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Refugee
Resettlement Program
UBC has worked with the Austin Travis County Refugee Agency and Austin Area
Interreligious Ministries to help settle refuges in Austin. UBC helped to acquaint
the families with facilities in Austin, provide rent for the first month, provide
household furnishings and clothing. Volunteers will provided ongoing English
instruction. The entire church becomes involved in this project.
Austin
Children's Shelter
UBC participated in a project for displaced children who have been removed from
their homes because of abuse and await permanent placement in foster care, UBC
had a teddy bear drive to provide a stuffed toy for each child in the Austin
Children's Shelter. The bears were dedicated and given to the Shelter for distribution.
Mission
Tours and Training
International Mission Tours: The Mission Action Committee has sponsored mission
work tours, helping to raise half of the funds needed for missioners who have
supplied the first half of the expenses.
Mission Conference: The Mission Committee has sponsored trips to Green Lake,
Wisconsin, the first week in August each year, for an American Baptist World
Mission Conference. Missionaries on Home Assignment, along with national leaders
from countries overseas, provide workshops in which they discuss the international
ministry. The conference is planned with activities for all ages, and its primary
purpose is to give conferees a comprehensive look at global missions.
Habitat
for Humanity
In the past UBC has contributed to Habitat for Humanity. Habitat is an non-profit
housing organization dedicated to eliminating poor housing throughout the world.
Applicants who meet certain financial criteria are invited to become participants
in building their own home, with area volunteers, on weekends. They are given
a no-interest mortgage that is held by Habitat. UBC currently contributes financially
to Habitat, and hopes to encourage volunteer work teams in the near future.
Freeze
Shelter
UBC has partnered with participating Micah 6 Coalition Churches and the Lifeworks
Program to provide shelter on nights when freezing weather was predicted.
Meals on
Wheels
Individuals or groups are needed to deliver meals once a week at lunchtime to
8 to 10 homebound people once a week. Delivery takes about an hour. Other opportunities
include grocery shopping for the homebound once or twice a month which can be
done after work or on the weekends; transporting clients to their doctor's appointments;
making a daily call to make sure your assigned client is okay or be a "phone
friend' and call someone who is lonely a couple of times a week; spending a
few hours one Saturday a month doing minor home repairs in our clients houses;
delivering groceries provided by the Capital Area Food Bank once a month.
Contact: Suellen Mills