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| ESL Program |
- FPC will be hosting the ESL Program in the fall for a 10-week semester. The program needs to fill the following volunteer support positions:
- Registration/Testing Organizer
- Celebration Organizer
- ESLIM Point of Contact (lead coordinator)
- Principal (2) (One for each evening of class)
- Assistant Coordinator
- For more information, please contact Carole Banks (pixiebowls@aol.com) or Judy Judd-Price (judyjudd@comcast.net) for more information.
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| Meals on Wheels |
- For almost 20 years, FPC has been the staging center for a special community service: Meals on Wheels, which is responsible for Monday through Friday delivery of meals to home-bound people. There are about 15 routes to cover; each route has about 8-10 deliveries to make and needs two people, one to drive and one to drop off the meal. That's 30 volunteers everyday for five days--150 people needed every week to keep this vital mission going. Volunteers come from community churches or are interested individuals; some business people even do this service on their lunch hour!
- Right now Meals on Wheels needs more volunteers. Come on, you retired folks, people who are not working, and even people who work but could take their lunchtime once a month to perform this vital service. Who knows? We who are mobile today may need this service in the future. Be an angel and volunteer once a month, twice a month, or even once a week. Whatever you can do, you will find it rewarding.
- We gather at the church at 11 am when the meals are delivered here by truck. We then take our particular route's meals, put them in our cars, and drive off to deliver them. Generally we finish our route between noon and 1 pm.
- If you can help, please contact the church office.
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| Just Coffee! |
- Simple, good, and fair. That's the motto for Just Coffee, a coffee grower cooperative sponsored by Frontera de Cristo, the PC(USA) Border Ministry visited by a delegation from First Presbyterian Church in the summer of 2004. We make Just Coffee available to members of the congregation and serve it at many of our church functions.
- Just Coffee is a pure organic Arabica coffee that is grown, harvested and marketed in a spirit of justice. The coffee is a fair trade, shade-grown coffee. Many other coffees that originate on farms in Mexico and Central America are "finished" here in the United States. Most of the profits from these other coffees remain with corporations in the U.S. and never get back to the farmers who picked the beans. Just Coffee is different.
- The idea behind Just Coffee is to address one of the root causes of labor migration from Mexico to the U.S. The business model is simple and optimizes profit for the growers. The coffee is harvested, cleaned, and prepared for shipping from the very southern tip of Mexico in Chiapas, to the far northern frontier of Mexico in Agua Prieta. In Agua Prieta the coffee is roasted, ground, and packaged in small, air-tight bags for crossing over into the U.S. and shipped to American customers.
- Buying and drinking Just Coffee is one way that you can support Mexican farmers in their efforts to support themselves. If you are interested in purchasing Just Coffee, contact the church office.
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