The AmeriCares Homefront organization is a one-day community-based home repair program that helps homeowners who are physically or financially unable to maintain their homes; community centers in disrepair also receive help each year. Repairs are made by teams of sponsored volunteers at no cost to the recipients. In the past, Church members have worked on housing repairs and rebabilitation on AmeriCares Homefront Day in May, but volunteers with diverse skills are needed year round. For more information, please call 1-800-887-HOPE.

A-HOME (Apropos Housing Opportunities and Management Enterprises, Inc.) was founded to create and maintain stable, affordable and innovative housing opportunities for Westchester's elderly, mentally disabled and single-parent residents. Our members have helped paint and furnish new residence rooms, driven residents to medical appointments or grocery stores, planted flowers around some of the homes and more. For additional information call Lonna Kelly, the A-HOME Volunteer Coordinator, at 914-666-0740.

Bedford Hills Correctional Facility offers diverse ways of serving inmates and their families. The Women’s Prison Education Partnership offers college courses at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility through a college consortium and members of our Church have long been involved with education at BHCF as tutors or program facilitators. There are also opportunities to minister to the inmates through Sr. Elaine, the Hospital Chaplain at the prison. And, families in our Church have opened their homes to children of inmates, providing places for them to stay for up to 4 days at a time, while the children participate in daytime visitation programs at the prison with their mothers.

The Chaplaincy Program at Northern Westchester Hospital provides patients with weekly visits by trained Pastoral Care Volunteers. The program, under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Donald J. Heringa, is available to patients and family members struggling with grief, fear, issues of spirituality and ethical issues. Please call 914-666-1914 for more information about the Volunteer Training Program.

The Community Center is committed to preserving the dignity and well being of all through a wide variety of programs. These include a food pantry, clothing bank and an employment counseling center. The Community Center also provides basic computer training and classes in English conversation and coordinates the Ray Leech Prison Ministry and the Holiday Sharing program. Members of our Church volunteer many hours at the Center working in the Food Pantry, Clothing Boutique, clothing sorting room, teaching ESL classes or helping with collection drives for food, school supplies and holiday gifts. Please call the Center at 914-232-6572 if you would like to help.

The Cropwalk is usually held at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in October. The proceeds benefit Food Pantries in the are including The Community Center. Volunteers help with publicity for the event, registration, the collection of money and water distribution at the Walk.

Embrace a Brother is a pen pal program at Sing Sing Prison designed to help a few select prisoners as they work toward rehabilitation and the transition back into society. Several of our Church members have found this a good experience and an interesting and uplifting opportunity to make the world a better place and show Christian love. The appreciative, thought provoking responses to the letters are often deeply gratifying.

The Exodus Transitional Community seeks to address the needs of men and women reintegrating to society from prison. Exodus' services include counseling, employment preparation, job, housing, health and education referrals, court and parole assistance, and computer training. Other activities include an after school group for neighborhood youth and gang members and a speakers' bureau of formerly incarcerated persons. For more information call Jamila James, Exodus Development Coordinator at (917) 492-0990 ext 202.

Hudson Link is committed to helping the inmates of Sing Sing Correctional Facility prepare for more constructive and meaningful lives now and upon reentering society. This is accomplished by giving the men the opportunity to experience the positive effects of learning at the college level.

The Midnight Run is a consortium of more than one hundred churches, synagogues, and schools in the metropolitan area. Three or four nights a week, volunteers travel to Manhattan where they deliver clothing, food, blankets, and personal care items to the homeless poor. In the process, they try to break through the barriers of prejudice and fear that separate the"homed" and the "homeless". Members of our congregation have shopped for razors and toothpaste, collected gently worn clothing, bagged countless toiletries, made soup, coffee and lunches, all of which were dispensed on quarterly Runs throughout the year.

The Northern Westchester Shelter provides shelter and services to victims of domestic violence. It operates a confidential residence that can accommodate 16 women and children and offers programs (for residents and non-residents) that include: Legal Services; Counseling; Support Groups; Children's Program; Teen Program; Special Needs Program and Community Education. Childcare is available at the shelter and also in a non-residential office during counseling and support group sessions. STAR (Students Terminating Abusive Relationships) is a teen peer leadership program that addresses abuse in dating relationships that is open to high school and college students in Westchester County. You may call (914) 747-0828 for further information about helping.

Rural and Migrant Ministry works to build a just community through three major initiatives:

• The Youth Empowerment Programs include Summer Camps, The Youth Arts Group, Leadership Institutes, internships, mentoring, and educational scholarship.
• The educational programs include the publication of a rural journal of justice, The Harvester, educational immersion programs, internships, forums and workshops.
• The Accompaniment Program of RMM works to develop and connect allies with efforts for rural justice, empowerment, and leadership development. Accompaniment depends upon individuals, organizations and congregations standing with farm workers in their struggle to organize for equality, dignity and just working and living conditions.

Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing uses theater arts to offer inmates a safe and supportive structure in which to build skills and develop leadership, community, respect for self and for others and a sense of achievement. Currently RTA provides an opportunity for about 50 inmates to express themselves through creative writing and performance, guided by a corps of outside volunteers.

The Taconic Correctional Facility Continuing Education Program offers college level academic courses, including the theater arts, for women incarcerated there.

Westchester ARC (WARC) provides daily and lifelong services to people with developmental disabilities. Volunteers can help with birthday or holiday celebrations for the residents, recreational outings, group arts and crafts days or by being a “Special Friend,” which may mean taking a walk, playing cards, going for dessert, or attending a social or sporting event with a resident.