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AMIS

International
Missions

Childspring International

Youth Mission Trips

 

Our Missions and Ministries

Our City
Atlanta Interfaith AIDS Network

AMIS

Art Therapy

Business & Professional Lunches

Calvin Center

Carver Homes Ministry

Center for Positive Aging

Charis Community Housing

Choices Matter

Childspring International

Christian Council of Metro Atlanta

Common Ground

Edna Wardlaw Shelter for Homeless Women

Friends of Carver Homes

Habitat for Humanity

Haven House Hospice

Georgia Tech Presbyterian Center

International Sunday School Class

LIFESPAN Resources, Inc.

Meals-On-Wheels

Midtown Assistance Center

Musica Sacra Atlanta

Our House

Open Door Community

Partnership with Hillside Presbyterian Church

Presbyterian Answer to Hunger (PATH) - Atlanta

Peachtree Corridor Congregations

Presbyterian Village, Austell

Presbyterian Women’s Projects

Presbytery Projects

Project READ

Rainbows

Refugee Resettlement

Samaritan Counseling Center of Atlanta

SHARE Project

Stephen Ministry

Substance Abuse Support Program

Sunday Morning Breakfast

Task Force for the Homeless

Troop 60 Boy Scouts of America

Venable Food Pantry

Weekday Preschool

Our Nation
Supporting our Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Connectional Ministry through our Benevolence to the following Governing Bodies:

Presbytery of Greater Atlanta

Synod of South Atlantic

General Assembly Causes

Theological Education
Columbia Theological Seminary

Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary at Interdenominational Theological Seminary, Atlanta

Princeton Theological Seminary

Higher Education

Warren Wilson College, NC

Other Causes
Pine Ridge, SD

Thornwell Home, Clinton, SC

FPC Youth Mission Trips (2006)
Honduras, Kentucky, Tecate, Mexico

Our World
Through the benevolence budget, First Presbyterian Church supports the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in its worldwide ministries in 105 countries and helps in the support of 587 missionaries.

Our First Presbyterian Mission Conference for the year 2006 supported the following:

Brazil
Fortaleza Presbyterian Seminary

Fortaleza Theological Seminary
Messejana Independent Presbyterian Church
Pirambu Independent Presbyterian Church
PRECE - Heart of Students Educational Project

Haiti
Bill Rice Medical Center, La Gonave

Agricultural Development
Goat Husbanding Project
Holy Cross Elementary School
St. Barnabus Agricultural School

Honduras
Honduras Outreach, Inc.

Clinic in Village of Parcura
Village of LaVenta
College Mission Trip

Jamaica
Hillside/First Presbyterian Church Partnership

Young Adult Partnership Mission Trip
Mt. Olivet Boys Home
New Broughton Center

Kenya
Education-Pastoral Institute

Presbyterian Seminary/College, Nairobi
Grace Chapel - Mt. Kenya Academy, Nyeri
Kirathimu Church, Nyeri
Mukuri School, Nyeri
Mt. Kenya Academy High School, Nyeri
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Nairobi
Tumaini Children's Home, Bulbul, Ngono
Westminister House, Mt. Kenya Academy, Nyeri

U.S.A.
Reconstruction of First Presbyterian Church, Wounded Knee, SD

Adult & Youth & Elementary Mission Trips
Hurricane Relief Mission Trip - 2006

Ongoing Mission Projects

Honduras - Presbyterian Seminary
Nicaragua - PATH
Haiti - St. Vincent's Hospital & School for Handicapped Children Hospital
Saint Croux, Leogane
Sudan - Refugee Resettlement
South Africa - Tygerberg Children's Hospital, West Capte, South Africa

Theological Education - ACROSS

Other

Childspring International

Medical Benevolence Foundation

The Outreach Foundation

International Students Scholarship

Villa International Atlanta

FPC Members Serving
in Overseas Missions

Several members are now serving overseas:

Allison Prickett in Mt. Kenya Academy, Nyeri, Kenya

Church Members Under Care of Our Session as Theological Students
Mr. Wes Barry
Princeton Theological Seminary

Mrs. Libby Baum
Mercer Law School

Mr. Caleb Clarke
Columbia Theological Seminary

Mr. Cannon Dear
St. Edmund Hall at Oxford, England

Mr. Larry Gamble
Columbia Theological Seminary

Mr. Stephen T. Jackson, M.Div.
Columbia Theological Seminary

Mr. Ian Punnett, M.Div.
Columbia Theological Seminary

Ms. Tyesha Rice, M.Div.
Columbia Theological Seminary

Mr. Jay York
Columbia Theological Seminary

International Theological Students and Graduates Who Belong to Our Church Family
Rev. Peptu Be-nemfor Fonki(Cameroon, West Africa)
Duke Divinity School

Rev. Stephen Kariuki (Kenya)
Interdenominational Theological Center

Rev. Joseph Kimatu (Kenya)
Interdenominational Theological Center

Rev. Bobby Karanga (Kenya)
Interdenominational Theological Center

Rev. Jason Nyaga (Kenya)
Presbyterian Church of East Africa

Rev. Joseph Wanjao (Kenya)
Interdenominational Theological Center

Seminary Student Interns
Mr. Caleb Clarke
Columbia Theological Seminary


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