Social Action

Social Action in Action at Zion-Memorial United Church

As a part of Zion-Memorial's commitment to love God above all and our neighbour as ourselves, the Social Concerns Committee seeks:

• To collaborate with and support local social services. This includes encouraging and/or recruiting our church membership's participation in these services.
• To support the social and justice initiatives of our denomination and the ecumenical development, justice and advocacy work that our denomination supports.
• To educate and inform our local churches' membership about these ministries and encourage their participation
• To explore linkages with other local Christian churches in partnership and service to our community. This includes United churches in Lanark County and churches of other denominations in Carleton Place.
• To initiate ministry activity where feasible and appropriate.

To that end, we are involved in organizing/conducting the following activities:

• Operating the Hungry Lunch Cafe, a hot lunch program at no cost at the church each Tuesday at noon throughout the year.
• Establishing a Community Gardens Program in Carleton Place in the Spring of 2007.
• Beginning a Canadian Foodgrains Bank Grow Project with Boyd's United Church in the Spring of 2008.
• Initiating a Habitat for Humanity build in Lanark County by 2009.
• Building picnic tables for Alwood Treatment Centre in May 2007.
• We conducted a 10-week Environmental Stewardship study in the winter of 2007. This may be repeated in the Fall of 2007. From this study, impetus came to pick up litter on Lansdowne Ave. on April 28, 2007.