For Care Day 2025 we are excited to announce LOVE ITHACA. We have partnered with Love Our Cities to facilitate volunteer and project management. Read more on our new project portal – LOVE ITHACA!
Community Faith Partners’ Care Day began out of an endeavor to install lighting in a low income apartment complex. The group of pastors, leaders, and other individuals gathered volunteers and resources needed and became Christ’s hands and feet to help in this project. That became known as the “City Lights” project and was a tangible and literal way to bring light to the darkness. Care Day was born from this expression of generosity.
Care Day is an exciting time to come together and make a difference in Tompkins County. Cooperation ensures community involvement. We were able to do this by doing together what one person or church could not do alone. In the early years to the present, we share in Adopt-A-Highway, assisting the elderly with gardening, raking leaves, spring cleaning or whatever needs we can meet. CFP Care Day burgeoned into mobilizing students and community members to serve in multiple locations across the area, making a difference in lives and living situations. It is estimated that we have invested over 8000 volunteer hours in over 300 different projects.