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   INC.
+ WILKINSBURG
   COMMUNITY
   MINISTRIES

 

Wilkinsburg Community Ministries

UNITED WAY #242

702 & 708 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15221
412-241-8072


MISSION

To provide an effective and meaningful community ministry to all the families and individuals residing in the geographic area around the participating congregations. To extend the ministry of the church to all people by mediating the saving grace of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Acting as the cooperative agent of the member congregations. Wilkinsburg Community Ministry develops and engages in activities and outreach programs aimed at meeting physical, social, economic and spiritual needs of all people in the community. The ministry is currently supported by twenty congregations, along with judicatories, foundations and civil organizations.


CURRENT PROGRAMS

Feed a Family/Emergency Services; Elderly and Handicapped (tape ministry, meals-on-wheels); Youth Programs-All Together Now (youth grades 1-12, post-high adults), Teen Moms, Summer Camp scholarships, After-school Child Care. Also, we are a screening agency for the Dollar Energy Program.


HISTORY

The Wilkinsburg Community Ministry began as a cooperative effort of ten congregations in Wilkinsburg in April 1968. The original steering committee was composed of laity and clergy from the Methodist, Lutheran, United Church of Christ, Episcopal, and the Christian Church of Wilkinsburg. The Board of Directors was formed with two lay people and one clergy person from each of the cooperating congregations. Along with the part-time chaplain, the late Samuel McGill, the steering committee sought to serve as mediator in the racial unrest among the youth of the community and help them deal with the social forces affecting their lives.


PROFESSIONAL STAFF

Shirley Emerick, Gertrude Jennings, Raymond Tolbert, Barbara Lech, Richard Freeman.



OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONGREGATIONAL OR INDIVIDUAL INVOLVEMENT

By supporting the ministry programs through prayer, financial and material donations, volunteering, food drives, gifts for needy families at holiday time. By spreading the word of God's work through us.


INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE

We can provide speakers, slides, and brochures.


VISIT US ON THE WEB

www.wcm15221.org