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Extra Commitment Opportunities
There is a channel through which gifts can be designated for specific items that support the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s work around the world. These are called Extra Commitment Opportunities (ECOs). You can give directly to an ECO account online or by mailing your check designating the name and account number of the particular item you have chosen to:
PC(USA) Individual Remittance Processing
P.O. Box 643700
Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700 Your gift will go directly into the ECO Account designated,
and you will receive a letter indicating that your gift has
been received and will be used for the purpose intended.
Below are some ECOs related to Mexico. For a complete
listing visit Mission
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Disaster Response
Disaster Response - Mexico
This account supplements the One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) offering to enable
a significant response for relief and disasters in Mexico. |
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Goal: $1,000,000 |
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Education
Theological Education in Mexico
The National Presbyterian Church of Mexico is convinced of the need to give its leaders and pastors the best theological, biblical and pastoral care foundation possible. The seminaries listed below play an important role in fulfilling this need. Funds are needed for scholarships, professors' salaries, developing new programs, infrastructure and libraries. |
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Dr. Juan R. Kempers Seminary—a theological opportunity for people of Chiapas |
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862566 |
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Goal: $50,000 |
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Presbyterian Theological Seminary |
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Goal: $10,000 |
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San Pablo Theological Seminary Merida, Yucatan |
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Goal: $10,000 |
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Evangelism
Companeros en Mision
Companeros en Mision (Partners in Mission) works with five small mission churches in the state of Sonora, second-largest state in Mexico. The mission sites are in the desert town of Caborca (pop. 70,000); Guaymas, a seaport city on the Sea of Cortes (pop. 130,000); Hermosillo, the state capital (pop. 700,000); the agricultural city of Navojoa (pop. 145,000), located 9 hours south of the border; and the border city of Nogales, Sonora (est. pop. 400,000). The focus of the ministry is on church development, evangelism, health and education. Companeros strives to build and strengthen faith, understanding and relationships among people on both sides of the border. |
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Goal: $25,000 |
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Evangelism Along the Border
Since 1984 the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico and the PC(USA) have jointly sponsored new church development along the 2000-mile border between Mexico and the United States . Twenty-nine churches have been organized, ranging from completely established congregations engaged in fresh outreach mission to their cities to very new gatherings of the faithful in previously unchurched neighborhoods. |
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863520 |
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Goal: $50,000 |
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Frontera de Cristo
The Frontera de Cristo ministry is located in Agua Prieta, Sonora (pop. 100,000) and Douglas, Arizona (pop. 13,000). On Sundays and weekday evenings the building is a center for worship, fellowship, Bible study and prayer groups, health and family ministry classes, and a medical clinic. The youth group has over 25 active participants. |
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Goal: $25,000 |
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Frontier Mission: Lacandon People
There are only 700 Lacandon people, who
live in five villages in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The
National Presbyterian Church of Mexico supports Dario Lopez
as a missionary to this group of people. Dario is from the
Tzelal people. The PC(USA) is participating in the training
and sending of Dario to this work. |
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040070 |
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Goal: $7,000 |
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Mexico Frontier Mission Development
This fund assists the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico gain a vision to help complete the evangelization of unreached people groups in Mexico and begin the process of sending missionaries to other parts of Latin America and the world. |
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Goal: $10,000 |
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Pasos de Fe
Pasos de Fe is a ministry at El Paso, Texas (pop. 450,000) and Juarez, Mexico (pop. 1.5 million). Originally founded in 1973, Pasos de Fe formed a reconstructed bi-national board in 1998. Pasos de Fe presently consists of three fully constituted congregations and four missions in Juarez. There is also a thriving mission in Chihuahua, the state capital, some four hours south of the border.
