Christ Church Episcopal

Emmaus House is an interfaith ministry that feeds breakfast to 200+ hungry people each morning, Monday through Friday. Begun in 1982, Emmaus House is located on the first floor of the newly refurbished Christ Church parish house at the corner of Abercorn and Bryan Streets. The founding congregations for Emmaus House are Christ Church, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, First Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church and the Lutheran Church of the Ascension. Members from Christ Church and other area congregations volunteer to help serve the meals, and at Christ Church, the second Sunday of each month, parishioners are asked to bring breakfast food items to donate for our Emmaus House “Ingathering Sunday”. Collection bins are provided at each entrance to the Church. If you would like to know more about volunteering or donating to this vital ministry in downtown Savannah, please call the Church office.

Operation Paperback is an outreach ministry conceived by the Christ Church book group in 2016, led by co-coordinators Claudia Seyle and Barbara Powers with Deacon Patti Davis. Each month, Operation Paperback volunteers sort, pack and ship books to military members who are deployed and at home around the world. In once recent month, Operation Paperback made 12 shipments of 272 books, weighing in at 218.5 pounds. Of these boxes, 5 went overseas, and 7 were sent statewide.

Donations of paperbacks can be brought to the donation bin in the Christ Church undercroft. Operation Paperback's most requested genres are Action/Adventure/Thrillers, History, Military History and Fiction, and True Crime.

Project Smile is a prevention-oriented dental program for indigent children (ages 4 -14) which began in 1992 as a cooperative effort between the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia and the Anglican Diocese of Belize in Central America. Every year, various teams of volunteer dentists, along with auxiliary personnel, travel the St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church in Belize City where the team works in a permanent seven chair dental treatment facility in an unused classroom at St. Mary’s School. Gradually, the program has expanded to meet other needs at the school, including providing hot lunches, playground safety and equipment, and even a computer lab. For more information, contact Montie and Steve Acuff by email at acuffdds@aol.com, or by phone at (912) 236-6395. 

http://project-smile.com/