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Summer Mission Projects (2025)

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As we begin our summer worship schedule and temporarily move to the PTS Chapel on April 27, we also look ahead to a season of service. Nassau Church’s summer mission projects offer simple, meaningful ways to make a difference—most requiring just a few hours of your time. Whether you’re able to volunteer in person or support with a donation, each opportunity helps extend care and compassion to our neighbors near and far. Explore the 2025 Summer Mission Projects and find your way to join in.

Hunger Offering

Last Sunday of the month during 10:00 am Worship

This offering supports the following mission partners: HomeFront, Presbyterian Hunger Program, Send Hunger Packing Princetons, Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, and Uniting Reformed Church in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Thank you for giving until all are fed.

Use the “Hunger” fund when you give online (“Give Now”) or in the memo line of your check.

Give Now

PTS Coat Drive

May 4 – June 29 (extended through July while we are worshiping at the PTS Chapel!)

Doing some spring cleaning? Help restock the Princeton Theological Seminary Coat Closet, a resource for international students as they prepare for the New Jersey winters. Each year we collect gently worn men’s and women’s winter coats, fleece pullovers and winter accessories. We are also looking for donations of new socks for both men and women, or the cash to purchase them. A Warmer Winter Starts with You.

Drop items in the marked box at the PTS Chapel on Sunday mornings or contact the church office to drop off during the week.

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School Supplies Drive

July 6 – August 17

Providing supplies for success. We are once again joining with Westminster Presbyterian Church (WPC), our partner church in Trenton, to provide backpacks filled with school essentials for local students. Our goals are 150 backpacks and $5,000 for the supplies to fill them. Supplying Confidence, One Student at a Time.

Bring backpacks to the Narthex on Sunday mornings; use the “School Supplies” fund when you give online (“Give Now”) or in the memo line of your check.

Give Now

Loaves & Fishes – August

Friday, August 22 & Saturday, August 23

Join us for our 33rd year of service. Volunteering for Loaves and Fishes, whether it’s donating food, money, or time, is an opportunity to be fed and to join our community of faith in action. Use the “Loaves & Fishes” fund when you give online (“Give Now”) or in the memo line of your check. Use the Sign Up button to donate food or time. More Than a Meal—A Moment of Care

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We also appreciate your financial support. Twice each year we purchase food items to prepare the hot meals and four times a year we purchase personal care products.

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#MissionMonday – Mass Incarceration Task Force

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The Mass Incarceration Task Force is motivated by the deep conviction that every human being is a beloved child of God. Join us on Monday, April 7 at 7:00 pm to learn about volunteering and advocacy opportunities. In addition to hearing updates from our Action Groups, we will be discussing how the current cuts to the federal government are impacting non-profit organizations working to support wrongly convicted and incarcerated persons and their families. All are welcome, including people without a religious affiliation.

Contact Anne Kuhn (email)to receive the Zoom link.

 

The images above are from Humanize the Numbers, a collaborative photography project bringing together men incarcerated within the Michigan Department of Corrections and students from the University of Michigan. See more at humanizethenumbers.com

#MissionMonday – Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center

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Nassau is a proud Mission Partner of Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center which has offered outdoors-based programming in New Jersey since 1960. This Summer Jburg is offering 5-day overnight camps with date options ranging from the last week of June to the first week of August for students from 1st to 12th grade.

Visit campjburg.org for more info!

#MissionMonday – Housing Initiatives of Princeton

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Last Sunday we heard about Housing Initiatives of Princeton (HIP)’s great work and were invited to their Spring Gathering in May. Nassau is proud to partner with HIP to prevent the eviction of our neighbors and provide transitional housing to stabilize families and individuals as they experience housing disruption.

More information: housinginitiativesofprinceton.org

#MissionMonday – Paul Robeson House of Princeton

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The Paul Robeson House of Princeton is close to opening their renovated home!

The “Paul Robeson House,” dating from 1842, is a residential property located at 110 Witherspoon Street, where Paul Robeson was born on April 9, 1898. Paul Robeson’s roots in the African American community of Princeton launched him on his world-renowned career as an all-American athlete, actor, singer, scholar and writer, and voice for human rights. The renovated property will host a gallery of memorabilia, non-profit meeting spaces, and temporary lodging.

We are proud to be Mission Partners with The Paul Robeson House of Princeton and invite you to learn more about their capital campaign: https://give-usa.keela.co/Donate2023. 

#MissionMonday – HomeFront

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Helping Families Break the Cycle of Poverty

HomeFront, a Mission Partner of Nassau based in Lawrenceville, provides shelter, housing assistance, groceries, and social services to families experiencing poverty in central New Jersey. Recognizing an emerging need with the families they serve and proposing an expansion of their project to the Missions and Outreach Committee, HomeFront used grant funding from Nassau to distribute 114,800 diapers in the month of August alone.

Nassau also supports HomeFront through the monthly Hunger Offering. Organizations supported by your faithful giving each month received over $10,000 in the past fiscal year. At HomeFront, this has contributed to the 23,426 cartloads of groceries distributed at their Choice Market and pop-up food pantries since October. We invite you to bring a donation to church this Sunday (the last Sunday of the month) or give online through the Give Now page of this website and selecting “Hunger Fund” from the drop down menu.

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Partners in Faith – Documentary

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“Telling Our Stories” is a new documentary film that tells of the history and relationship of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church and Nassau Presbyterian Church. It is the story of how two congregations are working to be honest about our past and move forward together standing on our faith and building relationships one by one. It is 37 minutes long and is a must see!!

The bulletin from the October 8 service, linked below, also contains a history of Presbyterians in Princeton since 1755 compiled by members of the churches.

Partners in Faith: Our Journey Together

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Witherspoon Street & Nassau Presbyterian Churches

Sunday, October 8, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Sanctuary
Reception following, Assembly Room

Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ, founded 1840.
Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ, founded as The First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, 1766.

Learn more about the shared history of Witherspoon Street and Nassau Presbyterian Churches. The Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton, President of Princeton Theological Seminary, will speak and we will view a brief documentary by Bob Meola.

By telling the stories of our shared history over the last 186 years, this project offers a look at the evolution and practice of the Presbyterian faith, in one of the oldest towns in America, through the multicolored lenses of our congregations.

Seeking Comprehensive Peace

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Advocating for Human Rights in Israel and Palestine

Washington DC Summit (April 20-21, 2023)

Join Churches for Middle East Peace for our first in person Advocacy Summit since 2019. On April 20, 2023 we will hear from keynote speakers and panelists from Israel/Palestine and the U.S. including Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, and Rev. Dr. Jack Sara. Participants will have the opportunity to take the stories they have heard and advocate on behalf of human rights in Israel and Palestine with their Congressional offices on Friday, April 21. We hope you will consider joining us for fellowship, learning, and the chance to raise your voice on Capitol Hill this April.

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Learn More & Register (link)