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Mission Opportunities
What Can We Do about Homelessness?
Our Mission Committee has been asking that question and we’ve come up with a very compelling answer: Family Promise. Family Promise Networks provide up to fifteen people with housing and other services to help families with children get back on their feet. The program has been very successful in over 144 locations. The session is now learning more about this program and will be deciding soon if Tustin Presbyterian Church will make a commitment to serve as a host church. Watch for more information on this program in the coming weeks.
Habitat for Humanity Work Day
If you are interested in participating in this Habitat work day, please see Jere Murphy or Bill Groves in the patio after worship on either August 8 or August 15. We realize this is an early notice of the work day, but we want to get an idea of interest and provide an opportunity for you to calendar the event. If you are interested but are scheduled to be out of town on these two dates, please contact Jere or Bill sometime before you leave.
Habitat for Humanity Home Dedication Event
Habitat for Humanity Orange County will be holding a dedication ceremony for the San Juan Capistrano project at 9:00 a.m., on Saturday, September 25. The housing project, which includes several homes for war veterans, is located at 26480 Calle Rolando, San Juan Capistrano. This is the project that 10 members of TPC actively worked on last September. For more information, please contact Mission Committee members Jere Murphy or Bill Groves.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is responding to the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and its partners. For updates on the earthquakes and the church’s response, please visit PDA at www.pcusa.org/pda.
You, too, can be part of God’s answer to prayer for those affected by natural disasters. Information on the situation and prayers and worship resources are available through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. Funds from One Great Hour of Sharing are already helping with the initial response. You can give to the ongoing relief through PDA account number DR000064.
After School Homework Helpers Needed
Sam's Children of Hope Foundation
Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Education, One Child at a Time
Sam’s Children of Hope Foundation is a US based, non-profit organization dedicated to giving practical support to orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS. Their primary goal is to provide needy orphans of HIV parents the tuition support they need to attend and stay in school. The Foundation believes that the only way to lift orphans out of the grip of poverty is through basic education and healthcare regardless of gender, race, tribe, or creed. Nothing liberates and empowers orphans like education because it gives them the power to make a difference in their lives. It creates choices and opportunities, reducing the burdens of poverty and disease and gives them a stronger voice in society. Furthermore, educated and trained orphans will in turn pass the knowledge and skill to their peers. Fighting HIV through education is the foundation for creating an AIDS-free world. Education is the ULTIMATE weapon against HIV/AIDS!
The Foundation focuses its efforts on five critical areas:
The Foundation focuses its effort in Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Mfangano Island is the largest island in Lake Victoria – the second largest fresh water lake in the world. While the rate of HIV among the adult population of Kenya is 6%, it’s 38% on Mfangano Island. Out of a population of nearly 30,000 people, there are 5,000 orphans as a result of the disease. HIV has all but wiped out a generation of villagers between the ages of 25 – 48. Many of those left are now the elderly, young children, and widows or widowers.
Tustin Presbyterian Church is now supporting this foundation. We are sponsoring a child for a year in secondary education. Her name is Novina Atieno and she is a 15 year old girl whose father recently passed away from HIV and her mother is ill with the disease. Please see her picture below:
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The
TPC Mission Committee has established another Habitat for Humanity work
day on Saturday, November 13. Last year’s very successful work
day on the San Juan Capistrano project was held on a very hot September
26. This year’s project site is located in Fullerton, a little closer,
and scheduled for later in the year to hopefully be cooler.
First
Presbyterian Church, Santa Ana is starting another exciting year of
their After School Homework Program called Amigos. This successful
program, which is paired up with music and arts education classes, is in
need of volunteers to work with children in 1st through 6th grades to
improve their homework learning skills and thereby provide them with a
better overall education. The Amigos Program has been operating for one
full year, including a summer session, and needs additional volunteers
to help expand the program to more students. If you are interested in
volunteering, please contact Jere Murphy for more information.
