Grace Community Church

Serving our neighbourhood

Here you will find details and contacts for a number of currently active ministries served by GCC members.  Some have originated in this church, others have a national activity which are supported through a local group.  If you would like to know more, please contact the person listed alongside, or if in doubt, contact Grace Office.

Pregnancy Crisis Care (Plymouth & SE Cornwall)

Serving Plymouth, Tavistock, Saltash, Torpoint, Exeter, Callington, Ivybridge, South Hams,Devon, Yealmpton, Yelverton and Horrabridge, Liskeard, South-East Cornwall.

The centre offers free, confidential pregnancy testing, alongside impartial advice, information and support for unplanned / crisis pregnancy, pre- and post-abortion support, information re unprotected sex, contraception and STI’s.

All these services are free, confidential, available to women (and partners) of all ages.

Contact details:-

Telephone: 01752 246788

Address: 2nd Floor – Kinterbury House, Kinterbury Street, Plymouth, PL1 2DG

Bed pushers

We are one of 7 teams of volunteers, mostly from Plymouth churches, serving Derriford Hospital (1400 beds!) each weekend.  Our purpose is to support the work of the hospital Chaplains and enable patients to get to the services in the chapel.  We have had the privilege of seeing God use us in praying for people and supporting them at what are often very difficult times.

FoodBank

Local people donate non-perishable and long-life food to our Foodbank in Liskeard, where it is collated and made up into food boxes that will support one person for 3 days. The Foodbank gives the boxes of food to clients referred to us by local care professionals, like the Social Services, when they encounter individuals and families with no immediate source of money to feed themselves or their children.

Email us or tel: 07512 011452

trusselltrust.org

Gideons International

The Gideons International exists with the aim of winning men, women and young people for the Lord Jesus Christ by three methods – the association of Christian business and professional ment and their wives for service, personal testimony and personal work by all members, and placing and presenting Bibles and Testaments in the main streams of life.
Beginning in 1903 in Wisconsin, USA, it is now active in 194 countries worldwide through a network of small local groups known as branches formed from Gideon Members, supported in prayer by Gideon Friends. Our own local group is the South-east Cornwall branch, comprising 15 members and about 100 friends. Together, we aim to offer testaments to all year 7 pupils throughout the district, and make bibles availlable to every hotel, B & B, hospital, college, surgery, etc. For more information, contact Eric Cowan

Hope UK

Hope UK is a Christian alcohol and drug education charity that enables young people to make drug-free choices. It achieves this by training voluntary Drug Educators to work within their local communities.
If you are interested in training as an Educator or would like a drug awareness session for your organisation, please contact Clare Vincent by email. For more information see www.hopeuk.org

Rusty Bucket

Rusty Bucket is an independent charity served by many members of GCC Morval.  Through our partnership with Christians Against Poverty (CAPMoney courses) and our establishment of a community coffee shop in East Looe, The Rusty Bucket CRC seeks to reach those in our local community who have needs and challenges in their lives. We want them to understand and appreciate God’s love for them through our actions as a charity.
www.therustybucket.co.uk
www.therustybucketcoffeeshop.co.uk
www.facebook.com/TheRBCoffeeShop

Street Pastors

There are now over 9,000 Street Pastors in towns and cities across Britain, and over
500 in Devon and Cornwall.

Our aim is to train volunteers drawn from a variety of local Christian churches to
provide a listening ear and practical help to those on the street at
night.  We patrol the streets of
Liskeard and Looe on Saturday nights, working in partnership with the police,
local councils and a range of organisations.

www.streetpastors.org.uk

email

Torch Trust

Torch Trust is a ‘non-denominational’ organisation, producing Christian literature in accessible media for visually impaired people. Over 120 Fellowship Groups meet regularly in the UK bringing together blind, partially-sighted sighted and sighted people, with many more meeting abroad.

Email: Trudi Price

Website: www.torchtrust.org

Tregertha

The elderly residents of Tregertha Home in Looe receive a small group of Grace folk once a month on a Sunday afternoon.  They lead a short time of worship and prayer.  For more information contact Heather Veale via Grace Office.