PC(USA) - 2007 Mission Challenge


	Look Who’s Talking See who will be where, when. A schedule of each mission speaker and where they'll be speaking is now available. Also view a complete list of the 144 presbyteries and who their selected speaker will be. [view list] [view schedule] In all, 48 missionaries are participating in Mission Challenge '07. The original plan called for 30 missionaries to visit four presbyteries each, for a total of 120. But enthusiasm for churchwide support of mission personnel exceeding even our high expectations and 144 presbyteries have committed to hosting a missionary for a week this October. All speakers will be presenting on behalf of all the 270 long-term PC(USA) missionaries.


	Missionary participants

	The Rev. Dr. Daniel Adams is a professor at Hanil University in South Korea. He has been a PC(USA) missionary for 33 years


	The Rev. Mark Adams has served for nine years with Fronteras de Cristo on the border between Arizona and Coahuila, Mexico.


	The Rev. Kathy Angi is a consultant for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, training local teachers, pastors, social workers and parents to help children with the trauma of war. Kathy and her husband Joe make their home in Budapest, Hungary.


	Joe Angi works with refugees from Iran, Bosnia and other countries who have found asylum in Hungary.


	The Rev. Sook Hee Bae works with battered women and runaway teenagers in South Korea.


	The Rev. Doug Baker has been doing peacemaking in Northern Ireland since 1979.


	Jeff Boyd is regional liaison for central Africa, with special focus on Congo, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. A PC(USA) missionary since 1990, Jeff has served in Tanzania and Congo and is now based in Cameroon.


	Christi Boyd facilitates the Joining Hands Against Hunger network in Cameroon. She has served for 17 years in Tanzania, Congo and Cameroon.


	Dr. Carol Brees has been serving for 20 years as an obstetrician-gynecologist in Memorial Christian Hospital in Sialkot, Pakistan.


	The Rev. John Butt, who has been under appointment for 40 years, serves with the Christian Church in Thailand, coordinating special projects that foster religious dialogue and understanding between the Buddhist and Christian communities.


	Elisabeth Cook teaches Old Testament and biblical interpretation classes at the Latin American Biblical University in Costa Rica. She has 17 years of service as a PC(USA) missionary.


	Salvador de la Torre is a consultant to the Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHOK). He helps medical institutions improve their management systems. He is also the project manager for the U.S. government-sponsored aid program for people with HIV/AIDS. In this role, Salvador makes sure that the 9,000 patients with HIV get the drugs and the equipment necessary for anti-retroviral therapy for HIV. Sal and his wife Irma have served the PC(USA) for 25 years in Haiti, Zambia and Kenya.


	Frank Dimmock has been under appointment since 1985. He is based in Malawi, where he serves as health coordinator for the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) and southern Africa regional health consultant for the PC(USA).


	The Rev. Ellen Dozier serves with the women’s organization of the National Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Guatemala. Ellen has been a PC(USA) missionary since 1996.


	Bob Dunsmore is facilitator for the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Joining Hands Against Hunger network in Bolivia. He has been under appointment for 20 years as a PC(USA) missionary in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Bolivia.


	Julie Dunsmore is facilitator for the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Joining Hands Against Hunger network in Bolivia. She has been under appointment for 20 years as a PC(USA) missionary in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Bolivia.


	The Rev. Dr. Dustin “Dusty” Ellington teaches new Testament at Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC). Dusty and his wife Sherri were appointed in 2005.


	Jacob Goad was appointed in January 2007 to coordinate the visits of the many mission teams that want to be engaged in a meaningful way in God’s mission in Peru. Jacob was the PC(USA)’s man-on-the-spot during the earthquake in southern Peru on August 15, when he traveled to the epicenter of the quake to help in disaster response.


	Ruth Farrell is a missionary-in-residence with the Presbyterian Hunger Program working to promote “fair trade.” A missionary in Peru from 1998 until 2007, Ruth worked with artisans all over Peru to improve their product design and methods of production so that they could produce export-quality crafts. Now, as a missionary-in-residence, Ruth helps market those handicrafts in the United States through the Joining Hands Against Poverty Network’s “Fair Trade Bridge.”


	Mary Ferris was appointed in 2001 to serve as a mission co-worker in Tulcea, Romania. She works with orphanages through a partnership with New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children (NOROC). Mary recruits older people and retired teachers to take a personal interest in the orphans, and she teaches the orphans life-skills and helps the older children find transitional employment and housing because they’re required to leave the orphanages when they reach 18.


	Susie Frerichs, who has been under appointment since 1994, began a new assignment in November 2006. She now serves in the mountains of central east Mexico with the Presbytery of the Huastecas, a presbytery of rural, indigenous churches of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico. Susie helps congregations in their evangelistic, educational and community development programs. She also works with children, youth and Presbyterian Women’s groups.


	Katie Griffin was appointed in 1998 to serve in theological education in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She teaches at a Pentecostal seminary, ALIDD (Seminario Emanuel of the Asociación La Iglesia de Dios), and at ISEDET (Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos — Instituto Universitario), a university-level Protestant institute.


