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Mission and Outreach
"The Food Pantry gives me a chance to help the hungry in a way that is meaningful to me."
Altadena Community Church and its members provide support to our community and those in need around the world through volunteer work, donations from our general operating fund, and donations from the congregation targeted to specific organizations supported by our church. The organizations and activities needing support are often brought to our attention by our own members, or by our United Church of Christ denomination offices. Some of our recent support has gone to:
* Church World Service , a relief agency that provides disaster relief and helps fight hunger, poverty and illiteracy in our community, nation and other countries.
* A food pantry that provides groceries to the needy in our community, run by the Altadena Congregations Together Serving (ACTS), of which our church is a member.
* Global Ministries , an organization that provides education, medical support and other forms of relief around the world. Through Global Ministries we support a child in India, assist educational missionaries in Turkey, and provide funds for other programs.
* Friends Outside, an organization that assists the families of prison inmates.
* Peppermint Ridge , a non-profit residential facility in Corona, California, for developmentally disabled adults.
* Friends In Deed of Pasadena, a program of the Ecumenical Council of Pasadena Churches that provides emergency clothing and food to needy families.
* Heifer International , an organization that combats poverty and hunger and restores the environment by helping rural families and communities develop sustainable agriculture.
* We also provide space for use by community organizations, many of them non-religious, such as the Altadena Community Children's Choir, and Y-SPIRIT , a program of the YMCA providing activities to developmentally disabled youth.
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