Ministries & Missions

Habitat for Humanity is committed to improving the lives of low-income families throughout Somerset and Hunterdon counties by helping them build and buy their own simple, decent homes. In 2018 Stanton Reformed Church completed their committed goal of raising $25,000.00  toward the building of a Habitat House in Lambertville, NJ for a family in need. As well as donating money, there are opportunities for you to participate in helping build the house and meet the family that will call it home. 

Website: www.rvhabitat.org

• Meals on Wheels 

SHIP, the Samaritan Homeless Interim Program, began operations on March 5, 1984 in response to the unheeded cry of the many women, children and men who are in desperate need of emergency housing and associated services.  

SHIP is a faith based, interfaith and community funded, assisted and supported, grassroots organization.

Clients coming to SHIP are in desperate need of help.  Many are the working poor.   They include those that suffer from homelessness or being near homeless.  Many are hungry or suffer from substance abuse dependency, HIV/AIDS, mental health issues, or neglect and isolation.  

Services are tailored to each individual’s need and vary in duration according to each individual or families situation.  SHIP provides this unique population with critically needed emergency interim services.  These services may include advocacy, emergency interim housing, interim counseling, and support services, that greatly enhance their chances of regaining their self-sufficiency again. SHIP is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the poor.  Clients are eligible to apply for all of SHIP’s Programs and Services.  

THERE ARE NO FEES CHARGED FOR SERVICES.

Stanton Reformed Church seasonally collects food and monetary donations for Readington Starfish for distribution to local families in need.  More info will be available during distribution times in the church bulletin and email communications. Or, you may call the Stanton Reformed Church office at 908-236-2381.

Re-Member is a non-profit working to alleviate the conditions of poverty and sub-standard housing among the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and to rebuild the broken relationships between native people and the dominant western culture in the U.S. In addition to offering financial support, groups from Stanton have traveled to Pine Ridge, and will again this summer to work with the Lakota people through Re-Member.

Website: www.re-member.org

Summer Service Team

More than 100 different individuals have traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with Stanton Reformed Church, and more than half of them have returned multiple years to experience again the unique opportunity to serve and learn alongside the Oglala Lakota People in South Dakota.  It’s a challenging experience, a humbling experience, one to be approached with an open mind and an open heart. In a strange reversal of social expectation, we leave with a far greater blessing than the one that we impart.

The Stanton Learning Center is a ministry of Stanton Reformed Church and shares with parents the belief that each child is a precious gift of God.  Our program is designed to enhance a child’s development by offering a caring atmosphere combined with a structured curriculum.  We consider the children entrusted in our care a great responsibility and therefore the individual child’s needs are of the utmost importance.  It is our belief that children should be offered a caring atmosphere and a structured curriculum that enhances their intellectual, physical, spiritual and social growth.

For more information, please visit stantonlearningcenter.com