Welcome to Edgewood Presbyterian Church

Outreach Ministries

Edgewood Presbyterian Church is actively involved in international, regional, and community outreach programs. Whether it is around the corner or around the globe, we try to share our time, talent, and resources in ways that spread the Good News of the Gospel.

SIGN LANGUAGE: Each Sunday afternoon from 4 until 5 p.m. one of our members offers a free class entitled “Beginning Sign Language." The instructor is a nationally certified sign language interpreter whose mother is deaf. Emphasis in this class is on basic conversational signing. The public is welcome to attend. Bring a list of words and phrases that you wish to learn. Children who want to learn sign language are welcome so long as they are accompanied by a responsible adult who will remain with the child for the entire length of the class. The class meets upstairs in our Education Center in the Youth Room. Contact the church office for more information.

In recent years, members of our congregation have twice been to Belize to help build a school. We went to the Gulf Coast to help with Katrina recovery. We sent a group of youngsters to Florida to witness. In addition to our normal giving and local community support, each year we participate in four special offerings to support Presbyterian missions around the world--The Peacemaking Offering, the Christmas Joy Offering, the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering, and the Pentecost Offering.

Belize child

Assisted by a young Belizian child, an EPC member helps build the wall of a village school in San Roman, Belize.

If you have passed by the corner of Macon Road and University Avenue any October for the past 5 years, you have seen one of our Outreach Ministries--the EPC Pumpkin Patch. We sell pumpkins to raise money to support our mission programs. Our members man the “Patch” from early morning to full dark every day from the second week in October until Halloween. It takes a lot of work, but it is an act of love that permits us to donate money to help lots of people in the local area and in far away places we will never see.

The Pumpkin Patch

Another way we raise money to support mission programs is through a church-wide yard sale. We do not do this every year, but when we do, it involves most of our members in work and fellowship. Not only does it raise money, we feel it provides a service to the community by offering a lot of great “stuff” at very low cost and it brings into our church people who might not otherwise come through our doors. Just another way for us to spread the Good News!

yard sale Yard Sale

When it comes to outreach ministries that support the Chattahoochee Valley area, EPC directly touches the lives of many. For example, for years a group of our members participated monthly in prison ministry. They went into local prisons and shared the Good News by worshipping with the inmates. Our congregation collects canned goods and non-perishable items for the Second Harvest Food Bank. We participate in Habitat for Humanity home building efforts. And we charter and provide a home for Boy Scout Troop 98--one of the largest Scout troops in the entire area. We also charter a Cub Scout Pack.

For many years Edgewood Presbyterian Church has served the needs of the people of our community by providing a place for national support organizations to conduct their meetings. Almost every day of the week, our buildings offer a place where those with serious problems can come for help and support. The following social service organizations utilize our church facilities:

Al Anon: Al-Anon members are people who have been affected by someone else's drinking. They are parents, children, spouses, partners, brothers, sisters, other family members, friends, employers, employees, and coworkers of alcoholics. A chapter meets each Saturday at EPC.
Alcoholics Anonymous: AA is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. An AA chapter meets three times each week (Mon, Thurs, Sat) at EPC.
Narc Anon: NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. They meet regularly to help each other stay clean. Each Friday evening a chapter meets at EPC.
Overeaters Anonymous: OA is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. They welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. A chapter meets Monday evening and Saturday morning in our education center.
Compassionate Friends: The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide infomation to help others be supportive. On the second Tuesday evening of each month, a small chapter meets in the Education Center.

You do not have to be a member of EPC to avail yourself of the support these organizations have to offer. If you need them, simply show up when they are in session and they will help you or call the church office and you will be given the telephone number of a contact person who can help you.