MISSION AND PEACEMAKING
Matthew 25:35-36
The members and friends of Clayton Valley Presbyterian Church have a history of partnering with community and mission-oriented groups. From our first days in 1956, we joined Presbyterian Women in supporting mission efforts throughout the world. We first became active with the Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County (formerly known as the Council of Churches) in 1961, living our faith through social justice advocacy. In 1985, the church founded our Children’s Center, to provide affordable child care and learning for children ages 2 through 4 in our community. Today, our mission focus is on hunger and housing in our local community and around the world.
- Bay Area Crisis Nursery – has a goal to ensure all children are safe, healthy, and thrive both emotionally and physically
- Clean Start Concord Laundry Mission – provides showers/laundry and distributes hygiene relief bags.
- CVPC Dressmaking Project - delivers hope, medical care, health education, malnutrition interventions, community development
- Dougbe River Presbyterian School of Liberia – helps Liberian young people become empowered by education to develop their nation and reduce poverty.
- Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano County, helping to stock food pantries, soup kitchens, and hunger programs
- Grass Roots Outreach Warriors fosters meaningful relationships with our homeless friends and encourages growth, personal development, and positive changes.
- Habitat for Humanity –helps to create homeownership opportunities by building sustainable housing
- Hope Solutions- is a coalition of local faith communities, to provide emergency support to homeless individuals.
Loaves & Fishes -serves meals to the hungry without regard to race, religion, sex, age, or place of residence. - Mama Bears Fighting Childhood Cancers - supports Northern California families with children currently undergoing treatment for childhood cancer.
- Monument Crisis Center, a food pantry and resource center for families in need
- No More Deaths - dedicated to stepping up efforts to stop the deaths of migrants in the desert.
- One Accord Project - a network of concerned African-Americn Clergy and Fath-leaders to work on health equity, housing, civic engagement, and economic development.
- PCUSDA Giving Catalog- connects people as neighbors experiencing needs, supporting projects and friendships that grow gardens, bring water, watch for corruption, share education, tools and training.
- Project Linus – provides love, warmth, and comfort to children who are seriously ill, in need through the gifts of new handmade blankets and Afghans.
- Rainbow Community Center, welcomes members of the LGBT community, their families and friends.
- Recycle for Change – collects and recycles used clothing and shoes to protect the environment and support sustainable development.
- Refugee Family Assistance - addresses the complex needs of refugee families and children.
- Rev. Leslie Vogel Mission in Guatemala - faithfully working to inspire, equip and connect the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in its many expressions to serve Christ in the world through new and existing communities of faith, hope, love and witness.
- San Francisco Night Ministry - offers spiritual and emotional care and referral services on the streets, in the middle of the night.
- Winter Nights (Family Shelter & Parking Lot) – protects homeless families by providing shelter in a clean, safe, and warm environment, and helps to break the homeless cycle.
For more information about mission and peacemaking opportunities at Clayton Valley Presbyterian Church, please call 925-672-4848.