Local Outreach

Ministry Files

Informational Document: Needed items for the Food Closet
Informational Document: Household Needs for Neighborhood Families
Informational Document: Madison Family Start Center helped by ACTs Thrift Shop
Informational Document: Free Electronic Waste Recycling Event April 27 & 28

PCC has a long history of caring for “the least of these,” and you will find children, teens and adults working together in a range of outreach activities. Whether you regularly attend the church or not, we encourage you to join us. To connect with any contact person shown below, please email or call the church office at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 626-795-9381.

Food Closet Video below!

Peace and Justice Ministry Team

This team works together to provide opportunities for the PCC congregation—as individuals, families and small groups—to serve others beyond our walls: through our newly formed partnership with the Madison Healthy Start Family Center, at the Bad Weather Shelter, through our neighborhood outreach programs and in other ways. We feel that PCC is planted right where it is for a reason, and we look for God to lead us to build meaningful relationships with those in our immediate neighborhood so we can heed the call from scripture to bring about justice and peace among ourselves and in the world. We welcome new members, and invite you to join us for our monthly meetings or to get involved in any of our ministries.

Contact: Jamie Knauss, Ministry Team Leader

Partnership with Madison Healthy Start Family Center

Madison Avenue Elementary is our neighborhood school, and we have recently formed a partnership with the Healthy Start Family Center that is located on its grounds. We work closely with Mirsa Serrano, coordinator of the center, in three ways.

We provide food weekly to be distributed by the center to families in the neighborhood who live far below the poverty line and are in need. To be involved in this outreach, you may bring food to PCC on Sunday mornings (see list of needed items at left) or help deliver food on Monday mornings to the center. If you are interested, please contact Amy Kamm.

We also offer a ”homework helpers” program at Madison Avenue Elementary right after school, where you may volunteer an hour or more each week to work with an individual student. There are also opportunities to help in classrooms as a volunteer. Please contact Dorothy Patzia if you are interested in either of these ways to be involved with the students at Madison.

Finally, the families of our neighborhood frequently have need for household items as they are forced to move suddenly, or as new families move into already crowded quarters. (See a current list of needed houshold items at left.) Please contact Kim Dorman if you would like to be put on an email contact list to be made aware of these needs as they arise.

Bad Weather Shelter

During the winter months, PCC hosts a Bad Weather Shelter in its gym building for individuals and families who are homeless. The shelter is sponsored by the Ecumenical Council of Pasadena Area Churches (ECPAC) and is served by many volunteers from area churches as well as from Pasadena Covenant. The shelter is open every night in January and February, and is weather activated (40 degrees or below, or 40% chance of rain) from the day after Thanksgiving to December 31, and from March 1 to 15. (To find out if the shelter is open on a weather-activated day, call 818-915-8111 after 12:00 p.m.) Many volunteers are needed to provide and serve dinner, help with set-up, intake and kitchen cleanup, and serve in a foot-washing ministry.

PCC Contact: Wayne Walker

Neighborhood Outreach Events

As a team, we are committed to helping our church offer three to four outreach events each year, to get to know our neighbors better and become a better neighbor to them. We have partnered with our Children’s Ministry to run a neighborhood Vacation Bible School with a bilingual emphasis, and have helped with Halloween and Christmas events. We are always planning for the next event and would welcome your involvement.

Contact: Brenda Thomas

Elizabeth House

This shelter, a home near the church, serves women in crisis pregnancies and their children. Mentors and spiritual friends are needed for residents of the house. Learn more about Elizabeth House at http://www.elizabethhouse.net.

PCC Contact: Judy Wipf, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 626-795-9381

Club 21

Club 21 Learning and Resource Center, a non-profit organization that supports children with Down syndrome and their families, operates on our church campus during part of the week. Club 21 was founded by a PCC member and is always in need of volunteer help! Learn more about Club 21 at http://www.clubtwentyone.org.

Contact: Nancy Litteken, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Sister Churches

Pasadena Covenant Church seeks to partner in ministry with other Evangelical Covenant congregations in our Pasadena neighborhood:

Abundant Life Covenant Bible Church
 Hope Community Church 
Iglesia Misionera Hispanoamericana
Church of the Redeemer is a sister congregation in South Los Angeles with which PCC has partnered closely in the past. Although our partnership is now less formalized, there continue to be opportunities to be involved in this multiethnic congregation and its community development ministries.
Contact: Richard & Anna Parks, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 323-732-9881