Mission & Outreach
As a downtown church, First Presbyterian is committed to mission and outreach in the neighborhood, the Fargo-Moorhead community, and the world. There are a variety of local service opportunities available to our congregation. These include:
Local mission opportunities
- Serving dinner at Churches United for the Homeless, a local homeless shelter. We prepare and serve a meal every second Thursday of the month at 5 p.m.
- FM Emergency Food Pantry needs volunteers to help prepare food baskets and stock the shelves. Our congregation provides volunteers two weeks a year.
- Donations are collected monthly for local mission projects. We call this "Holy Buckets."
- At Thanksgiving, First Presbyterian Church volunteers prepare and deliver over 450 Thanksgiving dinners to those in our community who would not otherwise have a holiday meal.
- Each Christmas season, you can help a local family have a bright Christmas through the Giving Tree.
- Also at Christmas, you can donate mittens, hats and scarves to the Mitten Tree. All donations are given to the children at the Nokomis Childcare Center. Church school offering goes to Nokomis as well.
Regional and international mission opportunities
- Bdecan Presbyterian Church, a Native American church and congregation of the PC (USA) is located in Tokio, N.D., south of Devil's Lake. With the leadership of First Presbyterian, the Presbytery of the Northern Plains built a new church building for the Bdecan congregation in 2002. The Presbytery's Mission Initiatives committee is overseeing projects with the congregation.
Please contact the Presbytery of the Northern Plains at www.northernplainspresbytery.com if you have any questions about upcoming projects with Bdecan Presbyterian Church.
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First Presbyterian Church also partners with The Outreach Foundation, an organization that helps to connect Presbyterians to the work of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ for the salvation of humankind.
- For seven years, First Presbyterian Church has had a friendship/partnership with Kikuyu Hospital, near Nairobi, Kenya. Kikuyu Hospital is one of the projects of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA). Our congregation has participated in the building and maintaining of the hospital's new dental clinic.
The Presbytery of the Northern Plains has begun a partnership with the Kenyan Presbytery of Chogoria. First Presbyterian Church is in partnership with one of the churches. For inquiries and updates on this partnership, contact the Presbytery of the Northern Plains.
Pesos in Your Pocket?
When you return from a trip to Mexico with pesos in your pocket, bring them to the Peso Pot in the church office. All pesos will go to support ministries in San Miguel, Mexico.
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Haiti: Ways to Help!
PC(USA) Mission Partners—Please pray for them.
Sharyn Babe, the PC(USA) mission worker closest to the earthquake’s epicenter, and her husband, Rodney, have communicated that Sharyn was hospitalized. Mark Hare, the other PC(USA) mission worker in Haiti, and his wife, Jenny, live in Papay, a town about 100 miles from the epicenter. The Hares have told Presbyterian World Mission that Papay did not receive major damage and that they are safe.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance—already mobilized.
PDA has rushed an additional $100,000 from One Great Hour of Sharing and designated funds to help provide immediate emergency relief to the affected people. Funds are being sent through our ecumenical and local partners working in Haiti.
Checks can be made out to First Presbyterian Church and will be forwarded to PDA’s efforts in Haiti.
Holy Buckets
During the month of January we will be collecting disposable diapers for local children’s agencies, primarily, Nokomis Childcare Center and the YWCA. All sizes of diapers, except newborn, are needed. There are green bins in the Gathering Space to receive your donations.