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Christian Women's Center
Five
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Habitat
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Hope
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And Jesus came and said to them, "All
authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am
with you always, to the close of the age." - Matthew 28:18 – 20
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Futral Road School
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Ambassadors for Christ
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Ambassadors for Christ, a relatively
small agency, has a two-pronged approach to missions: revive the local church
and take the gospel to the nations. They believe that revived local churches
will support and send missionaries. One of their evangelists, Al
Whittinghill, has spoken in our church.
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Believing that missionaries, through
their care for livestock, can help reduce hunger in the developing world, CVM
sends missionaries on both short-term and long-term assignments to many
countries to help people take better care of the livestock on which their the
people’s own lives depend and thereby to witness to the gospel of Jesus
Christ. As many of us are aware, our own George and Martha Mixon have served
CVM both in Kenya and now here in the United States.
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Frontiers is an Arizona-based mission
agency working exclusively among unreached Muslim people groups. Perhaps because
they specialize, they are highly regarded among other agencies for their
training in reaching Muslims, and other agencies sometimes send their
missionaries to Frontiers for training. Serious about working on the
frontiers and expecting extraordinary sacrifice of its long-term
missionaries, Frontiers has a strong record of planting churches and of
working in supposedly closed countries.
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IM is a small agency (about 65 career
and 250 short-term missionaries), specializing in outreach to six formerly
Communist countries in Eastern Europe--Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary, Ukraine, and Romania – countries which have far fewer missionaries
per capita and some of which have a far lower percentage of evangelical
Christians than China, India, or sub-Saharan Africa. In partnership with
local churches and career missionaries, IM sets up and subsidizes weeklong
camps staffed by short-term missionaries, then invites local workers to
attend the camps where they are taught English and Bible. IM offers excellent
training and opportunities for short-term missions.
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MBF is an independent Presbyterian
mission agency that concentrates particularly on the medical needs of people
in the Third World. We have supported the De la Torres’ work through MBF for many
years in Zambia and now in Kenya. Before he began Rivers of the World, Ben
Mathis worked for MBF.
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MFI provides support services
for missionaries in the West Indies, flying them to and from the field,
flying in supplies ranging from emergency food to medicine to Bibles, and
even delivering their mail. Drew Gano, son-in-law of Jim and Susan Litchford,
flies to and from the Caribbean with MFI.
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OM, with US headquarters in nearby
Tyrone, GA, is a large mission agency with outreach to many unreached peoples.
While OM sends out many career missionaries, it also offers, for those who
might be interested, a great variety of short-term opportunities for mission
work, ranging from two or three week tours in Spain passing out gospel
cassettes and tracts to Muslims returning to North Africa to six months to a
year teaching English among unreached peoples to a year serving aboard one of
OM’s mission ships. Our church supports an OM mission couple who work among
Afghan refugees.
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PFF spearheads PCUSA efforts to
establish viable, evangelizing churches among over 100 different unreached people
groups. As part of that effort, PFF seeks to promote and support partnerships
between PCUSA churches in the United States and churches in developing
countries. We support Cody Watson in his work with PFF and the Mekane Yesus
Church of Ethiopia in its outreach to at least a half dozen different
unreached peoples in Ethiopia. We also support PFF’s overall and general
budget in developing new outreach to unreached peoples.
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PFR is an organization
of committed Presbyterians seeking renewal in the PCUSA. Through conferences
such as the Christian Life Conference at Montreat, through a strong presence
at annual General Assembly meetings and at presbytery meetings, and through
such publications as reNews, PFR asserts the authority of scripture and the
uniqueness of Jesus Christ. PFR also sponsors Great Escape and Fun in the
Sun, renewal conferences for youth, as well as Son Servants (see below).
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Samaritan’s Purse demonstrates the love
of Christ by ministering to the physical needs of desperately needy and
hurting people. From providing food, shelter, and medicine in parts of India
devastated by recent earthquakes to providing heat for freezing orphans in
Romania or Mongolia or Moldova to providing much-needed medical care in
war-devastated places like Sudan and the Balkans, Samaritan’s Purse has not
hesitated to minister to people even in the most dangerous and seemingly
hopeless situations. Founded and headed by Franklin Graham, son of evangelist
Billy Graham, Samaritan’s Purse consistently presents the love of Christ
physically as well as verbally.
