month.

Foundation for the Children of Haiti
PO Box 521171
Tulsa, OK 74152
www.usfch.org/home.htm

USFCH provides financial, medical, and religious support and assistance to the children of Haiti primarily through the Fondation Pour Les Enfants d’Haiti (FEH). FEH is a Christian organization that supports many projects, including an orphanage, elementary school, nursery, home for handicapped children, and hospital in Port au Prince.

Grameen provides credit without collateral to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh. The bank currently has 3.7 million borrowers, 96 percent of whom are women. From its 1267 branches it provides services in 46,000 villages, covering more than 68 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh.

The Greater Lawrence Council of Churches is a collaborative effort of local Protestant and Catholic churches. Its goal is to create a more unified and loving community through its various cooperative initiatives, such as shared worship experiences, outreach programs, and special programs like Vacation Bible School.

The GLCC also coordinates an after-school program at Hancock Courts in Lawrence, which serves children who live in one of the poorest housing projects in the city. South Church supports the program financially as well as with volunteer service.

Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity

Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit homebuilder and ecumenical Christian housing organization. Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. It is the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, the largest non-profit homebuilder in the world with a network of over 2,100 affiliates.

Habitat houses are sold to families in need at no profit and with no interest charged. They move families from overcrowded, dispiriting living conditions to safe, decent, and affordable homes, providing the stability and foundation they need to build a better life. It is a partnership of faith, hope, and of helping hands.

Habitat relies on volunteer labor and financial contributions to help their mission become a reality. If you would like to help or to find out more, please contact us.

Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity
60 Island Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
www.merrimackvalleyhabitat.org

Haiti Christian Development Fund
PO Box 49 0127
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33349
www.hcdf.org

The Haiti Christian Development Fund (HCDF) has been actively working in the rural Haitian community of Fond-des-Blancs since 1982. Among other things, its work has included developing water systems, a reforestation project, a credit union and an elementary school.

Heifer International
Northeast Regional Office
216 Wachusett St.
Rutland, MA 01543
www.heifer.org

Heifer works with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth. For five decades, it has helped people become more self-reliant through the gifts of animals and training in their care.

Continued support from churches worldwide has made is possible for Heifer to provide food- and income-producing animals to more than a million families in need.

This Christ-centered ministry serves two distinct groups. It offers relief to adolescents suffering from physical, emotional and spiritual problems, and equips and trains those who are called for ministry to troubled youth.

South Church has been instrumental in the founding of this UCC-sponsored congregation of Laotian refugees and immigrants led by Rev. Ted Rasakham.

Lazarus House Ministries
P.O. Box 408
Lawrence, MA 01842
www.lazarushouse.org

Lazarus House serves the poor of greater Lawrence through its many programs: homeless shelter, food pantry, soup kitchen, thrift store, dental/medical clinic, HIV/AIDS residences, preschool and tutoring center.

The agency runs eight weekly food pantries throughout the greater Lawrence area. The agency feeds about 350 families weekly through donations of food and other necessities, 40 percent of which is donated by area parishes, including South Church.

Founded by Massachusetts resident George Leger in 1994, Only a Child runs two shelters in Guatemala that serve homeless children. It also operates a carpentry shop and sponsors a variety of educational programs to give the kids every possible chance to one day lead productive lives.

Our Church’s Wider Mission
United Church of Christ
700 Prospect Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115
www.ucc.org/ocwm

Our Church’s Wider Mission is the parent organization of all UCC missions. It provides funds for services locally and throughout the world to churches, ministers and missionaries in 70 countries.

It also sponsors four special offerings, including Neighbors in Need and the One Great Hour of Sharing, which funds develop projects and responds to natural disasters.

Through his mission, Jose Matos (himself once incarcerated) counsels and hosts Bible study for prisoners in the state penitentiary system.

World Vision, the largest emergency relief agency in the world, is a Christian relief and development organization. The agency is dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty.

The Hope Initiative is a campaign in Africa to address the needs of children, families and communities that have been devastated by the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.