Serve in our Community
Angel Tree & Senior Angel Tree
Angel Tree provides gifts for local Seniors living at Magnolia Manner in Smithfield and Autumn Care Nursing Home in Suffolk. Residents with no visiting family or those without families are sponsored with gifts asked for by the recipient or identified as a need by the staff.
Coordinator:
Sharon Hawkins
538-8999
sharon@fatpoe.org
CAPS
Coalition Against Poverty in Suffolk (CAPS) is a group of churches and organizations working together for poverty alleviation and community development. By sharing resources, information, support and outreach ministries, we are working together for poverty alleviation and community development. This coalition will enable churches to successfully fulfill their call to love our neighbor, care for orphans and widows, and serve our neighbors in Suffolk.
Coordinator:
Ebenezer UMC
757-238-2359
ForKids
ForKids is a non-profit organization whose mission is the care of homeless families and children in the Tidewater area. Suffolk House, provides a temporary safe haven and helps residents address the long list of needs of homeless families. The ultimate goal is to help each family transition to self-sufficiency with work, health, home and family. You can help through volunteering your time, donating needed foods and clothes as well as monetary support.
The Genieve Shelter
The Genieve Shelter is a safe refuge for battered women and their children. It serves the cities of Suffolk and Franklin, the Town of Smithfield, and the counties of Isle of Wight, Southampton, and Surry. Services include a 24-hour crisis hotline; individual and group counseling; court accompaniment; emergency shelter, food and clothing; and emergency transportation. Also provided is a Children’s Program that offers after school tutoring, a weekly children’s support group, and recreational activities.
Coordinator:
Val Livingston – Shelter Director
925-4365
Loaves & Fishes
Loaves & Fishes is Ebenezer’s food pantry. Whether taking referrals from CAPS to serving a church or local community member or being contacted by a stranger in crisis, we reach out to help those in need. Currently, we have three cabinets to store essentials for those coming in for assistance and we need to restock what we have given out and keep food stock rotated on a regular basis.
There is a critical need for these items:
Condensed Milk Paper Towels
Ketchup Toilet Paper
Bags of Rice Ramen Noodles
Pancake Mix Tomato/Pasta Sauce
Syrup Salt/Pepper
Dry Pasta Mayo
Kids Juice Boxes Cooking Oil
Flour Sugar
Meals On Wheels
Meals On Wheels–Suffolk is dedicated to ending all Senior hunger by the year 2020. Ebenezer has a team of volunteers who improve the quality of life for senior and disabled residents by delivering meals to those in need in the Suffolk and Isle of Wight area. The volunteers pick up the meals at Sentara Obici Hospital to deliver them to various areas between the hours of 11:30 and 1:00.
Pennies From Heaven
Pennies From Heaven is the unexpected fortune of a caring hand up for those in need; through the collection of your loose change. Each quarter, a check is written to a local charity or organization who helps the needy. Volunteering is easy—Look for a display and a marked can, drop your coins in and listen to the joyful noise!
School Supply Drive
School Supply Drive collects school supplies for needy children at Oakland Elementary School (K-5 grade). Supplies are collected through the month of August and then delivered for distribution to the students for the first day of school.
Coordinator:
Sharon Hawkins
538-8999
sharon@fatpoe.org
New Horizons Adult Home
New Horizons is a group home in Smithfield for men. Outreach includes cooking meals, doing maintenance and clean up work and providing Thanksgiving meal and Christmas gifts for the residents.
Warm Hands & Hearts
Warm Hands & Hearts supplies winter clothing and essentials to the homeless in our community. With donations of new and lightly used (and clean) winter clothing supplied by the congregation and local friends, we can multiply our outreach to those in need. Collected items are then donated to the Wesley Community Services Center.
We Care
We Care is a ministry that touches the lives of infants, children, adults and seniors through crocheted, knitted, sewed and tied items. Items crafted include blankets, infant hats, bereavement buntings, gowns, socks, travel bags, lap blankets and comfort shawls.
You don’t have to know how to sew, knit or crochet, though. Volunteers are always needed to deliver these items to local hospitals, shelters, health departments, senior centers, church family and community friends!
Coordinator:
Janie Murrell
484-2054
Janie.murrell@yahoo.com
Wesley Community Services Center
www.wesleycenterportsmouth.org
Wesley Community Service Center’s mission is to operate programs and services aimed at empowering the powerless and poor in Portsmouth’s Southside communities through Christian based services which improve the quality of life.
The Wesley Center remains committed to working for minority empowerment and building community across racial, economic and social barriers as well as acting as an advocate and broker for community services and assistance.