Alongside Christians in Europe & North Africa
With a Christ-centered focus, through prayer and common vision, this group is led to come alongside Christians in Europe and North Africa. We emphasize relationship-building, and in humility serve with interdependence. Loving God and one another, we follow Jesus to renew the Church and reach the world.
We support outreach to Muslims in France and North Africa by supporting the work of University Presbyterian Church-supported field personnel working in the area. We send teams to work alongside their partners there in helping prosper evangelistic opportunities. We also support a partner ministry in Italy by selling fresh salmon at the Ballard Seafood Fest every year to raise money for evangelical outreach materials.
Contact us for meeting times and locations.
Fred & Ardi, 206.526.0470
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Balkan Task Force
2nd Tuesdays at 7pm, Tom and Heidi Garren’s home
The Balkan Task Force is involved in supporting ministries of humanitarian aid, evangelism, reconciliation, and discipleship in the former Yugoslavia through prayer, mission teams, and fundraising activities. They also sponsor young leaders from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds in attending an annual reconciliation conference and additionally, provide funding to elderly people who can't afford to heat their homes in the winter.
Linda, 206.524.8336
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Global Health Community
Seattle is recognized as one of the leading centers for global health world-wide. Our city is uniquely blessed not only with well-established secular organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, UW Department of Global Health, Mercy Corps, Fred Hutch and more, but also outstanding faith-based organizations such as World Vision US, World Concern, Medical Teams International, and others.
As a community of believers seeking to carry out God’s work in our world, University Presbyterian Church members and friends have much to contribute to this conversation. Whether you are directly engaged in the medical community or elsewhere, we invite you into this conversation as we explore our individual and collective roles in global health.
In the broader global health community in Seattle, University Presbyterian Church’s SCOPE project is a recognized paradigm for great cooperation between faith-based and secular organizations, joining as it does in Ethiopia’s Gondar Province the work of University Presbyterian Church medical missionary Tim Teusink, the UW Global Health Department, and the Ethiopian Coptic Church.
Contact Shelley to get involved!
Shelley, 206.524.7301 x533
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Haiti Happenings Here
Lead by former missionaries to Haiti, Ray and Sandra Van der Pol, this group meets monthly on Sunday afternoons to support UPC ministries and partnerships in Haiti, primarily Haiti Foundation of Hope, and the work of Bruce and Deb Robinson, who currently serve in Haiti. Gather for a time of fellowship with this team as they pray for and learn more about ministries serving the people of Haiti. All are welcome!
Next meeting:
Sunday, March 12 from 1-4pm, come hear a report on Ray and Sandra Van der Pol's three-week trip to Haiti. Please join us!
Sandra
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Peru Partnership
This newly-formed partnership began with a short-term mission trip to Peru in March 2011 to support Ryan and Angela Smedes and their ministry with Food for the Hungry. The team has created a partnership between UPC and the Catorce de Febrero community near Lima. We are committed to sponsoring children in the community and will return in February 2012 to continue to build relationships with friends there. Learn more!
Chelsea
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Field Personnel Directory
Learn about our friends in serving in Seattle and around the world.
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The SCOPE Project
University Presbyterian Church is part of a ground-breaking partnership to improve access to testing and care for people infected with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.
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Short-Term Missions
Build relationships with women in Bosnia, learn about reconciliation in the Holy Land, and more!
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Ukraine Task Force
The mission of the Ukraine Task Force is to be a permanent bridge between University Presbyterian Church and ministry efforts in Ukraine through prayer, supporting existing ministry and newly identified opportunities, informing and educating our community about the country and its needs, and facilitating short term mission opportunities. Gather with us as we pray for, support, and learn about a variety of ministries based in Ukraine. Call or email for meeting times and locations.
Karen, 425.438.0452
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UPC AIDS Initiative
Our mission is to inform and mobilize UPC and the larger Christian community to action on behalf of those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS globally and locally. We do that through these three projects:
1. The SCOPE Project: Strengthening Care Opportunities through Partnership. UPC and the UW Dept of Global Health are engaged in a ground-breaking partnership with the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. These partners have entered into a creative collaboration to improve access to and delivery of care to those suffering from HIV/AIDS.
Nancy
2. The AIDS initiative provides micro-loans to Ethiopian women infected with HIV/AIDS who are supporting their families through cattle fattening, goat rearing, dairy farming, small grocery, poultry, barber/hair shops, etc. Loan amounts range in size from $125 - $300 US, and are operated and managed by the Kale Hayet Christian Church. Our UPC program began in 2008 and aims to reach 300 recipients, helping over 1000 mothers and children to achieve financial independence. Our first intake of women is now completing their third and fourth loans and they have become fully self-supporting.
Brian
3. The Communities of Care Grants Program identifies and supports community-based ministries that provide direct care. For example, Betsy Meyer is a UPC field worker who serves as the director of Thembalethu Care Organization. Thembalethu (Zulu for "our hope") supports home based caregivers who serve their neighbors infected with HIV/AIDS and orphaned and vulnerable children. Their community center provides hot meals after school activities and tutoring, clinic services, social services assistance, and pastoral counseling.
LuAnn
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Serve with University Presbyterian Church's Ministry to Internationals
Teach English, tutor someone in your neighborhood, or join us for a time of fellowship and sharing life together.
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