MISSIONS

The following missions are presently being served in prayer and financial support by Clen-Moore Presbyterian Church.

CALEB INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES. Rev. Louis LaGatta, a member of the Clen-Moore church, is the executive minister of this group which serves through prayer and organization across the world in an ecumenical atmosphere. Areas served include Ghana, Cairo, Egypt, El Salvador, Thailand and China as well as small areas in Africa and Latin American. www.calebministries.com

CHAPLAIN FUND, NEW CASTLE . The Chaplain Fund located in New Castle, PA provides chaplaincy for the Jameson and St. Francis Hospitals and for the Youth Development Center. The chaplain also visits nursing homes and conducts funerals for those people who do not have a church home.

CHILDREN’S HOME, LEWISBURG, WV. The Children’s Home is a residential treatment center for moderately and severely disturbed adolescents located in Lewisburg, WV. The agency was founded as a Synod Children’s home to meet the needs of neglected, dependent, and orphaned children as well as diseased, dissolving, and helpless families with both spiritual and physical needs. The program includes clinical services, a full-time chaplain, an on-grounds school, and work-experience training.

CITY RESCUE MISSION. The City Rescue Mission partners with the local churches to offer hope and help to the needy in Butler, Lawrence, Mercer and Beaver counties. The purpose of the City Rescue Mission is to provide excellent, relevant and personal services which lead to changed lives for the needy, both spiritually and physically, in this area. The program includes Covenant House, Family Care Ministry, Youth Programs, and True Life Men’s Ministries. www.cityrescuemission.org

COPTIC EVANGELIC CHURCH. This church is located in Cairo, Egypt. Carole Landess is the volunteer coordinator at this time. Dorothy Cushman , who was one of our former 4R4 Missionaries, worked in this project to improve the future of Egypt’s children and helped pastors establish day-care center for the children of working mothers. With 50,000 communicant members, it is the largest Protestant denomination in the Middle East.

CRISIS SHELTER OF LAWRENCE . This local organization provides services for those faced with Physical abuse, Mental abuse, Sexual abuse, or Property or Economic abuse. It offers emergency shelter, 24-hour hotline, counseling for adults and children, parenting classes, referral service, medical advocacy, court accompaniment, education classes for individuals and groups. Their mission statement is "The Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County, a non-profit organization in Pennsylvania, provides leadership services and initiatives committed to ending physical, sexual, and emotional violence." www.crisisshelter.org

GRACE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BRAZIL. The work at the hospital in Wagner, Bahia, Brazil is directed by Dr. Jonas Dias de Araujo and his wife, Janet Graham de Araujo. The originally opened a small clinic seeing the need of the people and were after several years able to purchase the hospital property and equip the hospital. They were supported initially by several church from western Pennsylvania including many from Shenango Presbytery. Their ministry is both physical and spiritual as they minister to these people who have a monthly income of $75.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY . Lawrence County Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to providing affordable housing for qualified families. It is a volunteer organization who seeks help from people in both construction and non-construction positions. At the present time, Habitat for Humanity is in the process of organizing the first Apostles Build. This is a project in which 12 churches come together to raise the money, and provide the labor, prayer support, and other resources needed to build a home. www.habitat.org

KAYENTA INDIAN MISSION, AZ. The Kayenta Presbyterian (Indians) Church is located in Arizona. It was once the most isolated ministry in the United States. The parish extends into Utah through Monument Valley and among small sheep camps and isolated hogans to the New Mexico border to tell the story of Jesus. The parish provides pastoral support to guide and love the people. www.pbygrandcanyon.org/kayenta

MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION. MBF provides medical personnel, equipment, supplies and funding to assist 118 Presbyterian Church (USA) validated mission hospitals and clinics worldwide. It is currently establishing a nursing school for the people of Haiti. At the present time there is less than one nurse for every 3,000 Haitians.

MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP. www.maf.org

NEW CASTLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY. The Academy is a private Christian School for children in New Castle, PA. Students range in age from Pre-School through 8^th grade. The school provides academic education while preparing students “head, heart and hands for Christian life and service.” All teachers are fully accredited with state certificates.

NEW WILMINGTON MISSIONARY CONFERENCE. The object of the New Wilmington Missionary Conference is primarily the deepening of the missionary spirit, with a view to the fulfillment of the Lord’s great commission. Our special emphasis and concern is high school/college-age youth (14-22). To this end, a prominent place is given in the conference to mission study and to the presentation of the duty and ideal of carrying the gospel to all the world. Because of the vital relationship existing between the missionary spirit and a deep spiritual life, the conference aims at the cultivation of a life of fellowship with God by promoting service and witness for Jesus Christ. www.nwmcmission.org.

NORTHWEST CAMPING ASSOCIATION. The camping association is responsible for camps at Westminster Highlands and Camp Lambec. The camping ministry reaches more than 4,500 persons per year and aims to help people by offering direction for their life to youth, adults, and families. Youth programs include music camp, sports camp, camper reunions and special focus options. Adult programs include the Women’s Retreat and Young-At-Heart retreats for those 50 and older. www.capnwp.org.

