How We Serve

All year long we support 100 Nights Shelter and End 68 hours of Hunger with donations that are dropped off in our side-door foyer, open 24/7.  Our support of Heifer International is through an Alternative Giving Initiative sponsored by our Sunday School children during the weeks of Advent each year. The photo on this page is of the Grand Opening of the expansive new Hundred Nights Shelter, 122-124 Water Street, Keene, NH on August 1, 2023.

Hundred Night’s Shelter

Current Wish List of Donated Needs

Fall ~ 2024

  1. Men’s jeans – sizes 30,32,34

  2. Men’s & women’s hiking shoes/boots – all sizes

  3. Hooded sweatshirts

  4. XL Bandaids

  5. Individual use antibacterial ointment packets

  6. Cold/Flu medication (Nyquil)

  7. Cough Drops

  8. Vitamin C/Emergency/Airborne individual use packets

  9. Large Shampoo and Conditioner

  10. Body Wipes

End 68 Hours of Hunger

Current Wish List of Donated Needs

Heifer International

 

Our 2024 Heifer International Holiday Living Gift Market will be offered in-person in the Church Hall and also through our personalized online link at:  https://fundraise.heifer.org/campaign/dublin-community-church-living-gift-market-2024/c642101 from 12/1 through 12/31.  A match will be in effect through 12/31, so all purchases will be doubled!  

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach him how to fish and you feed him for his life time.”

Heifer International works to end hunger and poverty in partnership with the communities they serve.  Their programs support entrepreneurs around the world, creating lasting change from the ground up.  It begins with a seed investment of livestock or agriculture, followed by mentorship to help project participants build a business, and ultimately to gain access to supply chains and markets.  These families are able to earn a living income and continuously lift up their communities as they train the next generation of leaders.  By supporting and training the world’s farmers, ranchers, and female business owners, they are investing in a new breed of success.

The Dublin Community Church Sunday School has been an active supporter of Heifer for many years.  On the first Sunday of Advent each year the children present their church family with a well-organized opportunity to engage in “alternative giving.”  Symbolic goats, bees, trees, fish, heifers, chicks, sheep, water buffaloes, rabbits, bio-gas stoves…the list is long!  The buyer purchases the animal, gifts that improve sanitation, health and access to clean water, or even help send a girl to school; in return the buyer is given honor cards that can be given to the recipients of these valuable gifts.  The sale takes place on all four Sundays of Advent, always running through December 31st. 

A Thank You Video From Heifer International

Additional Ways We Serve

The Dublin Community Church is so blessed to have been able to tithe (10%) of its annual budget to outreach efforts over the last couple of years.  We are a church of generous givers!

Here is a list of the organizations DCC financially supports in 2023, which is in addition to our ongoing support of donations items to the Hundred Nights Shelter and End 68 Hours of Hunger and financial donations to Heifer International.

Board Air Fund

        Monadnock Interfaith Project

Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday Giving

Monadnock Area Transitional Shelter

Ministers Aid Fund

Monadnock Center for Violence

Monadnock Family Services

The Family Center

UCC Immigrant Relief Fund

VNA at HCS

UCC Wider Missions

Monadnock Food Bank

Dublin Community Preschool

Hundred Night Shelter

End 68 Hours of Hunger