• Mission Work
• Find out more about Pinnacle member’s mission work:
  • Haiti Mission 2009
  • Haiti Mission 2008
  • New Orleans 2007
  • Habitat for Humanity 2007

Mission

Pinnacle Presbyterian Church engages in Mission because it is the heart and soul of who we are as the people of God. Mission is our way of acting on God’s behalf to meet the needs of people and all creation. Our time, our talent and our treasure are all needed to reach out in today’s world. Both children and adults are invited to share this mission. For more information on these programs and to offer your support and participation, please contact the church office or the contacts listed for each program.

Pinnacle Presbyterian Church sent another work team to the Gulf Coast in November 2007 in response to the continued need in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In the past we have sent work teams to Sitka, Alaska, and run educational trips on immigration to Altar, Mexico.

Pinnacle Presbyterian Church supports the following ministries of outreach:

Andre House

Andre House is a hospitality house ministering to the homeless and poor populations of the Phoenix area. Founded in 1984 and offering a number of services and programs, Andre House is best known for its evening meal program which serves 600–700 people each night. Volunteers from our congregation work at Andre House several times a month where they prepare and serve meals and provide clean–up. It takes many volunteers. Families are welcome and encouraged to help.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Stephanie Webster at stephaniebwebster@yahoo.com, or Lin Ogden at linogden@aol.com.

Border Ministries

• BorderLinks is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to raise awareness of border issues and serve border communities. BorderLinks offers various educational programs, seminars to help border residents become leaders who work for community involvement, a micro-credit program enabling small business development, and hands-on service projects to respond directly to community needs in the borderlands. Our congregation has provided support to Casa Misericordia, their community center and preschool.

• Humane Borders is a coalition of diverse faith communities and individuals working for social justice in the Borderlands, and support faith-based principles for immigration reform. Humane Borders is committed to stopping the loss of life among those trying to cross the border.

• Frontera de Cristo: one of the seven Presbyterian Border Ministries of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico and the Presbyterian Church (USA). Frontera de Cristo is centered in Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Ariz.

Children’s Mission Projects

• Heifer International: Every year our youth participate in the Heifer Project by gathering donations to help buy animals to provide a source of food for families in third world countries. Heifer Project International is a worldwide organization whose mission is to end hunger and poverty by “passing on the gift.” Each family receiving an animal agrees to “pass on the gift” and donate the female offspring to another family so the gift of food is never–ending.

If you are interested in helping with this program, sponsored by the Christian Education Committee, please contact Debbie Lisk, 480.585.9448 ext. 203.

• Living Waters for the World: Trains and equips mission teams to share the gift of sustainable water with communities in need.

Summer Youth Mission Trip

Pinnacle Youth spent a week working on the Navajo Reservation in Ganado, Ariz. To learn more about their trip watch their online presentation or contact Rev. Kristin Willett, 480.585.9448 ext. 230.

Emergency Assistance Fund

A one-time assistance fund for members and the public that have suffered a loss or trauma. For more information, contact the church office.

Pinnacle Presbyterian Preschool

In its 12th year with 27 teachers and 160 children, this program serves vital educational outreach to our community.

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization that builds simple, decent, affordable housing for those in need. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 100,000 houses in more than 80 countries, including some 30,000 houses across the United States.

Pinnacle Presbyterian has actively participated for 13 years by sending crews of church members and friends several times each year to help build these houses and by contributing financial assistance. No prior construction experience or tools are required to participate because skilled leaders are present.

Our 2009 dates are Jan. 31, Feb. 7, March 28, April 14 and May 18.

For more information, contact Carl Richie at pncrichie@aol.com or 480.551.6855, or Doug Brown at tcb51@cox.net or 480.515.1361.

Southwest Synod Mission

The churches in the Synod, covering Arizona and New Mexico, reach out in mission to college and university students, racial ethnic communities, and enacting programs to stimulate methods of advancing God's kingdom in the Southwest.

Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly

The General Assembly coordinates the Presbyterian enterprise involved in all national and overseas educational and medical missions. It is the entity that seeks to accomplish what individual churches and presbyteries are unable to fulfill. It is our method of fulfilling Christ's challenge to “go and make disciples of all nations... .”

ViCAP/Foothills Caring Corp.

VICaP Faith in Action (Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers Program) is a nonprofit ministry of care to homebound and/or disabled adults in our area. VICaP, a program of Beatitudes Center DOAR, serves clients south of Bell Road and Caring Corps supports clients north of Bell Road. Support services include calling a lonely person weekly, in–home visiting, assisting a visually impaired person with paperwork, taking someone to a doctor's appointment, assisting with grocery shopping, providing minor household repairs, etc. Transportation is the greatest need.

Volunteers are trained and insured, and choose the services they wish to provide. If you can help with any of the needed activities, please contact Margaret Ebert, 480.991.2335, or the church office.

Vista del Camino

Our congregation supports Vista del Camino, a City of Scottsdale community center that provides emergency social services, counseling, financial assistance, job preparation and youth programs. Emergency social services meet the basic needs of families in crisis and emphasize client self–sufficiency. The Pinnacle congregation conducts back–to–school drives, collects Thanksgiving donations to help purchase dinners, conducts an annual adopt–a–family program at Christmas time and collects food donations on an ongoing basis.

Information about these programs is announced in the church bulletins. If you would like more information, please contact Jane Barber, 480.563.3404, or Ted Weis, 480.595.6011.

Just Coffee

Emerging out of a desire to address the immigration crisis, Just Coffee is a cooperative of coffee growing families in Salvador Urbina, Chiapas, Mexico. Just Coffee provides 100–percent organic, shade–grown, high–mountain coffee at a fair price, which we sell at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church. Just Coffee follows fair trade plus principles, which means that all of the coffee production – from growing through roasting and packaging – takes place within the coffee cooperative itself. All the money from Just Coffee sales goes to the cooperative and stays in Mexico where it is used to create jobs, grow the business and provide cooperative families with a fair wage for their labor and product. Just Coffee is available for purchase on the West Terrace most Sundays from October–April.

For mroe information please contact Jan Loichle at 480.575.9125 or jloichle@cox.net.

Knit Wits

Knits various items such as lap blankets and caps for those in nursing homes and hospitals, as well as for veterans and the homeless. Friends can help this group by becoming a knitter or by donating odds and ends of yarn. Yarn supplies may be left at the church office.

For more information on the group's meeting times, current projects and patterns, please call Dawn Sheaffer, 602.370.9287.