Our Mission

Presbyterians bear witness to Jesus Christ, seeking to serve among the powerful and the powerless, in a ministry of love and compassion for the surrounding community and beyond. We seek to be faithful stewards of the gift of God's creation through our benevolences to the mission of our denomination as well as other outreach programs.

The Social Witness Committee, on behalf of the congregation, contributes to a number of organizations and projects, and works to involve the congregation as volunteers in service to mission.  The Committee meets the 4th Tuesday of each month (except July and August), at 7:30 pm in the Reception Room; all are welcome. 

Our members serve as volunteer workers, board members, and advisors with Habitat for Humanity, the Community Cupboard (we receive food and financial contributions during worship on the first Sunday of the month), Central Presbyterian Church of Norristown - Hispanic Mission (we receive food and finacial contributions during worship on the second Sunday of the month), Our Brother's Place, The John Gloucester House, AchieveAbility , Northwest Interfaith Housing Network (NPIHN), Neighborhood Interfaith Movement (NIM), Project SHARE, and St. Catherine Laboure Clinic.

Every summer, the youth of PCCH participate in a mission trip.  This year, they traveled to rural Florida to help rebuild hurricane damaged homes in an impoverished community.  In previous years, the youth mission team has worked in Georgia, Maine, and West Virginia, each time gaining first hand experience working with the truly poor.  For more information, please contact Youth Minister, Andrew Plocher.  In January, the Social Witness Committee organizes an Adult Mission Trip.  We have made three trips to Haiti, to support the work of Rodney and Sharyn Babe.  In 2007, we are traveling to Mississippi to work with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, in hurricane relief efforts.  For more information, please contact Suzan Willcox, or the church office. 

PCCH is one of the founding members of the Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry, a ministry to people in economic crisis. Our church is also on the first churches in the Presbytery to develop a strategy for the prevention of child abuse.

Other projects supported by PCCH through the Social Witness Committee, include, Chester Eastside Ministry, Covenant Network, Broad Street Ministries, the Interfaith Coalition for the General Welfare, Kirkwood Camp, the Medical Benevolence Foundation, Metropolitan Career Center, Philadelphia Presbyterian Homes at 58th Street, Presbyterian Children’s Village, the Samaritan Counseling Center, the Utility Emergency Services Adopt-A-Family Fund, and Wheels to the Woods.