ECC - Outreach

Feast of Love Holiday Dinners are provided on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The poor, homeless, wealthy but alone, singles and family share a table and fellowship at College Hill Presbyterian Church. Meals are also delivered to the homebound in the community.

Find a Need and Fill It is FOL's largest ministry operating 52 weeks a year. Many low-income families have no table or plates for their meals. Children often sleep on the floor. Find a Need and Fill It provides necessary household itms to people in need. Warm clothing, blankets, and heaters are provided in winter and air conditioning and fans are collected in summer.

Tools for Schools provides school supplies to Cincinnati grade schools where students have family incomes below the poverty level.

Operation Baby Formula supplies baby formula, diapers, and child-care items for hundreds of area children.

Choices is a program for 5th-8th grade students providing reality-based, blunt stories of the "poor choices" of other individuals and hte devastating results. The program includes a presentation from two law inforcement officers and discusses the impacts of drugs, violence, and abouse. Young people are shown how to handle these issues, as well as gain self-esteem and self-confidence to make good choices.

Camp S'more is an overnight camp experience giving urban children living in poverty the opportunity for fun and enjoyment of nature with loving counselors. In the name of Jesus, people give kids a big hug when they arrive, swing on a swing with them, take them fishing, show them grace, go on a hike and talk to them about making good choices, play games, cook lots of good food, teach them silly songs, talk around the camp fire, make s’mores, point at the stars, put them to bed, and feel sad to see them go.

More Feast of Love Ministries information

Ministry to the Elderly
Retirement Centers and Nursing Homes Community Outreach
Visit, sing, and share God's Word with continuing care residents.

Monthly schedule . . .

Every Sunday, 2:30 pm (2:45 pm on 2nd Sunday)
- Mt. Healthy Christian Home, 8097 Hamilton Ave.,
Mt. Healthy

Every Sunday, 4:00 pm
- The Home at Hearthstone, 8028 Hamilton Ave., Mt. Healthy

First Sunday, 2:30-3 pm - Burlington House Alzheimer's Care Center, 2222 Springdale Road

Second Sunday, 1:30 pm - The Home at Taylor's Pointe, 3464 Springdale Road, Colerain Township

Varying days and times - Maple Knoll Village, 11100 Springfield Pike, Springdale

Varying days and times - Mason Christian Village, 411 Western Row Road, Mason

Varying days and times - Drake Center, 151 West Galbraith Road, Cincinnati

Call the ECC office at (513) 542-9025 to confirm this month's dates and times.

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Prayer Bears
Any time someone needs a special touch and particular prayer can be an opportunity to share a Prayer Bear. They can even be offered in celebration. A tag is placed around the neck of each one telling the recipient that their animal comes with prayer.

They are intended for any of us to take and give to someone in need. The only requirement is that they be given with your prayers for the recipient, because the idea is not just that they receive a nice cuddly gift, but that the bears also represent and remind the recipient that people are praying on their behalf. Not just once, but repeatedly.

So how do the bears become prayer soaked? First – the person who donates each bear (or other animal) prays for whoever will receive it. Second – each animal is prayed for by members of ECC in a regular prayer time. Third – each of you who take a bear to give away prays for your friend who receives it and that the bear will remind them that God is present and working in their life. The idea is that bears will continue to come in, move among us, and flow out again in a stream of blessing to those they touch, like the Holy Spirit moving through the prayers of His people.

The Prayer Bear Ministry is one in which we can all participate. So, if you see a stuffed animal that would make a good gift, consider buying it, praying for the recipient, and leaving it at the bear tree in the foyer. And if the Lord puts someone on your mind who would be blessed to receive an animal, please take one and deliver it accompanied by your own prayer on their behalf.