Al & Ellen Smith - Russia
Alan and Ellen Smith were appointed in 2001 to serve in Russia as coordinators of the congregational twinning project in Russia and Belarus, a program that matches interested congregations in the United States with congregations in Russia and Belarus for freindship and mission. Click here to learn more.
Angel Tree
Each Christmas season we give the congregation an opportunity to shop for children in need. This benefits LifeSpan and Barium Springs Home for the Children.
Angels and Sparrows Soup Kitchen
Founded by Sandy Tilley the soup kitchen provides a healthy meal to people in the Huntersville area. HPC supports the soup kitchen with fundraisers, donations and volunteers. To learn more about Angels and Sparrows click here.
Crop Walk
Usually held the 3rd Sunday in October, it begins in the stadium near the CPCC campus in Charlotte and winds through a 6K loop through a variety of neighborhoods in the urban center. It is the largest crop walk in America with over 10,000 walkers. Each year our youth and sponsoring adults numbering about 30 walkers raise over $2,000 for this mission effort to help feed the hungry.
Habitat for Humanity
HPC is a part of interfaith build in the Baily Road Habitat Development. We suppy 8 volunteers one Saturday per month Sometimes we provide food as well. Representatives from the youth ministry and adults participate.
Harvest Festival
Each Thanksgiving Sunday before Thanksgiving, we receive an offering of brown paper bags filled with items needed by Loaves and Fishes. Even as we are thankful for our blessings, others in our community are in need and we are thankful to be able to help out of our abundance.
Katrina Mission Trip
November 2007 and October 2008 a group of church members traveled to New Orleans to help the people of that area try to clean up from the devastating hurricane. It was an eye-opening although gratifying experience. We are planning another trip in the fall of 2009 as the people of New Orleans are still working to rebuild.
Living Water Project
We have raised nearly $15,000 to refurbish and drill wells in Bayaha, Haiti. Every dime of the money given to our 'Advent Conspiracy Water Mission' will go into this project. Living Water International is organizing a Vision trip traveling to Bayaha, Haiti, meeting the missionaries on the ground and the villagers as well as taking part in the well digging/refurbishing. This trip is scheduled for May 20 to May 24. We need one or two members of HPC to represent us on this trip. If any member feels the call to represent us on this trip, please contact Jeff Godkin or any member of the Mission/Evangelism team. You will have to raise about $800 for the trip and we will help you do that. Click here to learn more.
Loaves and Fishes
Two brown wooden boxes on wheels in the lobby area are used to collect canned goods each month to help replenish the supplies at our community food closet under the auspices of Huntersville United Methodist Church.
Lydia's Loft
Under the wing of First Baptist Church, this ministry makes donated clothes of all sizes available for modest prices. Volunteers sort, size, display and help clients with their purchases. Towels, sheets, blankets and cooking utensils are also available. To learn more call 704-948-7797.
McKinnon Mission
The McKinnons, Simone and Matthew, and their children Ian, Logan, Evan, Nolan, Ryan and Brandan, live in Sao Paulo, Brazil and work with ABBA, a Christian community which reaches out to at-risk youth with the goal of placing each one in a Christian home. ABBA runs houses for young boys and girls, working with their families to resolve the breakdowns and reunite the family. HPC supports the McKinnons with a monthly donation from the mission fund.
Matthew is the coordinator of Republic house of ABBA. This house is for older boys who have been through ABBA's rescue house coming off the street, but cannot be placed back home. Currently the McKinnons have 5 young men, ranging from 16 to 21 years old, living in their house and are working hard with these young men to make them feel part of a family. They have daily Bible study, oversee their schooling and help them find jobs.
They have started reconstruction of the house that the boys will be living in by this summer. It is a large project that includes building the new ABBA office. Some of the work will be require that they hire a mason/construction work to help complete the project, including rewiring the house, a new septic system, installation of gas lines and a new roof.
If you would like more information on the McKinnons or ABBA in Brazil, please contact Joy Decker at 704-579-1694 or go their website http://www.mckinnonclan.info/news.html.
One Great Hour of Sharing
This is a denomination special offering taken up at Easter time on Sunday morning to benefit communities from Asia to Africa that have been ravaged by drought and poverty. They lack the water necessary for even the most basic activities of cooking, cleaning and drinking. Gifts to this fund help these communities access renewable water sources, that their families may thirst no more.
Operation Christmas Child
Through Samaritan's Purse, HPC families and friends put together over 200 shoe boxes filled with age appropriate items for boys and girls in third world nations. Other volunteers help out at the processing center in South Charlotte and help transporting the boxes to the area collection point.
Red Cross Bloodmobile
HPC sponsors the community bloodmobile several times a year and receives donations of about 50 pints of blood on a Saturday morning.
Room in the Inn
Together with other area churches, HPC volunteers staff the ministry to homeless persons by picking them up in Charlotte with the van, providiing and serving supper, serving breakfast, spending the night as hosts and cleaning up. Our night each month from December to March is on the 4th Thursday.
Solomon House
This is an interfaith ministry located on our campus. It is a Christ-based ministry to persons in need. It is a holistic, ministry to medical, social, spiritual and physical needs. They sponsor health, nutrition, exercise, new mothers, prenatal and a host of other classes and events. There is a bilingual administrative assistant to help interpret for Hispanic clients. For more information please call 704-875-7721.
