This is the example Jesus set for us: serving others in ways that are personal, sacrificial, and needed. Our church constantly looks for ways to serve other people. There’s a lot of need in this world, and God is calling us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, care for the sick, and lift up the lowly.
For 46 years, we've been organizing the Holden CROP Walk. In partnership with Church World Services, we bring together people of faith from all over our town, and this annual walk has raised over $410,000 to feed, clothe, shelter, serve, and bless. those near and far.
We work with IHN Family Shelter and Dismas House. We serve food at John Street Soup Kitchen and Kids Express in Worcester and support the Wachusett Food Pantry. We create school kits for Lutheran World Relief and assemble homeless kits to distribute throughout the city. We provide groceries for Florence House and sponsor immigrant and refugee families through Ascentria and provide supplies at the Wachusett Regional High School Self-Care Station. Plus we operate two separate nursery schools and provide gathering space for community groups and organizations.
In 2021 our congregation worked with The Outreach Program to host our first-ever Meal Packaging Event. A few years later, we're still going strong. In 2025 we will package 28,000 meals together, bringing our five-year total up to 171,000 meals! More people, more meals, more love.
We believe God has given us the gifts we need to serve our world, and that God is calling us to use them. God’s calling you, too. By serving others, we bear witness to God’s love together, and turn the words we pray each week into action: “thy kingdom come, thy will be done.”