Additional Local Charities or Non-profit Organizations with local affiliates:

After the Fire (P.O. Box 4188 Halfmoon, NY 12065 – www.afterthefire.org)
After the fire is a volunteer, non-profit, publicly supported organization helping people in Saratoga County who have been victims of fire in their home. Members are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They work with families during and after the fire helping with a place to stay, personal care items, clothing, food, information and emotional support.

Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region

(433 State Street 4th Floor, Schenectady, NY 12305 www.asgcr.org)
Our mission is to promote lifelong access and opportunities for people on the autism spectrum and their families, so they can be fully participating, included members of their communities. We do this through advocacy, public awareness, education, and compassionate support. Our vision is to be the voice and resource for everyone who interacts with the autism community in the Greater Capital Region.

Things of My Very Own, Inc.

(1011 Cheyenne Rd., Scotia, NY 12302)
Things of My Very Own, Inc. provides crisis intervention services to children impacted by extensive abuse and/or neglect. Our goal is to keep children together with non-abusive family members, and out of the foster care system, whenever possible. Legally a child must have their own bed, warm blankets, clothing, hygiene products and an adequate supply of food to remain with their non-abusive family members. We strive to ensure that these children are given everything they need from the first moment on and to help them know that what they have endured does not define who they grow up to be.

VCHC Veterans & Community Housing Coalition – VetHelp Program

(20 Prospect Street, Building 2 Suite 313, Ballston Spa, NY 12020 – www.vchcny.org)
We believe the words homeless and Veteran should never be used in the same sentence. Our mission is to ensure that all Veterans in the Counties that we serve have safe, decent, affordable housing. We provide support services, advocacy, financial assistance and transitional and permanent housing to help our Veterans achieve that goal.

National Charitable Organizations

Disabled American Vets
(P.O. Box 14301 Cincinnati, OH 45250 – www.dav.org)
DAV Charitable Service Trust stands up for veterans because they stood up for us. The Trust supports a wide variety of programs that enable veterans and their families to access the services they need. Provides a lifetime of support for veterans of all generations and their families, helping more than 1 million veterans in positive, life-changing ways each year.

Wounded Warrior Project

(4899 Belfort Road, Suite 300, Jacksonville, FL 32256 – www.woundedwarriorproject.org)
“Wounded Warrior Project” (WWP) takes a holistic approach when serving warriors and their families to nurture the mind and body, and encourage economic empowerment and engagement. Through a high-touch and interactive approach WWP hopes to foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation’s history.” Their purpose is to: raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members; to help injured service members aid and assist others; and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members.

International Charitable Organizations

Samaritans Purse
(P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607 –www.samaritanspurse.org)
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

***Donations can be marked “Where Most Needed” (012000) or Designated to a specific program ie. Children’s Heart Project (013687), Operation Heal Our Patriots (013960), U.S. Disaster Relief (013622), Operation Christmas Child, etc.

RCA Missions

Local Missions:
Camp Fowler Scholarship Fund and/or Camp Fowler Conference and Retreat Center
(1790 Grand Blvd., Schenectady, NY 12309 – www.campfowler.org)
For over 64 years the ministry at Camp Fowler has worked in partnership with the churches in upstate to help us all live our baptismal vows to “love, encourage, and support these brothers and sisters by teaching the gospel of God’s love and being an example of Christian faith and character…”(RCA baptismal liturgy) We function first and foremost as a summer camp, aiming to provide space for children to be themselves, learn from those who are different from them, and intimately experience wonder and love. In the off season, we offer on-site retreats that revolve around themes of stewardship, relationships, youth ministry, and spirituality.

*** If any of our Amity young people are interested in going to camp we could supplement part the expense (Camp Fowler Scholarship Fund) or we can do what we have done in the past and send the all of the donations to the Regional Synod office.

Global:

(Reformed Church in America, Attn: Finance, 4500 60th St. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49512 – www.rca.)

We can designate for the ministry or mission of our choice from the following list:
RCA Global Mission
Current (Jan. 2020) Partnership-in-Mission (PIM) missionaries raising support

• Bob Abel (Remember Nhu in Thailand) – Working to end child sex slavery.
• John Hubers (Consultant for Christian-Muslim Relations in Ethiopia)
• Jennifer Lucking (Restorations Second Stage Homes in Canada)
• Doug McClintic (European Church Planting Coordinator)
• Bob Oliveira (Strategic Impact Project Leader Brazil)
• Felipe and Janelle deWaard-Silva (Youth and Abused Women in Romania)

Refugee Crisis – Syrian Refugees in Europe
Water Projects – Care Network – clean water around the world
International Disasters
Feed One – feeding hungry children around the world and right here in North America

The RCA website provides more detailed information and descriptions for each of the above.

Proposed Mission of the Month for 2023