The Heifer Project
Heifer International is a non-profit organization whose goal is to help end world hunger and poverty through self-reliance & sustainability. Every year Westminster Presbyterian Church has hosts the Heifer Project event to buy animals for those in need in suffering countries.
David and Sue Hartmann - Albania
For this, our 4th term as missionaries, the Lord impressed upon Dave the scriptures in Acts 14:22; 15:41; 18:23; 20:1-4 concerning his main ministry. These scriptures describe the apostle Paul and other leaders who traveled to the young local churches to strengthen and encourage them in prayer, fasting, preaching, teaching, worship and counsel. So Dave has been busy doing exactly that. Taking his guitar and Bible he travels most weeks to different Albanian Assembly of God churches as well as other local churches “encouraging and strengthening” the believers and local pastoral leadership. He has been to Kosovo twice to be with our Assembly of God works there in Decan and Mitrovica. Dave is also leading worship for the Thursday chapel services at our Evangelical Theological College as well as sharing in song and the Word once a month at our kids’ MK schools. Dave is planning a few praise and worship CD projects for 2009 to help promote dynamic spirit-filled praise amongst our local churches.
Mary Ferris-Romanian Grannies
Mary Ferris is currently serving her first term as a mission co-worker for PC(USA) in Tulcea, Romania, in partnership with New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children (NOROC). Mary assists the director and staff of NOROC with three different programs: (1) Big-Hearted Grannies, which employs retired persons to give individual attention to three or four infants or toddlers on a daily basis; (2) Big-Hearted Teachers, which depends on retired teachers and professors to tutor students; and (3) Big-Hearted Friends, which focuses on developing life-skills training and transitional employment and housing for older children, who are required to leave the orphanages at age 18. Mary’s term began in June 2001 and ends in September 2004.
Les and Cindy Morgan - Rajshahi Hospital, Bangladesh
Drs. Leslie and Cynthia Morgan have been serving as missionaries for the PC(USA) in Bangladesh since 1989. After serving three years at the Christian Health and Agricultural Project in Ahladipur (CHAPA), they joined as health advisors for the Church of Bangladesh and are stationed at Christian Mission Hospital in Rajshahi. Christian Mission Hospital (CMH) is an 80-bed facility that serves Muslims, Hindus, and Christians from the greater Rajshahi area. Patients come to CMH because of its reputation for compassionate care for the sick. The hospital’s nursing school trains 70 Christian students, through a four-year course of study, to serve the sick in Christ’s name.
Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship
We challenge, mobilize and empower Presbyterian congregations into global partnerships that establish indigenous churches among unreached people groups.