Outreach

Christ Church volunteers join volunteers from other churches to provide and support the following services:

Emmaus House

Emmaus House is an interfaith ministry that feeds breakfast to 200+ hungry people each morning, Monday through Friday. Begun in 1982, Emmaus House is located on the first floor of the  Christ Church parish house at the corner of Abercorn and Bryan Streets, with the entrance on Bryan Street. The founding congregations for Emmaus House are Christ Church, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, First Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church and the Lutheran Church of the Ascension. Members from Christ Church and other area congregations volunteer to help serve the meals, and at Christ Church, the second Sunday of each month, parishioners are asked to bring breakfast food items to donate for our Emmaus House “Ingathering Sunday”. Collection bins are provided at each entrance to the Church.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Observation

MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. DAY is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial discrimination in federal and state law and civil society.

Christ Church has a long history of honoring Dr. King, starting in 1968 by hosting the citywide church service after his assassination.  Each year, members of Christ Church join the Savannah  Observance Day Association’s various activities, including a march joined by other Episcopal congregations, churches, synagogues and mosques. The primary aim is to keep the focus on Dr. King's message to serve our fellow man and to eradicate poverty and social injustice.

Operation Paperback

This team collects, sorts, and ships donated paperback books and magazines to active and hospitalized military personnel in the U.S. and overseas. The team meets twice monthly: once to sort books into genres, and once to select, box and ship the books. Approximately 1,800 books and hundreds of magazines are shipped each year.

Project Smile

PROJECT SMILE is a prevention-oriented dental program for indigent children (ages 4 -14) started by Christ Church parishioners, Montie and Steve Acuff, which began in 1992 as a cooperative effort between the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia and the Anglican Diocese of Belize in Central America. Every year, various teams of volunteer dentists, along with auxiliary personnel, travel to St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church in Belize City where the team works in a permanent seven chair dental treatment facility in an unused classroom at St. Mary’s School. Gradually, the program has expanded to meet other needs at the school, including providing hot lunches, playground safety and equipment, and even a computer lab.

Over the Moon

OVER THE MOON believes that everyone deserves to be clean, healthy, happy, safe & dry. Its vision is to improve the health, ease of life, and dignity of our coastal neighbors. Launched by Christ Church parishioner Katherine Griffith in 2019, it is a volunteer-led 501(c)3 nonprofit that serves as a diaper and period supply bank servicing eight counties in Coastal Georgia and three in South Carolina.