Category: Missions - Edmonds Presbyterian Church

Women’s Association

4/3/2019

The Women’s Association will meet at the Pancake Haus in Edmonds for lunch at noon on April 10th. Any lady who wants to come is welcome to join us for an enjoyable time of visiting and enjoying lunch together.

Also, the Women’s Association and the congregation are working together to provide 120 Easter baskets for the “Concern for Neighbors Food Bank” in Mountlake Terrace. The baskets will be filled on April 13th at 10AM. Anyone who can spare about 1 ½ hours is invited to help fill the baskets. It is fun working together and doing something that will bring pleasure to the children who receive the baskets.

One Great Hour of Sharing - April 14th

4/3/2019

As we learn more about the One Great Hour of Sharing offering, we can be thankful that God uses our gifts to offer a helping hand to people who truly need it. Thirty-six percent of the offering goes to the Presbyterian Hunger Program. The Presbyterian Disaster Fund and the Self Development of People Fund each receive 32% of the money given. The offering will be collected on Palm Sunday, April 14th. We will have readers on three Sundays to let us know how funds given to the offering will be used.

Missions:

3/19/2019

The Souper Bowl offering was collected on February 3rd, the day of the Super Bowl game. We gave $45 in cash and forty food items, for the Terrace View Food Bank in Mountlake Terrace.

Our next mission emphasis will be on the One Great Hour of Sharing offering which will be given on Palm Sunday. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance will receive 32% of the offering, Presbyterian Hunger Program will get 36%, and Self Development of People will receive 32%.

Our quarterly mission giving was distributed in January. Eagle Wings, Opening Blind Eyes, Jan Griffith and Renewal Ministries each received $400. The Puget Sound Christian Clinic was given $300 and The Jean Kim Foundation received $200. Gifts of $100 were given to the Everett Gospel Mission, Cancer Pathways, Habitat for Humanity and Tyler Holm, our mission partner in Malawi.

Souper Bowl 2019

3/19/2019

Jean Kim – book & Mission Moment Sunday

3/19/2019

Rev. Dr. Jean Kim has written a book about her life titled, “Hope in the Color Purple.” You may recognize her name from her work founding the Church of Mary Magdalene for Homeless Women (now Mary’s Place) and her more recent work with her foundation helping the homeless to obtain a college degree or accreditation. We hope to have Rev. Dr. Jean Kim visit us in April during worship and share a moment for mission with us.

Women’s Association

2/1/2019

UPDATE: There is no meeting this month due to the snow. Kathy will join us for our may meeting

All ladies are invited to meet on February 13th at 11:30AM at the church for a business meeting, followed by lunch and fellowship around noon. Kathy Giske from Middle East Partners will tell us about her ministry with Christians living in areas where it is difficult for them to worship openly. She spent a week with refugees in Greece last summer, and will tell us about her experience there as well. We recently added Kathy’s ministry to our yearly giving list, so this will be a great opportunity to learn more about her mission and to help us pray for her work and for the Christians who need her help.

Sunday, February 3rd - is Souper Bowl Sunday!

2/1/2019

It is Super Bowl time, so we are collecting Soup! We will be collecting cash and food after the worship service to support the Concern for Neighbors food bank in Mountlake Terrace. Come join us on Super Bowl Sunday and give a can of soup or a $1 as a small reminder of all who do not have soup to eat.

Vision House Update

2/1/2019

Vision House provides transitional housing for homeless families with children. They are doubling the size of their current facility in Shoreline by adding “Building B”, which will open in September. Sunday, Pastor Amy and others attended a barbecue (brrr!) to celebrate that “Building B” is underway! They are still raising money in order to finish it without incurring debt, and are on track to do so. Here is a photo (this is where Gay Hawkins works as their maintenance technician for “building A”).

Missions

2/1/2019

The Christmas Joy Offering was the main mission focus for December. Our congregation gave $733 for this offering to support retired and present workers with urgent financial needs and to provide scholarships for students of color to attend Presbyterian-related schools.

The congregation and Women’s Association worked together to sponsor a needy family for Christmas. Our family was a mother and two young girls. We gave them a $100 gift card for groceries, all the toys and clothes on the girls’ wish lists and an electric blanket, towels and bubble bath plus a $35 gift card for the mother.

Missions

12/6/2018

The Christmas Joy Offering will be collected in December. Fifty percent of the offering will help retired church workers with critical housing needs and provide assistance to church workers with urgent financial and medical needs. Half of the offering provides scholarships for people of color at Presbyterian related schools and colleges and helps equip people of color to be pastors and leaders in the church.
The Theology Department at the University of Livingstonia was given $150 from mission funds to purchase e-books to help students with their studies. Tyler Holm, our new mission partner, said books were very scarce at the school. The regular mission distributions will be included in the annual report.