Bridge Communities partners with FCCGE mentors for homeless families to help them work towards self sufficiency. Mentors meet with families once a week to provide advice, encouragement, and support toward their ultimate goal of financial independence. Mentors are always needed.
Contact: Norm Adams
The Green Team (formerly The Environmental Ministry Team) is dedicated to environmental issues within our church, the wider community and the world, acting on ways to be good stewards of the environment through education, recycling and energy efficiency. We invite everyone who has a passion for caring for God’s creation to come and learn about the work we’re doing to make Glen Ellyn a more sustainable, resilient, and compassionate community. These include efforts to focus on renewable energy and to nurture locally grown produce; if you like to garden, you’ll love what we have in store! Learn about our Eden Project to help feed those in need!
Contact: Catherine Curtis
The Garden Ministry plants and maintains the flower beds and other landscaping around the church. We strive to be good stewards of the portion of God’s creation in our care.
Contact: Nancy Bell
The Glen House Food Pantry collects food for those in need. FCCGE provides two volunteers in the pantry every fourth Friday of the month. September is our church’s designated month to provide food for the pantry and a collection box is available for donations. The pantry’s location is at 55 N. park, Glen Ellyn. Contact: Andy Ginger.
The Handyperson Ministry is a group of people who fix, paint, repair and assemble small jobs in classrooms, offices, and other spaces around the church building. If you have a special skill, then we would invite you to share your gift with the church. We are also available to the community in cases where there is a unique situation.
Contact: Rick Hokenson
The Kitchen Chix provides meals and delectable treats for all of our programs and events. They also serve coffee and treats after Sunday worship and provide receptions for memorial services.
Contact: Mindy Post
Do You Love to Play with Computers?
A new ministry is born…
The Creator’s Purpose
We are seeking passionate and talented people to build computers. Used PCs, lap-tops, monitors or any other computer-related equipment will be rebuilt, repaired and configured to be repurposed and installed in places of need around the community. Examples could be local career or community centers, schools, libraries and other local businesses. If you have a passion for working with computers and want to use your spiritual gifts to give back to the community, then come join us!
We are looking for people who are experienced in:
Computer networks (Design & Installation)
Computer Installation (PC & Mac)
Web Programming and Design
Social Media
Troubleshooting & Repair
Training
For more information, contact Mike DeFlorio 630.913.2694
Have a computer you’d like to donate? Click here.
Onward House Christmas Gifts Every Christmas, FCC members and friends provide Christmas gifts for 200+ children in need. Our relationship with Onward House is decades long and we look forward to helping make families holidays brighter.
Contact: Marge Kovatch
Pads (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) FCCGE has had a rich history with DuPage PADS and continues to do so. While DuPage PADS has adopted a new structure for caring for our neighbors (no longer using sites like ours to house guests overnight) we continue to remain deeply involved. Contact: Tricia Kerns
Rebuilding Together is open to enthusiastic people who enjoy helping others and working with tools. These handy people gather for one Saturday in April for an all-day building blitz on a preselected home in the Chicagoland area.
Contact: Randy Briasco
Heifer International empowers families to turn hunger and poverty into hope and prosperity with agricultural support. Every year at FCCGE, children create animal themed treats to raise funds for this remarkable ministry.
Contact: Catherine Curtis
Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation works with at-risk youth in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago to provide job skills, mentoring, and restorative justice. FCCGE partners with them to provide support and build relationships.
Contact: Chuck Lukavsky
DuPage United First Congregational of Glen Ellyn is a member of DuPage United, an inclusive, non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to form public relationships, hold elected leaders accountable, and act together to improve the quality of life in our community.Read more.
Contact: Clara Hughes
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