Christ Church Supports
World Outreach
Mosaic is an organization that initiates sustainable projects for peace and social justice in southern Sudan and Uganda. These include a mosquito net campaign, tailoring and literacy classes, health programs, and vitamin distribution.
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation, and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems.
Five Talents fights poverty, creates jobs, and transforms lives by empowering the poor in developing countries using innovative savings and microcredit programs, business training, and spiritual development.
Anglican Frontier Missions is dedicated to seeing churches rooted, established, and multiplying among the 25 largest unreached peoples on earth.
Pepe and Amanda Zubieta, South American Mission Society, are serving in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where Pepe helps the Diocese with church development.
New Wineskins Missionary Network helps Anglicans in the USA to be more knowledgeable, active, and effective in fulfilling our Lord’s Great Commission to make disciples of all nations. The next exciting international mission conference sponsored by New Wineskins is in April, 2010.
Our Little Roses is a place of hope and opportunity for girls and women at risk in Honduras.
Local and Regional Outreach
Abundant Life Ministry addresses spiritual, educational, and economic needs in the Charlottesville area. It means addressing the needs of whole people and, when fleshed out, means holding programs five days a week, four evenings a week (and many weekends). Almost 140 children and more than 100 volunteers are involved in weekly meetings — tutoring, mentoring, eating dinners together, learning the Bible, playing basketball, going on field trips, praying, and just hanging out together.
Loaves and Fishes is Christ Church’s weekly soup kitchen for the poor and homeless. Christ Church covers Tuesday lunches and teams up with other downtown churches to provide nutritious meals Monday through Friday.
Urban and Homeless Ministry: this Christ Church ministry serves the poor and homeless by providing food and other service to the low income population in Charlottesville.
Bridge Ministry provides direct services to men who have been released from penal institutions. The Bridge is a two-pronged program that consist of an 18-month residential program plus an aftercare program.
Mockingbird is a New York-based non-profit, interested in integrating faith and life. The best way to see what they are about is to read their blog.
The Center for Christian Study is a Christian education and outreach organization that ministers to students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia. Their vision is two-fold: “to foster serious consideration in the university environment of a biblical worldview” and “to facilitate wise discussion of the Truth in light of the challenges of contemporary culture.”
People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry (PACEM), an interfaith collaboration of congregations and community partners in Charlottesville, helps the homeless find shelter at night, especially during the cold winter months.
Love INC serves to enhance local church efforts to mobilize their members for ministry to the poor and the needy by partnering with them to provide opportunities for service.
School House Thrift Shop in Charlottesville provides inexpensive clothing and shoes for purchase at their store on Rio Road East, near Church of Our Savior.