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Local Missions
Somali Bantu & Sudanese Tutoring Program
Every Wednesday afternoon from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., volunteers from OPPC tutor Somali Bantu and Sudanese refugee children who are relocated refugees to Buffalo. The tutoring program covers both academic subjects for the children and life skills for children and parents that help in their transition to life in the United States.
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CROP Walk
Through our partnership with Park Parsons, OPPC participates in the annual CROP Walk. Each CROP walker is responsible for soliciting sponsors. The money raised goes toward hunger-fighting programs through Church World Service.
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Friends of Night People
Friends of Night People is a non-profit organization that serves dinner to the homeless and poor in the Buffalo area. On the third Wednesday of every month, OPPC prepares a meal and serves it at FONP. Volunteers are always needed to donate food, prepare the meal at OPPC, and/or go with the group to FONP to serve the meal. Volunteers meet at OPPC at 3:45 p.m. and return at 7:30 p.m.
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Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, non-demomination Christian housing organization. Through volunteer labor, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple
decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. On the fourth Saturday of the month, OPPC sends a team to work on a Habitat house. We leave the church at 8:30 a.m. and are home by 3:30 p.m. Particular building skills are not necessary. Habitat work site leaders will teach volunteers how to do anything that needs to be done. Volunteers must be 16 years or older.
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Family Promise
Family Promise, formerly kown as Interfaith Hospitality Network, is a program which brings shelter, meals and support services to families temporarily without homes. OPPC serves as a host congregation to homeless families in our area with other churches participating as the Southtowns Clusters. Four to five times a year, families stay in Fellowship Hall. Volunteers are needed to provide meals, entertainment and homework assistance for children and to stay overnight. This program is currently undergoing reorganization and is looking for financial support, and is presently "on hold."
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