Outreach at Windsor Presbyterian Church

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We partner with CFUM (Children and Families Urban Movement) once a month to prepare and serve home-cooked meals for The Supper Club evening meal program for anyone in the Moulton Elementary School community feeding nearly 150 children and adults.

 We partner with Cowles Elementary, by helping with the gardens by assisting with planting and then tending during the summer months. Each year the Cowles Elementary garden harvest is donated to a local food pantry with the thanks to Cowles Elementary students for planting the garden and our Mission Outreach team for caring for the garden during the summer months.

Together, we make a difference!

 We partner with two neighborhood schools, Windsor Elementary and Cowles Elementary, by providing backpacks and school supplies in the Fall, supporting individual families during the holidays, and providing winter outer clothing supplies, donating snacks and helping with the Cowles Elementary Produce Garden during the summer months. 

We help stock two area Little Food Pantries, one that is on our own church property facing University Avenue, in Windsor Heights, Iowa. You can help us by placing your donations in the pantry or bringing items to church.

Currently we are in need of cereal, fruit cups, applesauce, tuna or canned chicken.

 Please let others in the Windsor Heights and surrounding area know that Windsor Elementary School at 5912 University Ave, Des Moines, IA opened a Food Pantry in partnership with the Food Bank of Iowa. For hours and more information, select this link: 

Windsor Elementary Food Bank

Monthly we give food or financial support generously to the DMARC Food Pantry needs to help meet their mission of working together to address basic human needs in the greater 

Des Moines community. To learn more about DMARC (Des Moines Area Religious Council) and the food pantry network, click below to be directed to the DMARC United website.

Join us in our efforts to address the increased food needs for individuals and families.

Because we believe that together we can make a difference, each month we give financial support to two local nonprofit organizations. The organizations we have and currently support are. Click each link to go to their websites to learn more:

• Joppa
•  After School Arts Programming (ASAP)
• Cross Outreach
• EveryStep
• Beacon of Life
• Art Force Iowa
• Girls Rock (scholarship funding)
• Hawthorn Hill
• Orchard Place
• Habit for Humanity
• CFUM
• Central Iowa Shelter
• DMARC
• Justice Arts Coalition
• Agape
• Home, Inc.
• Storybook Project
• Des Moines Pastoral Counseling
• Dorothy's House
• Urbandale Food Pantry
• Interfaith Alliance of Iowa
• Drake Wrongful Conviction Clinic
• Families Forward
• and more

Each year in early October we hike in our neighborhood to raise awareness of food insecurity needs in our own community and encourage our neighbors to join us in not only giving food or a financial donation to DMARC Food Pantry, but also to our neighborhood Little Food Pantries.

Four times a year our members financially support these Presbyterian Special Offerings:

• One Great Hour of Sharing
• Pentecost Offering -- Children at Risk/Young Adults
• Peace & Global Witness Offering
• Christmas Joy Offering 

To learn more about the reach of these offerings, click on the button to take you directly to Presbyterian Special Offerings website.