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Our Current Recipient

If using our secure online donation form, please specify SOS (Shatter Our Silence) in the memo field.

Organizations that have received financial assistance through our PayIt4ward initiative

The 4th Sunday of each month is designated for special offerings to a local grassroots charity or national non-profit chosen by the Community Care Ministry. In addition to our congregation's financial contributions, our Concert on the Creek audiences have been very generous in their donations. 

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To-date, we have collected and distributed over $9000 to the following non-profits since the initiative's October 2018 inception. Suggestions for future recipients are welcomed and appreciated!

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  • United Church of Christ Hurricane Aid Fund

  • Laundry Love (2 collection drives)

  • One Body Collaborative

  • Crusader Clinic's Healthcare for the Homeless

  • The Haven Network

  • Milestone's Adopt-a-Camper

  • Shelter Care Ministries

  • Carpenter's Place (2 collection drives)

  • Noah's Ark

  • Remedies

  • Feed My Starving Children

  • Rosie's Birthday Club

  • Veteran's Drop-In Center

  • United Way COVID-19 Emerging Needs Fund

  • Rockford Urban Ministries

  • Family Peace Center

  • Crop Hunger Walk 2021

  • PAWS Humane Society of Rockford

  • Prairie State Legal Services

  • Robb School Memorial Fund / Uvalde, Texas

  • Mpingo Village Kids Back-to-School Project

  • NAMI of Northern Illinois (National Alliance on Mental Illness)

  • Children's Home and Aid

  • Nik's Wish (Nikolas Ritschel Foundation)

  • The Arc - a Disability Rights Organization

  • Jubilee Center at Shelter Care Ministries

  • Hoo Haven

  • The LIAM Foundation

  • Discovery Center Museum of Rockford

  • Shatter Our Silence (SOS)

Our Winter 2025 (JAN-FEB-MARCH) PayIt4Ward Collection will benefit Shatter Our Silence.​

 

Shatteroursilence.org is an organization founded by Kevin Polky, CSW in 2016 to raise awareness and educate youth and young adults, their significant others and the professionals that work with them on the factors that lead to young adult suicide.

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Over the past 8 years, trained mental health advocates have provided hundreds of workshops at various schools, churches, and organizations, teaching tools and strategies to help prevent suicide. They often work with schools after one of their students or staff have died as a result of suicide. They believe awareness and education are the essential keys to preventing suicide. Donations are used to fund workshops and events to further their important work.

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A thermometer graph will be displayed at church and updated as donations are received. We are setting a goal of $500 and hope to reach or surpass that goal to support this worthy organization. Donations may be sent in or dropped off to the church office, or made electronically through the Spring Creek website's DONATE button located at the top of every webpage. Please specify PayIt4Ward in the memo field or select it from the dropdown menu of giving selections.

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