Christ Church, New Brighton

The Building Bridges Coalition annually sponsors a walk for peace, an interfaith seder, an interfaith Thanksgiving service, a panel discussion on interfaith issues of young people.

Our community garden is in two raised beds on the church lawn.

We have an partnership with the Episcopal schools in Robertsport, Grand Capemount County, Liberia.  We have hosted alumni association meetings, fundraisers, and collected books and school supplies, which were shipped by container ship. We intend to visit the schools in the Spring of 2020, bringing more school supplies and looking at the capacity for truck farming and for generating electrical energy (solar, diesel generator, hydropower).

Our Holiday Basket Program provides 300 complete, packaged meals for needy families on Staten Island at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

Hours of operation:

Holiday Basket Program: 2 days at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

Contact person:

Ms. Alleida Mitchell, 718-727-6100

We cook and serve lunch on the second Saturday of every month at Trinity Lutheran Church, Staten Island.  Our deacon, Geri Swanson, is the soup kitchen's volunteer co-ordinator.

Hours of operation:

Second Saturday of every month throughout the year

Trinity Lutheran Church, Staten Island.

Contact person:

Fr. Trevor Babb, 718-727-610

We subsidize shares in the Staten Island CSA.  Christ Church has arrangements with the USDA to accept SNAP payments.

"The Christ Church Community Youth Choir meets weekly for two hours, giving children the opportunity to learn to read music, rhythms, and vocal production.

The Christ Church Community Youth Drummers meets weekly for an hour to learn the basics of steel drumming.

Both groups have multiple opportunities to perform in public."

Hours of operation:

Christ Church Community Youth Choir: Thursday 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 

Steel Drum Group now meets on Friday from 5:30-6:30 at the Gerard Carter Center/Cornerstone Program at the Stapleton Housing Project.

We are adding a Ukulele group in April to meet on Monday afternoons for children 7 and older.

PROJECT HOSPITALITY MEN'S SHELTER

Christ Church is a member of Project Hospitality's "Interfaith Bed Network." The Project Hospitality Drop-In Center on Center St. (near the Library) oversees the emergency faith-based shelter program providing overnight beds in churches and synagogues throughout Staten ISland. Other local churches in the network include Olivet Presbyterian, St. Andrew Episcopal, Our Lady of Mt. Loretto, New Directions Baptist, Unitarian Church, St. Philip's Baptist, and Holy Rosary.

Between twelve and fifteen men who currently do not have a permanent residence use our downstairs gymnasium as a shelter. We provide them with folding cots and fresh linens, a small kitchenette, bathrooms and showers, and an area to sit and watch television or socialize. The sleeping area is cooled during the summer and heated in winter.

Our guests generally arrive around 8:30pm and depart by 7:00am, leaving the gym available for church and community activities during the day. Shelter guests occasionally attend evening church services and breakfasts sponsored by the parish. 

The knitting group meets on the second and fourth Thursday of each month in the Vestry room.