Community
CBC actively supports local, national and global causes. Past service projects include mission trips to the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Maine. Closer to home, we continue our service by providing disadvantaged students with backpacks filled with school supplies at the start of every school year. At Christmas, we “adopt” several families in need, donating the gifts on family members’ wish lists. Once a month, community members gather at CBC to sew dresses as part of the national “Little Dresses for Africa” project.
The congregation contributes to local causes such as the Jamestown Community Farm and a women’s resource center. We also provide financial support to a Liberian medical student and contribute to natural disaster relief funds.
Our centrally located building plays a pivotal role in our community outreach efforts. We house the Jamestown Community Food Pantry and serve as a venue for the local Community Chorus practices and concerts, free community chair yoga classes, and a weekly walking group.
Beyond these missions, a group of our church members plays a key role in organizing and leading the Jamestown Ukrainian Relief Project.
Mission
In partnership with our Jamestown community, we seek to minimize hunger and provide nutritional sustenance for our neighbors.
Vision
We envision a community in which everyone has enough nutritious food to eat, and hunger and its effects are ended.
Originating in a series of community conversations sponsored by CBC in response to the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Jamestown Ukraine Relief Project (JURP) is a locally-based, non-denominational, all-volunteer 501(c)3 organization that along with its affiliate, the Ukraine Relief Project-Aquidneck (URP-A), has provided over $165,000 in support of humanitarian relief, advocacy, and rebuilding efforts for Ukraine and its people.
Initial tranches of funds went to direct relief organizations such as Doctors without Borders and World Central Kitchen, and to Razom for Ukraine. In November 2022, as attacks on Ukraine’s power grid plunged the country into darkness, JURP co-founded SunLight Ukraine, sending more than 4,000 solar lanterns to Ukraine, with the first shipments arriving by Hanukkah and Christmas. More recently, JURP has focused on Ukraine’s war-impacted children. Through a collaboration with the Ukraine Children’s Action Project (UCAP). JURP fully funded the $30,500 cost of an art studio in a UCAP-sponsored youth enrichment center, where internally displaced children relocated to Lviv can share their challenges through artistic expression. Also with UCAP, JURP has supported recovery camps and the provision of remote learning computer tablets for these children. In recent months JURP/URP-A has helped to restore cardiac care for patients at the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, which sustained major damage in a Russian missile attack on July 8, 2024, has funded supplies for children with special needs in Odesa, and has helped supply HVAC and generator hookups at a school in Odesa.
Further details are available on the JURP website: JamestownUkraineReliefProject.org