Category: Outreach

2025 Augusta Jeffrey Award

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Augusta W. Jeffrey Recognition Award

The Augusta Jeffrey recognition award is presented each year to a member of the congregation for outstanding volunteer efforts within the church and through its programs.

Nominations for 2025 are now being accepted throughout the month of February.

You may nominate more than one person. To be accepted for consideration, the nomination form must be filled out completely.

During the first week of March, nomination forms will be reviewed and a winner will be selected.

Winners of the Augusta Jeffrey Award designate an area of ministry in which the church is engaged that they choose to receive a financial boost.

Nominations forms can be completed and submitted online. Nominate Now!

Or, if you’d rather submit the nomination(s) offline, please complete the 2025 Nomination Form that can be found in the back of the Sanctuary and return to the office at 200 S. Ashland Avenue, 54303 by the deadline of February 28th.

Super Bowl of Caring 2025

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Souper Bowl of Caring

February 9, 2025

As Super Bowl Sunday approaches that means it’s time for our annual Souper Bowl of Caring!

It’s an annual event where communities come together, inspired by the Super Bowl, to tackle hunger locally. For over three decades, the Souper Bowl of Caring has empowered individuals, organizations, and schools to raise food and funds for food banks and community-based charities.

As millions of people tune in to watch the Super Bowl, we’re also tuning in to the needs of our neighbors. The Souper Bowl of Caring is about taking action to fight hunger at the local level, ensuring that no one has to go without the food they need.

Our #FirstPresGB Souper Bowl of Caring is led by the Christian Education Committee along with Youth Group and is held annually on Super Bowl Sunday. The event is meant to bring an awareness to hunger and to curb hunger through soup. The cost will be $5 per person and there will be 8 different soup stations for people to experience. Each soup sampler will have a chance to vote and judge our Souper Bowl winner.

We invite each person to bring a muffin tin to hold the soup samples. (One muffin tin per person.) Disposable cups will be available to place in your muffin tin to avoid the mess. You will be asked to try all the soups but you can only vote for one. The Souper Bowl awardee will receive the cherished Golden Ladle that’s passed on year after year to the awarded winner. The current Golden Ladle holder from our 2024 Souper Bowl of Caring was chef Cassandra Aceituno with her stuffed pepper soup.

There’s no need to sign up—ALL are welcome—we hope to see you there!

2025 Cozy Kids Campaign

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Cozy Kids 2025

January 1st—31st

The Cozy Kids Campaign this year will benefit 265 children from nearby Lincoln Elementary School. Our community at First Presbyterian aims to keep those kids cozy with a collection of items needed this year of:

  • Stretchy pants size 5-7 and 6-8
  • Sweatpants size 5-7, 6-8 and 10-12
  • Gloves for boys (bigger is better)
  • Waterproof Gloves
  • Zip-up Sweatshirts size S/M/L
  • Chapstick
  • Wide-Lined Notebooks

Anything that will help the kids get through the winter would be greatly appreciated. All donations can be gently used – we’ll find a home for them.

Place the items – by January 31st – on the table at the back of the sanctuary.

Please help keep Lincoln Elementary School kids COZY this winter.

The Outreach Committee thanks you for your support!

2024 Christmas Toy Shop

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Christmas Toy Shop

This year our Toy Shop, that benefits Pantry guests, will be held on Tuesday, December 10th. Please consider donating toys to support our cause.

Toys are needed for ages 2 through 18 years old and should be dropped off before Sunday, December 8th. Please place your unwrapped donations in the toy chest that’s at the bottom of the Sanctuary stairs.

And for those not interested in shopping, you can contribute with a monetary gift by selecting the Pantry Toy Shop Fund through our online giving portal at Give Now – First Presbyterian Church Green Bay or send a check to the office at 200 S. Ashland Avenue, 54302 and note Toy Shop in the memo line.

As guests arrive for the Pantry between 10am and noon, they’ll receive a slip of paper to shop the toy shop. We’re in need of 3-4 of Santa’s elves to be personal shoppers for our guests.

Personal shoppers will assist our guests to choose from the age-appropriate selection of toys. If you’re able to help as a personal shopper elf, please call Jane Bies at 920-621-6400.

Thank you for your support and for helping us make a Merrier Christmas for those in need!

2024 Christmas Prayer Baskets

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Christmas Prayer Baskets

We are excited to be ‘adopting’ three families from nearby Lincoln Elementary School to bless with our love, prayers and Christmas gifts and a meal. This will be our first Christmas adopting families from Lincoln School as the District closed Tank School last year who previously participated in our Christmas Prayer Basket outreach.

We will obtain wish lists for the children and adults in each family and those wishes will be in three separate baskets on the table in the back of the Sanctuary.

Members should take a tag or tags from the baskets and return gifts to the church unwrapped by December 12th. Our Youth Group will wrap the presents at their annual lock-in that weekend. Monetary contributions are also welcome.

Thank you for your support!