At Crawford we value reaching out to our community and beyond to support social justice by helping our neighbors in need. Our goal is to continue current our efforts while opening ourselves to new possibilities.  We have provided loaded backpacks to local homeless people, delivered furniture for Mission of Deeds, provided Thanksgiving Baskets and Christmas Stockings for the Council of Social Concern, donated books for under-served youth and incarcerated men and women, served dinner at the Dwelling Place, collected clothing for job interviewees and distributed 2,500 pairs of Bombas socks.

Crawford’s Micro Pantry

There are more people in Winchester who need food assistance than we imagine, a number that increased significantly in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (The need continues in these financially challenging times of high unemployment and high grocery prices.) That summer, an attempt to help alleviate food insecurity in our community, Crawford Church put up a Micro Pantry. The pantry is stocked with donations from church members as well as members of the Winchester community.

In 2022, an Eagle Scout project provided Crawford with a not-so-micro pantry, enabling us to provide a larger and more varied selection of non-perishable food donations. Anyone who wants food is welcome to freely take whatever they want or need from the pantry at any time. The pantry is never closed.

Our original micro pantry now holds a supply of donated personal care items, also free to anyone who needs them

If you are able to donate food or personal care products, please put them in the appropriate pantry, or bring them to the church on Sunday mornings. Of course we’d love to have you join us for worship at 10am! Whether you can stay or not, there is a large yellow box in the hallway outside of our parish hall where you can put your donations.

The food and personal products will be used to stock our micro pantries. If there is anything we can’t use, we will bring it to the Council of Social Concern’s food pantry, which serves residents of Woburn and Winchester.

Crawford Church sponsors the following groups and organizations throughout the year:

• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
• Scouting