Community

“We are one church, united by faith and dedicated to serving our communities…”

Deacon Kapp Hall

Our social hall, Deacon Kapp Hall, serves as the location for many community events, including Christmas Past and First Night.

We serve as a collection or distribution site for the Postal Carrier’s Food Drive, United Way Food voucher programs, and Venango Count Human Services Grab and Go events.

Second Harvest

Christ Episcopal Church is a pick-up and registration location for Second Harvest’s Senior Food Program, which distributes a monthly food box for senior citizens.

If you are at least 60 years of age and meet income requirements, you may qualify for this program.

Contact the church office for details and application.

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Blessing Box

We maintain a Blessing Box at the entrance to our social hall on Central Avenue, which we stock with food and personal care items, available to all in need.

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A.C.T.S. (Aspire Children to Succeed)

This program was driven by Leann Felmlee-Brown. Volunteers deliver drawstring backpacks with items such as: a bath towel, soap, shampoo, deodorant, socks, toothbrush, toothpaste, body wash, lip balm and hand cream.

We choose to distribute the backpacks in the spring because it is a time of new life and new beginnings, so Aspiring Children to Succeed is a way to offer a new outlook to our youth, a fresh start at feeling good about themselves, helping them to take the right steps toward success.

Backpacks will be distributed to students with the help of the local school districts.

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Pajama Program

This program, also known as For Every Child a Good night, was created by Sarah Margherio in 2011, distributes hundreds of new pajamas, matched with new age-appropriate books to local youth through local participating agencies and schools.

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Commission to Dismantle Racism and Discrimination

We actively participate in this Commission, which serves the Episcopal Dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York.

The Commission works to promote greater understanding, training and practice of dismantling racism and furthering reconciliation and justice, both by laity and clergy within the Church.

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Recovery Ministries of the Episcopal Church

We are part of this independent, nationwide network, building awareness of pastoral and spiritual ministry to those addicted.

We also are active in the Joint Commission on Recovery Ministry, which helps coordinate recovery resources in the Episcopal Dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York.

Our building is used as the site for local drug and alcohol recovery groups.

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