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Westminster Presbyterian Church
Durham, North Carolina
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The community outreach activities listed below reflect our effort to be helpful beyond the walls of our church. Call the church office at 489-4974 for more information and to volunteer.
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"Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers ..." Rom. 12:13 Durham’s Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) was established in 1994 as part of a community-wide effort to establish shelter beds for families. This system provides temporary shelter, meals, and comprehensive assistance to homeless families through a network of local congregations while families prepare to move into transitional or permanent housing. Seventy percent of IHN "alumni" have successfully maintained long-term, stable housing after leaving IHN. WPC serves as a host church for a week at a time about four times each year. Guests are housed on the top floor of WPC’s Mission Center.
During the day they go to jobs, training programs or to counseling and other support sessions at the Day Center and return to WPC in the evening. Many churches team in this mission. St. Stephens Episcopal Church teamed with WPC during 1999 and their members continue to assist us with transportation, meal preparation and overnight hosting. During any one week of hosting, 60-75 volunteers are required to provide transportation to and from other churches or the Day Center on Trinity Avenue, to set up the rooms, provide meals, serve as overnight hosts, launder linens and help with clean-up at the end of the week. Transportation for IHN involves driving residents from the church in the van to the center on Trinity Avenue in the morning or picking them up at the center and returning them to the church in the afternoon. It requires about 45 minutes of your day. A very easy but important part of the IHN process. If interested, please call (to volunteer for transportation help) Carol Walker at 489-9118, ext. 241 at work or 489-8824 at home. Both phones have answering machines so do leave a message expressing your interest. This is an important part of WPC’s outreach ministry, and many hands make for light work. Assess your gifts and decide how you can help!
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