Community Organizations

We are the Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society. Our mission is to promote the appreciation, preservation, conservation, utilization and scientific study of the flora native to Indiana and to educate the public about the values, beauty, diversity and environmental importance of indigenous vegetation.

South Central Community Action Program, Inc., serves as an advocate, guide, and leader in providing opportunities for the low-income population to obtain services that will help them become self-sufficient. They offer services to income-eligible households throughout a four-county service area including Monroe, Morgan, Brown, and Owen Counties. They provide weatherization assistance information to make homes safer and more sufficient, help income eligible households with their heat and electric bills through the Energy Assistance program, offer free meetings with knowledgeable healthcare navigators to help people figure out their health insurance coverage, have Head Start and Early Head Start, an innovative initiative called Thriving Connections, and administer the Housing Choice Voucher..

Special Olympics Indiana Monroe County offers year-round sports training and athletic competition for children (8 years and over) and adults with intellectual, cognitive or learning disabilities. We offer training and competition in six sports, including Athletics (Track & Field), Basketball, Bowling, Equestrian, Golf, and Softball.

Our mission statement is "St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church is called to love and serve the God we cannot see, by loving the neighbor we can."  

As we pass on our Catholic heritage from one generation to the next, we are called by Jesus to be a living community of God's people through worship, teaching, and service.  Our mission statement embraces the following:
To worship with one another in prayer, liturgy, and the sacraments.
To nurture our Catholic life as individuals, families, and parish community.
To provide an authentic Catholic vision of who we are and who we are to become through pilgrimage of faith at St. Charles.
To personally live the Gospel of Jesus as Catholic individuals, families, and parish community.
To continually renew our faith as we grow to understand its significance in our daily Christian life
To personally reach out and share our faith-filled lives with our parish and beyond.
To care for each other as Jesus has taught us and to extend that care to others beyond our community
To reach out beyond our community and change the world in which we live according to the Gospel message.

We value the story of Jesus, and look to be active followers of the way of Jesus in the world. We seek to understand our faith relying on Scripture, Tradition, Experience, and Reason as we wrestle with questions of faith. We seek to make this faith and these values part of our personal lives and the lives of our church community. We believe the stories of Jesus inform our Christian life. And we are willing to contemplate these stories as we walk together on our spiritual journeys

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