NUBA INTERNATIONAL MISSION. The Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church has one main presbytery in Khartoum which is home to more than 50 tribes. The center is in El Obeid. Thousands have heard about Christ as they were helped through suffering and fighting. Now they want to take the Good News back to their people. The center at El Obeid serves existing preaching centers and sends out evangelist to establish new churches in the mountains.

PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER in New Castle.

SALVATION ARMY, LAWRENCE COUNTY.

SENECA HILLS RETREAT CENTER. Seneca Hills is an interdenominational camp and retreat center in western Pennsylvania committed to operating as an extension of the local church to reach the lost and enable those who have placed their trust in Him to grow in His likeness. It conducts conferences for all ages, but especially youth, with the express intent of leading them to a vital, personal relationship with Jesus Christ and to a life of dedicated service to Him. It also conducts senior citizen conferences. www.senecahills.org

SUDAN PRESBYTERIAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH (SPEC). SPEC in the southern part of Sudan does theological training for pastors where the church is growing rapidly even with great persecution. It is a sister presbytery to Shenango Presbytery. The missionaries in this project with which we have contact are Betsy McCormick, Barry Almy, and Bill and Lois Anderson.

UNITED WORLD MISSION.

WEE KIRK CONFERENCE.

WITNESSING MINISTRIES. Their goal is to establish a self-supporting, mission-capable rural Presbyterian Church in India which would provide spiritual nurture and education to untouchable children in residential schools. They also send out pastors into the villages by bicycle to meet with the families and conduct a worship service on a regular basis.

WORLD MISSION INITATIVE.

4R4 MISSIONS

JIM AND CAROL BREES - This couple is a part of the Clen-Moore 4R4 Mission program. Rev. Jim Brees and Dr. Carol Brees are mission co-workers serving in partnership with the Presbyterian Church in Pakistan. Dr. Brees is a medical doctor in charge of obstetrics and gynecology at Memorial Christian Hospital. Rev. Brees serves in the area of pastoral and church development.

LATCOM - This mission has a home office in New Castle and serves in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It is directed by Chuck and Jean Ramsey, who are well known to many people in Clen-Moore Church. They feel their mission is to equip and motivate the local leaders to reach their own countries with the Gospel, developing international boards and funding projects in that area. They work through Christian radio and television to spread the Gospel. www.latcom.org

PRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP visits mission coworkers and leaders of indigenous churches in some of the least reached, sensitive parts of the Muslim world. Their primary job is to witness directly what God is doing in these regions, to stand with the mission coworkers and indigenous leaders through encouragement and in many and varied ways. When the leaders are in the United States, they seek to inform, encourage, challenge and assist Presbyterian congregations to directly participate in God's work in reaching "all the nations (people groups)" with the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ. They support this work in some of the least evangelized parts of the world and seek to mobilize Presbyterian congregations to directly participate in God's mission to the unreached. PFF reaches out to many people on five continents that are un-churched with the Gospel Message. This is a holistic evangelism equipping congregations and indigenous Christians with skills for cross-cultural communication, and enabling relevant Christian witness and ministry within particular groups of indigenous people for the purpose of establishing self propagating, indigenous churches.

Our Missionaries
Each month we will feature one of the missionaries we support at Clen-Moore Church and try to give you an up-date on what they are doing at that time. We do not have extensive literature from some of them, so our information is limited.

JIM AND CAROL BREES

Jim and Carol are a part of the Clen-Moore 4R4 Mission program. Rev. Jim Brees and Dr. Carol Brees are mission co-workers serving in partnership with the Presbyterian Church in Pakistan. Dr. Brees is a medical doctor in charge of obstetrics and gynecology at Memorial Christian Hospital. Rev. Brees serves in the area of pastoral and church development.

Following is a part of the letter we recently received from them.

"What an amazing reality! The more maternal and neonatal mortality I see here, the more awe filled I am by the Incarnation.

Recently I heard a sermon pointing out how Mary delivered 'without even a traditional birth attendant present." Hearing this, I whispered to the person next to me. 'That's probably why he survived.' Why would I saw that? Aren't we supposed to be supporting local practitioners? Aren't we supposed to be training them?

When I came here over 19 years ago, I attributed the deaths I saw to lack of education of midwives, who were practicing to the best of their abilities. They just didn't know good techniques. Teaching proper techniques was the solution.

I met Seema in our labor room about a month ago. She doesn't remember that meeting. She was barely conscious. Minutes after her arrival we were doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation to saw her life. I asked the women with her, 'What happened?' They answered, 'Nothing. She's just a 'normal delivery case. After the resuscitation, we realized that her uterus was probably ruptured. In short order, she was in the operating room having a hysterectomy for her ruptured uterus and repair of her ruptured bladder. She recovered. However, she has some ongoing brain injury due to her cardiac arrest. Her family took her home a couple weeks ago.

They go on to explain that many of the midwives use Oxytocin to induce labor. It is very risky and should only be used by those more schooled in the practice, but it is given out to the midwives because there are no restrictions on it. If things go wrong, 'It is the God's will.'"

Please pray for these people as they continue to work in Pakistan to spread the Good News of Christ and also treat the patients in their area to the best of their ability.