Missions

July 12 - 19, 2008 25 people from FPC went to Antigua, Guatemala on a mission trip. Click here for more information about the trip.

(check out our mission trips in 2009 and 2010 in the menu to the left)

Missionaries We Support

Benjamin & Monica Bailey- Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 17197 N. Laurel Park Dr., Ste. 567, Livonia, MI 48152

Keith & Paige Berger- 3216 Riverbrook Ct., Baton Rouge, LA 70820, kberger@ruf.org, www.lsu.ruf.org

Keith and Paige live in Baton Rouge, LA working with students on the LSU campus in the Reformed University Fellowship. Their ministry is to be involved with students through group Bible studies and one-on-one witness.

Rod & Debbie Bond- New Beginning Resources , P.O. Box 509, Porter, Texas 77365; Mariano Andrade N38-114 y Pablo Herrera, Quito, Ecuador, South America, rod@rodbond.com

Debbie is volunteering at the 'Alliance Academy International' as an art teacher, and also has a wonderful Mural Ministry, spreading God's message of hope through art. Rod is involved in training and equipping Ecuadorians who have a heart for the Great Commission; evangelizing, discipling, and planting Christian communities where none existed before. We also work with the Orphanage "Jardin de Eden" as a small part of our ministry, and host short term mission teams. We are also in the process of raising up Ecuadorian missionaries to send out to some of the more closed areas of the world.

Ryan & Glenda - TEAM, Chicago, IL; serving in a closed country.

Dr. Martha Bustos- Team Expansion, 12009 Louisville Rd., Cox’s Creek, KY 40013, martha@cfc-proj2010.net, martinabustos@yahoo.es,

Dr. Bustos is a medical doctor who has been working with a gypsy community in Spain.

Chris & Debbie Gibson- Evangelica Presbyterian Church, 17197 N. Laurel Park Dr., Ste. 567, Livonia, MI 48152, gibsongoulash@hotmail.com.

Jeff & Belinda Gooch- Global Outreach, P.O. Box 1, Tupelo MS, 38802, goochj@globaoutreach.org, www.goochfamily.wordpress.com

Jeff and Belinda and their son Zac will be going to Costa Rica for a year of Spanish school. After their training in Costa Rica they will go to Ecuador to serve as misionaries under the Global Outreach Foundation.

Steve & Dianne Hill- Christian Missionary Society, P.O. Box 53363, Knoxville, TN 37950. They are our newest missionaries in Peru.

Jeff and Veronique Kim (Victor) - World Outreach, 17197 N. Laurel Park Dr. Suite 567, Livonia, MI, 48152; 6 rue Edith Piaf, 32000 Auch, France, jeffakim@me.com, www.kimsvineyardventures.com, They are new missionaries in Auch, France. Jeff is a minister from our Central South Presbytery and is serving on a pastoral team out of the Protestant Evangelical Church of Auch. The Kim's have a passion to see The Kingdom of God come to France in very tangible ways. They are discipling young and growing believers, developing a ministry called AGAPE service that seeks to serve people throughout the city through deeds of justice and mercy; they are in the process of developing a school that would develop bridges of trust and respect with families in their community.The Kims are the first EPC missionaires we have supported. f

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Bubba & Rockie Lollar- Birmingham, England, Lollarfamilymission@hotmail.com

Bubba and Rockie are trained and commissioned as career missionaries with Global Outreach Foundation of Tupelo, MS and are currently serving in England.

Ron & Beth Mills- 2146 S. Las Flores, Mesa, AZ 85202, rgmills2@juno.com, Ron and Beth work with the international students on the campus of Arizona State University. Their mission is to witness to the foreign students so that when the students return home, they can in turn witness to their people.

David & Laura Pratt Nelson- P. O. Box 50144,Tulsa, OK 74150, laurapratt11@juno.com, www.rocablanca.org

Laura is a nurse working at the base in Roca Blanca in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her mission is to run the clinic at the base, to teach health and hygiene at the Bible Institute located at the base. She also arranges for medical mission trips to villages around the region. David teaches various subjects at the Bible training school at the base.

Adam and Stephanie - 104 Independence Dr., East Peoria, IL 61611. The Saatkamps are short term missionaries serving in East Asia.

