Outreach | St. Paul's United Church of Christ

495 Saint Augustine Road, Colgate, Wisconsin 53017, United States

Phone 262.628.2319

St. Paul's United Church of Christ - Erin

Current Projects

Christmas FOOD DRIVE - We will be packing FOOD BASKETS for 25 families in need! They will contain all the fixings for a Christmas Dinner! Baskets will be delivered to families and elderly that need help with their Holiday Dinner thru House of Peace and St. Ben’s Community Meal!
*Capuchin Community Services provides a turkey, ham or giftcard with our food basket!
Each basket we pack will have:
1 box of mashed potatoes
1 bag of stuffing
2 cans of cranberry sauce
4 cans of corn
1 box of cake mix
1 can of frosting
2 boxes of pudding or Jell-O
2 boxes of cornbread mix
2 boxes of macaroni and cheese
1 32 oz. can of sweet potatoes or yams
4 cans of green beans
1 can of gravy (No glass jars, please)

The MISSION MANIACS will be buying a large portion of food for this event and are asking If you would like to donate any of the above food items, please drop off at the church by December 4th!! Please put items under the Rooster Entrance! It would be a great help!! The more boxes we can fill, the more families will enjoy a Christmas dinner!! If you prefer to make a monetary donation please make checks payable to St. Paul's UCC and put Christmas Food Baskets in the description!!

Community Outreach Projects

Extending the Table

Sussex Food Pantry-Helpers

St. Paul's collects food and health care items for a number of the local food pantries. Donation baskets can be found near the pulpit.

Sussex Food Pantry-Helpers

St. Paul's is providing volunteers the 3rd Saturday of each month to help shoppers at the Sussex Food Pantry. A sign up sheet can be found in the fellowship hall.

Souper Bowl Sunday

Sussex Food Pantry-Helpers

Knitting & Crocheting Group

Thanks to everyone who helped us with the Souper Bowl of Caring Challenge. St. Paul's collected OVER 560 SOUP ITEMS AND $270 in cash donations which was donated to Okoa Toto

Knitting & Crocheting Group

Volunteers knitters and crocheters meet Friday mornings at 9 am work to work on craft projects that are donated to many groups/charities.

Feed My Starving Children

Knitting & Crocheting Group

Feed My Starving Children

Feed My Starving Children is a Christian non-profit organization that coordinates the packaging and distribution of food to people in developing nations. Founded in 1987, it has reached out to more than 70 countries.

Special Offerings

Knitting & Crocheting Group

Feed My Starving Children

Throughout the year St. Paul's along with UCC congregations across the county take a special offering for Neighbors in Need, OCWM, Christmas Fund and more.

Post Office Food Drive

Church volunteers help with collecting and sorting food donations at the Germantown Post Office. The Food Drive benefits the St. Boniface Food Pantry.

Christmas Giving Tree

Post Office Food Drive

Donations from our Christmas Giving Tree provide a young family with gift cards and presents for 4 children and their newborn who arrived early. Your heartfelt donations were very graciously received!

Veterans

Post Office Food Drive

Veterans

St Paul's does a variety of collections for veterans including collecting jackets and home goods which were donated to homeless vets and the ongoing collection of travel size toiletries and snacks to be sent to those currently serving overseas.

Additional outreach programs

Penny Wars

Collecting change as part of our military tribute in May

The Apparent Project

The CEREAL BOXES are on their way!! 111 pounds of empty cereal boxes for our Haitian friends to make bracelets from! There are 11 jobs created with each cereal box! There are over 700 boxes which will make over 35,000 beads! Way to go St. Paul’s Family and Congratulations to the Youth for having such a successful Mission!!
Please visit https://apparentproject.org/to find out more information on the project!

Lenten Challenges

Each year the congregation is challenged to collected items for a special group. These challenges have include cans of tuna, the toilet paper challenge to St. Johns UCC Merton and Pennies for Pine Ridge (reservation in South Dakota)