Help Us Eliminate Poverty in Our Community – Month by Month

Posted by Compass Christian Church on January 15, 2018 in Volunteer Opportunities | 4 Comments

Please know, you do not have to be a member of this faith, or any faith, to be able to help volunteer at any of these events.

Ongoing During the Year

click HERE to see some pictures of our programs

Serving Dinners:

Stepping Forward Tuesday Night Dinners & Getting Ahead Program at Faith Community United Methodist Church

Stepping Forward Serves at Christmas & Year-Round

Since it’s inception in 2011, the Faith Alliance church partners have supported a collaborative outreach called Stepping Forward

Step_Forward_screen Tuesday Night Community Dinners which also began in 2011. The free dinner is hosted every Tuesday night, year-round, at Faith Community UMC on Cox Road in West Chester. Most Faith Alliance church

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Every Tuesday night – Stepping Forward includes:

Free Community Dinner • 6-7 pm
Free Job and Life Skills classes • 7-8:30 pm (see list below)
Free ESL Classes for all adults, all levels • 7-8:30 pm
Referrals to needed services • 6:30-8:00 pm
Homework Room and fun activities for the Kids • 6:30-8:00 pm

Food Pantry for qualified families living in the Lakota School District • 6:30-8 pm

2. West Chester Presbyterian Community Suppers – Monday Nights

West Chester Presbyterian Schedules 2018 Suppers

Eleven years ago, West Chester Presbyterian Church members began serving free meals on Monday nights to anyone in our community. Families, seniors, children and other community members turn out each week. In 2014, the Faith Alliance began to assist in promoting and serving at this wonderful program. Currently, anCONTINUE READING

A Testimonial – WC Presbyterian Community Suppers

At our Monday Night Community Suppers at West Chester Presbyterian Church, I have had the privilege of talking to so many of our guests and learning about their struggles and victories. Just like us, they are trying to make their way in this world and deal with the challenges life

3. Queen City Kitchen; Soup Kitchen

Our work helps insure that the areas low income, homeless, and working poor people are provided with a hot, home-cooked meal.

Over the Rhine – We prepare, cook and serve lunch on the 4th Saturday of every month.

1620 Vine Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 (513) 241-5121

Directions can be found: https://www.queencitykitchen.org/locations/

How can I help?

Be a volunteer! Families are encouraged to help out and children have to be able to work independently. Tasks: Meal preparation, cooking and serving cafeteria style.

Over the Rhine – we need minimum of 8 volunteers. We start cooking at 9 a.m. to serve at noon to 1 p.m.

4. IHN programs

Keeping the Promise

Family Promise of Butler County began it’s Interfaith Hospitality Network Program(IHN), an Endorsed Program by the Faith Alliance, in September 2016. In that short time, they have served several local homeless families with seven of our own Church Partners as Hosting Congregations plus even more of our Church Partners as

Faith Alliance Celebrates 2017 Impact

Thursday, October 26th, was a day of Celebration for the Faith Alliance and its partners. The organization’s 3rd annual dinner and meeting was sponsored by Hillandale Family of Communities, Saint Anne Episcopal and Crestview Presbyterian Church. Clergy, liaisons and volunteers from many Faith Alliance Church Partners attended in addition to

Faith Alliance 2018 CALENDAR

Feed our Neighbors in Need Community Food Drive – Church collection Sat/Sun, March 3-4; (Distribute flyers/grocery bags February 18 & 25)

X Days OR Community Service Day – 2019

Summer Lunch Ministry – Wednesday, May 30 through Tuesday, August 7 (tentative)

Summer Lunch Literacy Program – Monday, June 4 through Friday, July 13 (6 weeks)

Help a Child in Need Succeed Backpack Ministry Collection Saturday and Sunday, July 28-29

Sing Out Against Poverty Music Festival – Saturday, September 29, The Square at Union Centre

March

Feed Our Neighbors in Need Food Drive

Feed our Neighbors Drive Makes Big Impact

The 5th Annual Faith Alliance “Feed our Neighbors in Need” Food Drive surpassed their goal of 25,000 pounds and collected more than 26,300 pounds of food to feed our hungry neighbors. 17 local congregations in the Lakota area participated during one weekend in March. We donated to 11 different food pantries in Butler, Warren

View our 2017 FON video here: FON 2017 video

April

Habitat for Humanity X-days

Habitat Home Dedicated on June 3rd

On Saturday, June 3, 2017, the home which Habitat and Faith Alliance partnered with to build during their June X Days service event was finally dedicated! Dorothea Beasley and her daughter Aleah, were thrilled to receive the keys to their new home in Hamilton! Also, Dorothea received a Bible for

