Serving needs in the world in Christ's name

Christ Church Anglican is involved in a number of outreach ministries through hands on participation and financial support, and we'd love for you to be involved. Please scroll down to learn more about the Ministries We Support locally and globally, ways to get Involved, and learn more about our Ongoing Global Missions in Kenya & Haiti. Click here to learn more about the vision of Outreach.

Ministries We Support

Christ Church Anglican is involved in a number of outreach ministries through hands on participation and financial support, and we'd love for you to be involved. To find out more about these ministries, click the link to visit the website. If you'd like to get involved in one of these ministries, please contact the person listed to the right.

East Cooper Meals on Wheels 

HALOS (Helping & Lending Outreach Support) 

Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy

ECFN (East Cooper Faith Network)

• ECFN Fix-It Forum (Howard Althen)
• ECFN I-BEAM Lunchtime Mentorship Program (currently on hold until the school resumes the program)

​​​

East Cooper Community Outreach

My Sister's House 

The La Gonave Partnership with Churches in Haiti, and our sister church, Church of the Holy Spirit 

Tree Church Project
​
​

To contact any of these ministry areas, please click here.

Get Involved

FIX-IT

• Partner with Christ Church parishioners and others from the community to build wheelchair ramps and perform home repairs.
• Anyone is welcome to participate. Those with carpentry and construction skills are especially needed. 
• Contact Howard Althen (howardalthen@gmail.com) to get involved.

HALOS

• Helping underprivileged children in the Lowcountry.
• Christ Church supports 10 children every summer for a camp that keeps children off the streets and continuing their education.
• Every Christmas, we have a HALOS "Tree" where the congregation is invited to sponsor a child for Christmas gifts for children. 
• An annual Back to School Drive invites the congregation to sponsor a child in order to provide needed school supplies or by providing to the general school supply drive.
• Contact Valerie Saunders (thesaunders@mac.com) for more information.

MEALS ON WHEELS

• Volunteers welcome to pack and deliver meals to those in the community.​
• Click here to learn more.

EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH (ECCO)

• Volunteers needed to help in the food pantry, front desk, and clothing closet. 
• Click here to learn more.

Ongoing Global Missions

Tree Church Project with the Anglican Diocese of Marsabit, Kenya
As of 2022 we are in our eighth year of a church building project that started when our then Director of Children’s Ministries attended a diocesan event in which African bishops shared their ministry experiences and needs.  One, Bp. Rob Martin of Marsabit (the current Bishop is Daniel Qampicha Wario), showed pictures of his people worshiping under trees.  Our heart was touched and donations for a church building began with our children’s events and then spread to the whole congregation.  We raised enough to partner with another church in our diocese to build the first church in a community called Game.  We subsequently held 5K Run/Walks to raise the $20,000 it takes to build a church annually.  In recent years, we have instead held a special donation Sunday in October - an annual Tree Church Ingathering - as we continued to fund the building of churches in Elebor, Maikona, Goro Rukesa, Badasa and Laisamis (construction at Laisamis is not completed of early 2022).  In addition to these six churches, we have also funded the construction of diocesan Guest Houses so that guest fees can go toward minister salaries in the Tree Church churches.

​The La Gonave Haiti Partnership 
We have been involved with this consortium of churches and other organizations for many years, supporting economic, educational and medical development on the Haitian island of La Gonave through the Episcoapl Diocese of Haiti.  We have sent mission groups in the past, the last being a medical trip in 2014 and a Vacation Bible School and building trip in 2015.  The Outreach portion of our annual parish operating budget continues to include money for teacher salaries at the school run by the Church of the Holy Spirit in the community of Gros Mangles on La Gonave.

See pictures from previous Mission Trips:

Kenya 1  |  Kenya 2  |  Kenya 3  

Haiti 1 | Haiti 2 | Haiti 3