Reaching out
Loving our neighbors well
First Congregational is committed to being a good neighbor to Wellington Heights and to Cedar Rapids. Here is where that happens, and how to help.
Wellington Heights Food Pantry
The pantry began here in 2023 to provide nutritious food and basic necessities to our neighbors with kindness and respect. It is open the second and fourth Sundays of each month, 12:30 to 2:30 PM, except holidays, and is now part of the Wellington Heights Community Services Foundation. Non-discrimination statement.
VolunteerMonday Munchies
A snack and a free book for kids on their way home from school on Monday afternoons. Also part of the Wellington Heights Community Services Foundation.
Volunteer
The little food pantry
An outdoor pantry of non-perishable food, and meal kits when we have them. Anyone can give, and anyone can take.
Give food
Johnson STEAM Academy
Our partner across the street, with back-to-school events and supplies, and cookouts for the neighborhood in summer. The Boys and Girls Club met in our building for two decades before we helped it build a home of its own next door.
Help with this
The partners we fund
Helping Hands Ministry, the Ecumenical Center, Community Health Free Clinic, Willis Dady Men's Shelter, Waypoint, Mission of Hope and Family Promise of Linn County, among others. Members also serve on their own with Habitat for Humanity, the Wellington Heights Neighborhood Association, Churches United and the Lions Club.
Give
Got an idea?
Through the year we organize special collections and projects with local agencies. If you see a new way to serve, tell us and we will try to make it happen.
Tell usYou are welcome here
Join us Sunday at 10 AM
The service lasts about an hour, there is a staffed nursery downstairs, and coffee waits in Fellowship Hall afterward. Can't get here? The service is live on YouTube and Facebook every week.