Faith in Action

Missions Report 2021

Your Missions Team is honored to represent you, our church family, in our mission of providing assistance to so many people.

Farmers market bake and vegetable sale raised $470.00 for our fundraising line item.

Bags for Covid kits.

Fuel cards for family with baby at Dartmouth Hitchcock

Sunderland School, sweatpants, and underwear

Williamstown, Vt United Federated Church after fire

Haiti Relief

BCCH warm socks for the homeless, adult sized warm gloves, hat, scarf

Packages of dinner rolls for Food Shelf Thanksgiving dinner boxed.

Provided lunches for Arlington rescue squad, fire fighters and healthcare people for First Responders Day.

Holy Joe’s coffee

Many snacks for the Summer Lunch Program and many helped with picking up, packing and distributing the food.

Church World Service “Best Gifts”

Camperships

Help with rent

Gift card for food for family

Your mission team was able to give to worthy, helpful, nonprofit groups:

Wanda Salter’s Mumias School for Autism in Africa
Ronald McDonald House, Alban
Kurn Hattin Homes for Children
BROC
Arlington Fire Protection
Arlington Rescue Squad
BCCH -homeless
GNAT-TV
U.S. Committee for Refugees & Immigrants
UCC Coalition ONA
Bennington County Meals on Wheels
Sunrise Family Resource Center
Vermont Interfaith Power & Light
GBICS
Arlington Fire Department
Arlington Food Shelf
Turning Point Bennington
Vermont Women’s Fund
Church World Service
UMCOR
Vermont Assistance, Inc. memory of Rev. John Nutting
Girl Scouts of Green & White Mountains
Habitat for Humanity

I thank our team, Gail Rice and Wendy Bahan, for helping to make the needed decisions. Also, thanks to Wendy for being the check signer.

The Mission Team is thankful to the congregation as a whole for its support. We are open for your thoughts and suggestions.

“Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God.” 1 John 4:7

Your Mission Team
Sandra Grover
Wendy Bahan
Gail Rice

Prayer Shawl Ministry

Every 3rd Saturday of the month this group gets together at 11:30am for a joyful time of meaningful fellowship, knitting, crocheting and sharing a meal. 458 shawls have been blessed and presented since our inception on March 17, 2007. All are invited to attend and instructions are available.

Senior Meals

The Federated Church of East Arlington is the host site for the senior meals for Arlington, Sunderland and Sandgate. The meals are served on Tuesday and Thursday at noon. All are welcomed.

Habitat for Humanity

The Federated Church of East Arlington is a covenant church for Habitat for Humanity. We provide funds and people power to provide low income housing for the greater Bennington county area.

Summer Lunch Program

A program to provide lunches during the summer to children of Arlington, Sunderland and Sandgate who qualify for lunch assistance during the school year. We are a co-sponsor of this program which is a partnership between faith communities, local schools and service organizations as well as the Arlington Food Shelf.
Click on lunch bag to find out more about this program.

Adventures in Reading

You are never to young or old to read. This is a program where a group of people read at least 4 books from a reading list. If you enjoy reading this is an excellent way of reading books you might not normally choose. It is done on your own time and we get together a couple of times a year to discuss the books we’ve read.

Walk to Emmaus

The Walk to Emmaus is a spiritual renewal program intended to strengthen the local church through the development of Christian disciples and leaders. The program’s approach seriously considers the model of Christ’s servanthood and encourages Christ’s disciples to act in waysappropriate to being “a servant of all.” The Walk to Emmaus experience begins with a 72-hour short course in Christianity,
comprised of fifteen talks by lay and clergy on the themes of God’s grace, disciplines of Christian discipleship, and what it means to be the church. The course is wrapped in prayer and meditation, special times of worship and daily celebration of Holy Communion. The “Emmaus community,” made up of those who have attended an Emmaus weekend, support the 72-hour experience with a prayer vigil,
by preparing and serving meals, and other acts of love and self-giving.
The Emmaus Walk typically begins Thursday evening and concludes Sunday evening. Men and women attend separate weekends. During and after the three days, Emmaus leaders encourage participants to meet regularly in small groups. The members of the small groups challenge and support one another in faithful living. Participants seek to Christianize their environments of family, job, and community through the ministry of their congregations. The three-day Emmaus experience and follow-up groups strengthen and renew Christian people as disciples of Jesus Christ and as active members of the body of Christ in mission to the world. The Upper Room, a ministry unit of the General Board of Discipleship of The United Methodist Church, sponsors the Walk to Emmaus and offers it
through local Emmaus groups around the world. Although connected through The Upper Room to The United Methodist Church, The Walk to Emmaus is ecumenical.
Excerpted with permission from What Is Emmaus? by Stephen D. Bryant. Copyright
© 1995 by The Upper Room.

Arlington Food Shelf

On Sunday as people come to worship, they bring something for the food shelf. Items are left in the box to one’s right as they enter the Narthex. Items for the food shelf are non perishable and may include paper goods, soap, or items as well as food items. The pictures shows that on Sunday, February 24, 2019 the Church presented the Arlington Food Shelf with a check for $1,138.00, which represented proceeds from last Fall’s Crop Walk in Bennington.