McGregor Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is committed to supporting the work of Christ locally, nationally, and globally. More than 10 percent of our annual budget is spent on benevolent giving. Some of the local organizations we serve and support include:
- Family Promise of the Midlands supports families through homelessness, and we help host resident families and provide meals.
- Sharing God’s Love, providing monetary and food donations, as well as volunteer work groups on site.
- Live Oak Counseling Center provides professional and affordable mental health counseling.
- Harvest Hope Food Bank of the Midlands, feeding the hungry in SC communities.
- Snack Pack Program is a nutritional supplement program serving students at five Lexington/Richland District 5 schools who are eligible for free and reduced meals.
- Souper Bowl of Caring Offering collects food and money to tackle hunger on Super Bowl Sunday, and gives it to a charity of our choosing. The Souper Bowl was founded at Spring Valley Presbyterian Church in Columbia in 1990.
- Thornwell Children’s Home in Clinton, SC for over 150 years, builds restoration, supports children and families, and receives financial donations.
- Presbyterian Communities in South Carolina provides holistic senior living in South Carolina. The Mother’s Day Offering is one way we support PCSC.
- Leaphart Elementary School students are supported with mentors, adults from our congregation who meet with students regularly to help them with school work, emphasizing the importance of education.
- We partner with Seven Oaks Presbyterian Church every second Sunday afternoon with the Love Revolution event, which provides meals and clothing for unhoused neighbors in our area.
- With Trinity Presbytery’s Migrant Ministry, we provide a summer meal and hygiene items to migrant farmers in the Batesburg-Leesville area peach farms.
- We join with Trinity Episcopal Cathedral to serve breakfast every fourth Sunday morning to unhoused neighbors in downtown Columbia.
- By annually providing Per Capita to Trinity Presbytery, we contribute to the global mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
- The PCUSA Hunger Program works to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes. McGregor has been made a Certified Hunger Action Congregation by the PC(USA).
- Our Missions Committee takes intentional steps to make us a Certified Earth Care Congregation,a program managed and sponsored by the Presbyterian Hunger Program PC(U.S.A.).
To find out how you can become involved, contact the church office.
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
2026 Earth Day Celebration at McGregor
- Our McGregor Green Group plants and maintains a “Learning Garden” and blueberry bushes on site. We host an “Earth Day Celebration” annually for the community, with fun and learning opportunities for all ages.
- We participate in Presbyterians for Earth Care, an eco-justice network.
- A dedicated group of Adopt-A-Highway volunteers keeps a portion of a local neighborhood clean by regularly picking up trash.
- We host a Clothes Bin textile recycling bin and an aluminum can recycling bin on site, ensuring those items do not go into a landfill.
- We support the annual Keep the Midlands Beautiful Shoe Drive, which provides shoes for those in need.