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Goal: $25,000 |
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Presbyterian Border Ministry, U.S. - Mexico
The 2,000-mile U.S./Mexico border offers opportunities for the PC(USA) and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico to witness to their unity in Christ. Gifts to this ECO assist the churches as in partnership they plant new churches, construct buildings and employ funds for pastoral salaries. They provide preventive health programs like pre/postnatal care and inoculations, childhood nutrition, hygiene education, and potable water programs. Efforts also focus on community and economic development, literacy, mission and vocational education. |
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Goal: $50,000 |
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Project Amistad
Proyecto Amistad, one of six sites of the Presbyterian Border Ministry, is based in the neighboring cities of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico and Laredo, Texas. The ministry facilitates United States/Mexico church partnerships that focus on building relationships in order to be more effective in growing the body of Christ. Together the partners build churches, support pastors and missionaries, engage in fellowship and learning together, and support each other in evangelistic outreach to adults and children. |
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Goal: $25,000 |
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Pueblos Hermanos New Church Development
San Diego, California, (pop.1.5 million) and Tijuana, Mexico, (pop. 2 million). Pueblos Hermanos, started in 1984, now supports mission work of six congregations of the Northwest Border Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Mexico. Pueblos Hermanos works closely with the Korean Presbyterian Church, which has founded three Presbyterian worship centers in Tijuana. |
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Goal: $10,000 |
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Puentes de Cristo
Puentes de Cristo focuses its mission endeavors in the Reynosa, Mexico, area across from McAllen, Texas. Puentes' mission work encompasses four main areas: new church development, preventative health, self-development of people and mission participation (mission teams). Puentes is a joint ministry between Mission Presbytery in Texas and Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas Presbyteries in Mexico. |
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Mission Personnel
The Rev. Mark Adams — U.S. Coordinator for Border Ministry Frontera de Cristo
Mark Adams, an ordained PC(USA) minister, works in partnership with a pastor of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico in Frontera de Cristo, a shared mission of Presbyterian Border Ministries. The work includes church development, health, family counseling, the New Hope Community Center, mission education, and the Just Trade Center. Mark describes his call to mission in the context of God’s claim on his life through baptism: “I had been proclaimed a child of the covenant at my baptism and was baptized into a community of believers. The reality of how grand this community is didn’t become clear to me until I lived and served with Uno En El Espiritu, a church in Piedras Negras, Mexico.” |
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Rachel Anderson — U.S. Coordinator for Border Ministries, Pueblos Hermanos
Pueblos Hermanos Presbyterian Border Ministry in Tijuana-San Diego, is one of six U.S.-Mexican Presbyterian collaborative ministries of evangelism, new church development, community health and development, and mission education along the Mexico-U.S. border. The Rev. Bill Soldwisch has held this position since 1983 and will be retiring at the end of 2009. The Rev. Rachel Anderson will be replacing him in this position. |
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Susanne Frerichs — Christian Education and Partnership Facilitator
Susie Frerichs serves in the mountains of central-east Mexico, working with the Presbytery of the Huastecas, a presbytery of rural, indigenous churches of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico (INPM). She facilitates partnerships between U.S. and Mexican congregations and assists INPM congregations in evangelistic, educational, and community development programs, as well as in ministry with children, youth and Presbyterian Women’s groups. |
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Christopher McReynolds — U.S. Coordinator, Border Ministry Proyecto Amistad
Chris McReynolds is a U.S. coordinator of Proyecto Amistad, which recently relocated to the Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, border. There the PC(USA) and National Mexican Presbyterian Church collaborate in ministries of evangelism, new church development, community health and development, and mission education. “I have learned that God has much work for the church to do in Mexico and the United States,” writes Chris. “Christians from different cultures have much to offer and receive from one another beyond material things. It is my privilege to encourage the development of church partnerships and relationships, where, as we humble ourselves and remain in Christ, we get to take part in his work.” |
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Amy Robinson — Pasos de Fe U.S. Coordinator, U.S.-Mexico border
Amy Robinson is a long-term volunteer serving as U.S. coordinator of Pasos de Fe, one of six sites along the U.S.-Mexico border that are part of the Presbyterian Border Ministry. The coordinator facilitates the visits of church groups that want to participate in mission, scheduling and coordinating the visits, working with colleagues from the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico to plan the work, worship and living arrangements. |
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The Rev. William Soldwisch — U.S. Coordinator, Border Ministry Pueblos Hermanos
Pueblos Hermanos Presbyterian Border Ministry in Tijuana-San Diego, is one of six U.S.-Mexican Presbyterian collaborative ministries of evangelism, new church development, community health and development, and mission education along the Mexico-U.S. border. The Rev. Bill Soldwisch has held this position since 1983 and will be retiring at the end of 2009. The Rev. Rachel Anderson will be replacing him in this position. |
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David and Susan Thomas — Regional Liaison for Mexico
This ECO provides salary and benefit support to mission co-workers David and Susan Thomas who are serving with the PC(USA)'s partner denomination, the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico. David is Regional Liaison for Mexico while Susan is involved in mission support and team ministry. In their current assignment the Thomases are facilitating the development of partnerships between churches and presbyteries of the United States and Mexico. They are also coordinating some short-term mission trips and providing support to other PC(USA) mission personnel throughout Mexico, including mission workers who serve along the U.S.–Mexico border in the six sites of Presbyterian Border Ministry.
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The Rev. Don and Dr. Martha Wehmeyer — Director, School of Continuing Education
Don Wehmeyer, an ordained PC(USA) minister, is director of the School of Continuing Education at San Pablo Theological Seminary in Merida, a school of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico. He teaches theology courses, leads workshops in many of Mexico’s rural areas, and publishes a magazine for pastors for the Synod of the Yucatán Peninsula. Martha ministers from the home as a volunteer medical doctor. |
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Other Support
Regional Liaison for Mexico
This ECO provides funds for travel, communication and operating expenses related to the work of the regional liaison for Mexico in supporting the programs of the PC(USA)'s partner church, mission personnel, the involvement of PC(USA) presbyteries and congregations, as well as organizations and mission networks in Mexico. The PC(USA)'s partner denomination in Mexico, the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico, has 66 presbyteries and 13 synods, which requires extensive travel and communication capacity for the regional liaison throughout the country. |
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