OUR STORY: THEN AND NOW

Christ Among Neighbors is a faith based organization that was started when a group of churches came together to form one organization for our neighbors to get help.  This assistance may include emergency service delivery and/or referrals/consultations to other agencies with the means to solve the problem.  We have been faithfully serving our community and in 2025 are celebrating our 24th year assisting our friends and neighbors in the Shippensburg community.

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NEWSLETTER

CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS
January-February 2025

Winter is blowing up a gale outside our windows as I write. Though the weather is cold, we are
celebrating the warm love of our God during this season. Winter is a necessary time for our
natural world to rest and rejuvenate. Hopefully we are all experiencing this renewal!
Our neighbors in the Shippensburg area continue to experience economic hardships. We are
helping as many of these neighbors as we can. In December, we helped 13 households with rent,
4 with utilities, 2 with personal needs, and 2 with gasoline, totaling $8,391.00 in aid. In January,
we assisted 10 families with rent, 5 with utilities, 1 with car expenses, and 1 with gasoline, for a
total of $5,552.27.
The Partnership for Better Health’s Match Madness campaign is coming soon! If you would like
to help support CAN with a financial donation, you may send a check made payable to the
Partnership for Better Health (with designation to Christ Among Neighbors) and be mailed to the
Partnership for Better Health, 274 Wilson Street, Carlisle, PA 17013. Donations must be received
on or after March 1 to be counted. If you are contemplating a donation to CAN in the near future,
you might want to hold it until March so that matching funds from the Partnership can be applied
to it. We are thankful for all contributions and for your prayer support, as well.
CAN volunteers are busy working on grants to help fund housing, utility and other emergency
needs for our neighbors. We are grateful to our volunteers who have helped with these grants.
We will be participating in the HOMES Resource Fair, which will be held at the Shippensburg
Intermediate School in April. This is open to families within the school district and offers
information regarding services available within the Shippensburg Area School District.
CAN is working with Shippensburg Community Resource Coalition and their interns to update
our website. We are grateful for their assistance in giving us a new look.
We are still in need of new volunteers, especially on Saturday mornings. The schedule is flexible;
you may volunteer for as few or as many days as you wish. We’d love to have you join us in
working to help our neighbors in their time of need! If you are interested and would like to talk to
someone about volunteering, please call 717 532 7577.
Also, please call if you would like us to visit your church to tell you more about what we do.

May God bless you richly as you serve Him!
The CAN Team

WE MET OUR GOAL!!!!​​​

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​Thank you to everyone who donated to C.A.N. during the Partnership for Better Health's Match Madness campaign. We raised over $25,000 and are so blessed to be able to support our community.

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Funding for Christ Among Neighbors is provided by a number of supporters in the community. 

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We were recently awarded a grant from 

The Partnership for Better Health which allows us to be a part of their large matching gift campaign - Match Madness. 

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