Generosity Ministry
The Generosity Ministry reviews and makes recommendations for approval by Session. In making these distributions, the ministry aims to…
Ensure that our partners help us love like Jesus building up our relationship with God, one another and the community.
Give grants to key partners who demonstrate need for financial support.
Maintain relationships with each organization in partnership
The Generosity Ministry follows a structure which they call the “Acts 1:8 Model”.
In Jesus’ call to his disciples to carry God’s witness, Jesus kept in mind the importance of four categories of people: local (Jerusalem), quasi local (Judea), near neighbors who are culturally, ethnically, and religiously different (Samaria), and the rest of the world (“ends of the earth”). These four categories offer us guidelines. To that end, the Generosity ministry identifies partners for each of the following categories.
HPC Missions - “Jerusalem” - These are the Deacon’s Benevolence & Special Needs Support
Local Mission Partners - “Judea”: These are partners in Hopewell and the surrounding counties.
Local Mission Partners - “Samaria”: These are partners in Hopewell and in the surrounding counties that focus their work with individuals and communities who are religiously, racially, ethnically, financially different from the majority population of Hopewell Presbyterian Church.
National & Global Mission Partners - “The Ends of the Earth”: These are partners nationally and internationally.
The next several weeks a Session approved project will be included in the Wednesday email. This weeks funded project is part of Isles, a community development and environmental organization in Trenton, with a mission to foster self-reliant families and healthy, sustainable communities.
The $10,000 grant to Isles is for 50% funding for a used pick up truck to be used in Isle Garden Network. It’s to replace one of their two truck that broke down and can’t be repaired. Isles’ responsibility, as part of “1000 trees for Trenton”, a collaboration between Isles, The Watershed, and NJ Conservation Foundation, is watering the 300 trees already planted plus an additional 300 being planted this year in Trenton. The truck will also be used for staff and Amicorp volunteers to water numerous gardens which provides food for over 250 families and provides food for emergency food providers in the Trenton area.