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:

• Affinity Health Care (formerly Catawba Care)
  • provides medical care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS
• Alternative Gift Fair Catalog, please submit your order with payment by Dec. 30, 2018.
  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.
• Alternative Gift Fair, Sun., Nov. 18, noon-2:30 p.m., Activities Center (504 Oakland Ave.), lunch, auction, crafts
  • A yearly event held in late Nov. to encourage purchasing Christmas gifts that will benefit people served by OAPC's mission ministries.
  • Greenery Order form (due Nov. 4), click here;
  • Auction items, click here;
• Children's Attention Home
  • provides emergency residential shelter for abused and neglected children
• Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen
  • interdenominational hot meal lunch program Mon.-Sat.
• 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.
• Adult Enrichment Center (formerly Park Avenue Adult Day Care)
  • provides medical, respite, Alzheimer's, and social care for the elderly
• 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 - Nov. 4, 2018
• Habitat For Humanity (Faith Builds)
• Red Cross (quarterly Blood Drives:Usually the first Monday of March, June, September, and December)

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; support groups meet 2^nd and 4^th Tuesdays, 6:15 p.m., room 202 education wing; family classes meet when scheduled.