REGIONAL MISSION:
Housing
In May 2004 during our annual retreat, we embraced HOUSING as our regional mission. Some of the members of the region were already helping as volunteers in two projects, so we decided to help in any way we can.
Projects
The two projects are:
Waltham Alliance To Create Housing (WATCH)
A non-profit community development corporation founded in 1988 to serve the residents of Waltham, Massachusetts. Its mission is to preserve and promote affordable housing, and to promote economic opportunities for low and moderate income residents.
WATCH seeks to build, empower, and stabilize neighborhoods and communities in Waltham.
For more information, please go to www.watchcdc.org
MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES
Mustard Seed Communities is a non-profit, community development organization that began in 1978 in the depressed community of Mona Common on the outskirts of the city of Kingston, Jamaica.
However, the core purpose of the organization is to care for abandoned handicapped children. To this end Mustard Seed Communities now cares for over 220 children across Jamaica, Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The organization is currently constructing a home for AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe
Mustard Seed's objective is to promote the enrichment and empowerment of the spiritually, psychologically and financially poor that live in urban communities, to assist them in leaving the cycles of frustration and hopelessness that dominate their lives.
For more information, please go to www.mustardseed.com
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Lord, teach me to be generous.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to ask for reward,
save that of knowing that I do your will.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
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