Below is a list of organizations that we have supported recently with our mission giving.
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Alliance for the Great Lakes works to conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource through policy, education, and local efforts aimed at preserving the Great Lakes region as a national treasure. | www.greatlakes.org
Bread for the World
Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers. | www.bread.org
Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches
Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches is a collaboration of Christian churches which welcomes and affirms all persons, regardless of sexual orientation. | www.chicagowelcomingchurches.org
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America is an interfaith education, action, and advocacy network. CRLN equips and mobilizes religious leaders and congregations to advance peace, justice, and human rights in our hemisphere. | www.crln.org
Christopher House
Christopher House is a family resource center. Historically linked to the Chicago Presbytery, it provides integrated social, educational, and human service programs. | www.christopherhouse.org
Covenant Network
Covenant Network is a broad-based, national group working for a church that is simultaneously united and inclusive of all sexual orientations. | www.covenantnetwork.org
Faith in Place
Faith in Place gives religious people the tools to become good stewards of the earth, partnering with congregations to promote clean energy & sustainable farming. | www.faithinplace.org
Illinois Environmental Council
Illinois Environmental Council is the only organization in Illinois focused solely on a broad range of environmental issues across the state. | www.ilenviro.org
Interfaith Council for the Homeless
Interfaith Council for the Homeless relies on funding and volunteer support from the religious community to provide direct services, education, and advocacy for Chicago's homeless. | www.ichchicago.org
Lakeview Academy
Lakeview Academy is a small, diverse, private alternative high school associated with the Lake View Presbyterian Church in Chicago. | www.lakeviewpresbyterian.org/lva
Lincoln Park Community Shelter
Lincoln Park Community Shelter is privately funded with facilities at the church. It works to break the cycle of homelessness in Chicago by providing comprehensive social services, resources, and tools to attain self-sufficiency. | www.lpcsonline.org
More Light Presbyterians
More Light Presbyterians is an organization of individuals and congregations that works for the full participation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons of faith in the life, ministry, and witness of the Presbyterian Church. | www.mlp.org
Protestants for a Common Good
Protestants for the Common Good focuses on matters of public policy and issues in Chicago and Illinois as an alternative voice to the so-called religious right. It offers educational resources and advocacy opportunities to people of faith. | www.thecommongood.org
Sarah's Circle
Sarah's Circle is a not-for-profit organization in Uptown. It offers a safe refuge for Uptown women who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless, by providing daytime supportive services (options, services and advocacy) to meet their needs. | www.sarahs-circle.org
Thresholds
Thresholds provides a comprehensive program of therapeutic support, case management, education, job training and placement, and housing for people with mental illness. | www.thresholds.org
United Campus Ministry UIC/ Agape House
Agape House is an ecumenical campus ministry at the University of Illinois-Chicago. | www.agape-uic.org
Witherspoon Society
Witherspoon Society is a Presbyterian organization that works for peace, justice, and the integrity of creation. | www.witherspoonsociety.org
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has three denominational offerings that our church supports generously. They are: One Great Hour of Sharing, Peacemaking, and Christmas Joy.
The One Great Hour of Sharing offering goes toward three denominational programs: hunger, self-development of people, and disaster assistance. To learn more about this offering, received at Easter, go to: www.pcusa.org/oghs
The Peacemaking offering, taken on World-Wide Communion Sunday in early October, supports peacemaking initiatives and peace education, nationally and internationally. See: www.pcusa.org/peacemakingoffering/
Finally, the Christmas Joy offering has two purposes: to support retired church workers and their families, and to support racial-ethnic minority education. Check the following link: www.pcusa.org/cjoffering/
