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 the New Life Center, and YWCA Women's Shelter.
• 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.

 

• 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). Currently, we are in the beginning stages of a program to provide dental care at the hospital.
  
  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.