MISSION COMMITTEE CONSIDERS FUTURE MISSIONARY SUPPORT
Eastridge's mission committee has been considering several missionaries to support in 2007. Potential support has been considered for Lawrence Elroy, Sharon Roberts, Rev. Majid Able and Rev. Heidi McGinness of CSI. On Saturday, November 18, Rev. Heidi McGinness of Christian Solidarity International
(CSI) was our keynote speaker at a Forum about the happenings in
Sudan. She also was our guest speaker for Thank Offering Sunday, November 19.
An ordained Presbyterian minister, Pastor Heidi has0 first-hand experiences in war-torn Sudan, Africa. There she worked on CSI teams liberating over 400 women and children from slavery, delivering hundreds of pounds of medicine and thousands of tons of grain and basic supplies for living, while providing spiritual support and hope. She has an infectious enthusiasm for this work; now her life’s mission.
Pastor Heidi has traveled the United States speaking to ecclesiastical and civic groups, providing them with her unique perspective on the continued suffering of black Christians in South Sudan and Darfur. As Outreach Director for CSI, she has been profiled in radio, print and news media. She was invited by the White House to a 2006 briefing on Darfur, along with representatives of the White House and the Department of State.
SAFE QUARTERS FOR FRIENDSHIP HOME
Youth and adults made up two teams that headed out to collect quarters in support of Friendship Home in the Fall of 2006. These two teams collected a total of
$1,325.62. Mark Richards said that one of the quarters must have been Canadian. Thank you to everyone who gave time and effort for this mission event!!
ONE “The Campaign to Make Poverty History!”
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More News ... Malawi Update
Medical Benevolence Foundation Update
In Partnership With Presbyterian Church (USA)
“Malawi is in a serious food crisis,” says Frank Dimmock, South Africa Regional Health Consultant. Dimmock and other health workers in Malawi are asking for prayer and financial assistance for accelerated programs to help end the crisis.
Signs of the famine are evident especially in the south where women stand in line for days to receive their meager ration of maize from the government. Malawi’s president has declared the famine a “National Disaster” and appealed for international assistance. According to Interpress Service News Agency, Malawi does not have enough food stock to last until the next harvest in April. Women, children, the disabled, and the elderly are being hit the hardest, and twenty of Malawi’s twenty-six districts are affected by the shortage.
In a country where the average life expectancy is only 35 and where Malaria, TB, and HIV/AIDS regularly take their toll, the current food crisis increases the burden of mission health workers and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP).
“The church is strategically placed to respond to the crisis and to assist in resolving the underly- ing causes,” says Frank Dimmock. But he says more needs to be done to solve this problem that has plagued Malawi for six years. Dimmock stresses the need for long-term strategies, and has put out a call for support for health workers and their partner, the CCAP, as they work on long-term solutions.
“We are still in the throes of desperate famine… each center has more than doubled the number of children…now having to cook twice or three times because cooking pots are too small. What your gifts have done over the past several months is help us buy adequate food for almost 3,500 needy children now in our care… Thank you for partnering with us.” Nancy Dimmock
While health workers and the Church of Central Africa help find long-term solutions to Malawi’s chronic food problem, we in the States need to support programs already in place. Mission workers, through programs connected to Ekwendeni Hospital, David Gordon Memorial Hospital, Embangweni Hospital, and Mulanje Hospital are presently:
• feeding children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in care centers,
• providing quick—growing Moringa tree seeds so families can successfully grow their own nutritious food,
• operating crisis nurseries where malnourished children are nursed back to health,
• operating community health centers and mobile health Mission clinics,
• treating sick and malnourished children in nutrition rehabilitation units (NRUs). (Jodi McGill, Public Health Coordinator for the Livingstonia Synod in Malawi, says these NRUs will need additional support because more and more children need them.)
For more information contact MBF at 800.547.7627.
Here are the organizations Eastridge supports with our mission dollars:
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Theological Education Fund
Camp Calvin Crest
Presbyterian Medical Benevolence
Presbyterian Border Ministry
Eastridge Food Pantry
Schuyler VBS
Hastings College
Peoples City Mission
Friendship Home Eastridge is the Drop-off site for Friendship Home donations. Located in hallway by Huxtable Lounge. North entrance to church. (Please no clothes or furniture at this drop-off site.)
Bread for the World The campaign to make poverty history:
ONE.
Offering of Letters
Tabitha Meals on Wheels
Samaritan Counseling Center
UMHE: Conerstone on the campus of UNL and Presbyterian Minister
Rachelle McCalla at Wayne State
Habitat for Humanity
Lincoln
Daywatch
Christian Heritage Home
Crisis Pregnancy Center
Gideons
Hispanic Community Center
Indian Center
Mid America Wee Kirk Conference
Rape/Spouse Abuse Center
Youth For Christ
Good News Prison Ministry
Refugee Resettlement
Fresh Start
Hispanic/Latino Ministry
Literacy Council
Mission Interpretation
Lincoln Interfaith Council
Four Major Mission Programs of PC(USA)
One Great Hour of Sharing Where do my gifts to OGHS go?
Pentecost
Peacemaking Offering
Christmas Joy
Souper Bowl of Caring
Millenium Mission of Homestead Presbytery
Eastridge also has and does support these individuals and ministries with prayer and gifts:
Dr. Ron Rand,
Upbuilding the Family of God
Rev. Sharon Roberts,
Psalm100Ministries
Rev. Robert DeMoor,
Faith Alive Christian Resources
Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship
Hurricane Katrina Relief
Lincoln Benevolence Coalition
Gathering Place
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