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
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Men’s jeans – sizes 30,32,34
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Men’s & women’s hiking shoes/boots – all sizes
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Hooded sweatshirts
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XL Bandaids
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Individual use antibacterial ointment packets
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Cold/Flu medication (Nyquil)
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Cough Drops
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Vitamin C/Emergency/Airborne individual use packets
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Large Shampoo and Conditioner
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Body Wipes
End 68 Hours of Hunger
Current Wish List of Donated Needs
Heifer International
Our 2023 Heifer International Holiday Living Gift Market was a huge success! With the matching offer from a group of generous Heifer Community Donors, we raised $4145.00. Thanks to all who participated in this most important event. Our Sunday School will be offering this alternative gift giving option again during the 2024 Holiday Season!
“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. The Pandemic Christmas of 2020 saw our doors shuttered. But we made friends with Rachel, a Heifer worker from Concord, who set us up with our very own personalized site to purchase our gifts on line; that will be an alternative option going forward. Our church has raised thousands of dollars for this most worthy cause over the years.
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
