Reid Memorial
Missions
How we embody acts of mission are as varied as the organizations we work alongside and support. We are called to reflect on our gifts, our resources, our passions, and our faith to lead us to find our mission fields, near or far. If you have not participated in any volunteer opportunities with our partners, you are encouraged to read through the list below and ask, “where do I see myself serving?” and “how might I equip others to serve?” Don’t forget to pray. Pray for our mission partners. Pray for the people they serve and the hard situations they are willing to enter. And pray for Reid Memorial as we discern the paths of service for our church.
Loaves & Fishes - Alternative Gift Market
The Loaves & Fishes Gift Market of Reid Memorial was born out of this desire to provide gifts “outside the box” for those organizations and agencies that meet the needs of least of these.
The Loaves & Fishes Market will allow you to contribute to our local, regional, and international missions in honor of family, teachers, colleagues, friends, loved ones, or that special someone. You will receive a beautiful card and envelope for the recipient that describes your gift. During the Christmas season, look for the Loaves & Fishes Gift market table before and after worship in the Fellowship Hall to see just how many wonderful opportunities there are to make an “outside the box” gift and share the joy of the season with those who may most need to be reminded, through the work of these agencies, that they are loved.
Don’t you wish your school would roll out the red carpet for your first day back? Well, our mission partner, Heritage Academy, does just that at the beginning of every school year. Students come down the red carpet to cheers and high fives along the way to welcome and encourage them in a new year! Heritage Academy believes in nurturing the child, as well as the family and community, through its education program for grades K-8.
Don’t you wish your school would roll out the red carpet for your first day back? Well, our mission partner, Heritage Academy, does just that at the beginning of every school year. Students come down the red carpet to cheers and high fives along the way to welcome and encourage them in a new year! Heritage Academy believes in nurturing the child, as well as the family and community, through its education program for grades K-8.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is the refugee and disaster response program of the Presbyterian Church (USA). When natural disasters strike or outbreaks of violence occur, we often feel helpless to help. We don’t have the connections, the resources, or the manpower to make a difference…or do we? Perhaps not individually, but collectively through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) we can bring hope, healing, needed basics, and restoration to areas caught in crisis. Their system is well vetted and effective in reaching places we may not be able to go ourselves.
Fisher House is one way the VA honors and cares for our veterans and their families. Cost free, comfortable, and convenient accommodations are provided at Fisher House for families who live 50 miles or more from the VA medical center. This provides the emotional support the patient needs and relieves the financial strain on the family. How to help? You can donate food for the pantry, freezer foods, snacks, coffee, laundry supplies or bottled water. Gift cards for stores like Wal-Mart and Target are also useful for staff to keep supplies stocked, and, of course, monetary donations are welcome online or by check!
Fisher House is one way the VA honors and cares for our veterans and their families. Cost free, comfortable, and convenient accommodations are provided at Fisher House for families who live 50 miles or more from the VA medical center. This provides the emotional support the patient needs and relieves the financial strain on the family. How to help? You can donate food for the pantry, freezer foods, snacks, coffee, laundry supplies or bottled water. Gift cards for stores like Wal-Mart and Target are also useful for staff to keep supplies stocked, and, of course, monetary donations are welcome online or by check!
The Family Support Services Program provides housing and supportive services to families while their child receives urgent medical care at Children’s Hospital of Georgia or J.M. Still Burn Center. The program works with patients and their families, community volunteers, social wPrayer Shawl Ministry
orkers, and other medical personnel. Families are never charged for staying at the RMH.
Knitters of Reid Memorial come together to pray for those in need and to knit those prayers together with beautiful yarns and intricate patterns. And when the cooler weather comes, they are also prepared to share their hand-knitted caps and scarves with those whose lives are lived with little shelter from elements. If you have ever been a recipient of a prayer shawl or pocket shawl, you know how it feels to hold those prayers, to wrap them around you and let them cover you. Participation is open to seasoned knitters and those wishing to learn. Join us on Tuesday mornings from 10am to noon in room 202.
Project Refresh is a mobile shower and laundry unit that can move about the city and locate itself within the neighborhoods where their services are most needed. We hope you’ll join the effort to support Project Refresh with us as a church and individually as well!
The mission is simple: to transform lives by feeding our hungry neighbors today and building a healthy, hunger-free tomorrow. In a time when 1 in 9 people in our area struggle with hunger and 1 in 6 children are food insecure, the work of this mission is vital. Currently, Golden Harvest provides approximately 11 million meals to neighbors across 25 counties throughout GA and SC. Their 10-year vision includes increasing this number to 20 million meals.
Founded in 1979, and serving as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, GAP Ministries is committed to proving a “one-stop” service location to help people seeking to reclaim their physical and spiritual well-being, or to assist them with the extra support that they need to maintain a stable and secure lifestyle.
RISE Augusta is an organization dedicated to the work of lifting people out of poverty through literacy and education. RISE Augusta offers a variety of programs. RISE is more than just “free books,” it is an on-going mission to improve the lives and futures of our children through education, encouragement, and tools for success.
Turn Back the Block is a catalyst in revitalizing the Harrisburg neighborhood through homeownership and the creation of quality housing. Their work over the last decade has been in high visibility areas of Harrisburg – “creating a neighborhood where everyone wants to live.”
Augusta Locally Grown supports small farms and gardeners by making their all-natural, locally grown, sustainably grown fresh foods available for sale in the Augusta-area community at affordable prices and with options to use SNAP. ALG is committed to the idea that a community is healthiest when it feeds itself. They accomplish this through farmers markets and educational programming. You can support ALG by shopping their food market at The Hub each Thursday or by ordering through the online market.
ACE enables volunteers to join in its outreach through a variety of hands-on experiences (from construction to health care) to provide self-sustaining solutions to local problems, and in turn, empower the people of St. Mary, Jamaica.
Porch de Salomon is a unique and progressive non-profit which, since 2005, has loved, served, and encouraged “the lost, the least and the last” of Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan basin, by hosting short-term service teams to provide for indigenous home construction (136 quality family houses built!), community building construction, medical/dental/hearing aid/eyeglass clinics (over 28,000 patients seen), and relationship building. In addition, Porche provides humanitarian relief to indigenous people: food, clean water systems, environmentally friendly woodstoves, malnourished infant relief, medicine, school scholarships, substance abuse recovery, counseling, sustainable micro-businesses, and more.
Due to political and social unrest in Haiti, Reid Memorial has been unable to participate in country with mission trips. However, we continue to support the agencies that provide the community through health clinics and sponsorship of students of all ages. Currently, Reid Memorial is sponsoring three children’s educations. For many, school is also the one place they will receive a hot meal for the day. We will continue to monitor the situation and find ways to continue our relationship with these communities.
Child Enrichment brings help, hope, and healing to children and families in the Augusta area that have experienced abuse and neglect. Reid Memorial Church and MDO/Preschool have partnered with Child Enrichment to provide annual Angel Tree, sharing the love of Christ to these children