MISSION COMMITTEE FOCUS 

Grab a baby bottle and fill it up!
During the months of May and June the Mission Committee is sponsoring a special collection for the Crisis Pregnancy Center. Grab a baby bottle from the Narthex, put it in your car, and start collecting your spare change! We will be collecting the bottles beginning mid-June and tallying the results. Please help support this effort....it only takes a little time and some spare change!  Blessings! 

 

Mission Trip to Joplin MO   May 2012

A group from First Presbyterian Church went to Joplin, MO the first week in May to help with the construction of a new home for a family who lost everything in the tornado that hit Joplin in May 2011.  It was a worthwhile experience for everyone and there will be an informational presentation in the near future. 

 

 

 

Here are pics to show the stitchers as they sort out 25 scarves which were sent to the World War II veterans to be given out on Veterans' Day or Christmas Day.


In the narthex on Sunday - October 8th - there will be a display of 53 scarves which will be sent to the Orphan Foundation of America and which then will be distributed as part of the Red Scarf Project. Each handmade scarf will be sent in a Valentine's Day care package to a college or trade school student who was a foster child or resident of an orphanage. Each year more than 10,000 home-made scarves are received by the Foundation. This is the 5th year that our group of stitchers has participated in this project.

 

Yancuic Camanali

News from the Presbytery of the Huatecas, National Presbyterian Church of Mexico

Written by PCUSA Mission Coworker, Susanne Frerichs

August 2011

The BIG DAY

 A huge thanks to all who covered us with their prayers over the past few months. Abraham and I made it to and through the wedding with flying colors. God gave us two days of sun, a day to prepare and the day of the wedding). And despite the fact that the main bridge that leads to Frijolillo had its ramp taken out by flooding three days before the wedding, by God’s sovereignty, the ramp was actually fixed by municipal workers in time for visitors to use it on their way to Frijolillo! We had a wonderful day with friends from near and far (about 500 of them!). We are now settling into married life...work, ministry, laundry, and meals.  

 

 

Final Count on Little Dresses.

There were 57 dresses made by the women of this church.  I am taking them to Nancy's Notions Store in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.  The store will pack and ship them to Africa - paying for all the shipping costs.  Thanks to all who participated in this mission project.  The Mission Committee is checking for needs in our area to see if we can do another sewing project - so ladies keep those sewing machines oiled and ready to go!                  Elsie Carter, Mission Committee

 

The Mission Group spent June 12-18, 2011 rebuilding homes in Nashville, TN as a result of the 2010 flood.  This year we worked on a newly constructed home finishing the inside.  We teamed up with our friends from the Presbyterian Church in Effingham, IL.