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Mission Work at
Lake City Presbyterian Church

Our congregation supports numerous mission causes locally and internationally. Some are part of our annual budget and three are contributed to by special offerings. In addition, many groups within the church fund various mission projects and assist with charitable work, including Presbyterian Women, Deacons, youth and fellowship groups.

BUDGETED MISSION CAUSES
AIDS, Malaria, and TB Assistance in Africa Our gifts provide food, housing, education, and medical expenses for orphans & vulnerable children. They also fund programs in hospitals and in community and congregational-based programs to support the war against these deadly diseases.

• Kake, Alaska Begun as a prayer partnership for this remote Southeast Alaskan village, this project now includes mission trips to provide Vacation Bible School and to do construction work for the church. Christmas gifts and school supplies and clothing are sent each year for the children in the village.

• Heifer International This non-profit organization is dedicated to ending world hunger by providing livestock, trees, training, and other resources to help poor families around the globe become self-reliant. Heifer requires its recipients to "Pass on the Gift" by sharing offspring of their livestock with others in need. www.heifer.org

• Hunger Intervention Program This LCPC mission provides and serves meals to the homeless in downtown Seattle. Volunteers faithfully make and serve lunches several times a week. For more information see the H.I.P. website.

• Martha Sommers Since 1997, Dr. Sommers, has served as a Presbyterian Mission Partner at Embangweni Hospital in rural Malawi.  The hospital, connected to a mission station founded by Scottish missionaries, is part of CCAP (Church of Central Africa - Presbyterian).  LCPC has helped support her work for several years and, recently, two people from the church visited her and volunteered at the hospital for a short time. 
For More About the Malawi Trip, Click Here

• Women’s Enterprises International Contributions to this cause support Marilyn Kaino and others as they work to transform lives of women around the world. The urgent needs they address are safe, accessible water; access to capital through micro-loans to women entrepreneurs; and access to education for girls. www.womensenterprises.org
Experience a Kenyan woman's daily walk for water. WEI is holding its First Annual Walk for Water! check out their website for all the information. While we are "walking for water" in Seattle, our sisters in Kenya will also be walking in partnership to raise funds to buy water tanks. One 10,000 liter tank can be filled in a few days of hard rain and provide the family with clean water for household use most of the year.

• Presbytery and General Assembly Lake City Presbyterian Church supports the local and national work of our denomination, including their various mission efforts. www.pcusa.org

SPECIAL OFFERINGS
 

Christmas Joy Offering Received annually on the Sunday before Christmas, this offering supports two projects. Half goes to the 8 racial-ethnic schools and colleges sponsored by the Presbyterian Church and the other half goes to the Board of Pensions. The latter 50% supplements the income of retired church workers as needed and provides emergency assistance for all church workers.

 

One Great Hour of Sharing Received annually on Palm Sunday, this offering is split three ways to the Self-Development of People Program, Refugee and Disaster Assistance, and the Hunger Program. The purpose has remained the same through it’s more than 50 years of existence: to collect special gifts to assist those in need. Today projects supported by One Great Hour of Sharing are under way in more than 100 countries, including the USA. In recent years, US Christians have given more that $20 million annually.

 

Pentecost Offering Received on Pentecost Sunday, this offering allows us to provide hope for children at risk, opportunities for youth and young adults to grow in their faith, and short-term mission service options for young adults. Congregations keep 40% of the offering received for local programs. In 2007 and 2008 LCPC donated this share to Childhaven, a program that helps abused and neglected children.

You can learn more about these offerings at www.pcusa.org