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Good Coffee for a Good Cause
Buying fair trade through the Presbyterian Coffee Project ensures that more of the money we spend on coffee reaches the hardworking farmers who actually grow it. Fair trade practices complement our mission with farmers in Latin America, Africa and Asia, as well as our committment to stewardship of the natural environment. First Presbyterian has available organic Coffee, Tea, and Hot Cocoa for use at home or work. Remember, Coffee makes a great gift! Find out more about the Presbyterian Coffee Project.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
September 12 & 19
New Member's Class
4-5:30 PM in Lawson-Rain Chapel
October 31
Reformation Sunday
November 12-14
Bonclarken Fall Retreat
More Events...
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MISSIONS
Go and make disciples of all nations. Matthew 28:19
Be it across town or across the world, serving lunch at our local Manna House or building churches in the Amazon, First Presbyterian serves the call of evangelism. Our members have incredible opportunties to reach out to those in need and put to use their spiritual gifts and talents. Each year, a number of global mission trips are organized and each week our members volunteer locally.
Mission Trips
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| Amazon/Peru 2010 |
Dr. Barry Jenkins |
Summer 2011 |
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| Haiti 2010 |
Rev. Chris Handley |
March 2-9, 2011 |
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| Rwanda |
Dr. Ken Lowry |
TBA |
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| La Calera, Nicaragua |
Mrs. Kitty Daniels |
TBA |
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| (Youth Sr.High) |
Mr. Stacey Severance |
2011 |
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| (Youth Jr. High) |
Mr. Stacey Severance |
2011 |
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GLOBAL MISSION SUPPORT
First Presbyterian supports ministries all over the world. Over 20% of the gifts given to the ministry of this church go to support the work of building the kingdom of God around the world. Our mission ministry team works to stay in contact with over 25 missionaries that we support on every continent on the globe.
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Carol Crom works in Slovakia with Entrust, whose vision for Slovakia is...to continually provide accessible, biblical, servant-leader training which will strengthen local churches and contribute to the fulfillment of Christ's command to make disciples of every nation.
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Dr. Salvador and Irma de la Torre are a husband and wife doctor-nurse team who have extensive teaching and clinical experience at hospitals and universities in Mexico, Haiti, and Kenya. |
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Mike and Susie Dempsey are the founding members of Amazon Medical Missions, which provides healthcare to the people of the jungle without cost who have little or no access to healthcare presently.
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Pastor Actionnel Fleurisma and OFCB Ministries in Bayonnais, Haiti. Their goal is to preach the gospel spiritually and socially, and to provide food, education and proper medical care to one of the poorest areas of Haiti.
A short video of Bayonnais in 2009
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HCJB's vision is to see people everywhere transformed in Christ, engaged in the growing church, and empowered to ignite reproducing ministries that bring His light to their community. |
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Wick and Cindy Jackson. Wick Jackson is the Director of Envoy International/South America. Cindy founded BCI, Burn Care International. They travel extensively doing ministry. |
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Caleb and Louise King are medical missionaries in Rwanda offering health care where it would not be otherwise. |
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Choon and Yen Hee Lim were appointed mission co-workers in 1991. Their current assignment is with the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan’s Aboriginal College Ministry, a work which Choon initiated for the PCT in September 1999. Until then there were no outreach ministries to students in the Hualien area. Now, Choon works in Hualien at two universities and four colleges with the campus ministries that he founded between 1999 and 2002.
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Bill and Ann Moore have served as people in mission with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in partnership with the Reformed Church of Japan (RCJ) in Hiroshima and currently in Kobe, Japan.Since 1995, they have been in Kobe where Bill is the organizing pastor of a new church development for the RCJ in the northern suburbs of Kobe-Osaka called the Nishitani Chapel. Ann is a partner in ministry with Bill assisting with the work in evangelism and new church development.
