| Nancy Collins
14 Sheik Muhammed El Mahdi St
Apt 1
Ard El Golf
Cairo, Egypt
Email: Nancy Collins
Nancy Collins was appointed in January 1998 to serve as a mission
co-worker in Cairo, Egypt. In her current assignment, she divides
her time between two ministries involving social justice issues.
She works in the International Relations Department of the Coptic
Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS), and she
facilitates Egypt’s Joining Hands Against Hunger group,
the Together for Family Development Network.
Nancy started to work with CEOSS’s International Relations
Department in 1998 interpreting CEOSS to European and American
donor organizations through written materials. CEOSS,
which began as a literacy project in 1950, has since become one
of Egypt's largest development organizations, providing integrated
approaches to poor communities in areas of economic, agricultural
and environmental development, health care, and education. It
has a staff of about 450 Egyptian Christians.
CEOSS publishes Christian educational materials and trains and
equips pastors and lay leaders. Its Forum for Intercultural Dialogue
brings together Muslim and Christian leaders together to consider
issues confronting Egyptian society. CEOSS is renowned for its
community development work, which is conducted without discrimination
in regard to gender, ethnicity, or religion. One of the most effective
development organizations in Egypt, CEOSS’s development
work focuses on love of neighbor as a reflection of Jesus’
love, the ministry of deeds, without any string attached, and
without any expectation of conversion.
Nancy also facilitates the work
of Together for Family Development Network, which is under the
umbrella of the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Joining Hands. Nancy took on this responsibility in the fall of 2004. JH is designed
to address poverty and the negative impact of globalization in
developing countries while at the same time providing U.S. Presbyterians
with direct involvement and communication with overseas partners.
Together for Family Development Network, a group of Egyptian non-governmental
organizations, works in partnership with a network of churches
from the Presbytery of Des Moines in Iowa, advocating to include children with disability in Egyptian primary schools. Nancy’s job is
to serve as liaison between the two networks, encouraging and
educating. |
