Foreign Missions
We
actively participate in the ministry of World
Wide Outreach
of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. This includes the
work
of the Committee
on Foreign
Missions.
Through this participation,
we help to support over a dozen missionary families laboring
in
Uganda, Eritrea, Haiti, Suriname, Canada, Asia, and Japan.
Our Presbytery
has a special partnership in supporting the labors
of David Okken in Uganda.
In the Summer of 2005, we sent a team of 15 of our church members
to Belize. While there, they helped to build a fence around
the property
of Bethany Presbyterian Church in Santa Elaina, for the church
to qualify
for a permit to open a Christian school. In addition, they
organized and
ran a Vacation Bible School for the local children, organized
the church
library, helped children with their reading skills, and painted
a mural in
one of the classrooms. Click Here
to view some pictures from this trip.
In addition to our regular support to our foreign missionaries,
we have
participated
in a number of special need situations including helping to
provide relief to Hurricane Katrina victims through our
sister church in
Longview, Texas, and donating to the Missionary Widow's fund
which
was established to support the Baugh Family, after the death
of Matt
Baugh in Haiti in 2006.
Home Missions
We participate in the work of church planting in the United States
through
the OPC Home
Missions Committee. In addition, we help to support
our Presbytery's regional
home missionary. For the last five years we
have labored to plant a church in nearby Plainview, Texas. However,
in God's providence, the Covenant of Grace chapel in Plainview
was
closed in March, 2006. We continue to seek opportunities
to plant
churches in the Texas Panhandle.
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