Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Tracey King-Ortega. The card includes a photo of her and an overview of her work. As regional liaison for Central America, Tracey helps create better communication among World Mission staff, mission personnel, partner churches and PC(USA) congregations interested in ministry in this region. She facilitates the visits of short-term mission groups, consults with partners and helps organize and sustain country mission networks. She works with all Presbyterian mission co-workers in Central America, supporting and encouraging them in their ministries. “Having my hands and heart in many different places and ministries, …
Use this card as you pray for Jeff and Christi Boyd. The card includes a photo and an overview of their work. As regional liaison for Central Africa, Jeff Boyd facilitates support for the relationships, programs and activities of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea. He also resources PC(USA) mission personnel and helps connect partner churches with PC(USA) congregations that want to be involved in ministry in the region. Besides the Congo, Christi works in three other French-speaking African countries, Madagascar, Niger, and Rwanda, and one non-French-speaking country, South Sudan. She …
Use this card as you pray for Kay Day. The card includes a photo and an overview of her work. Kay prepares men and women for pastoral ministry by teaching English and practical theology at the Protestant Institute of Arts and Sciences (PIASS) in Rwanda. The school places a special emphasis on equipping students to facilitate reconciliation, mutual respect and societal development in Rwanda, a country still scarred by the 1994 genocide.
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Doug Tilton. The card includes a photo of him and an overview of his work. As regional liaison for Southern Africa, Doug facilitates the PC(USA)’s relationships with its partners, supports other PC(USA) mission personnel and works with a growing number of presbytery and congregational partnerships. He also helps partners gain access to scholarships for leadership training and helps them find ways to meet one another’s needs. “I am excited and grateful when we are able to help each other to discern and apply our respective gifts to strengthen our mutual …
It takes the efforts of many persons committed to diversity and inclusiveness to breathe “new life” into Committees on Representation (CORs).
The committee on representation will assist the church to move toward the goal of “wholeness in the emerging life” of the church. This wholeness is evident when all members of the body of Christ are able to use the gifts they have been given by the Holy Spirit for the equipping of the people of God. Wholeness is a part of God’s “shalom” for the world.
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker The Rev. Esther Wakeman. The card includes a photo of her and an overview of her work. Esther is vice-president for spiritual and community life at Payap University in Chiang Mai, the first Christian university in Thailand. “This is a time of great social stress and change, and the privilege of helping prepare young leaders for the country is a great responsibility and honor,” she says. “Most of our staff and students are not Christian, but we live and work together in an educational institution established in the name …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Mark Hare and Jenny Bent. The card includes a photo and overview of their work.
From their base in the Dominican Republic, Mark and Jenny are committed to serving Haitian people. Mark, an agricultural technician commutes across the Haitian border to work with Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP), helping Haitians learn to grow lots of food on a small amount of land. Jenny, a community health consultant, works with the Evangelical Dominican Church in the bateys, company towns largely populated by Haitian sugar workers. In his work, Mark says he strives to …
Use this card as you pray for Long Term Volunteers Jay and Nancy Adams. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Jay and Nancy serve at Black Forest Academy (BFA), a school for children of people serving in mission. The parents of BFA students work in approximately 50 countries and represent more than 25 mission agencies and denominations, including the Presbyterian Church (USA). Nancy teaches English to high school students, and Jay is a senior administrator.
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Barry and Shelly Dawson. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Barry brings to mission service extensive ministry experience as a counselor and pastoral caregiver in international settings. He has serviced Presbyterian congregations in the United States and multi-cultural churches in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. “With eyes of faith, I can see that the providential hand of God has been shaping my life experiences and preparing my ministry to be used in the role of Regional Liaison for Southeast Asia,” he says. Shelly, a registered nurse, …