Time and Talent Giving - Local Service Opportunities

"Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us." Romans 12:4-5.

The stated goals of the Community Outreach effort are to:

  • Equip church members and facilitate their participation in designated Community Missions service projects.
  • Set up Community Missions displays in either the Fellowship Hall or some other strategic place in the church.
  • Posting information about our service projects on our church website.
  • Increase participation by church members in designated Community Missions service projects.
  • Investigate each of the community service projects supported by our church in years past to learn more about our financial support and the time and activities needed by volunteers to devote to these projects. Decisions about continued support will be determined after information is studied.


Community Missions service projects that receive funding from our church include:

Richmond County Correctional Resource Center
Dr. Joseph Murphy has been volunteering at the RCCRC for a number of years. He takes food to the RCCRC once a month and spends some time with some of the youth who have been in trouble in the past.

Heritage Academy
Heritage Academy of Augusta is committed to empowering families by providing an education that offers hope for each student's future and prepares them to be a positive influence in our community for Christ.

Augusta Rescue Mission
Child Enrichment Center
Golden Harvest Food Bank
Salvation Army
Further community outreach is provided by the involvement of our members in the following programs:

Christmas White Gift Baskets
Prior to the Christmas season our church purchases large quantities of food for needy families in the CSRA. The food is brought to the church. After a Wednesday night supper, church members pack hundreds of boxes of assorted foods for the identified families.

Natalie Lee has headed this program for many years. She could use your help with the planning and implementation of this service project. If you are interested in helping, contact her at 736-8277.

Greater Augusta Presbyrterian Ministries
Our participation in this mission is through our financial commitment and through the time and talent of our church members. GAP fills the "gap" among existing Presbyterian churches in the CSRA for outreach ministries as people seeking help from these churches are directed to contact GAP through the Greene Street Presbyterian Church.

GAP currently needs volunteers to serve as tutors, mentors and van drivers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 4:45-6 p.m. Tutors may assist students with homework and computer learning.

Volunteers also are needed for ongoing home maintenance and wheelchair ramp programs.

If you are interested in helping, please contact Mark Deaten at GAP, Green Street Presbyterian Church, 1235 Green Street, Augusta. 722-4540

Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) of Augusta, Inc.
IHN is a network of 13 area churches who work together to provide shelter, meals and compassionate assistance for homeless families. Through IHN families have the opportunity to find permanent housing, enter job training and/or secure employment while being temporarily housed in the network¹s church facilities. Each church hosts these guests one week per quarter, or four weeks each year.

Volunteers are the heart of the network as they provide the families with basic needs: shelter, safety and sustenance with a spirit of warmth, hospitality and empathy. Volunteers do a number of simple, but immeasurably important things. This includes talking and listening to guests, showing respect and concern, and being a source of hope when hope may have been lost. Volunteers are needed for set-up and clean-up, meal preparation, activity hosts, evening hosts, overnight hosts and other positions.

If you are interested in participating, call the church office at 706-733-2275 and get the name of the persons currently heading up the various committees.

A good way to get involved initially would be to sign up with someone who has volunteered before. After learning more about the responsibilities of the position you may be willing to take on a greater responsibility next time.

Soup Kitchen
The soup kitchen depends on each of us to feed the poor, hungry and homeless in our city. Reid Memorial volunteers on the second Tuesday of each month from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

We have so many wonderful blessings in our lives and this is a small thing we do to give to those who have so little, and a great chance to have fund and fellowship with other members of our church. It is also a chance for some of our younger teen members to experience how others live and let them see how truly fortunate we are. If you can't stay the entire time, you may come in at 8:30 a.m. and help get the meal ready, or come at 10:45 a.m. to serve the meal.

We need at least five people each month to help prepare and serve the food and clean up after the meal is finished.

Also save those ham bones, in your freezer, they make delicious soup.

Young Life
Young Life is an arm of the church, reaching out to unchurched teenagers in our area. It is an international, inter-denominational Christian ministry that is committed to providing young people with fun and adventure that is built on these fundamentals:

Christ Our Mission is introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them to grow in their faith. Christ is our model and the cornerstone of our ministry.

Contact Work Daring to enter the world of adolescents, adults meet kids on their "turf" at sporting events, school activities, fast-food restaurants and malls. It is on this turf that leaders begin building genuine relationships with kids, one by one.

Club A weekly meeting that is filled with humor, singing, games and a brief message about God in simple terms that "unchurched" and disinterested kids can understand. Club has been referred to as "controlled chaos," but we see it as an unparalleled opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Camp More than 60,000 teens nationwide experience the "best week of their lives" at Young Life camp each year. Camp is designed to provide them with fun, adventure, challenges and a chance to consider a personal relationship with God.

Campaigners A weekly Bible study where kids can ask real questions and hear honest answers about their struggles, their faith and God.

Committee The backbone of local Young Life ministries, this group of adults is committed to local ministry and supports Young Life by praying, raising money and caring for the people working directly with the young people.

Reid has partnered with Young Life for the last several years for a great weekend family camp at Young Life's Windy Gap camp near Asheville, N.C. Moms sleep in cabins with daughters and Dads do the same with sons and there are a few duplexes for families with small babies. The activities, entertainment and inspirational talks are super and everyone comes away fired up about family and God!

Young Life has been in Augusta for 50 years and presently ministers to young people at Westside, Evans, Laney and Josey High Schools. The inner-city, or urban club, meets weekly in our Family Life Center with 60-70 teens attending, and Young Life's office has been in our Alan Fuqua Center for many years.

Ogden Tabb is the area director and Rickey Jones is on part-time staff ministering to the urban work. There are also many volunteers who work with the staff. Young Life's sole purpose is to give kids hope ... hope for the future and hope for eternity. Is anything more important?

If you have any questions about these projects or you would like to volunteer,call the church office at 706-733-2275.