2026 Summer Mission Project

Our Summer Mission Project is collecting brand new school supplies for students in need. This year the projection is 1,200 students! Through this, we will help students achieve success in school and beyond!

Click here for the full school supply list. Items can be left in the black bin under the Porte Cochere when the office is closed. Place in the school bus yellow “School Items” box at the Graham Charter Room when the office is open.

You may leave the shopping to Mission, if you prefer, through a monetary donation. Use the “Summer Mission Project” under “Special Offerings” at the Online Giving portal. You may write check payable to PCWS noting “school supplies” on the memo line. The Mission Team will be astute shoppers with any donated funds.

Our summer project is in collaboration with the Summer City Adventures camp held at PCWS this summer. All our school supplies will be given to the People’s Resource Center for their mid-August backpack distribution.

It’s wonderful envisioning each child’s excitement receiving a brand-new backpack with ALL the needed school supplies! We will continue to keep students, teachers and educational institutions in our hearts and prayers as the new school year starts!

2025 Summer Mission Project: People’s Resource Center

Our Summer Mission Project collected new school supplies for students in need. Our collection was in collaboration with the SummerCity Adventures camp held at PCWS. Through these combined efforts we filled the equivalent of 42 backpacks!  THANK YOU to those who bought supplies or donated funds for purchasing school items. 

All our new school supplies were given to the People’s Resource Center. They distributed backpacks to 989 students. How wonderful to help launch the students as they embarked on another academic year.

2024 Summer Mission Project: Meal Ministries Here and Abroad

We launched the Meal Ministry program for BEDS Plus providing nutritious meals for residents at the BEDS Medical Respite Center in Summit. The Meal Ministry allowed sharing of our loving hearts through a nutritious meal. Good nutrition is vital in helping medically challenged individuals working to overcome a serious illness

We capped off the summer combating global hunger in partnership with Rise Against Hunger!  This family-friendly meal-packing event packed 10,152 shelf-stable meals. The Loving Hearts of PCWS traveled with 46 full boxes of meals arriving at Timor-Leste, an island urgently needing nutritious meals.

2023 Summer Mission Project: Willing hands & loving hearts

The summer of 2023 found the Willing Hands and Loving Hearts of PCWS at work around the Chicago area.

We journeyed to Margaret’s Village. for a work day day at this transitional homeless shelter for women and children. Margaret’s Village has been a PCWS mission partner for over 50 years.

 

PCWS partnered with Rise Against Hunger in fighting against global hunger! 55 bodacious volunteers at this meal-packing event at PCWS created 10,152 shelf-stable meals. They were sent to Ukraine helping those desperate for food.  

 

 

During our trip to Bernie’s Book Bankwe pack hundreds of book bags. These free books are given to underserved readers across Northern Illinois.


Our final sojourn was to Feed My Starving Children. We joined with others in packing over 56,000 meals for children in need across the globe.

 

2022 Summer Mission Project: Welcome Home!

The Summer Mission Project built on the work started during the Lenten Challenge. We continued preparing to support a refugee family through RefugeeOne. We gathered furniture and household items while waiting for the family’s arrival. We recruited volunteers for helping the family acclimate to their new city and community. Our family arrived in September and moved into our furnished apartment. How wonderful getting to know the family members in the ensuing months.