Use this card as you pray for mission co-workers Michael and Rachel Ludwig. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Michael and Rachel will work alongside the Evangelical Church of the Republic of Niger (EERN), helping them develop a literacy training and evangelism program. Niger is among the world’s poorest countries, has a literacy rate of only 29 percent, and experiences frequent famines. “It’s captured our hearts as a place of great need, where people with skills in language and teaching can make a huge impact in the lives of ordinary Nigeriens through literacy training and …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Dr. John Fletcher and Gwenda Fletcher. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. John is a surgical consultant to the eight hospitals supported by the Presbyterian Community of Congo (CPC). He works with the hospitals’ staffs to improve their surgical knowledge, skills, judgment and techniques. Gwenda serves the CPC as an education consultant. She assists the CPC’s Education Department in its efforts to enhance the quality of education in the church’s 702 elementary and secondary schools. In a partnership that values mutual learning and teaching as well …
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Use this card as you pray for mission co-worker Burkhard Paetzold. This card includes a photo and overview of his work. As regional liaison, Burkhard focuses much of his ministry on work among the Roma people, Europe’s most marginalized group. He facilitates and supports the efforts of mission personnel, church leaders and local community leaders. Working alongside the Roma people, they strive to fully include the Roma people in congregations and society, improve their economic well-being, and develop Roma leaders. “The premise of the ministry is that Roma and non-Roma must find together an integrated approach to address diversity,” …
Use this card as you pray for mission co-workers Richard and Debbie Welch. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Richard and Debbie serve as educational consultants, working with Guatemala’s indigenous people. Together with the National Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Guatemala and its presbyteries, they work to increase access to primary, vocational, and theological education. “We, as well as our partner church, believe that education is one path out of the crushing poverty that affects so many indigenous people of this beautiful country,” Richard and Debbie say. “Through several years of volunteer service in mission partnership, …
Use this card as you pray for mission co-worker Tyler Holm. This card includes a photo and overview of his work. Tyler is a lecturer in systematic theology, church history, and Greek at the University of Livingstonia, which is part of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP). Within the CCAP there is one ordained minister per 6,000 church members. Most of the students will be ordained as teaching elders and all will be future leaders of the church and Malawian society. The University of Livingstonia was established in 2004 and currently has approximately 200 students in its residential, distance …
Use this card as you pray for mission co-workers Ryan and Alethia White. This card includes a photo and overview of their work. Ryan and Alethia are working with Iranian refugees in partnership with the Iranian Presbyterian Church of Berlin, Germany. They are providing pastoral care and collaborating with a number of Christian organizations and churches that serve Iranian refugees. “We are passionate about reconciling relationships across cultural, religious, and political divides, with the hope of promoting sustainable and peaceful partnerships,” they say. “Through entering into relationships with others, by listening to their stories and extending hospitality, we …
Use this card as you pray for Mission co-workers Bernie and Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Bernie and Farsijana teach at Duta Wacana Christian University, helping prepare Christian leaders to serve the church in the world’s largest Muslim country. Farsijana is helping develop a peace studies program while Bernie works with the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, which is the world’s first consortium that involves a Christian university, a Muslim university, and a secular university.
Use this card as you pray for mission co-worker Rev. Jo Ella Holman. This card includes a photo and overview of her work. As regional liaison, Jo Ella cultivates and nurtures the PC(USA)’s relationship with mission partners in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and with other church partners in the Caribbean through CANACOM, the Caribbean and North American Commission on Mission. Jo Ella shares their stories with congregations in the United States and also shares with partners what she has learned in years of ministry in Latin America and elsewhere through Presbyterian World Mission. In addition, she is …