Peggy Skattebo- 8380 Pilot Ct., Colorado Springs, CO 80920, skat47@msn.com, Or peggy.skattebo@navigators.org

Peggy visited the Philippines after an absence of 17 years. Claire is teaching English there. Peggy is the widow of Jim Skattebo, and she has five children. Peggy has worked with the Navigators ministry, at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

The Tidwells- with JHM in South Carolina.

Our ministry remains "Assisting Internationals in Transition".

Marcus & Whitney Ueltschey- Christian Missionary Society, P.O. Box 53363, Knoxville, TN 37950, www.perumission.org

Marcus and his wife Whitney work with the Peru Mission's medical ministry; Marcus is a family medicine physician and is working to strengthen the clinic's mission by providing consistent medical care and the expansion of services offered to the community. Whitney is a physical therapist as well as mom to their 4 children.

Mike & Nancy Watkins- Iglesia Del Camino (the IDC), #33 6ta Av N, La Antigua, Guatemala, www.mikeandnancy.info, mike@iglesiacaminogt.com, nancy@iglesiacaminogt.com, www.pastormikeinantigua.com, Mike and Nancy have been serving this ministry since July of 2006--a church plant of Pathways Community Church, Largo, FL, to the community of La Antigua, Sacatepéquez, GUA.

theIDC is a growing bi-lingual, multi-cultural church experience working directly in - providing English as a Foriegn Language - help from addictions with Celebrate Recovery - Chaplains to the National Police of Guatemala - hosting mission teams from the US and sending mission teams into other areas of Guatemala -working to fulfill the great commandments of Loving God and Loving Others.

As of 2011, several initiatives have begun to expand and multiply the work including Moringa Tree farming and a Children's Outreach / Feeding Center in a neighboring community of Santa Maria de Jesus.

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Bill & Judi Young- 7132 Portland Ave., Suite 136, Richfield, MN 55423-3264, byoung@pff.net (Bill), nanajudiyoung@gmail.com (Judi),

Bill serves as Executive Director of Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship, an organization that helps Presbyterian congregations be part of what God is doing in taking the gospel to unreached people groups and seeing the church planted and the kingdom advanced among them.

Missions in Our Community

AMEN Food Pantry (662-287-6727) - a community food pantry that our congregation helped get started, and our members volunteer to work in the pantry.

Thanksgiving Meal - a ministry of the Deacons that provides Thanksgiving meals to the needy throughout the community.

Support for Public Education in Alcorn County - In 1989 First Presbyterian Church co-sponsored with Horizon, Inc. the Guy Doud Event. Many members of the church are active in Horizon, which is an education advocate organization. The pastor, Don Elliott, served as President of Horizon in 1991-92.

Friendship Class - a program of activities and education for mentally impaired teenagers and adults.

Deacons' Fund - designed to meet the needs of our own church members and the poor of the community.

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts - FPC sponsors a variety of scouting troops that include Boy Scouts; and Daisy, Brownies, and Junior Girl Scouts.

Our Church facilities have been used by community organizations such as Corinth Welfare Association, Krossroads Kollection, Junior Auxiliary, the Music Club, and the Corinth-Alcorn County Ministerial Association.

The Community Farmers' Market is located on our Chambers lot facing Shiloh Road. This serves the community by allowing local farmers to bring their homegrown produce to sell.

Resource Center for Women (662-287-8001 or 800-663-1639) is a pro-life ministry to women and men who are in a crisis pregnancy. Some of our women serve as counselors.

The Lighthouse Foundation (662-286-0091) is a ministry for racial reconciliation that some of our men helped to establish. A weekly men’s prayer group meets at the Lighthouse and Unity Services sponsored by the Lighthouse helps us to cross denominational and racial barriers. The yearly Youth Baked Goods Auction provides money to buy toys for the Lighthouse Toy store which provides toys to the needy children in the community.

Habitat for Humanity (Judy Glenn- President, 662-808-2455) is an organization that builds homes for the needy and several members of our congregation volunteer regularly.

Sharing Hearts(Becky Dalton, 662-286-3957) is a non-profit day care center for elderly diagnosed with dementia at First Baptist Church that our church supports through providing lunches occasionally and several members volunteer there.