Mission & Care
2025 Quarterly Mission Giving
Our first quarter mission partners are nonprofit organizations that assist people struggling with food insecurity.
Lancaster-based Power Packs provides low-income students and their families with free ingredients and recipes for weekend meals, as well as pantry staples such as peanut butter and cereal.
https://www.powerpacksproject.org/
Anchor Lancaster, based in First United Methodist Church in downtown Lancaster, provides free, hot breakfasts and showers to low-income people.
https://www.anchorlancaster.org/
Rise Against Hunger, Rise Against Hunger, based in Raleigh, NC, provides free meals to people in need in 37 foreign countries; in Honduras, Rise Against Hunger assists communities in conjunction with Lancaster-based Central American Relief Effort (CARE), which has close ties to FPC.
www.riseagainsthunger.org
First Presbyterian Church is a community of faith in the heart of downtown Lancaster. Our vision is to show the love of Christ to our neighbors through partnerships with organizations that are skilled at meeting essential needs of vulnerable populations. See some of our priorities listed below. While outward mission has a long tradition at First Presbyterian, so does our inward practice of caring for one another (see our Caring Ministries, also below). Loving our neighbors and loving one another are part of our identity. If this sounds like the kind of church where you could get involved, please contact us.
We are currently focusing local mission in the areas of:
- Homelessness
- Food insecurity
- Educating and empowering vulnerable populations
- Racial justice
International mission is focused on:
- Food insecurity
- Clean water
- Education
- Healthcare
Mission study groups are helping us learn, understand, and adapt to changing circumstances in the Lancaster community and around the world. Drivers of change include the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on vulnerable populations and the need for racial justice at home and abroad.
To learn more about our local or international mission programs, or to support, please contact us at info@fpclancasterpa.org
CARE MINISTRIES
A deep and warm environment of care is central to our life together. Our Stephen Ministry care givers train for over 50 hours to learn skills lot support people going through difficult times.
GRATITUDE
Gratitude is the Christian response to recognizing that all good things that happen in our lives are gifts from God. When we practice gratitude, we reflect on the blessings of our lives together, through worship, sacred spaces, programs and spiritual formation, and how we engage our community beyond the walls of First Presbyterian Church.
OUR VISION
We listen for the way God speaks through us as a congregation to understand where we need to go. See the video here. That’s how we create a vision rooted in our tradition, informed by the present and oriented to the future.
Giving Opportunities
For all of us, First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster is an exciting place to be affiliated with. There’s so much good work that has taken place in recent months – and it continues today and going forward.