Mission & Outreach
Mission & Outreach
The Pilgrim Church Mission and Outreach Board is comprised of Pilgrim Church members working together as stewards of the Pilgrim Church Mission Trust Fund. The Board identifies and selects worthy local, national, and global organizations in need; and together we share our time, talents, and financial support.
The most recent recipients of the Pilgrim Church Mission Trust Fund include:
- Local
- National
- International
Local
South Shore Congregational Youth Conference
The South Shore Congregational Youth Conference is a “Vacation with a Purpose” comprised of youth groups from 5 South Shore churches dedicated to provide an amazing week of summer camp to our teens. Through chapel, vespers, morning watch, discussion groups, organized recreation, and a well-rounded social program, we support faith building through fellowship and fun.
Pine Street Inn
This is a soup kitchen in Boston. Pilgrim Church takes a group of up to eight volunteers to serve food to the homeless the 4th Friday of every month. If interested in participating, contact the Pilgrim Church Office.
Head Start
Low-income families receive support in the form of subsidized school lunches and other necessities. Pilgrim Church members also shop for some requested items and deliver the items to the Head Start office. This program receives direct financial support on a monthly basis from Pilgrim Church.
Plymouth Area Coalition
The Plymouth Area Coalition for the Homeless, guided by a dedication to social justice and compassion, strives to nurture and empower families and individuals seeking basic needs assistance by providing them the shelter, food, and educational resources necessary to reach their potential and independence.
Duxbury Interfaith Council
This inter-denominational group pools their resources through monthly financial donations and the money is used to take care of immediate needs of families in distress.
Interfaith Social Services
HomeSafe Program is the Interfaith Social Services’ financial assistance and homelessness prevention program. The program helps keep hundreds of South Shore Massachusetts families and children “safe at home” rather than becoming homeless. Some of the services available to eligible clients include: budget counseling, information referral, and financial assistance with overdue rent.
Pilgrim Church of Duxbury Emergency Food Pantry
Pilgrim Church collects a set group of food essentials and distributes bags of these staples to individuals or families in need on a monthly basis. Contact office@uccduxbury.org
PCCP
The Pilgrim Child Care & Preschool (PCCP), is a non-profit organization created to serve the community with care and education for infants, toddlers, preschool, and Kindergarten children. The congregation supports the efforts of PCCP via scholarships and support.
Pilgrim Church of Duxbury Youth Mission Trip
Every year during the last week of June, members of the High School Youth Group go a mission trip to live out what it means to be the hands and feet of Christ in the world. Relationships are built amongst each other and with those who are served. Recent trips in the past five years include going to Slatersville UCC in North Smithfield, RI; the Blue Ridge Mountains in NC, and rural Maine. The youth do numerous fundraisers throughout the year to help support their trip.
Build a Bed
Build A Bed for Every Child is committed to ensuring that every child in Massachusetts has a safe and comfortable place to sleep. Launched in 2012, as an initiative of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, our mission is simple yet essential: provide beds to children in need, improving their quality of life and chances of success.
National
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit Christian ministry that partners with families and communities to build affordable homes, strengthen neighborhoods, and help create a world where everyone has a safe, decent place to live. Pilgrim Church members participated in the recent build in Carver, MA.
"5 for 5"
Pilgrim Church of Duxbury UCC is proud to be designated a I “5 for 5” Church as we contribute to all five of our denomination's basic mission offerings during a calendar year. Being a 5 for 5 church is a way of expressing covenant with the wider UCC and supporting ministries beyond the local congregation. Many UCC congregations celebrate being a 5 for 5 church because it demonstrates that they are living into the denomination's covenantal understanding of the church: each congregation remains autonomous while choosing to share resources and ministry with the wider church.
Our Church's Wider Mission
The foundational mission offering that supports the work of conferences, the national setting of the UCC, church planting, leadership development, justice ministries, global partnerships, and other shared ministries.
One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS)
Supports disaster relief, refugee assistance, development projects, and emergency response around the world.
Strengthen the Church
Funds leadership development, new church starts, youth and young adult ministries, and innovations that strengthen local congregations.
Neighbors in Need
Supports ministries of justice and compassion in the United States, with a special emphasis on Native American ministries and programs addressing poverty and systemic injustice.
The Christmas Fund
Provides financial assistance, pension supplements, and emergency grants to retired and active clergy and lay church workers facing financial hardship.
INternational
UCC Disaster Relief Ministries
United Church of Christ Disaster Ministries helps communities recover from natural disasters and humanitarian crises by partnering with local churches, supporting long-term rebuilding, providing emergency grants, training volunteers, and advocating for just and equitable recovery. It is the UCC's way of putting faith into action—walking alongside neighbors as they rebuild homes, restore hope, and renew communities.
Mission & Outreach Board Members
Maureen Ferguson
Sandy VonStackelburg
Lois Samuelson
Lindy Keay
Ann Marie DeWolf
Jan Zibilski
Carol Sauer
Joanne Cushing
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.