Brochures and cards
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Prayer card - Rev. Janet Guyer
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Rev. Janet Guyer. The card includes a photo and overview of her work.
Southern Africa is the part of the world that has experienced the greatest impact from HIV and AIDS. Janet’s calling is to walk with our partner churches as they respond to the impact of HIV and AIDS in their congregations and communities, to provide technical support especially to the HIV and AIDS coordinators in our partner denominations, and to help people in the United States understand how their African brothers and sisters are being impacted by this ...
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Prayer card - Rev. Gordon and Dorothy Gartrell
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers the Rev. Gordon and Dorothy Gartrell. The card includes a photo and overview of their work.
Gordon and Dorothy work in partnership with the United Presbyterian Church of Brazil in ministries of church planting and leadership training in Belem, Brazil. They are helping a small church grow through a ministry of leadership development. Once that church is stronger, they will begin work in church planting. They realize this is a long process, but their patience is fueled by a strong love for the Brazilian people. “We are called to share God ...
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Prayer card - Judy Chan
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Rev. Judy Chan. The card includes a photo and overview of her work.
Judy serves as executive secretary for communications for the Hong Kong Christian Council. This position involves being producer for the council’s ecumenical broadcasting ministry and serving as editor of the council’s English language publications. More recently she has been working in the area of environmental advocacy through the Hong Kong Christians for Eco-Concern network. Judy says that God has blessed her to serve in a variety of areas and ways, offering her gifts to further the ...
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Prayer card - Rev. Phyllis Byrd
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Rev. Phyllis Byrd. The card includes a photo and overview of her work.
As site coordinator of the Young Adult Volunteer Program in Kenya, Phyllis seeks to create a space that helps the volunteers live in a different culture not on their own terms but on the terms of the community that has so graciously invited them. They develop meaningful relationships based on mutual understanding and respect. “We spend our year asking ourselves, ‘What does God require of us?’” she says. “We consider issues of poverty, justice, violence, over consumption, environmental ...
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Prayer card - Rev. Dr. Robert and Keiko Butterfield
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Rev. Dr. Robert and Keiko Butterfield. The card includes a photo and overview of their work.
Bob and Keiko serve three small Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Portugal congregations. Bob leads worship, preaches and teaches mid-week Bible studies. Keiko concentrates on the congregations’ poor and elderly women. She sits with them, visits them, listens to them, exchanges gifts with them, cooks with them/for them and is the good friend they desperately need. Part of the Butterfields’ work also involves laying the groundwork for community organizing, helping people come together to meet ...
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Prayer card - Sharon Bryant
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Sharon Bryant. The card includes a photo and overview of her work.
Sharon coordinates volunteers who come to Thailand on short-term mission assignments to teach English. They serve Thai students in grades K-12 who attend the 25 Christian schools of the Church of Christ in Thailand. In addition to teaching, the volunteers share their lives of faith and leave a lasting impact on the schools and the surrounding communities. Those who lead the Thai church today have stories of such volunteers in their past. Sharon’s goal is to help the ...
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Engage brochure
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Evangelism
Engage, a new evangelism approach, helps churches become relevant again. As congregations learn how to share their faith they attract people who join them in following Jesus. Together they join in God’s mission of transformation in their neighborhoods and communities.
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Committee on Representation Brochure - Spanish
From Office of the General Assembly—Committee on Representation
Brochure for the Committee on Represenation in Spanish.
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Prayer card - Dr. Eric and Rebecca Hinderliter
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Connections
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Dr. Eric and Rebecca Hinderliter. The card includes a photo and overview of their work.
Eric and Becky are classroom teachers in daily, face-to-face contact with young people from post-Soviet states. LCC serves an international community; LCC students come from Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Belarus, Albania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Moldova. Eric and Becky’s hope is that they teach more than the narrow subjects from the college catalogue: “Students watch us very closely; we witness with our lives more than our words. We hope that our students catch something about how to ...
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Justice and Peace Bookmark
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Presbyterian Women
Presbyterian Women has ongoing advocacy work in several areas, from food to language to gender justice. And there are multiple ways to stay connected to these topics. A bookmark lists the various emphases and resources that can help you take action. Share this bookmark (printed three to a page) with other advocates!