Mission & Outreach

 Our Church’s Wider Mission – Extending Our Reach!

We carry this out through a number of diverse mission projects through financial support, prayers, and education. They include:

Basic Support – support of the Southern New England Conference and the wider United Church of Christ.

Also these 5 United Church of Christ special offerings:

• One Great Hour of Sharing, Assisting global village development and disaster assistance
• The Christmas Fund – Veterans of the Cross, aid to retired clergy with low retirements and benefits
• Neighbors In Need, assisting neighbors here in the USA including native americans
• Stregthen the Church – assisting churches with financial needs. and provides extra funding in areas of youth leadership development

Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School New Haven, CT  Mission Statement: a graduate theological school in the Reformed Tradition, in faithfulness to Jesus Christ, we strive to educate leaders who are: enlivened by rigorous study in a community embracing diversities of faith and life; devoted to the renewing of church and society through ecumenical witness and creative expression of the Gospel and committed to enacting God’s ways of justice and live in the world.

Association of Religious Communities in Greater Danbury serves the wider community in housing ministry, domestic violence prevention, and interfaith understanding through the cooperation of the broad spectrum of religious communities of our region.

Back Bay Mission– Biloxi, Mississippi – a community ministry of the UCC, serves the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the wider church community poor, homeless, victims of AIDS or substance abuse; works with teenagers and works to provide affordable housing after Katrina.

Brian O’Connell Homeless Project received a modest grant to help this small ministry in providing necessary daily use items directly to homeless persons. Named in memory of one who died on the streets of Waterbury.

The Center for Education and Empowerment (Greater Danbury Women’s Center) offers free and confidential services to women, children and men of Danbury and area towns to prevent or lessen the trauma associated with domestic violence, sexual assault, and other major life transitions.

Church World Service Founded in 1946, Church World Service is a cooperative ministry of 35 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations, providing sustainable self-help and development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance around the world. Church World Service works with partners to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around the world.

The Crosby Fund for Haitian Education  The Crosby Fund for Haitian Education (CFHE) was founded in 2004 by Rebecca and Frederick Crosby of Old Lyme, CT, to provide full scholarships for secondary education to academically gifted students living in the Artibonite Valley (north of Port-au-Prince), who otherwise could not attend school. In 2006, we expanded the program to include university scholarships, and, in 2009, we initiated our technical school scholarships in the hopes that both of these programs would prepare students for professional careers in Haiti. This expansion of our program was a natural outcome due to the success of many students graduating from high school and the need to continue their education for future employment.

Daily Bread Food Pantry– – at a new Super Pantry site at 125 Park Ave. in Danbury, on Park Avenue, Danbury. Daily Bread Food Pantry is a food pantry serving the greater Danbury community. They have welcomed those in need, whatever their background or circumstances, since 1984.  Many of our neighbors struggle to provide food for their families and themselves due to illness, disability, job loss, low wages, or personal crises.  The Pantry has been able to help over the years only with the support of our caring community and dedicated volunteers. Our church sends a team each month.

God Provides Ministries International, Inc formed in 2017, is a 501 (c)(3) non-Profit Organization, based in Waterbury, that operates as a ministry and aims at improving the lives of people by providing gently used furniture and other household items donated by our supporters to individuals in need at no cost to them. The Support and care that GPMI offers to the less fortunate goes deeper and through its board, volunteers and community partners, our organization supplies food, transportation to job interviews, financial counseling, rides to and from church services. Additionally, God Provides Ministries International also supports those living in tents; providing them with items such as food, clothing, care packages and connections to other agencies or services that can help them.

Renewal House (formerly known as Shelter of the Cross)  – provides transitional housing, support, and services for elderly homeless men and women in the Greater Danbury Area.

Roxbury Resident Relief Fund is a program of the Town of Roxbury. Working through the Town’s Social Services Director, the Fund provides financial support on a case-by-case basis for emergency aid. The Churches in Roxbury support this Fund as a successor to Roxbury Relief

Seafarer’s Friend, based in Boston, MA Provides for the spiritual, social, emotional, and physical needs of sailors on shore in Boston, MA, Portland, ME, and Portsmouth, NH

Simply Smiles– provides loving homes, appropriate educations, and every chance at happy and successful lives for impoverished children.  Works supporting the mission of the Casa Hogar Children’s Home in Oaxaca City,  and has built homes for the 33 families who call Oaxaca’s garbage dump home(Mexico). They are currently working in the southern jungle region with food distribution for hungry families affected by the globalization of coffee. Simply Smiles also works in South Dakota on an Indian reservation there. Described as “third world”, S. S. is working to rehabilitate housing and provide for basic needs. Our congregation sent mission trips to both Mexico and was one of the first to go to South Dakota in 2010. We have returned in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018.

United Church of Christ Disaster Ministries   Each year in the United States hundreds of natural disasters occur. And each year in the United States resettling refugees and new immigrants face large-scale emergencies.  Some natural disasters are large enough to make the news, but often dozens of smaller natural disasters escape media attention. UCC Disaster Ministries responds to both large and small natural and human-caused disasters in all U.S. states and territories. You can give thru our congregation. Note the disaster in the Memo of your check

United Church of Christ Mental Health Network     www.mhn-ucc.org        The United Church of Christ Mental Health Network works to reduce stigma and promote the inclusion of people with mental illnesses/brain disorders and their families in the life, leadership and work of congregations.  We envision a future in which:
People with mental illnesses feel welcomed, supported, valued and included seamlessly in the life, leadership and work of their congregations. UCC congregations have eliminated stigma, and their members offer true compassion and support for people with mental illnesses and their families. UCC churches are collaborating with other faith communities to widen their welcome to people with mental illnesses.

UCC Wider Church Ministries, Micro-loan Program micro-loans to women, typically in third-world countries who require equipment/materials to begin home businesses to  support their families.

Silver Lake Camp & Retreat Center  in nearby Sharon. We support  the camp and scholarships for those who are in financial need.

Washington Refugee Resettlement Project, we have teamed up in support of our neighbors in settling refugee families in New Milford.

World Central Kitchen  www.wck.org  (WCK) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that provides food relief. WCK is first to the frontlines, providing fresh meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. It was founded in 2010 by Spanish American chef and restaurateur José Andrés following the earthquake in Haiti, and has subsequently responded to Hurricane Harvey, the 2018 lower Puna eruption, 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, the Ukraine/Russian war, the ongoing Gaza humanitarian crisis, and the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and most recently in Southern New England following power losses from a blizzard.