Mission and Service Opportunities

Would you like to make a lasting difference in the lives of people in a poor community? Clean Water U is a water filtration program which partners a U.S. church team with a poor community who is taught to install and maintain the filtration system. FPC members are being trained in April and will use their new skills on an upcoming international mission trip.

Click here for their website and a video presentation

Contact Scott McCall at 303-6720 for more information about FPC's involvement.

Serve Lunch at Downtown Walk-in Ministry

Making sandwiches and serving up lunch every other month—that is what volunteers from our congregation are doing downtown.  First Presbyterian is just one of many local churches participating in the Walk-In Ministry to assist the homeless at Second Presbyterian at 5 North Fifth Street. We arrive on our appointed Mondays to make sandwiches, prepare trays and help serve homeless people who walk in from the streets.Our dates for 2010 are April 19, June 21, August 16, October 18, December 20.

For more information about this easy, but important, service, please contact Rosalind Banbury at 358-2383 or rbanbury@fpcrichmond.org.

George Mason Elementary School, in an inner-city neighborhood in Richmond, has been adopted by members of First Presbyterian Church, Fourth Baptist Church and Christ Church Episcopal. Volunteers from both congregations provide teachers and students at George Mason with a wide variety of resources aimed at enhancing the educational experience.

If you want to make a positive difference in the lives of these students, please contact Marsha Summers at 330-3882, Jack Mountcastle at 364-9965 or Tassie Madden at 784-2755.

Give Blood to Help Others!

Virginia Blood Services is always in need of donations. Please give blood on Sunday mornings when the bloodmobile is here at the church.

The dates for 2010 are April 25, July 11 and October 3.