Emmanuel UCC, Hanover is a member of the Gettysburg Association in the Penn Central Conference.  Penn Central Conference www.pccucc.org includes 49,758 members in 208 churches having about 6,923 members and 991 Sunday School students in an area reaching from Bethel UCC, Spring Grove, located about three miles east of Hanover near Smith Station Road to St. John’s UCC, McKnightstown, west of Gettysburg and from St. David’s UCC, Hanover, located south of Hanover near the Maryland border to Mt. Olivet UCC in East Berlin. 

The Mission and Outreach Committee promotes our support of the Penn Central Conference (PCC), Gettysburg Association (GA), Lancaster Theological Seminary www.lts.org (LTS), Homewood at Plum Creek (HPC), Hoffman Homes for Youth www.hoffmanhomes.com (HH) and other benevolent concerns including:  Our Church's Wider Mission Campaign www.ucc.org/ocwm (OCWM), Church World Service www.churchworldservice.org  (CWS), Samaritan's Purse/Operation Christmas Child www.samaritanspurse.org CROP Walk, and Hanover Area Council of Churches (HACC) www.hanoverareacouncilofchurches.org .


Under the leadership of Bev and Bob Marchio, Emmanuel UCC prepares lunches for the Hanover Area Council of Churches PAL lunch program on the 5th Tuesdays.  (See photo of volunteers, upper right corner)

Volunteers at the Brethren Service Center  SERRV facility in New Windsor, Maryland unpack, tag, wrap and repack Fair Trade items for redistribution nationally through their international catalog and website www.serrv.org.  Elinor and Franklin Williams coordinate the group and transportation on the 1st Tuesday of each month. 

Compassionate Crafters meet weekly on Mondays at 1-3 PM.  They donated knitted baby items to Hanover Hospital Maternity Unit, prayer shawls to "Shawls for Debbie" through VNA, and caps and scarves to Alliance Oncology.  This is an ongoing project to serve the community and our own members who are shut-in and/or recovering from long-term hospitalization and surgery.