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 gospel …
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!
Presbyterians can practice faith in your everyday lives. Each short booklet explores lifestyle integrity for different seasons or choices of our lives. Choose individual booklets below, or use the download button on this page for a single pdf with all five of the booklets combined (20 pages).
Use this card as you pray for Karla Koll. The card includes a photo and an overview of her work. Karla is professor of history, mission, and religions for the Latin American Biblical University (UBL), a PC(USA) mission partner that has been training church leaders from throughout Latin America for over 90 years. Karla works with students from a variety of denominations. “I have the joy of guiding women and men into deeper understanding of their faith in Christ as I and my colleagues provide them with tools for working in God’s mission in ways that transform lives and …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Kurt Esslinger and Hyeyoung Lee. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Kurt and Hyeyoung will mentor Presbyterian Young Adult Volunteers (YAVs) who will spend one year living and serving in Korea. Their goal is to help the YAVs have a clear sense of their call to promote social justice, reconciliation, and evangelism as people of faith. As they guide young adults to reflect on their experience, Kurt and Hyeyoung will seek to prepare then to return to the United States to lead the church in working for …
Use this card as you pray for mission co-worker Leisa Wagstaff. This card includes a photo and overview of her work. After nearly 30 years as a mission co-worker, Leisa is working in her fifth African country, South Sudan. While in college, she visited what is now South Sudan and experienced a call to global mission and fell in love with Africa. Leisa helps the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan (PCOSS) strengthen its educational ministry by facilitating the repair and construction of primary schools, developing in-service teacher training programs, and nurturing community participation in education. Statistics show that …
Use this card as you pray for mission co-worker Leslie Vogel. This card includes a photo and overview of her work. As regional liaison for Guatemala and Mexico, Leslie serves as a facilitator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to provide support for partner programs, relationships, and activities, and as an implementer of Presbyterian World Mission Strategy. She supports PC(USA) mission personnel by sharing information, mentoring/guiding, and encouraging missiological reflection. In addition, Leslie facilitates and seeks to strengthen healthy, effective, and missiologically appropriate relationships between partners in Mexico and Guatemala, and PC(USA) congregations and presbyteries. “My sense of call has …
Part of the Christian-Muslim Relations mission toolkit, this document offers insight on how Muslims understand Christianity and Christians. It also provides interfaith guidelines for dialogue. Text taken from Christians and Muslims in Dialogue: Facets of a Relationship.
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Lucy is passionate to find different ways to bridge the knowledge between head and heart, to shine amid darkness. Her call has been honed and shaped over thirty years of service in different settings, creating a place of home coming and welcome to all those who are hurting, suffering, or in need of companionship, resources, or the healing power of faith. “The call to return to Lebanon to work at Near East School of Theology (NEST) and with refugees is one that God has been preparing me for throughout my life,” says Lucy. Work environments for Lucy have been about …