As a socially aware congregation, the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church recognizes our obligation of service to those in need.
To spotlight our work in these areas with continueing needs, TPPC frequently schedules a "Minute for Mission" during worship.
Our church is currently undergoing a listening campaign within our congregation to explore what should be our mission priorities as a congregation. The current plan is for the TPPC session to start to create a new list of mission priorities for our church
More information on the listening campaign can be found on this website.
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church (TPPC) is one of many churches and synagogues in the Takoma Park-Silver Spring area that serves an evening meal at the Shepherd's Table. TPPC has a roster of over 30 members and friends of TPPC that volunteer at various times to prepare and serve dinner the first Sunday of the month, including an enthusiastic group of senior high school students. Students earn community service credit hours through volunteering at Shepherds Table.
We can always use more volunteers to help serve the first Sunday of the month. From 4 PM - 5:30 PM, we need people to help set tables, prepare salads and desserts. From 5:45 PM - 8 PM, we also need volunteers to help serve the meals, wash dishes and clean up afterwards.
If you're interested in serving at Shepherd's Table please contact Vicki Warren at Max2Allie@AOL.COM
For more information about Shepherd's Table, click here.
The Peace Enhancement Opportunity Grant offers financial assistance to enable individuals within the TPPC community to participate in activities consistent with our congregation’s calling to peacemaking.
The aim of the grant program is to equip you for ministry and to have you share what you have learned with the congregation. (We will give funding priority to requests which promote our congregation’s peacemaking ministry.) People of all ages are invited to apply.
For more information and to apply, access the application (PDF file) on our website.
Yesit is gleaning time again! What better way to celebrate the bounty of Mother Nature than to take the donated excess produce from our farmers market to Shepherds Table.
We need some volunteers. It's a simple job- meet at 1:50 pm in front of Roscoe/Clock at the Takoma Park Farmers Market with plastic bags (some garbage-size also and boxes) and just ask the vendors for any extra food they are willing to donate to Shepherds Table. No hard sell, but most vendors will give us something. Then we deliver the food to the kitchen at Shepherds Table and their chef turns it into delicious food for over 100 people.
In addition to what we pick up at the Market, we're happy to pick up any excess produce from your home gardens at church on the second Sunday of the Montha. We'll just add it to the produce we receive at the Takoma Park farmers market.
For more information contact gleaning@takomaparkpc.org.
In 1996, our congregation was one of the founding churches of Ministries United Silver Spring/Takoma Park, Inc., or MUSST.
Since its beginning, MUSST, in close partnership with the Montgomery County government and the Emergency Assistance Coalition, has helped to prevent evictions, utility cut-off, and offer assistance with medical prescriptions for zip code areas 20901, 20910, 20912 and 20783. Our participation in MUSST enables us to provide assistance to individuals and families who come seeking help.
Masiki Akwei, the dynamic new program manager, says volunteers have always been at the heart of MUSST's work. On-the-job training is provided for anyone (over 18 years) who would like to volunteer. Interviewers, case workers, administrative assistants, a Web master, and a translator who can write documents in Spanish and Amharic, are all needed. If you would like to learn more, you can call the office at 301-495-4699.
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