Local Mission Opportunities

Beach Castles
 

Visiting Youth Mission Teams, Summer Months
Each summer First Presbyterian Church offers youth mission trip sponsorships. For several weeks during June, July, and August,  mission teams from churches across the United States have the opportunity to gather and do mission work together in the Myrtle Beach Community. These mission groups work in the Racepath community and for the patients of Mercy Hospice, providing assistance to families with home improvement needs in Horry County.

Todd Harms, Director of Youth and Mission, supervises the project and was assisted by Chris Underwood, Intern of two years. Joining them this summer to guarantee the continued success of this program were first year interns Winston Warner, Richard Voltz, and Stephen Cobb. John Maxlow returned as the Construction Foreman lending the expertise required to successfully complete the Beach Castle projects. View our Beach Castles site, designed by 2012 Intern Steven Cobb, for additional information and photos.

SUMMER 2012: Youth and Mission ministry teams once again hosted visiting youth groups.

St Mark Luthern Church from Lincoln, Nebraska
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Come join our team! Help provide on-site supervision, daily lunches or morning breakfasts for workers.

If you have any questions or fell called to participate in the mission work, please contact Todd Harms, 843.946.6035.

We encourage you to consider referring churches you have connections with to consider participating in the Beach Castles program, adult groups are also welcome!

 

Outreach
 
Street Reach Cooking
Wednesdays, Year-Round  @ 6:00 PM
Join members of the church on Wednesdays as they prepare a meal for the residents of Street Reach.
 
Grace Luncheon
2nd Sunday of Every Month, Year-Round, following 11:00 AM worship in the Fellowship Hall, Kings Campus
Your help is always welcomed as we prepare and serve a monthly luncheon to the homeless of Myrtle Beach. Join us and care for those in need in our community.
 

Contact Todd Harms, 843.448.4496, for additional information.

 

GIVING BACK AT CHRISTMAS
 
Operation Christmas (Mid-December)
December 2011
Contact Todd Harms, 843.448.4496

Read More from WBTW-TV (Dec 2010)

Get in the Spirit by helping bring Christmas to local families in need! Operation Christmas, co-sponsored by the Youth Ministry and Mission Ministry Teams, has become a tradition at FPC and is one of the largest local mission projects. FPC will adopt children in the Myrtle Beach community whose families need help providing gifts at Christmas.

This year, we will have a First Presbyterian Store at our Grissom Campus where our adopted families will be invited to “shop” with the help of a “personal shopper.” Of course, there is no charge for their selections. While parents are “shopping,” their children will be entertained in the Great Hall with games, crafts, refreshments, and a visit from Santa.

Santa’s Helpers (adults & youth) are needed to make purchases to stock our store, help set up the FPC store, prepare for our Christmas party, entertain our adopted children at the party, and serve as “personal shoppers’ or gift wrappers.”

Monetary Gifts to the Christmas Fund are needed to provide Santa’s Helpers with the resources to bring Christmas to these children (300 children are anticipate this year and the average expenditure is $100/child). Gifts may be given in honor of friends, business associates, and loved ones. Acknowledgements will be sent to you and to the honoree.

 

Christmas Joy Offering
 
Sunday before Christmas
The help and support provided by the Christmas Joy Offering assists retired servants of the church, those encountering serious financial difficulty, and deserving racial ethnic students to succeed and excel in Presbyterian racial ethnic schools.

 

Habitat Offering
 
Received at Christmas Eve Services
With your help, more deserving families will be “home” for Christmas by this time next year. Our Christmas Eve offering for Habitat will be used to build Habitat Houses for people who need a helping hand to live in a decent house. It was said of Jesus, who was born in a manger, “He hath nowhere to lay his head,” so we provide home in celebration of His birth. Click, to learn more abbout Habitat for Humanity.

Your donations from 2010 have helped to build a four bedroom home for a family in our community.

 

Sponsor a Woman, Man, Child or Family Through CASA
 
The holiday season is a special and exciting time. However, for battered women and their dependent children, it can be a source of great pain. There may exist the temptation to return home, simply because she cannot afford to provide Christmas or Hanukkah gifts for her children. Citizens Against Spouse Abuse (CASA) invites you to give a special gift this year by sponsoring a woman, child, or family for the holidays or by making a cash contribution in honor of friends or family members. Cards acknowledging your gift will be sent to your loved one! Sponsor forms are available at the church office. For more information, call 843.626.7595.

 

Annual Community Christmas Dinner
 
December 25
1:00 - 4:00 PM
*St John Greek Orthodox Church

Each year the American Red Cross prepares and serves a Christmas meal. Hosted at *St John Orthodox Church, 3301 33 Ave N, Hwy 17 Bypass in Myrtle Beach, everyone is welcome. The dinner is offered free of charge to anyone in the community and can be delivered to shut-ins or packaged for pick-up.
 
If you wish to donate food items (turkeys, hams, fresh fruit, baked goods, etc.), volunteer for set up, serving or delivery, or request a delivery, please contact the person listed below for your area. Monetary donations are gratefully accepted and should be sent to: The American Red Cross, 2795 Pampas Dr., Myrtle Beach, SC 29577. For more information, call the MYRTLE BEACH Red Cross office @ 843.477.0020.
 
2011 Schedule:

North Myrtle Beach: 1:00 - 3:00 PM at Risen Christ Lutheran Church, 10595 Highway 17, next to Barefoot Landing, Contact Cathy Honeycutt, 843.385.3596

Myrtle Beach: 1:00 - 4:00 PM at St. John's Greek Orthodox Church, 3301 Highway 17 Bypass, Contact Emma Savage, 843.903.2676

Murrells Inlet: 1:00 - 3:00 PM at Belin United Methodist Church, 4183 Highway 17 South, Business, Contact Peter Davidyock, 843.545.6424 

Andrews: 12:00 - 2:00 PM at Trinity United Methodist Church, 205 South Rosemary Avenue, 843.264.5217

RESERVATIONS ARE APPRECIATED!