Congregational Involvement
Ministries
Benjamin's House, Rice Lake, WI | Visit Web site
The mission of Benjamin's House is to work together as a nonprofit agency with community organizations and individuals to provide housing opportunities for the homeless population in Barron County.
Stephen Befrienders/Care Ministry
Coordination, training, recruiting and supporting volunteers for "listening" ministry through a local parish/diocese. A volunteer is assigned a person to visit on a regular basis. The person being visited is usually going through a crisis in life--death of a spouse, illness, those who cannot attend mass, communion is brought to them.
Committee for Mission to Haiti
Collecting funds for direct assistance of specific projects but also helping prepare for a mission group trip to Haiti.
Active Memberships
Pax Christi | Visit Web site
Pax Christi USA strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society.
Southern Poverty Law Center | Visit Web site
Based in Alabama, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign | Visit Web site
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is building a movement that unites the poor across color lines. Poverty afflicts Americans of all colors. Daily more and more of us are downsized and impoverished. We share a common interest in uniting against the prevailing conditions and around our vision of a society where we all have the right to health care, housing, living wage jobs, and access to quality primary, secondary, and higher education.
School of the Americas Watch | Visit Web site
SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.