Outreach beyond Edenton
Rise Against Hunger
From sending our members out to do the Lord's work, to hands-on work inside our walls to be transported across the globe, St. Paul's is making a difference through acts of love.
MEAL PACKING FOR RISE AGAINST HUNGER
Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world.
We take active part in Rise Against Hunger’s meal packaging program, which provides volunteers the opportunity to package dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that are used in crisis situations and in school feeding programs for schools and orphanages in developing countries around the world. Each year, St. Paul’s packages approx. 14,000 meals.
GLORY RIDGE YOUTH MISSION TRIP
Each summer, youth and adults of St. Paul’s spend a week in one of the poorest areas in the mountains of North Carolina, doing construction work and building relationships with neighbors in need.
Examples of projects have been:
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Building wheelchair ramps
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Replacing gutters and toilets at a home
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Painting home exterior
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Rebuilding porches
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Taking the elderly on errands
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Repairing mailboxes
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Landscaping
The work is complemented by time of spiritual growth and fun at the camp, such as:
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Working with prayer partners
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Painting rock mementos
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Hiking
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Slip 'n' Slide
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Playing football
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Talent show
ST. ALBAN'S CROCHU HAITI
Ongoing support of church and school building projects at our sister church, St. Alban’s in Crochu Haiti. Support of the school and nutrition programs provide lifesaving aid to hundreds of children and families through financial support and mission trips. St. Paul’s has organized both medical mission trips and construction trips and holds a golf tournament to raise funds to continue to support this mission.
Episcopal Youth Community Walk for Haiti
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
Our church brings joy to children around the world by hands-on participation in this program. The effort is done through Samaritan’s Purse, which sends gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes to children in need around the world together with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
As stated by the organization: "By filling ordinary shoeboxes full of toys and other fun items, we help giving children what may be their first gift ever! Local churches in more than 100 nations hand out these Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts at festive outreach events where the Gospel is presented in a child-friendly way. Each box bursting with items such as a soccer ball, doll, or stuffed animal becomes a tangible expression of God’s love to the child, their family, and their community. Many shoebox recipients also participate in our 12-lesson follow-up discipleship program, The Greatest Journey."
Our youth, ready to send boxes, November 2025
Children receiving boxes (image from Samaritan's Purse website)
MISSIONARIES IN ECUADOR
Though this program, we supports missionaries Cameron and Roberto Vivanco in Ecuador. The Vivancos' ministry is focused on youth, specifically through education, music ministries and leadership development. They run Education Equals Hope (E=H) a non-profit which exists to provide for the education of students in desperate and difficult situations: poverty, extreme poverty, women coming out of prostitution, human trafficking, and young men coming off the streets, etc. Cameron founded and continues to direct this program.
Roberto's main focus in ministry is serving in leadership and directing the music/worship ministry for a local international church, English Fellowship Church. You can find his music and videos on the Education Equals Hope YouTube page. Together they resource the Diocese of Central Ecuador with renewal ministries such as Happening and Cursillo programs.
Cameron Graham Vivanco is originally from NC and has been in full-time lay ministry since 1995. Since 2002, she has been focusing on the voids that come with physical, spiritual and emotional poverty, especially in the areas of education and leadership development. Roberto is originally from Quito, Ecuador, and has passion and gifting in music ministry. The two met while reviving a Diocesan youth program in Ecuador and have been in ministry together since 2006. Cameron graduated from The University of the South, Sewanee, TN and holds a certificate in youth ministry from the Institute for Professional Youth Ministry. Roberto holds a degree in Pastoral Theology from Seminario de Sud America. They have three children and live in Ecuador.
