Community Outreach & Service Opportunities

We are... a people committed to ministering through this downtown location...

Emmanuel Baptist Church is actively involved in local ministries, serving our neighbors through:

• FOCUS Community Ministry and FOCUS Interfaith Food Pantry, both housed at Emmanuel

• Annual school supplies collection for Food Pantry families

• FOCUS Winter Breakfast Program, serving 80-100 people, November through April, Tuesday through Thursday mornings from 7:00 - 9:00 AM

• Involvement in Cornerstone Protestant Campus Ministry (SUNY Albany)

• Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless - providing meals, Love Kits (personal care items), and collecting "Pennies for Haven"

• Active participation in the local CROP Walk each year

• New York State American Baptist camping programs at Pathfinder Lodge in Cooperstown

• Budgeted financial support of local organizations, including Homeless and Travelers Aid, Capital Area Council of Churches and their Emergency Overflow Shelter, Baptist Health and Retirement Center in Scotia

• Advocacy on Poverty Initiatives through the Faith and Hunger Network

• Short term missions trips to Nicaragua, Washington D.C., Rochester, NY

• Sponsorship of refugee families

• Budgeted financial support of mission work around the world through the American Baptist Churches

• Partner congregation membership in the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America

• Frequent discussion of Contemporary Christian Concerns during the Adult Sunday School hour

• Providing resources at our "Word for Witness" table and discussion of issues for possible action and response (global warming, torture, poverty, hunger, health care)

• Participation in the Faith and Hunger Network (local faith communities working together to witness for social justice and to end hunger)

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