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MISSIONS
​REACHING OUT TO OUR COMMUNITY, OUR COUNTRY, & THE WORLD

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  What Makes UCC Different? We've made a commitment to building a just world for all through ministry, mission, and witness. Click on the image below to see!

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To learn more about our Just World Covenants, click here.



The United Church of Christ Mission Ministry Team is dedicated to improving the lives through faith-centered action by responding to identified local, regional, national, or international opportunities to:
  • Support the National United Church of Christ financially
  • Collaborate with like-minded groups to empower the less fortunate in our society
  • Facilitate programs that embrace socioeconomic, political, racial, and ethnic equality
  • Implement outcome-based programs that seek to foster faith through action
  • Evaluate activities, on a continual basis, to maximize time, talent, and financial resources

Local Opportunities for Missions

The United Church of Christ at The Villages conducts/participates in a number of local projects:
  • ​Sponsor of the Martin Luther King Remembrance Breakfast Scholarships
  • On-going discussion about what we can do as a faith community to alleviate racism
  • Suitcase/toiletries/gifts collection for local domestic abuse and homeless shelters
  • Collection of Box Tops for Education and Pull Tabs for Ronald McDonald House
  • Recycling of printer cartridges and Church paper/cans/bottles
  • Documentary films focusing on environmental and social justice issues
  • Providing books to underserved communities
  • Supporting Cancer,  MS & Alzheimer's disease organizations
  • Providing handmade shawls to those in need of comfort
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Walks of Support

UCC assists in organizing walkers and supporters for local Cancer, MS and Alzheimer’s diseases

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Seeds of Hope

Seeds of Hope concert series and on-going food collection provides non-perishable foods for the Wildwood Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry
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Clothing Collection & Food Donations

Clothing collection and donation to the Helping Hands Ministry in Wildwood provides free distribution to those in need.
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Suitcase Drive

Each year, a drive is conducted  to donate gently used suitcases and new toiletries  to local shelters for domestic abuse victims and homeless women and children.  
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Prayer Shawls

Church volunteers knit/crochet shawls for those in need of comfort.  The shawls are free to anyone in need.
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Sharing Christmas

UCC collects money for gift cards each Christmas to be given to local women's and children's shelters.
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Little Free Library

Library boxes are placed in communities where children and adults can access books....they can borrow a book, take a book, or replace a book with a different book.  The boxes provide a place of learning and community in the areas they are placed.  Our church builds and places the boxes then provides the books on an ongoing basis. Shown is the unveiling of our first box in the Royal community of Wildwood FL.  At right is the presentation of thank you plaques.
If you are interested in becoming a Team member or volunteering for any of the activities, please contact our church office, 352-748-9199 or email [email protected]

National & World Missions - Special Collections

The United Church of Christ at The Villages collects funds for 5 special missions each year:
  • Our church's Wider Mission
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • Strengthen the Church
  • Neighbor's in Need
  • The Christmas Fund
We also collect items for disasters as they occur through the Church World Service.
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Our Church's Wider Mission

Our Church's Wider Mission is a congregational budgeted payment to the National UCC to support four Covenanted Ministry partners:  Office of General Ministries, Local Church Ministries, Wider Church Ministries, and Justice and Witness Ministries.  To learn more see www.ucc.org/ocwm
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Strengthen the Church

Strengthen The Church (STC) is a special mission offering to reimagine and build the future of the UCC.  STC largely supports youth ministries and full-time leaders for new churches in parts of the country where the UCC voice has not been heard.  This donation is received on Pentecost Sunday.
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The Christmas Fund

Strengthen The Church (STC) is a special mission offering to reimagine and build the future of the UCC.  STC largely supports youth ministries and full-time leaders for new churches in parts of the country where the UCC voice has not been heard.  This donation is received on Pentecost Sunday.
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One Great Hour of Sharing

WOne Great Hour of Sharing is a refuge, relief, and development offering of the UCC that helps transform lives through health, educational, agricultural, and emergency relief initiatives in 138 countries.  This special offering is collected during Lent.
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Neighbors in Need

Neighbors In Need (NIN) is an offering that supports ministries of justice and compassion throughout the United States.  One-third of NIN funds support the Council for American Indian Ministry.  Two-thirds is used by the UCC's Justice and Witness Ministries to support a variety of justice initiatives, advocacy efforts, and direct service projects through grants.  This offering is received on World Communion Sunday.
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Church World Service

Church World Service is a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.   UCC collects materials to send to CWS after hurricane and other disasters
 

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  • GIVE
  • Worship Services
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    • Calendar of Events
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  • Prayer Requests
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  • The Gardens
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