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Mission Partnership Quarterly
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Nassau Presbyterian Church
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June 2017
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Nassau Presbyterian Church
61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
609-924-0103
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June has brought opportunities to be particularly present with each of our three major mission partners. Read about the experiences of Dr. Barbara Edwards in Malawi with
Villages in Partnership and about 30 of Nassau's members and friends who worshiped on Pentecost Sunday with the
Westminster Presbyterian Church in Trenton. Our third partner,
Cetana in Myanmar, was present in spirit as their board met on our third floor over Memorial Day weekend, beautifully hosted and fed by Nassau's Susan and Michael Jennings. All these encounters emphasize the major characteristic of partnerships that thrive - strongly nurtured relationships. Look for the signs!
As always, we welcome your questions, suggestions, and support as we seek to deepen our commitments beyond the Nassau Church community.
For the Mission & Outreach Committee,
Joyce MacKichan Walker, staff
[email protected]
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Nassau-Villages in Partnership
Every year the Allentown NJ based non-profit Villages in Partnership sends a medical team to Malawi. This year's 28 person team, largely composed of doctors, nurses and nursing students, treated over 5000 patients in the deeply impoverished villages of Malawi from May 9-20. I represented Nassau Presbyterian Church as a member of this year's team. Among other amazing experiences we spent a day away from the clinics and at local primary schools:
Wednesday was a great, fun, exhausting day. I think we are all a bit tired from everything we've already done this week. We never stop moving here but it is always interesting and fun. Wednesday most of the group went to visit local primary schools. They helped to clean the schools by sweeping with the local homemade brooms (made with small branches held together in your hand) and then mopping with old t-shirts on their hands and knees. Then they went to visit the classrooms where they spoke with the students. The students had lots of questions such as, "What do you eat in America? What do you do for fun? How many languages do you speak? Do you have HIV/AIDS in America? Did you bring a car over with you on the plane?"
Read more...
We are looking forward to working with VIP and will keep you updated as to how you may become involved with our newest mission partner. Any questions please contact Loretta Wells,
[email protected].
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Nassau-Westminster Partnership
"We are standing on Holy Ground, and I know that there are angels all around. Let us praise Jesus now. We are standing in God's presence on Holy Ground". On Pentecost Sunday, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, we sang Holy Ground led by the children of the church. As I looked around at all of the members, visitors, and guests, joined in song, I truly felt the presence of God. In an amazing multicultural, multigenerational, multimedia service, together with over 30 friends from Nassau Presbyterian Church, we participated in a song-filled, praise-filled, worship service that filled our hearts with love.
Our guest preacher was the Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim, professor of Earlham School of Religion, and co-editor of the book entitled, Intercultural Ministry: Hope for a Changing World. Pastor Karen shared the story of Westminster's transformational story in its' chapter 12. Pastor Karen and Rev. Dr. Kathie Sakenfeld also shared information about their book entitled,
Faith of our Mothers, Living Still, which will be out in October. Rev. Joanne RodrÃguez, Rev. Patti Daley, Rev. Joyce MacKichan Walker, Rev. Wayne Meisel, and Rev. Dr. Marianne Rhebergen served as liturgist and officiants.
Read more...
Interested in visiting Westminster's 11 AM worship and meeting our partners? Contact Patti Daley, [email protected].
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Nassau-Cetana Partnership
Nassau members will have a chance to see firsthand the work of our mission partner Cetana if they join a trip to Myanmar/Burma in January 2018. This will be the third trip since the Nassau/Cetana partnership began four years ago. This time participants will travel to Kanpetlet in Chin state where Nassau is supporting a teacher training project. Joyce MacKichan Walker traveled there with Sue Jennings this past January to get an overview of the project.
The tour is a rare opportunity for travelers to get an inside look at Myanmar/Burma and its fascinating, complex culture. We will have daily contact with local people, who have a reputation for friendliness and generosity; we will have access to monasteries, schools, and other institutions that the casual tourist never sees; and we will see the results of the Myanmar people's resilience and ingenuity, which make our partnership so rewarding.
Your ideas for making this a vital partnership are welcome. For more information, contact Sue Jennings,
[email protected].
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61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
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