During these summer months, Community Ministry is going through a "dry season" financially. Your gifts and donations are needed to help us help those in need and meet our basic obligations. Please give conveniently on-line by clicking the tab labled "Gift or Donation" on this website and completing that process. Or send your gifts to Community Ministry of Prince George's County; PO Box 250; Upper Marlboro, MD 20773.  We give thanks in advance for your gift. 

Community Ministry of Prince George’s County has received a $1,000 grant from the Food Lion Charitable Foundation. Community Ministry will use the gift to purchase food to supplement their Community Place Café’s delivery of approximately 468 free hot lunches per week to homeless and other persons in need in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

In partnership with the University of Maryland's School of Public Health, Community Ministry seeks to contribute to the fight against prostate cancer, a disease that has a disproportionately high mortality rate among African American men.  Local African American churches are invited to e-mail jslade@cmpgc.com to register to participate in this four year study.  Click the following link to view the news release http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/so ciss/release.cfm?ArticleID=2115 

See mega job listing located on this website at http://www .cmpgc.com/Classified/p_ClassifiedAdDisplay.cfm?ad ID=381&isPrintAd=0

This month we present part two of our four part series entitles “Factors Affecting Health”.  This series is prompted by a county ranking study that was done by the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and reported in the Washington post.  According to the report in the state of Maryland Prince George’s County ranked # 17 of the 23 counties and Baltimore City.  This ranking is based on how long people live or lifespan or rate of premature death and how healthy they are or general health or rates of disease.  Thus we now know that where you live matters to your health.  Where you live may play a major role in how long - and how well - you live as well.

See the April 2010 article in our Health and Nutrition section by clicking:  http://www.cmpgc.com/Health_and_Nutrition.cfm