OAPC supports a variety of helping agencies in our community and around the world through its individual members and the Missions Committee.

Our Benevolences for This Year Include:

• Adult Enrichment Center/Rock Hill (formerly Park Avenue Adult Day Care)
  provides medical, respite, Alzheimer's, and social care for the elderly

• Affinity Health Care (formerly Catawba Care)
  provides medical care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS

• Alternative Gift Focus - this event encourages alternatives to consumerism at Christmas time, supports our Mission Partners financially, and deepens relationships between Mission Partners and our congregation.
  Alternative Gift Catalog -- Simplify your Christmas giving and honor a loved one by supporting our Mission Partners, who reach out to care for our community and others throughout the world. (catalog to be linked when available.)
  Equal Exchange - Your purchase is more than just delicious -- it goes a long way toward empowering farmers, strengthening democratic co-ops and changing the food system -- organic chocolate; coffee, tea, fair foods.
  Who we are and what we believe in - watch video.
  
  Greenery Order form -- handmade garland and wreaths; Christmas trees are unavailable this year due to a shortage of trees in NC.
  SERRV nonprofit, fair trade -- selling handcrafted products to benefit disadvantaged artisans, farmers and their families.
  Auction -- information will be updated as available

• Children's Attention Home
  provides emergency residential shelter for abused and neglected children

• Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen
  interdenominational hot meal lunch program Mon.-Sat. OAPC serves on 3^rd Tuesdays and 5^th Saturdays.

• Family Promise (formerly Interfaith Hospitality Network)
  a program that provides food, shelter, and training for homeless families

• Haven Men's Shelter
  shelter and a meal for homeless men

• HOPE House
  Helping Other People Effectively ministers to those in need by providing groceries and partial payments for utilities and medicines.

• HOPE Garden
  OAPC members plant, tend and harvest crops to donate to Project H. O. P. E. Ministry. Contact: Sue Smith, 803-328-8681

• Just Coffee
  is a coffee cooperative developed by our Missionary Team in Agua Prieta, Mexico

• NAMI
  National Alliance for the Mentally Ill is an education and advocay group for people with brain disorders. Support Groups meet on the 2^nd & 4^th Tuesdays at 6:15 p.m. in rooms 202/203; an open Education Meeting meets quarterly at 7:30 p.m. on the 2nd Tuesday of March, June, Sept. and Dec. in Fellowship Hall.

• Pilgrim's Inn
  offers five programs to assist individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless

• Safe Passage
  supportive service for families living with abuse

• Saluda Center
  counseling services for a variety of needs such as for the emotionally troubled, families, and clergy training.

• STAR (Student Tutorial And Recreation Program)
  provides after-school assistance with homework to 1st-5th graders from Ebenezer Elementary School

Groups we support through special campaigns and participation in quarterly or yearly events:

• Crop Walk -- Sun., Nov. 3, 3 p.m., WU Dinkins Front Lawn (Registration at 2 p.m.)

• Habitat For Humanity (OAPC partners with a Faith Build yearly; next work date to be announced.)

• Red Cross (quarterly Blood Drives: usually the first Monday of March, June, September, and December -- 2019 dates: June 3, Sept. 9, Dec. 2

PC(U.S.A.) Institutions we support:

• Montreat Conference Center

• Thornwell Home for Children

Non-Profit Groups we support through use of our facilities:

• AA -- meets at 5:30 p.m., Mon.-Fri., Presbyterian Student Center

• Al-Anon --meets at Noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, room 202

• Chemically Dependent Anonymous -- meets at 10 a.m. Saturdays, Presbyterian Student Center

• DBSA (Depression/Bipolar Support Alliance) -- meets 1^st & 3^rd Thursdays, 7:15 p.m., Presbyterian Student Center

• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) --  General Educ. meetings are held quarterly (March/June/Sept./Dec.) 2^nd Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m., Fellowship Hall; Connections and Family Support groups meet 2^nd and 4^th Tuesdays, 6:15 p.m., room 202 education wing; family classes meet when scheduled.