X days Habitat Project Brings Volunteers Together

The 5th Annual X days brought the Faith Alliance Church Partners together in April to show the love of God and be the “eXternal” church by serving their neighbors. Faith Alliance partnered for the first time with Habitat of Humanity of Greater Cincinnati for their main group X days project.

http://www.thefaithalliance.org/x-days/

Compass Christian Church at the Habitat ReStore, doing cleanup:

June and July

Help Every Child In Need Succeed

http://www.thefaithalliance.org/backpack-ministry/

Volunteer – collect school supplies throughout the year. This program is partnered with Reach Out Lak

The 2017 Faith Alliance Help a Child in Need Succeed Backpack Ministry supporting Reach out Lakota’s Back to School Program was another wonderful success! Nine Faith Alliance churches partnered to collect backpacks and school supplies for low-income children at Reach Out Lakota.

The results from the Faith Alliance Churches were:

More than 450 children sponsored with school supplies and backpacks
More than $14,000 of school supplies donated
More than $10,000 in backpacks and miscellaneous supplies donated

Andrea Subler, ROL Back to School Coordinator commented:

“Your (Faith Alliance) collaboration played a vital role in helping us to meet our goal to ensure that all children in the Lakota School District begin the school year with the tools needed to succeed.
The majority of our distributed items(over 90%) came from members of the Faith Alliance!We certainly couldn’t succeed without the many hands and hearts like yours that are dedicated to helping our community.”

A special thank you to Reach Out Lakota, Hillandale Family of Communities, Laura Zajac and all those who donated time, talent and treasure to help children be ready for school.

May-August

Summer Outreach Helps Local Kids

The Faith Alliance, a network of churches and volunteers in Lakota, served in 3 outreach ministries this summer helping low-income, at-risk local children to be nourished, mentored, and properly ready for school. BACKPACK MINISTRY The 4th Annual Faith Alliance Help a Child in Need Succeed Backpack Ministry supporting Reach out

Summer Literacy Program

Summer Literacy Students Celebrate at Zoo

On July 14, 2017, a group of 25 students and teachers from the Faith Alliance Summer Lunch Reading Program, celebrated the end of their 6-week program by visiting Fiona, the newest addition at the Cincinnati Zoo! The kids had a wonderful (and educational!) time! They had plenty of pizza

Summer Literacy Program Helps Struggling Readers

July 14th marks the final day of our Summer Lunch Literacy Program. The 6 week Reading Program, a partnership between Faith Alliance, Butler County Success and Lakota Schools, offered free instruction for at-risk first and second graders residing in low-income neighborhoods served by the Summer Lunch Partnership. These students were

Summer Lunch Ministries

Summer Lunch Comes to a Close

August 9th marked the last day of our Summer Lunch ministry at 7 local sites around Lakota. With the help of our friends from the Lakota Food Bus, we were able to serve more children than ever this year. 13,533 meals were served with love to on average 271 children

Food Bus, Volunteers Kick Off Summer Lunch

The Summer Lunch Program in Lakota has been around for close to 10 years now and started as a ministry of local churches in partnership with the BC Success liaisons who work with struggling families at our schools. Now the program is

in the second year of partnership with the

http://www.thefaithalliance.org/signature-programs/summer-lunch-ministry/

Ongoing During School Year

Whiz Kids – Literacy Program sponsored by City Gospel Mission

Whiz Kids is a literacy-based, one-to-one tutoring and mentoring program that has been recognized as a “Best Practice Program” by the Ohio Governor’s office. We work closely with local churches and organizations as they embrace a neighborhood public elementary school, develop relationships with school administrators, and provide tutors for the children. Tutoring sessions typically occur for one hour each week during the school year. If you’d like to learn more about Whiz Kids, please contact Janean at jparsons@CityGospelMission.org.

September

Sing Out Against Poverty Music Festival

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inst Poverty Raises Funds for Outreach

An estimated 500 attendees of all ages came out to the 2nd Annual “Sing Out Against Poverty” Music Festival presented by Faith Alliance on Saturday, September 30th at The Square at Union Centre. God shined down with weather that was absolutely perfect! We were blessed with beautiful Christian music from

October

C3 Empty Bowls Event

2017:

C3, The Caring Community Collaborative, at Liberty Center’s Sabin Hall, as they present the Third Annual West Chester Liberty Empty Bowls fundraiser to benefit hunger in our community. Proceeds will go to Reach Out Lakota and the Faith Alliance Summer Lunch Program. We hope you will join hands to address the needs of those who are struggling with food insufficiency in our community.

November – December

Holiday Season – Partner with Reach Out Lakota

Show that you care this Christmas – share what you can with those in need and give back to the West Chester and Liberty Township community! This year we expect to serve 800 local children and their families and we need your help to ensure they experience the joy of the season.