Jeff and Christi Boyd Presbyterian Church (USA) Both Jeff and Christi have been PC(USA) mission co-workers in Africa since 1990. Jeff was in educational ministries until 2002 when he became partnership liaison. Christi changed to her current position in 2013, after 13 years as facilitator for the Joining Hands Initiative of the Presbyterian Hunger
'The Akhtars' The Akhtars ministry aims to serve, encourage, and empower refugees and internally displaced people in refugee camps situated close to the Thai-Myanmar border and urban areas by providing them food ration, shelter and legal assistance, education, and spiritual support. We also stand with incarceration refugee families in immigration detention centers in
Learn to Earn Roche van Wyk, Director With our ‘hand up not a hand out’ approach Social Enterprise Learn to Earn is dedicated to eradicating unemployment and other legacies of injustice in South Africa through our 13 market-related skill development and 4 income generating job creation projects, The goal is for graduates to leave
Emmaus Ministries Noah Adair, Executive DirectorEmmaus Ministries helps male survivors of exploitation leave the sex trade and rebuild their lives. In Chicago alone, there is an estimated 3,000-5,000 of men and boys involved in tracking, prostitution and survival sex. Our work is summed up by the ACT model.Advocate for the most vulnerable boys and
Medical Benevolence Foundation Andrew Mayo, Executive Director In partnership with the Presbyterian Church USA, Medical Benevolence Foundation (MBF) supports the medical ministries of worldwide partners with particular emphasis in D.R. Congo, Kenya, Malawi, and Haiti. MBF’s focus is raising the necessary resources to provide compassionate and sustainable healthcare for the poor with concentration on
Good News Partners Kenn Johnson, Executive DirectorThe mission of Good News Partners (GNP) is “To end homelessness and hopelessness with everyone God brings to us, and to foster justice and build bridges of reconciliation.” By God’s grace, GNP creates and sustains safe, affordable and reliable housing while also ushering our resident partners toward self-sufficiency
Facing Forward to End Homelessness Rev. Doug Bradshaw Facing forward helps families and individuals end generational cycles of homelessness by providing long-term housing and comprehensive, clinical and multi-generational case management services designed to address root causes of homelessness, remove barriers to stability and empower increased self-sufficiency and lifelong personal growth. Learn more: www.ffchicago.org Contact
Community Network of Orphans Uganda Allen A. Kakooza, Founder Mission: To rescue orphans, abandoned and at-risk children, provide them with safe loving foster families and offer support services to communities in need. Vision and Goals: To create business safety nets for foster parents, youths and at-risk low-income families. Every active participant will gain skills,
This week's eNewsletter Feature was written by Jim Teague, FPCE director of communications. Dear friends – Of all the details in the Bible story of Jacob’s dream of the ladder to and from heaven (Genesis 28:10-21), the one that constantly trips me up is this: Taking one of the stones of the place, he
This week's eNewsletter Feature was written by Jim Teague, FPCE director of communications. Dear friends – I am a big fan of the Book of Job in the same way I am a fan of seeing the dentist on a regular basis to prevent major dental problems. It is one of the books of
