Nehemiah Church COGIC is actively engaged in the Durham community.  Nehemiah Church COGIC is one of the founding members of Durham CAN (Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods), which is a grassroots broad based community organizing effort that is affiliated with the IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation).  Through Durham CAN Nehemiah has helped address issues around education, living wages, affordable housing, and voter registration to name a few.  Nehemiah Church COGIC has a strong track record of recognizing and addressing needs of the community with over ten years offering Nehemiah’s Kitchen and an additional almost three years offering Nehemiah Day Center which provided technology resources, partnered with local agencies to provide additional resources to the community.  This was continued as Nehemiah Church COGIC has been on the front line of addressing food insecurities throughout the pandemic providing hot meals, bag lunches, Farmers 2 Families produce boxes and weekly giving out bags of groceries through The Give Back.​

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Join Nehemiah Church COGIC Fundraising for Durham CAN and Latino Congress Recurring Donor Matching Grant Campaign by Durham CAN.  The members of Nehemiah have a chance to participate in helping the Nehemiah Core Team in Conjunction with Durham CAN and the Latino Congress to raise $120,000 over three years that will be matched. The funds that are raised could help us to have greater impact with the work of organizing. The organizing efforts have helped accomplish great things in Durham, such as Universal Free Lunch for Durham Public Schools, leverage $400,00 to help working parents keep vouchers for childcare, Win 800 units of affordable housing where the Old Police Station property is located and much more. We are encouraging a commitment to give at least $10, monthly or quarterly over the next three years. We also invite you to share the link with others to assist in meeting our goal, as well as inform those interested in getting involved in the community or social justice work.

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Please take a moment to review some pictures of our Bishop during a press conference on Affordable Housing for Durham CAN.  Alongside Nehemiah Church COGIC’s many feeding efforts and our partnership with Duke Health to offer a Vaccine Clinic for the community.