Outreach and Missions

 

 

 

Cildren and WorldHeritage Church is actively involved in a wide variety of outreach and mission support projects that address the concerns and conditions of people within the local community, as well as across the world. The purpose of this ministry is to improve the quality of life and to make God's Word available for all people.

    Heritage regularly participates in providing practical assistance to local families in need by giving food baskets from Godʼs Kitchen, by supporting the Open Hands Ministries of Stahlstown, the Ligonier Valley Food Bank and Christian Charities.  Our church also actively supports the Valley Youth Network, an interdenominational community youth ministry, Ligonier Valley Meals on Wheels, which provides meals to those in need.  We also support the Westmoreland County Prison Ministry of Chaplain Jom Badamo; and the Western PA Prison Ministry directed by Randy Datsko, which provides prisoners the opportunity to learn Godʼs word through Disciple Bible Study.

    We contribute to mission projects of the United Methodist Church such as Henderson Settlement in Kentucky.   Heritage also supports the work of the United Methodist Committee on Relief by supplying health kits and school kits, by giving to the One Great Hour of Sharing and to other special requests for hunger, refugee and disaster relief as they occur.

     Heritage Church also contributes to these missionaries and international outreach organizations: Community-based Health Care in Cambodia (Irene Mparutsa), Youth With A Mission (Rebeca Carter) serving in the Birth Attendent School in Sudan, China Outreach Ministries at Penn State (Cathy and Ben Bidelspach), Maasai Community Health Mission in Kenya, Africa (Jon and Vera Steury), John Wesley Seminary, Monterey, Mexico (Ron and Bonnie Hipwell), and the Mulungwishi Seminary in Congo, Africa (David and Lori Persons).

    Heritage Church operates a local International Shop every Saturday from May through October, selling crafts made by artisans from third world countries, thereby providing a market for the artisans so they can provide for their families. Various groups within Heritage Church also work to contribute to additional causes in the local and surrounding areas.

   Heritage Church sponsors a Mission Work Team each year to a region of the country needing help with home repairs, often due to flooding or hurricanes.