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Redeemer
Financial Grant Recipients (2004-2005)
*With recent Church of the Redeemer
involvement described in italic text
Bridge Over Troubled
Waters
Bridge Over Troubled Waters works with
runaways and children on the streets of Boston. Our grant has paid for
medical supplies for a mobile van near the Park Street subway station that
is staffed by volunteer physicians and provides emergency medical care,
helping to intercept adolescent runaways and providing them with care and
counseling referrals.
*Our Youth Choir has paired with the
area PALS Choir to put on benefit concerts at the Redeemer.
Church Women United
of Newton
Church Women
United is a racially, culturally, theologically inclusive Christian women’s
movement, celebrating unity in diversity and working for a world of peace
and justice.
Committee To End Elder
Homelessness
This group provides seed money to
rehabilitate apartment buildings and housing in the Brookline and Boston
area to provide housing for low-income seniors.
*As a
parish-wide service project, the Redeemer furnished and outfitted two rooms
in the Ruggles Assisted Living Facility.
Ecclesia Ministry
Ecclesia Ministry was founded in 1994 by
Rev. Deborah Little, with the support of the diocese to provide outreach to
the homeless poor. Ecclesia operates the Common Cathedral that provides
pastoral counseling to the homeless on the streets of downtown Boston. In
addition to pastoral care, Ecclesia Ministries provides access to social
services, medical care and counseling.
*Ecclesia is often the
recipient of our ongoing collections of clothing, bags, and toiletries. As a
parish wide mini-service project in the spring of 2005, the Redeemer
prepared and served lunch at Common Cathedral.
Epiphany Middle School
Founded with Diocesan support by John
Finley IV in 1997 on the model of Nativity Prep, Epiphany is an independent,
tuition-free, middle school for children of low-income families from Boston
neighborhoods. It admits children of diverse faiths, races, cultures, and
cognitive profiles, believing in the Episcopal tradition that we find God in
and through each other's presence.
*The Redeemer organizes a team to cook
the Wednesday evening meal at Epiphany once a month. We also put together
gift baskets for the teachers at Christmas. As a parish-wide service
project in the fall of 2004, the Redeemer planted a garden at the school.
Episcopal Church
Women of Massachusetts
ECW is the governing body of the women’s
group in Massachusetts, including the Church Service League at Church of the
Redeemer. Our grant pays the CSL dues to ECW, which in turn supports
community service organizations.
Food Pantries
We provide grants to the following emergency food pantries:
·
Brookline Food Pantry
· Newton Food Pantry
HomeStart, Inc.
Home Start, Inc. was established in 1994
to help homeless people acquire their own permanent housing by making safe
and cost-effective housing available.
Horizons Initiative
The Horizons Initiative is
concerned with the needs of homeless children. It has been innovative in
creating "play space programs" for shelters throughout Massachusetts and
serves as a training resource on problems facing homeless children for other
organizations.
Nativity Preparatory School
Nativity Prep provides
care and teaching to 60 boys in grades 5 to 8 and prepares them for private
academies of higher learning.
*The Redeemer’s grant has
traditionally paid for the tuition for a student for the full year who comes
to visit with his family on one Sunday during the year. We also put
together gift baskets for the teachers at Christmas.
On The Rise
Cambridge shelter helps women to
move beyond homelessness, connecting them with other social service agencies
and to integrate them back into the mainstream. Our support helps to fund
the Safe Haven, a large Victorian House in central Cambridge, which provides
immediate and safe shelter for women facing the crises of homelessness.
*On
the Rise is often the recipient of our ongoing collections of clothing,
bags, and toiletries.
Second Step
Second Step is a shelter for battered
women in Newtonville that focuses on providing counseling and vocational
help to transition residents back into the mainstream.
Senior Youth Group Mission Outreach
The Outreach Committee sponsored the
service components of the Redeemer’s Senior Youth Group’s Mission trip to
Cuba this past June. The Senior Youth Group spent some time helping to
paint a church in Cuba.
St. John’s Bowdoin
Street Neighbourhood Action
Neighbourhood Action, Inc. is the social
ministry arm of the Church of St. John the Evangelist on Bowdoin Street.
Their program was incorporated in 1986 to gain eligibility for funding
usually denied to religious organizations. It provides food, comfort, and
fellowship for the poor, homeless, and elderly living around the Boston
Common and Beacon Hill. Sundays through Thursdays, Neighbourhood Action
provides a doorbell soup kitchen for lunch in the vestibule outside the
parish hall. On Mondays and Thursdays, the program offers a sit-down dinner
for guests in the warmth and comfort of the parish hall. On Wednesdays, the
program offers a food pantry that generates up to 150 bags of non-perishable
groceries a month.
*The Church of the Redeemer’s
Thanksgiving Ingathering goes to this organization.
St. Stephen’s Church
St. Stephen’s Church on Shawmut Avenue in
Boston is an Episcopal parish committed to rebuilding, growing, and becoming
a vibrant and relevant force in its community. Through innovative
partnerships with resourceful parishes like Church of the Redeemer, St.
Stephen’s now offers an after-school program, a summer day camp, a food
pantry, and a series of lunches to its parishioners and neighbors. Our
Outreach grants have been used to support St. Stephen’s after-school and
summer enrichment programs, which serve children from the congregation and
community.
*As part of our partnership with St.
Stephen’s, the Redeemer collects Christmas gifts for the children of the
parish or the after-school program, organizes and funds Christmas and Easter
parties for the children, donates food to the food pantry, and sponsors a
week of lunches for the summer day camp as well as a day-long outing and
cook-out for the children. As three parish-wide service projects, the
Redeemer helped them paint their parish hall, and renovated St. Stephen’s
outdoor space creating a lovely garden and play area for children.
Women's Lunch Place
The only daytime shelter in the Boston
area for women, WLP serves breakfast and lunch to nearly 100 women five days
a week, as well as providing clothing distribution, quiet reading and nap
rooms, a children’s room, shower and laundry.
*Women’s Lunch Place is often the recipient of
our ongoing collections of clothing, bags, and toiletries. As a mini-service
project in 2004, members of the parish volunteered their time to serve lunch
at the Women’s Lunch Place.
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