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Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship BORN Project
Bihar, India’s second largest state, has about 100 million people and is around 2% Christian. It has ranked at the bottom of all measurement scales in India: poverty, literacy, crime, corruption, etc. The Bihar Outreach Network, BORN, is a network of mission organizations that is doing holistic church-planting work in Bihar. Churches are being established, people are being trained in culturally appropriate ways, leadership is being developed, and in the last 8 years, the number of annual baptisms has grown from 1,250 to almost 50,000! Funds support all this work in the following categories: Bible schools and training, indigenous church planters, a new training center and training and sending evangelists to the Koshi area that was flooded in 2008.
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Presbyterian Outreach Foundation Lovemore Home was established in 1998 to provide former street children with a loving, supportive, Christian environment, enabling them to return to regular schooling and to begin the process of rebuilding family relationships. This ministry is operated in partnership with the Children at Risk Committee of the Presbytery of Zimbabwe and Uniting Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa.
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Valerie and Walt Shepard were appointed in January 2005 to serve in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They retired in 2009. |
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Michael and Irene Sivalee have served with the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPIB) since 1982. During their current assignment, they teach at an extension of the Rev. Antonio Godoy Sobrinho Seminary of Londrina, Parana, that the IPIB has opened up in Brasilia, Brazil's capital city. They retired in 2008. |
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Alan and Ellen Smith were appointed in 2001 to serve in Russia as coordinators of the congregational twinning project in Russia and Belarus, a program that matches interested congregations in the United States with congregations in Russia and Belarus for friendship and mission. |
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Tim and Annette Gulick serve as missionaries in Mexico helping to develop curriculum for Spanish speaking young people. |
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Operation Mobilization seeks to demonstrate and proclaim the love of God through evangelism, church planting, discipleship, and literature distribution and also by providing relief and development in many areas of the world. |
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Rev. Dr. Cody and Talulah Watson: Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship "For every people an indigenous church, For every church a mission vision."
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Jim and Sheryl Wunder work with Crossroads, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ which teaches leaders a 30 lesson, character based, abstinence curriculum to equip youth in avoiding high risk behaviors which can lead to AIDS, drug addiction, and violence. Jim oversees the development of this strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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LOCAL MISSIONS
Many from First serve as volunteers in these ministries both as board members and laborers. Weekly volunteers from First Presbyterian are making a difference as they provide medical care, food service, and spiritual guidance in these local ministries.
Bethany House Christian Services
Bethany assists in the adoption process working to match adopting parents with children.
Billie Hardee Home For Boys
Billie Hardee Home For Boys is a residential facility for young boys referred by various agencies for treatment of psychological challenges as a result of abuse, neglect, or an encounter with the criminal justice system.
Florence Habitat for Humanity
This nationwide organization seeks to build affordable homes in Florence that can be owned by qualifying families. Sweat equity is part of the purchase agreement as well as a strict plan for financial responsibility for these families. Volunteer teams build these homes.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Lighthouse Ministries
Lighthouse Ministries is a cooperative effort of the Florence Christian congregations to assist individuals and families in emergency situations.
Manna House
Manna House is a soup kitchen that serves lunch to those individuals who are unable to afford meals. It also provides emergency food relief to those in need.
Mercy Medicine
This free clinic provides needed health care services to those who can not afford the care and does so with the express purpose of sharing the gospel.
House of Hope of the Pee Dee
This includes the House of Hope For Women and their Children, House of Hope For Men, and the House of Hope Mission Mart.
The House of Hope For Women and their Children serves homeless women and their children. This excellent facility assists these homeless women by teaching them parenting skills, as well as working skills.
The House of Hope For Men is a shelter for men. It is a Christian mission devoted to helping those who are in need and are homeless. The school house in Effingham serves as a dormitory and accommodates up to 40 men.
Rebuilding Together
Is a renovation ministry. First sends out a team into the community to work with Rebuilding Together to rehabilitate a home.
Thornwell Home
This is a Presbyterian ministry that seeks to provide a home for orphaned and neglected children.
Young Life
High school and middle school students benefit from staff and volunteers who work to bring the gospel to students on these campuses in the Florence area.
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