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 opportunities 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.
GLOBAL MISSION SUPPORT
First Presbyterian Church supports ministries all over the world. Over 20 percent 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.
The Antioch Partners
Covenant Partner Gray Scott works with The Antioch Partners, a missions sending organization. She is in Barcelona, Spain, to work with Arab Ministries in Spain. Arab Ministries in Spain works with the Arab migrant community in and around Barcelona; meeting their practical, psycho-logical and social needs. Through relationships developed at their community centers, Gray will be the hands and feet of Jesus so they can encounter Him. Subscribe to her newsletter here: https://gray-scott.epistle.org/subscribe
Entrust
Entrust’s mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems.
Empower Believers Connections: India Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship
EBC is a network of indigenous (Indian) mission agencies that are planting churches and transforming communities throughout the northeastern state of Bihar. EBC was founded and is led by Chandan Kumar Sah who employs multiple strategies to reach and transform communities. His ministry has expanded from Bihar to another 8 states in Northern India. Chandan is developing network leaders, training in Disciple Making Movements. He also incorporated CHE (Community Health Evangelism) to help make the movements more self-sustaining. Pramila, Chandan’s wife, is instrumental in equipping and discipling women as she leads a strong women’s ministry, and has entered a counseling program to help in rescuing women from trafficking.
One Challenge International — Tim and Annette Gulick
After working as the summer youth interns at FPC Florence in 1992 and ’93 and finishing seminary, Tim and Annette joined the mission organization, One Challenge International. Since 1996, Annette and Tim have focused on providing youth ministry training and materials. They do this through on-site, face-to-face training, one-on-one mentoring and coaching, as well as through publishing youth ministry materials, primarily on the Internet.
The Spanish-language website they started 20 years – www.ParaLideres.org – currently has over 40,000 pages of free youth ministry resources with new ones being added every few days. On average, 10,000 people a day use that website.
They train, mentor, coach, and provide ministry materials to people who are helping the younger generations become more like Jesus. This is done so they can serve the youth and families of their church and community more effectively. The Gulicks accomplish this through both onsite and online training, mentoring and coaching, as well as through publishing youth ministry materials.
Tim is the son of Dr. Roger Gulick, a former pastor of FPC-Florence.
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
Jim Truesdell
Frontier Fellowship is “deeply rooted in our rich legacy and continuing to look toward the frontier where the Good News of Jesus has yet to find expression.” Its purpose is to mobilize prayer, giving and personnel for Frontier missions. For more information about Frontier Fellowship, visit here.
Sasha Tsu
tserov and One Mission Society
Sasha Tsutserov, Ph.D., is a full-time minister – professor in Biblical Studies and the president of the Moscow Seminary. They are raising a whole new generation of Christian leaders, training men and women to evangelize the lost and plant churches across Russia and the former Soviet Union. Under Communism, more than 200,000 Christian leaders were martyred and nearly 40,000 church-owned buildings were destroyed. Today the ministry at Moscow Seminary nearly 600 full-time student-ministers studying. For more information on Sasha and One Mission Society, visit here.
Jeremy and Courtney Emert (Covenant Partners of FPC)
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