GUM (Greensboro Urban Ministry) Donation for March – Dried Beans (1lb bag or larger) Place donations in the wicker basket, side foyer entrance (beside the bookshelves) at the church.

We believe the most effective way to connect you to ministries at College Park is to give you the opportunity to choose a few ministries that best fit your passions and skills. Please take a few minutes to complete our online survey OR email us at the church office: [email protected]. Questions? Contact the church office 336-273-1779. 

GUM (Greensboro Urban Ministry) Donation for July – Canned Mixed Vegetables (any size). Please leave donations in the box marked for GUM in the side foyer.

College Park Casserole Committee needs new team members!   We deliver food (homemade or picked up at a favorite place) to folks in need—with a new baby at home, or after surgery, or for any reason that makes nourishment hard to accomplish alone.  Signups are sent to your email via Sign-Up Genius, and you choose a date that works for you.   All the details (food preferences, address, phone, best times, favorite carry-outs) come in the email.  Contact me with any questions you have or simply to be put on the team list.  Lexi Eagles  336-314-8295 or [email protected].

Creation Justice Ministry at College Park If you have a passion for environmental and ecological concerns and have interest in   being part of a ministry group that works to protect, restore, and rightly share God’s      Creation at the local level and beyond, please contact Christian McIvor: [email protected]. Creation Project Have you taken a photograph that always reminds you of the infinite beauty of God’s   creation, or have you made a piece of visual art through which you felt able to express God in and through the act of creation?  We are looking for photographs and pieces of art   created by College Park members to display in our church halls.  These pieces will serve…

GCSTOP (Guilford County Solution to the Opiod Problem) Syringe Exchange is collaborating with College Park Baptist Church to provide a free clinic at the church located at 1601 Walker Ave., Greensboro, NC. Hours: Wednesday 2-5 pm, Thursday 3-8 pm Delivery by Appointment: Monday 1-4 pm, Friday 4-7 pm No judgement – No Cost – All Services FREE The clinic is designed as an opportunity to ask questions and gather information in an open and honest setting. There will be clean needles and equipment, fetanyl test kits, mouth swab drug test kits, access to Narcan and training, access to suboxone and methadone, case management, detox and treatment referrals, nurse counseling groups…

  Are you a college student or recently graduated student living away from home? Are you a family with a heart for young people? If so, Connections is the ministry for you. Connections is a recent College Park ministry that hopes to connect college students/early young adults with families in the hopes of building nurturing relationships. If you’d like to participate in this ministry, as a student or family, please signup in the hallway outside the Chapel.  

GUM (Greensboro Urban Ministry) Donation for April – Canned Fruit (any type, any size). Please leave donations in the box marked for GUM in the side foyer.

College Park is collecting items from 3/1-31 for the Pink Pad Project. This is a community-based initiative that provides feminine hygiene products to homeless women. Needed products: tampons, pads, panty liners, flushable wipes & vaginal wash. Please help us meet the goal of 365 items. A pink collection box will be located in the parking lot foyer. Learn more at: https://www.facebookcom/ThePinkPadProject/.  Project founder Imani Barnes is an under-graduate student at UNCG.

GUM (Greensboro Urban Ministry) Donation for March – Dried Beans. Please leave donations in the box marked for GUM in the side foyer.

GUM (Greensboro Urban Ministry) Donation for February – Canned Soup (chicken, tomato, or vegetable). Please leave donations in the box marked for GUM in the side foyer.

GUM (Greensboro Urban Ministry) Donation for January – Peanut Butter (18 oz.). Please leave donations in the box marked for GUM in the side foyer.

GUM (Greensboro Urban Ministry) Donation for December – Canned Corn (any size). Please leave donations in the box marked for GUM in the side foyer.

Angel Trees will support three groups this Advent season – Peck Elementary School, ARFP (Animal Rescue & Foster Program of Greensboro), and AngelTree.org, a ministry of Prison Fellowship that provides gifts to children whose parents are incarcerated. Gift suggestions and deadlines for returning your items to the angel trees can be found on each Angel Tree tag. Please return all gifts unwrapped with the Angel Tree tag to one of the Angel Trees. If you would like to support our Angel Tree ministry and don’t feel like shopping, College Park Youth are shopping for all children whose names have not been selected on Dec. 10. Please designate “Angel Trees” on…

Socks, Hats, Gloves & Scarves for GUM Please bring hats, scarves, gloves and wool-blend socks for (GUM) Greensboro Urban Ministry. Hopefully we will have enough items to give out to the homeless people on Dec. 17 and Jan. 21. A GUM donation bin is available in the parking lot entrance. Questions? Contact Eileen Lloyd at [email protected] or 336-539-7766.

Volunteers are needed to deliver food from BackPack Beginnings to Peck Elementary on Thursdays, and deliver to the classrooms on Fridays. If interested in helping with this important ministry, please contact Jerry Cunningham, [email protected].

Conserve, Crochet, Care Operation Bed Roll is a collaboration between Greensboro’s Field Operations and Police departments to keep unrecyclable materials out of our landfills – and help some of our neediest residents have a safe place to sleep. Operation Bed Roll aims to transform thousands of plastic grocery bags into “plarn,” or plastic bag yarn used to create crocheted sleeping mats that provide an insulated barrier for those who sleep on the ground. Greensboro Recycling Educator Tori Carle trains residents how to make the plarn and Greensboro police officers will distribute the mats to the homeless throughout the winter. Plastic bags like the kind you get when you buy groceries…

There is an immediate need for assorted canned meats, such as chicken, beef, tuna, fish, salmon etc. They also need canned fruits, pasta noodles, cooking oils—vegetable & olive, hearty soups. NO VEGETABLES ARE NEEDED. Drop off items in the marked container in the CP parking lot foyer. Questions? Contact Betty Ruffin 336-508-0968.