Outreach to our World

Outreach to our World

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One Great Hour of Sharing 2011

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Since 1949, Presbyterians have joined with millions of other Christians through One Great Hour of Sharing to share God’s love with people experiencing need. Our gifts support ministries of disaster response, refugee assistance and resettlement, and community development that help people find safe refuge, start new lives and work together to strengthen their families and communities.

Recognizing that the hope we have in Christ is lived out in our hope for one another, we respond with gifts that help our sisters and brothers around the world find the hope for a brighter future.

Where does the money go?

The Presbyterian Hunger Program receives 36 percent of undesignated One Great Hour of Sharing gifts, while the Self-Development of People and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance each receive 32 percent.

When is the offering received?

We will receive the offering throughout Lent.

Mission Disbursements

Douglas Dicks, Regional Liaison of PCUSA in the Middle East - This gift is designated within our gifts to the mission work of PCUSA. It supports the work of Doug Dicks who represents our denomination with other denominational groups, heads of other churches and governments to work with organizations in the region on issues related to peace. Doug also maintains communication with individuals and churches in the U.S. to keep them informed of what is happening on the ground in that region.

WEB LINK: www.pcusa.org
LOCATION: Middle East
APC CONNECTION: Elise Dormond knows Doug through her work with the Presbytery's Peacemaking Committee and Middle East Focus Group.
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2007
2009 SUPPORT: $2,500

General Assembly of PCUSA - This disbursement supports mission causes of our denomination on six continents from Philadelphia to Cairo to Karachi to Seoul telling in words and deeds the love of God as revealed by Jesus Christ. In partnership with indigenous congregations we help feed the hungry, heal the sick, train pastors and lay leaders; build churches, hospitals, clinics and schools; provide clean water; and train people for self-sufficient employment.

WEB LINK: www.pcusa.org
LOCATION: World Wide
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 1907
2009 SUPPORT: $9,850

Kikuyu Hospital, Kenya – This hospital in Kenya provides care for diabetics and others.

WEB LINK: www.pcusa.org
LOCATION: Kenya
APC CONNECTION: Dot Lampe visited the hospital as part of a tour with the Medical Benevolence Foundation.
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: pre-1998
2009 SUPPORT: $3,200

Kuwadzana Presbyterian Church, Zimbabwe – Our gift helps provide food for children orphaned by AIDS. It also helps fund self-help projects (chicken hatching, garden and welding programs) to support people living in an economically and politically unstable country.

LOCATION: Zimbabwe
APC CONNECTION: Sturge and Joanne Poorman lived and worked in Zimbabwe.
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2002
2009 SUPPORT: $2,750

Medical Benevolence Foundation - MBF partners with PCUSA to support international health programs; recruits healthcare professionals and other volunteers; and provides donated surplus medical supplies and equipment to its international programs.

WEB LINK: www.mbfoundation.org
LOCATION: Africa, Asia, South America, North America, Central America
APC CONNECTION: Dot Lampe
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: pre-1998
2009 SUPPORT: $1,200

Rahab's Trust, India – This ministry of a Christian Indian couple, Arun and Shobha Massey, offers education, a safe place to live and the good news of the Gospel to young girls whose mothers are prostitutes connected to a Hindu temple in Southwest India. The girls learn a trade that will enable them to be self-sufficient so that they will not become part of the cycle of temple prostitution in which their mothers are engaged.

WEB LINK: www.caringhandsindia.com
LOCATION: India
APC CONNECTION: Several members of the Mission Committee met with the Masseys who lead this program, through a connection with Media Presbyterian Church.
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2007
2009 SUPPORT: $1,200

Promised Land Ministries, Guatemala – This faith community and mission in the mountains of Guatemala provides worship services, food, medical and dental care, and education for children and their families in this poverty stricken area.

WEB LINK: www.plmmissions.org
LOCATION: Central America
APC CONNECTION: Two mission trips from APC have gone: Scott Funston, Mary Ann MacCain, Tim Patterson, Carol Pawlowski, Lisa Wolverton.
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2007
2009 SUPPORT: $1,200

Promised Land Ministries Scholarship Fund - This allocation supports travel costs for one person if a mission team is sent this year.

