| Mission
Partners Beyond Our Neighborhood |
Do You See Opportunities to Serve?
Please let us know
what inspires you
into service. If
you see opportunities
to make a difference
through sharing
your gifts, or the
combined gifts
of others in our
congregation, please
let us know at:
mission@firstpreswheaton.org
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All of these partners receive funding from
First Pres. In addition, the missionaries and
seminarians are the grateful recipients of your
thoughtfulness and prayers.
Presbytery and Synod Campus
Ministries
Provides funding for college campus ministries
all over the United States.
Theological Education Fund
Supports all seminaries connected to the Presbyterian
Church according to a need-based formula, thus
eliminating the former haphazard giving practice
of simply supporting the seminaries of a local
church's pastors.
Missionaries
Don, Pam, Austin, Elianna,
and Michelle
Kearby (donkearby@oci.org)
- are living in Nairobi, Kenya. Don is the
Field Director for the OC
International team
in East Africa. They work
with four other
families, and their work
is focused in the countries of Kenya,
Uganda, and Sudan.
Doug and Elaine Baker (doug.baker@dnet.co.uk)
- are in
Belfast, Northern Ireland,
where Doug is regional liaison for Ireland and the United Kingdom,
facilitating Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) support for programs, relationships, and activities
involving partner denominations and agencies. He is also
site coordinator for the PC(USA)'s
Young Adult Volunteer program in Northern Ireland. Messages
from Doug and Elaine Baker can be found at http://www.pcusa.org/missionconnections/profiles/bakerd.htm.
Seminary
Students - Candidates for Ministry of Word and
Sacrament under Our Care
Patricia Locke
Diane Slocum
Sarah Iliff
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