Who We Support
Locally
American Heritage Girls is a Christ-centered character and leadership development program for girls 5 to 18 years of age. AHG is dedicated to the mission of building women of integrity through service to God, family, community, and country.
We sponsor American Heritage Girls Troop NC2237. The girls meet on the second and fourth Mondays throughout the school year.
The Mission of Eastern Catawba Cooperative Christian Ministry, Inc. is to bring together the resources of the Christian community to serve people in need of crisis assistance, support and education, in response to God’s call. ECCCM offers crisis assistance to qualifying individuals in our area.
We support ECCCM financially through our loose offering and through our budgeted benevolence offerings. We also collect canned foods at the beginning of each month to donate to their food pantry
The Corner Table is a non-profit organization in Catawba County whose mission is to provide meals with compassion, respect, and dignity to those in our community affected by hunger.
We give money to support the efforts of The Corner Table through our loose offering and through our yearly budgeted benevolence offerings.
The Pregnancy Care Center of Catawba Valley Exists to uphold the sanctity of human life by demonstrating the love of Christ to:
- Women facing unplanned pregnancies and related issues through the provision of spiritual, physical, and emotional support by proclaiming the Gospel.
- The community-at-large by promoting the Biblical view of sex and marriage through education.
New Jerusalem helps support the Pregnancy Care Center through our loose offering and through our yearly budgeted benevolence offerings.
The Backpack Program serves children in forty+ local schools who face hunger on the weekends in Catawba and Alexander County. Each week school is in session, over 800 children receive a bag full of food weighing up to 7 lbs.
New Jerusalem helps support the Backpack Program via donations received through our loose offering.
Word of Life Lutheran Church is a mission congregation in the NALC in Vale, NC.
We make monthly financial contributions to this mission congregation through our loose offering.
Nationally and Internationally
Red Cross volunteers and staff work to deliver vital services – from providing relief and support to those in crisis, to helping you be prepared to respond in emergencies.
New Jerusalem hosts spring, summer, fall, and winter blood drives each year. We also support the American Red Cross financially through our loose offering.
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world.
We contribute to Samaritan’s financially through our loose offering. We also collect shoeboxes for their Operation Christmas Child program.
The mission of Lutheran World Relief: “Affirming God’s love for all people, we work with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice and human suffering.”
We help support LWR financially through our loose offerings. The Piece Makers quilting group also make quilts each year for LWR to give to families in need after natural disasters. The Lutheran Women of New Jerusalem donate school supplies to the LWR school kit program to help impoverished children receive an education.
Bolstered by an interdependent network of five campuses, the North American Lutheran Seminary (NALS) is part of God’s movement in this culture, time, and place. Hundreds will be raised over the next decade– formed in the Great Tradition of confessional and evangelical Lutheran Faith. The NALS is singularly focused on forming pastors and church leaders with an education that is at once shaped by Christian tradition and bound by the Holy Scriptures.
New Jerusalem financially supports the NALS through our budgeted benevolence fund each year.
Congo Mission, International offers biblical and theological education, supports the feeding of children suffering from hunger and malnutrition, “frees” babies and mothers detained in clinics after birth due to the lack of funds to pay their bills, provides Bibles in local languages to leaders, supports farming projects to help grow food locally, and ministers in many other ways.
We contribute financially to Congo Mission, International through our loose offerings.