Service and Outreach

Sharing God’s love in Hot Springs and around the world.

A collage of five photos showing community or church events. The top left features a woman in a black apron standing next to dresses on a rack with another person seated in the background. The top right exhibits two people, a man and a woman, packing items at a table with a blue bulletin board behind them. The middle left displays children and an adult in a kitchen or cafeteria setting, with food and supplies on the counter. The middle right shows three adults at a table with snacks and supplies, possibly preparing or organizing. The bottom right depicts children playing in a small inflatable pool outdoors on a grassy area, with two standing nearby.

Food Pantry

Our food pantry is open the 4th Tuesday of each month from 10am-12pm. We provide boxes of perishable and non-perishable groceries to local residents, assisting dozens of families each month. We’re always looking for volunteers, so let us know if you’d like to help!

Snack Packs Ministry

We recognize that needs don’t follow a schedule. If you’re not able to make it on one of our food pantry days, or just need something to help you get by, we offer small bags of non-perishable items all throughout the month. Just come by our building during office hours.

Local Partners

Project Hope Foodbank. We purchase food for our pantry from Project Hope.
Adult & Teen Challenge of Arkansas. A faith-based addiction recovery program for teenagers and adults. Every year or two, a group from this ministry leads our Sunday worship, offering songs and testimonies of God’s work. Our church supports them through a special offering on this day, and many of our members provide ongoing support through donations.
Hot Springs Community Resource Center. Our members donate items and volunteer for city-sponsored projects like the Warming Center that provide support for our at-risk and unsheltered neighbors.
Garland County Habitat for Humanity. Over the years, we’ve donated portions of our property on Watt Street in Hot Springs to help build affordable housing for folks in need. Here’s an article about the most recent build!
Al-Anon. A local Al-Anon group meets in our building every Monday and Thursday at 11am.

National and Global Missions

FCC sets aside a portion of its annual budget for Disciples Mission Fund, which in turn distributes funds to various ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). By supporting this ministry, we’re able to extend our impact beyond Hot Springs to include projects across our nation and around the world. Through our DMF tithe, as well as special offerings throughout the year, we provide support to incredible agencies such as:

Week of Compassion: our denomination’s disaster and refugee response organization. Week of Compassion provides resources and volunteers to aid in disaster recovery domestically and globally.
National Benevolent Association: the health and social services arm of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). This ministry “collaborates with leaders and with health and social service organizations to strengthen and transform communities through compassion, healing, and justice.”
New Church Ministry: aids in the formation of new communities of faith in order to extend the message of God’s love to new people in diverse communities across the US and Canada.
Global Ministries: a joint ministry of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ, this agency works with approximately 250 partners in nearly 90 countries to support churches, connect personnel, and share resources. Whether by offering microcredit loans for women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, replanting olive groves in Palestine, or training Sunday School teachers in Syria, the goal is the same: to help “all of God’s people and creation share in God’s abundant life.”

By God’s grace, our local, ordinary community of faith is able to make a difference for thousands of people worldwide!