Al & Ellen Smith - Russia
Alan and Ellen Smith were appointed in 2001 to serve in Russia as coordinators of the congregational twinning project in Russia and Belarus, a program that matches interested congregations in the United States with congregations in Russia and Belarus for freindship and mission. Click here to learn more.
Angel Tree
Each Christmas season we give the congregation an opportunity to shop for children in need. This benefits LifeSpan and Barium Springs Home for the Children.
Angels and Sparrows Soup Kitchen
Founded by Sandy Tilley the soup kitchen provides a healthy meal to people in the Huntersville area. HPC supports the soup kitchen with fundraisers, donations and volunteers. To learn more about Angels and Sparrows click here.
Crop Walk
Usually held the 3rd Sunday in October, it begins in the stadium near the CPCC campus in Charlotte and winds through a 6K loop through a variety of neighborhoods in the urban center. It is the largest crop walk in America with over 10,000 walkers. Each year our youth and sponsoring adults numbering about 30 walkers raise over $2,000 for this mission effort to help feed the hungry.
Habitat for Humanity
HPC is a part of interfaith build in the Baily Road Habitat Development. We suppy 8 volunteers one Saturday per month Sometimes we provide food as well. Representatives from the youth ministry and adults participate.
Harvest Festival
Each Thanksgiving Sunday before Thanksgiving, we receive an offering of brown paper bags filled with items needed by Loaves and Fishes. Even as we are thankful for our blessings, others in our community are in need and we are thankful to be able to help out of our abundance.
Katrina Mission Trip
November 2007 and October 2008 a group of church members traveled to New Orleans to help the people of that area try to clean up from the devastating hurricane. It was an eye-opening although gratifying experience. We are planning another trip in the fall of 2009 as the people of New Orleans are still working to rebuild.
Living Water Project
We have raised nearly $15,000 to refurbish and drill wells in Bayaha, Haiti. Every dime of the money given to our 'Advent Conspiracy Water Mission' will go into this project. Living Water International is organizing a Vision trip traveling to Bayaha, Haiti, meeting the missionaries on the ground and the villagers as well as taking part in the well digging/refurbishing. This trip is scheduled for May 20 to May 24. We need one or two members of HPC to represent us on this trip. If any member feels the call to represent us on this trip, please contact Jeff Godkin or any member of the Mission/Evangelism team. You will have to raise about $800 for the trip and we will help you do that. Click here to learn more.
Loaves and Fishes
Two brown wooden boxes on wheels in the lobby area are used to collect canned goods each month to help replenish the supplies at our community food closet under the auspices of Huntersville United Methodist Church.
Lydia's Loft
Under the wing of First Baptist Church, this ministry makes donated clothes of all sizes available for modest prices. Volunteers sort, size, display and help clients with their purchases. Towels, sheets, blankets and cooking utensils are also available. To learn more call 704-948-7797.
McKinnon Mission
The McKinnons, Simone and Matthew, and their children Ian, Logan, Evan, Nolan, Ryan and Brandan, live in Sao Paulo, Brazil and work with ABBA, a Christian community which reaches out to at-risk youth with the goal of placing each one in a Christian home. ABBA runs houses for young boys and girls, working with their families to resolve the breakdowns and reunite the family. HPC supports the McKinnons with a monthly donation from the mission fund.
Matthew is the coordinator of Republic house of ABBA. This house is for older boys who have been through ABBA's rescue house coming off the street, but cannot be placed back home. Currently the McKinnons have 5 young men, ranging from 16 to 21 years old, living in their house and are working hard with these young men to make them feel part of a family. They have daily Bible study, oversee their schooling and help them find jobs.
They have started reconstruction of the house that the boys will be living in by this summer. It is a large project that includes building the new ABBA office. Some of the work will be require that they hire a mason/construction work to help complete the project, including rewiring the house, a new septic system, installation of gas lines and a new roof.
If you would like more information on the McKinnons or ABBA in Brazil, please contact Joy Decker at 704-579-1694 or go their website http://www.mckinnonclan.info/news.html.
One Great Hour of Sharing
This is a denomination special offering taken up at Easter time on Sunday morning to benefit communities from Asia to Africa that have been ravaged by drought and poverty. They lack the water necessary for even the most basic activities of cooking, cleaning and drinking. Gifts to this fund help these communities access renewable water sources, that their families may thirst no more.
Operation Christmas Child
Through Samaritan's Purse, HPC families and friends put together over 200 shoe boxes filled with age appropriate items for boys and girls in third world nations. Other volunteers help out at the processing center in South Charlotte and help transporting the boxes to the area collection point.
Red Cross Bloodmobile
HPC sponsors the community bloodmobile several times a year and receives donations of about 50 pints of blood on a Saturday morning.
Room in the Inn
Together with other area churches, HPC volunteers staff the ministry to homeless persons by picking them up in Charlotte with the van, providiing and serving supper, serving breakfast, spending the night as hosts and cleaning up. Our night each month from December to March is on the 4th Thursday.
Solomon House
This is an interfaith ministry located on our campus. It is a Christ-based ministry to persons in need. It is a holistic, ministry to medical, social, spiritual and physical needs. They sponsor health, nutrition, exercise, new mothers, prenatal and a host of other classes and events. There is a bilingual administrative assistant to help interpret for Hispanic clients. For more information please call 704-875-7721.