Special Christmas Offering 2023
Throughout the Advent season, CCC will accept gifts to the special Christmas offering. This year the money collected will be divided between Mid-County United Ministries, Community CHEER and the UCC Christmas Fund for the Veterans of the Cross.
Mid-County United Ministries (MUM) provides emergency food and assistance to people in crisis in portions of Silver Spring, Kensington, Wheaton, Rockville, and Aspen Hill. MUM’s programs include eviction prevention, utility cut-off prevention and restoration, prescription drug assistance, food assistance and emergency help referrals to other agencies.
Community CHEER is located in the Long Branch neighborhood. CHEER’s (Community Health and Empowerment through Education and Research) mission is to provide people with the knowledge and ability to create healthy, thriving communities. CHEER is a community-driven process for identifying community visions and goals, and for gathering the information and resources needed to measure and fulfill them.
The UCC Christmas Fund for the Veterans of the Cross supports retired ministers and lay employees of the United Church of Christ with health care premiums, housing and emergency grants. For over 100 years, the Christmas Fund for the Veterans of the Cross has been a way to ensure the light of love and hope for the faithful servants of our wider church who may find themselves facing financial needs.
There are several ways to give to the special Christmas offering this year. For your gift to be shared by MUM, Community Cheer and the UCC Christmas Fund, please either donate by 1) check (made payable to Christ Congregational Church with Christmas Offering in the memo line) and placed in the purple pew envelope in the offering plate, or mailed to the church office at 9525 Colesville Rd Silver Spring, MD 20901, 2) click on the “donate” button at cccsilverspring.org to give through Vanco, or 3) give through Breeze at https://cccsilverspring.
You may also donate online to each individual organization at christmasfund.org, MUMhelp.org and communitycheer.org. Thank you for your generosity.
Note: Our full 2023 Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Events schedule is here!