CROP walk

Thank you to everyone who walked, rocked and donated to this year’s CROP Hunger Walk. The event took place from 1:30 – 3 at Bush Park on October 4.  Each lap walked earned a ticket for the raffle drawings, the course had challenges throughout, rocking chairs were offered for those...

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2015 Habitat for Humanity

Volunteers from St. Jude’s Episcopal Church and the First Presbyterian Church of Fenton joined together to provide two homes in Flint with a “Brush With Kindness.”  Habitat for Humanity organized a number of homes on the north end of Flint to have minor repairs as well as the exterior painted...

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2015 Empty Bowls

On Thursday, September 24, eleven of our members went together to the Empty Bowls fund raiser for the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.  This year the event was held in their new Hunger Solutions building.  For $20.00, each person selected a ceramic bowl to take home as well as consumed...

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2015 Read and Feed a success

We are happy to report that our Read & Feed program was a great success for our fourth year!  We hosted 22 second and third grade readers from area elementary schools who had been identified as needing assistance with reading.  We hoped to “jump-start” their fall schooling by providing them...

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2015 Whaley Picnic

On Wednesday, August 12, our mission outreach committee hosted a picnic at Silver Lake Park Beach in Fenton for the Whaley Children Center.  We were pleased that 35 youth and 6 staff attended from Whaley!  They had a great time and were very appreciative; they look forward to this picnic...

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2015 Bastille Day Race

On Saturday, July 11, 2015, our church supported the Bastille Day Race in downtown Fenton.  Each year, this race has generated over $18,000 for the Genesee County Habitat for Humanity chapter and brought thousands of visitors into Fenton.  This year the race course was modified due to the downtown construction...

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June 2015 Blood Drive

We want to thank the 32 people who showed up to donate their blood, the 26 people who were able to donate, the Boy Scouts for assisting in setting up and packing up the equipment, the members who made cookies and the members who hosted the drive on Saturday, June...

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2015 Relay for Life

Our church’s team “Presbyterians With A Purpose” again helped raise funds to fight cancer in this year’s Relay For Life.  We walked in memory of the people who lost their fight with cancer and in celebration of the people who have survived cancer!  Almost everyone knows someone whose life has...

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Women’s Covenant Group Ministry Project

The Ladies in the current study of James: Mercy Triumphs were challenged to bring in a bag of groceries to be donated. The local charity chosen was Downtown Outreach Ministry in Flint, Michigan.  Below are 5 of us out of 20 who participated!

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Deacon’s Easter Project, 2015

37 families in the Fenton area were helped with groceries and a $25.00 gift card for a traditional Easter dinner.  This project was accomplished due to the generous members of FFPC.  Thank you!

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