Health and Development News
Spring 2007
The shared commitment of International Health Ministries, Presbyterian Women and the Medical Benevolence Foundation to our partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo was demonstrated and strengthened during a two-week trip in DRC in May. An eight-person team traveled throughout the country, meeting with church leaders, key personnel in projects for women and at mission hospitals, and with mission co-workers, at a wide range of institutions and project sites.
Winter 2007
Lack of adequate funding to assure
an uninterrupted term of service has
delayed placement of three prospective
health missionaries in the field.
Denise England, a nurse, is ready to
serve the Synod of the Nile in Egypt
as a consultant to the American Mission
Hospital at Tanta, the Cairo
Medical Center and the Cairo Geriatric
Center. She has already completed
Mission Co-Worker orientation and is awaiting sufficient funding to begin her service.
Fall 2006
In communities of the former Soviet
Union, Christian ministries are
helping men and women who struggle
with HIV/AIDS, alcoholism and
drug addiction. Healing and hope
are replacing despair and isolation
in a variety of programs supported
by PCUSA's new partner, the Belarus
and Russian Orthodox Church
Roundtables. In September, IHM
Coordinator Bob Ellis made the first
official visit on behalf of a PCUSA
program office to the Round Tables'
leadership and several of its ministries.
Summer 2006
The PCUSA General Assembly and the Presbyterian Women's Churchwide Gathering, nearly back-to-back events, made for an eventful summer season and were a springboard for IHM work related to HIV/AIDS home-based care and malaria prevention. The summer months also concluded the annual IHM grant process on behalf of health and development projects of our overseas partner churches, and marked the end of another successful NetWorkers Mothers Day Project. Read about these activities, and other news, in the Summer 2006 newsletter.
Spring 2006
Visits to see the health and development work of PCUSA partners in Sudan, Ethiopia, China, and South Korea are reported on in the Spring newsletter, as well as details of funding awarded through IHM for HIV/AIDS prevention and care ministries in Africa.
The good news of an important training event funded by the Presbyterian Women's Thank Offering, and the return of PCUSA missionaries to Haiti is also highlighted in the Spring 2006 newsletter.
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