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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.

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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.

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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 – One Great Hour of Sharing, April 13, 2025

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Each year during Lent, Nassau Presbyterian Church joins with thousands of Presbyterian congregations across the country in receiving the One Great Hour of Sharing offering. This offering is the single, largest way that Presbyterians come together to share God’s love with our neighbors in need around the world.

Your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing support three vital ministries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.):

  • Presbyterian Disaster Assistance — Responding quickly to natural and human-caused disasters, both in the U.S. and internationally, to help communities rebuild and recover.

  • Presbyterian Hunger Program — Working to alleviate hunger and eliminate its root causes through sustainable development and advocacy.

  • Self-Development of People — Partnering with communities experiencing oppression, poverty, and injustice to support their efforts to create lasting change.

Together, these ministries address the most pressing needs in our world—providing relief, hope, and dignity in the face of hardship.

We invite you to participate in this year’s offering by giving generously during worship on Sunday, April 13. Special envelopes will be available in the pews, and you may also give online through the church website by selecting “One Great Hour of Sharing” from the donation options.

Let us join hands in love and service, embodying the spirit of Matthew 25 and living out the hope we proclaim in the resurrection.

If we all do a little, it adds up to a lot.

Learn more about the PC(USA)’s One Great Hour of Sharing: https://pcusa.org/special-offerings/one-great-hour-sharing

Give online through MyNassau: GIVE NOW

#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 – Appalachia Service Project

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Still feeling the inspiration of our younger congregation after Youth Sunday? We invite you to support their upcoming Appalachia Service Project trip this summer, where they will help repair and clean up a community affected by natural disaster and neighbors in need. You can donate to the trip by selecting the “Appalachian Service Trip (ASP)” Fund on MyNassau: nassauchurch.org/giving/give-now.

#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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#MissionMonday – Churches for Middle East Peace

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On the anniversary of Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel, marking a year of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and in the midst of escalation in the Middle East, we join Churches for Middle East Peace in a prayer for justice and healing.

Churches for Middle East Peace is a Mission Partner of Nassau, educating churches, empowering us to advocate for policy changes moving toward peace, and connecting with Christians in Palestine. Join CMEP for a daily prayer over Zoom or watch their daily updates on the state of the crisis in Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank at cmep.org/resources.

#MissionMonday – Presbyterian Women

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On this #MissionMonday we highlight the work of Presbyterian Women (PW) in the Synod of the Northeast.

Nassau supports PW by giving to the Synod. Presbyterian Women educate, donate, and advocate for peace and justice locally, regionally, and globally.

We invite you to attend Adult Education on Sunday, October 6 for a special #JusticeSpotlight on the Presbyterian Delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (read more here). Also consider attending the Fall Gathering of Presbyterian Women in the Presbytery of the Coastlands on Saturday, October 12, where you can hear from leaders advocating for protection from gun violence, Christian churches in Palestine, and improved healthcare in Haiti.

RSVP to by October 7. You can find more information at https://pwsne.org/.