	Dorothy Hanson is a HIV/AIDS consultant and health educator serving with the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY). After a 40-year career in the United States as a health care professional and educator, Dorothy returned in 2005 to Ethiopia — where she was born to missionary parents — after a 50-year absence to take up her current position.


	Jane Holslag teaches in both the English and theology departments at Lithuanian Christian College in Klaipeda, Lithuania. She is on a leave of absence until June 2008 to finish her Ph.D. dissertation on the church in East Germany during the 40 years of Communist rule.


	The Rev. Dr. Harry Horne is a professor in the extension of the Latin American Biblical University in Lima, Peru. He has been a missionary for since 1983, serving as a professor in Jamaica and Guatemala prior to his appointment in Peru.


	The Rev. Art Kinsler has been a missionary in South Korea for almost 35 years. Though officially retired, Art preaches, supports Sue’s work, teaches at Yonsei university and is the PC(USA)’s financial representative in South Korea.


	Sue Kinsler a missionary in South Korea for 35 years, founded the Koinonia Sheltered Workshop and welfare center in 1991. She also founded the Lighthouse Foundation, which feeds thousands of young children in North Korea.


	In January 2002 Tricia Lloyd-Sidle was appointed as a mission co-worker to facilitate relationships between PC(USA) churches and presbyteries and the Presbyterian Reformed Church of Cuba. In 2004 she was asked to also serve as the PC(USA)’s regional liaison for the Caribbean.


	Dr. Sue Makin is an obstetrician-gynecologist at Mulanje Mission Hospital in Malawi. Under appointment since 1987, she has also served in Congo.


	Burkhard Paetzold facilitates the PC(USA)’s work with the Roma people in Central Europe. He is also regional liaison for Central Europe. He has been under appointment for nine years.


	Gary Payton has been under appointment since 2000 as regional liaison for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Poland. He works closely with the Russian Orthodox Church, Baptist churches and Reformed churches. As a regional liaison, Gary serves as a “bridge” between PC(USA)’s partner churches and PC(USA) congregations and presbyteries.


	Bill Richter coordinates Puentes de Cristo in Reynosa, Mexico, and McAllen, Texas, which is one of six sites of Presbyterian Border Ministries, a collaboration between the PC(USA) and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico. Bill organizes the visits of delegations of U.S. Christians who want to be engaged in a meaningful ministry along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bill plans and coordinates the mission teams, helps them understand the cultural context, translates, and then guides the groups in theological reflection.


	Dennis Smith, a 30-year missionary in Guatemala, works with CEDEPCA, a pastoral training center. Dennis is a writer, scholar and editor, and in his spare time he’s president of the Latin American region of the World Association of Christian Communicators.


	Dr. Donald Snow has served in educational ministries in China since 1991. He now teaches graduate students in English in one of China’s top universities.


	Bill Soldwisch is co-director of Pueblos Hermanos in in Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, California, one of six sites of the Presbyterian Border Ministry. This ministry is is a collaboration of the PC(USA) and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico. It does evangelism, new church development, community health and development, and mission education along our common border with Mexico. Bill has been a missionary with the PC(USA) since 1983.


	David and Susan Thomas have for the last six years served in Nogales, Arizona, with Compañeros en Misión, a joint ministry of PC(USA) and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico. In 2007 Dave also takes up the responsibility of regional liaison for Mexico.


	Dr. Doug Tilton works with the South African Council of Churches and is regional liaison for southern Africa. He has been under appointment since 1992.


	The Rev. Dr. Nuhad Tomeh is associate general secretary of the Middle East Council of Churches in charge of the Iraq relief and rehabilitation program. Nuhad has been a PC(USA) missionary since 1999.


	David Walter was appointed as a long-term volunteer in May 2005 to serve as regional liaison for the Pacific region. David is responsible for connecting PC(USA) churches and presbyteries to partner churches in Vanuatu, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He also serves as an advisor to the Presbyterian Hunger Program.


	The Rev. Don Wehmeyer is director of the School of Continuing Education at San Pablo Theological Seminary in Merida, Mexico. He has been a missionary since 1991.


	The Rev. David Wiseman “retired” in 2005 after 26 years as pastor and head of staff of a Presbyterian church and became a missionary in Guatemala. David works with the large PC(USA) Guatemalan network and helps the Guatemalan church receive mission teams.


	Jeannene Wiseman is a spiritual director by training. She lives out her call with husband David by hosting delegations of Presbyterians from the United States who want to be engaged in a meaningful way with God’s mission in Guatemala. She also works with women’s groups in the National Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Guatemala.


	The Rev. Ted Wright is a regional liaison in South Africa focusing on evangelism in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar. Ted retired in 2005 after more than 20 years as pastor and head of staff at a large Pennsylvania church.


	The Rev. Sue Wright is a regional liaison in South Africa focusing on evangelism in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar. Sue is a member of Langhorne Presbyterian Church in Langhorne, Pennsylvania


	The Rev. William Yoder has served for more than 40 years in Thailand. He is now dean of the McGilvary Faculty of Theology, part of Payap University.



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