Brochures and cards
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Prayer card - Kathleen Griffin
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Rev. Kathleen Griffin. The card includes a photo and overview of her work.
Katie teaches at the Instituto Superior Evangelico de Estudios Teologicos (ISEDET) in Buenos Aires, a school that serves nine denominations. In addition to serving at ISEDET, Katie has taught theology to aboriginal people in Chaco and Formosa provinces. Her special concern for the plight of women in Argentina is reflected in her vocation as a professor and her commitment as a Christian believer.
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Prayer card - Kristi Van Nostran
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Kristi Van Nostran. The card includes a photo and overview of their work.
Kristi is the facilitator for the Joining Hands network in El Salvador, an initiative of the Presbyterian Hunger Program. She nurtures the relationships between a network of churches and other groups in El Salvador with Presbyterians in the United States. Together, they strive to promote sustainable agriculture practices, reverse the growing dependence on imported grain and multinational seed companies, reduce hunger and strengthen rural economies. Faced with the challenge of a national food crisis in El Salvador, Kristi ...
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Prayer card - Leisa Toni Ann Wagstaff
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Leisa Toni Ann Wagstaff. The card includes a photo and overview of her work.
Leisa, a mission co-worker since 1984, says her call to mission “is still afresh and as strong as ever.” After working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, she began teaching at the Presbyterian Teacher Training College in Cameroon in 2004. She also serves at a related secondary school. Leisa has written and evaluated curriculum, developed a school and community computer program, lectured at the seminary level and coached a gymnastics team. “More importantly ...
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Prayer card - Mamie Broadhurst and Richard Williams
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Mamie Broadhurst and Richard Williams. The card includes a photo of them and an overview of their work.
Mamie and Richard are pastoral accompaniers for church and human rights workers who serve among displaced people. Advocates for displaced people have been threatened and killed amid an armed conflict in Colombia. Mamie and Richard, at the invitation of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia, coordinate an accompaniment program that brings volunteers from the United States to Colombia. The presence of internationals has discouraged violence. “In a culture of death, we choose to live ...
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Prayer card - Marcia Towers
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Marcia Towers. The card includes a photo of her and an overview of her work.
Marcia coordinates the Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program’s Guatemala site. She enjoys helping YAVS “be attentive to their spiritual growth, live simply and sustainably and focus on relationships with others who are different from themselves.” She also works in a disaster relief ministry with Cedepca, a multi-faceted, interdenominational agency in Guatemala. “Both parts of my job allow me the grace of seeing transformation in people who are excited about living purposeful lives and being God ...
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Prayer card - Marta Bennett
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Marta Bennett. The card includes a photo of her and an overview of her work.
Marta chairs the Department of Leadership Studies at the Nairobi International School of Theology/International Leadership University (NIST/ILU-Kenya). Marta trains Christian leaders for service in churches, parachurch organizations, business, and government, integrating leadership with discipleship and mentoring. Students come to NIST/ILU from all over Africa to study at the certificate, diploma, undergraduate, master’s, and soon the doctoral levels. “While evangelism continues to be crucial,” she says, “even more strategic is discipleship and professional ...
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Prayer card - Nadia Ayoub
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Nadia Ayoub. The card includes a photo and overview of her work.
Nadia serves as a trainer in an early childhood education program that serves as an outreach of the Reformed Church in Carpath-Ukraine to the Roma people. The Roma are one of the most marginalized groups in Europe. “I believe through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit I was called and enabled to serve Christ among unreached people,” Nadia says. “I believe that teaching the very little ...
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Prayer card - Nancy Collins
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Nancy Collins. The card includes a photo of her and an overview of her work.
As regional liaison for East Central Africa, Nancy facilitates PC(USA) relationships with partner churches and institutions in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zambia. Nancy’s special focus is on partners’ work related to evangelism, leadership development, and church-growth. Nancy also provides support for PC(USA) mission personnel in the region and assists PC(USA) congregations and presbyteries that are or that want to be in a relationship with partners in East Central Africa. She helps mission ...
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Prayer card - Philip and Bacilia Beisswenger
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Philip and Bacilia Beisswenger. The card includes a photo and overview of their work.
Philip and Bacilia nurture the long-standing partnership that exists between the Presbyterian Church of Guatemala and the PC (USA). They help coordinate and plan visits by groups from the U.S., arranging for work projects and the building of covenant relationships between the presbyteries and churches of both countries. Philip also works with Guatemalan Presbyterians to resource extension programs that train indigenous church leaders. The Beisswengers say they are grateful to be able to serve as instruments ...
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Prayer card - Rev. Bob and Kristi Rice
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers the Rev. Bob and Kristi Rice. The card includes a photo and overview of their work.
Bob and Kristi work in partnership with the Presbyterian Community of Congo (CPC). Bob helps the Department of Evangelism as it seeks to strengthen and expand the impact of the church. Priorities include equipping the development of new churches, strengthening the training of rural pastors, production of print and radio material for spiritual education and evangelism and facilitating discipleship and Christian education of children and adults. Bob serves as a consultant and also plays an ...