Mission and Outreach

Providing support for immigrants and refugees and creating a more welcoming city where strangers become better neighbors, joining in a common cause for the welfare of all. http://faithaction.org/

Empowering the homeless and disabled, particularly veterans, to become independent, contributing community members through housing, healthcare, and restorative services. We help cook breakfast once a month, prepare apartments for new residents and picnics for residents and staff, and donate clothing and personal items. theservantcenter.org

First housed in the offices of St. Andrew’s, the local Faith Community Network’s Parents as Teachers program provides a free family education and support program designed to empower parents of young children to be the best parents they can be. patgc.org

Each December, our church’s gift tree includes Christmas tags with the names of individual children and teenagers who are supported through the Children’s Home Society while living in foster care. Parishioners are encouraged to choose a name tag and purchase a personalized gift or gift card.

A refuge for anyone experiencing homelessness in Greensboro, NC. Our EYC members collect donations of personal care items for IRC guests, and we look for ways to assist with the IRC’s creative writing and visual arts programs. gsodaycenter.org/

Early each Tuesday morning, 5–8 volunteers from St. Andrew’s join teams from other local Episcopal congregations to prepare and serve a hot breakfast at the Greensboro Urban Ministry’s Weaver House, a year-round facility that provides shelter for homeless adults. greensborourbanministry.org

An ongoing outreach activity is our weekly collection of food for One Step Further’s grocery assistance program. Parishioners are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items each Sunday and place them in the collection boxes in the back of the church.

Each summer, St. Andrew’s sponsors the EYC annual mission week at the Glory Ridge Camp in Madison County, NC. Our youth, St. Andrew’s advisers, Glory Ridge staff, the residents of the county, and the Community Housing Coalition work together on housing projects around the county to serve those in need.

Each year, we provide a special donation to the Penick Village’s Benevolent Assistance Fund, which is used for those retirees who have outlived their resources. Penick Village, a continuing care retirement community located in Southern Pines, NC, is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. penickvillage.org

Special donations received on Epiphany Sunday in early January are forwarded to the Diocese of North Carolina to support, on a rotating basis, one of the missionaries or missionary couples sponsored by the Diocese. Our ECW group also makes contributions to the Diocesan Missionaries Christmas Fund.