Paradise Valley Community Food Bank - Support local food bank with with frequent food/monetary donations
Hope Lodge - Provide meals/fellowship with those being treated for cancer or going through organ donation
Light up the Rez - Collect donations to bring electricity to families on the Navajo Indian Reservation
Elder TLC - Distribute hygiene items/gifts to low income seniors
Card Ministry - Wrote and delivered cards to nursing homes on Father’s/Mother’s Day
Navajo Nation - Collected donations and delivered items during COVID
Cactus View Elementary School - Provide donations/items to Title 1 underprivileged school
- Collected and donated school supplies
- Provided Christmas gifts for 58 students (pic of Joyce and Val with gifts from Jeannie)
- Collected 82 pairs of shoes for clothing closet
- Collected and delivered hygiene items for students
Lutheran Social Services -Provided headphones for refugee students to use during online learning
Home Fur Good Animal Shelter - Provided donations/items to local animal shelter
American Legion - Provided hand knit mats, socks and masks to homeless veterans
Shirley’s Angels - Donations/items provided to organization that assembles care packages to those newly diagnosed with breast cancer
Shoebox Ministries - Donate purses filled with items to abused women’s shelters
Salvation Army/Desert Mission - Clothing donations from members donated on regular basis
Phoenix Rescue Mission - Water flats/monetary donations
Operation Smile - Funded 2 children’s operations through fundraising effort with a youth at EPC
House of Refuge - Participate in various projects (work day, food collection, serving meals) with this Christian housing program that serves the homeless, unemployed and recently sober
SNAP (Sustainability, Nature & Animal Projects)
- Dispersed 300 packets from Dispose Rx for safe medication disposal to congregation
- Planted milkweeds for butterflies with Sunday School