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Son Servants organizes and leads
service mission trips for youth in such places as the Texas-Mexico border,
Jamaica, and Appalachia. We have been sending youth on Son Servants mission
trips regularly since 1992. This year (2001) eleven of our youth will be
accompanied by three adults from our congregation on a Son Servants mission
trip to Jamaica.
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Wycliffe’s primary mission is to
translate the Bible into each of the world’s roughly 6000 languages so that
all people may have access to scripture in their own language. In order to
facilitate such translations, Wycliffe sends missionaries into remote areas
of the world to learn the language of unreached peoples, in many cases to
create an orthography (a system of writing) for those languages, to translate
the scriptures into that language using that orthography, and then to teach
the people to read. This is a labor of love, time-consuming, tedious, and
sometimes frustrating. Dennis Cochran of Wycliffe, whose family lived for ten
years with a remote tribe in New Guinea, spoke in our church several years
ago about his experience translating the scriptures for that tribe. Rachel
Erickson, whose mother was a member of our church and whose parents served as
missionaries in Brazil and Mozambique, has served with Wycliffe for several
years. Wycliffe has many opportunities for support personnel both here and
abroad, long-term and short-term (see http://www.wycliffeassociates.org/).
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Caring House (770) 229-4474 PROGRAMS: ·
Infant
Care/Parenting Classes - Receive a certificate after the completion of six
one-hour sessions that involves videos, fill-in the blank forms, and
discussion. ·
Mentor
Mom Program - Mentors for teen moms who need encouragement, help, and a
friend. Involves once a month meeting at Caring House on a Monday
night. ·
Post
Abortion Support Group - For women who want to be healed from a past abortion
experience(s). ·
Free
pregnancy testing. If a client tests positive, then she will be
involved in our follow-up program where she will be contacted about once a
month. As she gets close to her due date, she can receive a diaper bag
(as supplies last) with baby items or a baby starter gift packet with newborn
clothes and a few other new baby items. ALSO OFFERED: ·
Confidential
lay counseling. ·
Discuss
options with pregnancy: Marriage, adoption, single parenting, and
foster care. ·
Offer
free information about birth control, pregnancy, abortion procedures,
complications of abortion, etc. ·
Donation
closet: Used baby clothes (through 24 months), baby items, baby
furniture (as donated), are given out to clients and walk-ins as supplies
last. There is a limit per person so as not to run out so fast. ·
Referrals for
adoption, food, counseling, churches, and maternity housing
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Christian Women's
Center
P.O. Box 803Sunnyside, GA 30223(770) 227-3700 (770)
412-7249 (Fax) The
Christian Women’s Center, Inc. was founded and organized in 1983 and is an
interdenominational, non-profit organization with a principal goal of
providing a temporary home to women and their children in crisis. The
Mission Statement of this organization directs this organization to “provide
a loving and accepting temporary home in which the love of Christ can
minister to the physical, emotional, spiritual and educational needs of women
and their children. They may have been
abused, abandoned, homeless, dependent on drugs, pregnant or victims of other
circumstances which constitute a personal crisis.” Women and
children may be referred to this organization by hospitals, pastors, the
police, the Salvation Army, the Department of Family and Children Services or
family and friends. There are no
restrictions as to race, religion or the number of children a woman may bring
with her. The Christian Women’s Center also
provides a twelve month training program that offers both individual and
group instruction in practical issues of Christian life; including character
development, social relationships and good work habits. Students of this program have the
opportunity to earn a G.E.D. and take vocational and/or college study
courses.
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Five Loaves and Two Fish Food Pantry215 West Slaton AvenueGriffin, GA 30223(770)
228-1260 An aging
couple temporarily takes in their grandchildren while their daughter attempts
to get her life together. A textile
worker loses his job when his company closes.
A young mother attempts to make ends meet after the father of her
child abandons her. These are
three of the many stories heard at the Five Loaves & Two Fish Food Pantry
over the past month. In a
typical month, the Food Pantry serves 650 families, or about 1500
individuals. About 40 percent of the
individuals are children under age 18.
Another 10 percent are senior citizens. Among our heads of household, about one
third are disabled. Another third are
unemployed. A final third are employed,
but do not earn enough to feed their families. Some
seventy volunteers who typically work twice per month staff the pantry. The hours of the pantry are as follows: Monday- 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday- 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Wednesday- 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Thursday- 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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