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Mission
Giving to and participating in intergenerational mission activities that connect God’s love to our local community and the world.
Mission & Service
Hands & Feet in Our Community
Our mission partners and programs extend the church’s witness into daily life — feeding, sheltering, mentoring, and walking alongside neighbors near and far.
Deacons
Deacons care for the parish and the community by walking alongside and caring for those who are lonely or in distress.
Outreach Food Pantry & Thrift Store
The Outreach Thrift Store helps support the costs of running the Food Pantry. We provide volunteers for the store and for preparing food boxes. Located at 440 SW Emigrant Ave in Pendleton.
Salvation Army Lunches
The Pendleton Salvation Army provides nutritious hot lunches Monday–Saturday. Volunteers in our congregation prepare a monthly meal and give in other ways throughout the year.
Helping Hand
Helping Hand provides emergency assistance including housing, laundry, utilities, and other miscellaneous needs. Located at 721 SE 3rd Street, Pendleton.
Presbyterian Women
PW is a national women’s organization of the PC(USA). We strive to be the hands and feet of Christ in the world. Our annual Soup Supper and Fair Trade Craft Sale raises funds to support mission work locally, nationally, and internationally.
Souper Bowl of Caring
Souper Bowl of Caring encourages participating groups to give donations on Super Bowl Sunday to “Tackle Hunger” campaigns. Our local campaign supports Outreach Food Pantry.
Boy Scouts Troop 700
First Presbyterian Church is the Charter Organization for Boy Scout Troop 700, supporting youth in leadership, service, and outdoor skills.
Presbyterian Offerings
Special Offerings of the PC(USA)
Three annual offerings connect our congregation to the broader work of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — supporting disaster relief, young people, peacemaking, and church workers in need.
One Great Hour of Sharing
Supporting ministries of compassion through causes addressing hunger, disaster, poverty, climate change, and immigration/migration and refugees.
World Communion Offering
Cultivating reconciliation by supporting racial and gender justice, peacemaking efforts, global witness and nurturing ecumenical and interfaith relations.
Christmas Joy Offering
Supporting causes and ministries that serve God’s children, including youth and young adults, leadership development for people of color, and servants of the church in need.
Our Commitment
We Are a Matthew 25 Church
Matthew 25:31–46 calls all of us to actively engage in the world around us, so our faith comes alive and we wake up to new possibilities. Convicted by this passage, the 222nd and 223rd General Assemblies (2016 and 2018) exhorted the PC(USA) to act boldly and compassionately to serve people who are hungry, oppressed, imprisoned, or poor.
Community Partners
Standing Together in Pendleton
We partner with organizations across our region whose work we support through volunteer hours, financial giving, or shared mission.
Cason’s Place
Home for Hope
Neighbor to Neighbor
Pioneer Relief Nursery
United Way of the Blue Mountains
Altrusa of Pendleton