WEB LINK: www.plmmissions.org
LOCATION: Central America
APC CONNECTION: See above
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2007
2008 SUPPORT: $1,900

Proyecto Amistad - A joint ministry of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the National Presbyterian Church of México. Amistad seeks to encourage, equip, and support the Presbyterian Churches of Mexico and the United States (PCUSA) facilitating their joint ministry as witnesses and instruments of the Kingdom of God.

WEB LINK: www.binationalministry.org
LOCATION: USA, Mexico
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2008
2009 SUPPORT: $750

Siloam Eye Hospital, Korea – This Christian hospital in Seoul provides free treatment and surgery to more than 5,000 needy patients a year. It also operates a mobile eye hospital that provides treatment to almost 15,000 people annually in outlying areas.

WEB LINK: www.siloam.co.kr
LOCATION: Korea
APC CONNECTION: Alice Mack is in regular contact with the doctors at Siloam.
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2004
2009 SUPPORT: $1,400

SNEHA, India – Society for Nurture, Education, and Health Advancement is a Christian ministry in the slums of this city. Children are educated and women are taught reading, computer basics, and income producing skills such as sewing and candle making.

WEB LINK: www.pcusa.org
LOCATION: India
APC CONNECTION: Joanne Poorman and Alice Mack are in regular contact with Dr. Rita Rao, the director of this program.
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2002
2009 SUPPORT: $3,200

St. Luke’s Hospital, Nablus, the West Bank, Palestine – This Christian hospital, in an almost totally Muslim city, is the major nucleus of Christianity in the region. It serves a largely Muslim population, many unable to afford health care. In the current chaotic political and economic situation in Palestine, the hospital continues to provide services often reducing staff salaries in order to keep its doors open.

WEB LINK: www.biblelands.org
LOCATION: Middle East
APC CONNECTION: Elise Dormond has visited the hospital three times and maintains e-mail contact with the office of the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East which operates the hospital.
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2001
2009 SUPPORT: $5,500

Wycliffe Bible Translators - This gift provides one month’s support for Denise Hoover, a language surveyor, who is being trained to use her knowledge of French to assess the language of the people of Chad in preparation for beginning the process of translating the Bible into that language.

WEB LINK: www.wycliffe.org
LOCATION: Chad, Africa
APC CONNECTION: Nan Clarke
YEAR SUPPORT INITIATED: 2009
2009 SUPPORT: $2,800

CENTURY CAMPAIGN MISSION FUNDS - INTERNATIONAL

The church conducted a three year capital campaign to raise funds for specific physical plant needs of our beautiful building. One of the provisions of the Campaign was that 15% ($112,000) of all funds raised would be given to support benevolences as recommended by the Mission Awareness Committee. Disbursements for international projects are as follows:

Heifer International - a $5,000 grant will purchase a Gift Ark of animals that are part of this international organization’s efforts in sustainable development assistance.

Medical Benevolence Foundation - received a grant of $10,000 to help with its Indigenous Healthcare Worker Fund and support for Project C.U.R.E.

Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP) - a grant of $10,000 will help PCUSA mission worker in Haiti to develop an area of land on which people will manage goats, chickens and fruit and forage tree species as well as large quantities of vegetables. This effort at teaching methods of sustainable agriculture has the added benefit of growing a kind of tree, the leaves of which can be made into a powder, which is a simple and inexpensive diet supplement, which is effective in reducing malnutrition in developing countries.

Promised Land Ministries (Guatemala) - received a grant of $10,000 in 2007 to help purchase land to expand it’s ministry to needy families. Services to be provided are medical, educational and the nutritional programs.

Rahab’s Trust - received a $10,000 grant in 2007 to help complete a dormitory. This organization provides housing, education and long range career planning help for young girls whose mothers are involved in prostitution at a Hindu temple in southwest India. Thanks to the intervention of this program, these girls will not follow in their mothers’ footsteps in a situation that in the past made victims of the young girls as their mothers had been.

RELUFA (Cameroon) – this Food Sovereignty Program has received a grant of $10,000 to support its Community Grain Banks which are part of an effort to break the cycle of food scarcity, soaring market prices, chronic malnutrition and dependency on food distribution programs.

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