Here are some of the ways EHCC, and you!, help those in need:

• Caring Coins.  Every month, EHCC’s service team identifies a local, national, or global charity deserving our financial support via our Caring Coins ministry.  Caring Coins is the loose change you drop into the collection plate during the offering portion of worship on Sunday mornings.   Coinciding with EHCC’s youth group-hosted Valentine’s dinner and dessert action, this month (February, 2012) we’re collecting for the youth group’s 2012 summer mission trip.  While the exact destination has yet to be determined, our contribution to this fund will help pay for such things as travel and chaperone expenses.   Thank you for your generosity!
  
  
  

• Lotsa Helping Hands  As you may recall, EHCC is now part of the Lotsa Helping Hands on-line network of “helpers.”  Lotsa Helping Hands allows our local coordinators (Dee Eisenhauer, Pat Johnson and Jennifer Merrill) to inform EHCC Lotsa Helping Hands “members” of specific needs of, and requests from, individuals in our church community.  These needs/requests are typically along the lines of visits, rides, and meals. 

   

  If you’ve already signed up—on-line—to be a part of EHCC’s Lotsa Helping Hands community, thank you!  If you’ve not signed up, please consider doing so.  Put the following web address into your browser to get started.  https://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/c/647972/login/reset/3b2529afdb94971f9f9db46c8f67edf8/ Once one of the EHCC coordinators accepts your request to join our team, you will need to log on to the Lotsa Helping Hands site again to give yourself a password; if you don’t complete this step, you will not receive email notifications of new needs.  Please do let Pastor Dee know if you have any problems or concerns with this effort.

  
  
  
• Help Wanted: Habitat for Humanity is building a home in Suquamish. While EHCC is not committed to doing construction work, we would like to serve lunch to the workers once a month (on a Saturday). Please let Madelyn Fox or Jennifer Merrill know if you can help with this effort. In an ideal world, each volunteer would help with lunch once a quarter; it’s not a big time commitment, and it feels good!
  

• Special Offerings:  Approximately quarterly, we encourage your financial contribution to special offerings designated by the United Church of Christ.    To find out more about UCC offerings, click here: www.ucc.org. 
  
  
  
• Youth Group Mission Trip: for a week each summer, our Sr. Youth Group attends a mission trip during which they work in needy communities.  You may volunteer as a chaperone for a mission trip, and you may financially support the trips. Outright donations are certainly appreciated, and the youth group sponsors several fund-raising events throughout the year.
  
  
  
• Helpline House: Our church makes a substantial financial contribution to Helpline House each year. This contribution is targeted to a specific family in need as identified by one of Helpline’s social service workers.  And, one afternoon every few months, we encourage shoppers at Town and Country Market to donate food to Helpline.

• EHCC is home to Helpline's Super Supper dinners the last five working days of the month.  For more information, contact Pat Johnson.
  
  
  
• Ometepe Scholarship Program: The financial contribution our church makes helps send an Ometepe student to college. You can donate directly to this fund!
  

• Our Church's Wider Mission: UCC congregations are involved with mission in many ways. In the United Church of Christ, we affirm that, although the congregation is the fundamental unit of mission, mission is not just local. We are connected to one another, across boundaries of neighborhood, class, race, and national border. Our Church’s Wider Mission is the name we use to describe the work we do as the United Church of Christ beyond the local church–through our Conferences, national ministries, and UCC-related institutions. Our Church’s Wider Mission is also the name we give to the financial support given by UCC members and congregations that makes this broader mission possible.  EHCC makes a substantial contribution to OCWM annually.  To find out more, www.ucc.org
  
  
  

For more information on any of the above, please call the church office.

To contact us:

EHCC

105 Winslow Way West

Bainbridge Island, WA  98110

Phone: 206-842-4657