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Compassionate Community

Jesus said, “As you have cared for the most vulnerable, marginalized, and hurting, you have cared for me” (Matthew 25:40, paraphrased).

Partner Organizations

The Board of Christian Action maintains an active relationship with many organizations that are doing essential work to serve our wider community. Our relationship includes yearly financial gifts — and, often, hands-on support. Look below to get acquainted with these wonderful groups of caring people:

  • nOURish BRIDGEPORT, Inc.
  • Salisbury Housing Committee and Salisbury Housing Trust
  • Chore Service, Inc.
  • EXTRAS Child Care and Summer Program
  • Friends in Service to Humanity of Northwest Connecticut
  • Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals, Inc.
  • Hispañola Health Partners
  • Housatonic Youth Services Bureau
  • Housatonic Child Care Center, Inc.
  • Northeast Community Center
  • Project SAGE
  • Salisbury Central School Enrichment Fund (SOAR)
  • Salisbury Family Services
  • Salisbury Summer Youth Services
  • Salisbury Volunteer Ambulance Service
  • Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Litchfield County
  • Simply Smiles
  • Astor Services for Children and Families
  • Habitat for Humanity of Northwest CT

“Light of Service” Organizations

Most Sundays in worship, we take a special offering: gifts of cash, or checks with “Light of Service” in the memo line, are collected and forwarded to organizations that are doing work in line with our Church’s mission to bring healing and hope to the world. Among the recipients of the congregation’s generosity are:

  • Neighbors in Need
  • One Great Hour of Sharing
  • Strengthen the Church
  • The Christmas Fund
  • Open and Affirming Coalition of the UCC
  • Pacific Basin Initiative
  • 350.org
  • Advocacy Unlimited
  • Afya Foundation
  • The Alliance for Middle East Peace
  • The Alzheimer’s Association
  • American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
  • Americares
  • Audubon Society
  • Bach with Verse
  • Berkshire Center for Justice
  • Canaan Child Care Center
  • Camp Victory
  • Caron Treatment Centers
  • The Corner Food Pantry
  • The CROP Hunger Walk
  • Doctors Without Borders
  • East Mountain House
  • The Equus Effect
  • Fonkoze
  • Foreverland Farm
  • Global Giving
  • Grand Circle Foundation
  • Greenagers
  • Heifer Project International
  • High Watch Recovery Center
  • Holy Joe’s Cafe
  • Housatonic Youth Services Bureau
  • Infants Remembered in Silence
  • Jane Lloyd Fund
  • Jesuit Refugee Services
  • The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
  • The Little Guild Animal Shelter
  • Musicians on Call
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  • National Farm Worker Ministry
  • Northwest Hills Refugee Resettlement Committee 
  • Not One More Vet
  • Prime Time House
  • Salisbury UCC Benevolence Fund
  • Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department 
  • Seeds of Peace
  • Silver Lake Camp and Retreat Center
  • Snehalayam Orphanage and Ashabhavan
  • Southern Poverty Law Center
  • Souper Suppers
  • The Special Equestrians Therapeutic Riding Program
  • Stanton Home
  • Swords Into Plowshares NE
  • Team Rubicon
  • Together Women Rise
  • Tunnels to Towers Foundation
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • United Nations World Food Programme 
  • Village Music School Foundation
  • Volunteers in Medicine
  • Wounded Warriors Family Support
  • Wounded Warrior Project