Out Reach

Church of the Holy Spirit has a very active mission of outreach. We participate with local organizations to help provide for our immediate community. We provide assistance to the West Haven Community House several times throughout the year. Each week the children of Holy Spirit pull wagons full of food donated by the parish down the aisle to be blessed by our Rector which is then delivered to the West Haven Emergency Assistance Taskforce (WHEAT) for distribution. We also have a special Mother's Day collection of personal items and Thanksgiving collection also given to WHEAT for distribution.
We help provide for a broader community within Connecticut through our affiliation with Covenant to Care where we have adopted a social worker from the DCF office of New Haven. At Easter and Christmas the children in the caseload of our DCF social worker are blessed with Easter Baskets and Christmas gifts provided by our parishioners. Easter 2009 we donated 150 baskets to DCF and at Christmas 2008 almost 100 gifts were distributed to DCF and the West Haven Community House. Another Outreach project we have supported for several years is our Father's Day Collection of needed men's toiletries and clothing items which are delivered to the Columbus House Shelter for distribution.
We provide for a global community through our Woman for Woman, International support of a woman from Afghanistan. Founded in 1993, Women for Women International helps women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives by providing financial and emotional support, job skills training, rights awareness and leadership education and access to business skills, capital and markets. Through the program, women become confident, independent and productive as they embrace the importance of their roles in rebuilding their families, their communities and ultimately, their nations. http://www.womenforwomen.org/what.htm (for more information)		“Silver for Soldiers” project collects loose change and bills for the VFW’s Operation Uplink. Providing phone cards to active duty military throughout the world.