Lake Edge UCC has a long history of providing service and funding to our local community, as well as engaging in social justice and mission work at home and abroad. Our congregation is active in outreach beyond the walls of the church building, not because we believe it is an alternative path to salvation, but because Jesus directed us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, and visit the sick and lonely.
Lake Edge advocates for projects that help people in need and improve people’s economic situation, advocates for social and economic justice, publicizes and supports UCC wider church offerings and Church World Service projects, and provides education programs for the congregation. We ask our congregation to look beyond the walls of Lake Edge.
Our focus is to:
Lake Edge advocates for projects that help people in need and improve people’s economic situation, advocates for social and economic justice, publicizes and supports UCC wider church offerings and Church World Service projects, and provides education programs for the congregation. We ask our congregation to look beyond the walls of Lake Edge.
Our focus is to:
- Publicize and coordinate outreach activities
- Publicize and mobilize support for the five UCC Missions
- Speak and act on both UCC and local social justice issues through education, information, public witness and public policy advocacy
- Allocation of funds to groups and ministries that are working toward the same goals
- Support Lake Edge congregation in its efforts to implement the economic covenant
- Coordinate and support outreach action teams
- Transitional Education Program; serving homeless school children and their families
- Christmas Baskets
- St. Stephens Food Pantry
- Cottage Grove Food Pantry
- Porchlight Christmas Gifts
- Frank Allis Elementary School Partnership
- Second Harvest Rimrock Mobile Food Pantry; 2nd and 4th Thursday each month