Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Mark Hare and Jenny Bent. The card includes a photo and overview of their work.
From their base in the Dominican Republic, Mark and Jenny are committed to serving Haitian people. Mark, an agricultural technician commutes across the Haitian border to work with Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP), helping Haitians learn to grow lots of food on a small amount of land. Jenny, a community health consultant, works with the Evangelical Dominican Church in the bateys, company towns largely populated by Haitian sugar workers. In his work, Mark says he strives to …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker César Carhuachín. The card includes a photo and overview of his work. César has been called to teach biblical studies in the School of Theology at the Reformed University of Colombia. His classrooms are occupied by men and women who will provide clergy leadership for the Presbyterian Church of Colombia and other Protestant churches in Colombia. César says Colombia is a placed where many are searching for meaning. “In this searching,” he explains, “people find many obstacles like the lack of equal opportunities for education, unfair salaries, oppressive structures, and …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Barry and Shelly Dawson. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Barry brings to mission service extensive ministry experience as a counselor and pastoral caregiver in international settings. He has serviced Presbyterian congregations in the United States and multi-cultural churches in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. “With eyes of faith, I can see that the providential hand of God has been shaping my life experiences and preparing my ministry to be used in the role of Regional Liaison for Southeast Asia,” he says. Shelly, a registered nurse, …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Mark Hare and Jenny Bent. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. From their base in the Dominican Republic, Mark and Jenny are committed to serving Haitian people. Mark, an agricultural technician commutes across the Haitian border to work with Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP), helping Haitians learn to grow lots of food on a small amount of land. Jenny, a community health consultant, works with the Evangelical Dominican Church in the bateys, company towns largely populated by Haitian sugar workers. In his work, Mark says he strives to …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Kurt Esslinger and Hyeyoung Lee. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Kurt and Hyeyoung will mentor Presbyterian Young Adult Volunteers (YAVs) who will spend one year living and serving in Korea. Their goal is to help the YAVs have a clear sense of their call to promote social justice, reconciliation, and evangelism as people of faith. As they guide young adults to reflect on their experience, Kurt and Hyeyoung will seek to prepare then to return to the United States to lead the church in working for …
Use this card as you pray for mission co-worker John McCall. This card includes a photo and overview of his work. John supports pastors of the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan (PCT) in a country where only 3 percent of the population is Christian. Outreach in Taiwan can be challenging and the possibility of burnout is high. In groups, John and the pastors pray, read Scripture, and dream. They encourage each other to be faithful and visionary leaders. John also works with the native Taiwanese (aboriginals) who have been most open to the gospel, but also the most marginalized people …
Use this card as you pray for mission co-worker Nancy McGaughey. This card includes a photo and overview of her work. Nancy started work with the Murle people as a Community Health Facilitator in November of 2012. She is partnering with the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan (PCOSS) in working with women in the church. Her primary focus is Community Health Evangelism (CHE) which is a holistic ministry strategy that integrates evangelism, discipleship and church planting with community health and development. She is also working with Interchurch Medical Assistance World Health (IMAWH) to strengthen the government health system in …
Here is bold new vision, something we can all get behind. A direction that resonates with the very direction the Holy Spirit is speaking to the hearts of women and men all around the Church. Something the Lord is inspiring the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to take on. We are focusing our efforts on creating conditions that will allow our existing worshiping communities to flourish, and engages them in giving birth to over 1,000 new worshiping communities in the next ten years. Some are suggesting this number isn’t big enough.
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“Breaking Down the Walls”—From the Middle East Study Committee.
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This will be a brief overview of the stream of Christianity known as the Reformed tradition. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ, and the Christian Reformed Church are among those considered to be churches in the Reformed tradition. Readers who are not Presbyterian may find this topic to be “too Presbyterian.” We encourage …