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Mission Co-Workers
The FUPCDC Mission Ministry team has connected with three PC(USA) Mission Co-workers - Betsey and Eric Moe (Guatemala) and Josh Heikila (Ghana).
About Betsey and Eric’s ministries: Betsey is working as a facilitator for the Intercultural Encounters Program of the Protestant Center for Pastoral Studies in Central America (CEDEPCA). CEDEPCA provides North American church groups, theological seminarians, and college/university students the opportunity to discover Guatemala in all its diversity, beauty, and complexity, and to experience the everyday life of Guatemalans through immersion programs. Betsey is part of the team that receives visiting groups, plans and facilitates their educational program and itinerary, interprets, and leads reflection discussions.
Eric has been a professional musician in the U.S., playing and teaching trumpet in the community and church and looks forward to using music as a way to connect with people in Guatemala. Eric will also serve in ministry in the home with the Moes’ three school-age children.
You can learn more about Betsey and Eric and read their letters by clicking HERE.
About Josh Heikkila’s ministry: Appointed as a PC(USA) mission co-worker in October 2009, Josh is regional liaison for West Africa. He facilitates support for the programs, relationships, and activities of PC(USA) partners. He also provides support to PC(USA) mission personnel and helps connect partner churches with PC(USA) churches that want to be involved in ministry in the region.
Before his appointment, Josh served for five years as an associate pastor of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, a congregation with 1,600 members. He worked with the youth program there. He also coordinated activity for the Self-Development of People program in his presbytery.
Josh has a wide variety of overseas experience. He served as a Young Adult Volunteer for the PC(USA) in a one-year term (2002–2003) in Ghana, where he learned the Ewe language. He also spent four months in Argentina during high school, six months in Hungary during college, and six weeks in Croatia while in seminary.
Joshua was ordained as a PC(USA) minister of Word and Sacrament in 2004 in the Presbytery of Chicago and is currently a member of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area.
You can learn more about Josh's ministry and read his letters by clicking HERE.
There are several ways you can support Josh, Betsey, and Eric.
You and your family can send them letters or cards, pray for them and their ministries, and/or make a monetary gift by dropping a check in the offering box or mailing your check to the church. Please indicate “Mission Co-Workers” in the memo line.
If you would like to give online, please go to https://fupcdc.org/give-online and click on Give Now, then Designated Giving (in the note field please indicate "Mission Co-Workers").
Thank you!!"
"Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
-Luke 23:42
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELPED PACKAGE 10,152 FOOD BAGS ON APRIL 20, 2024. THE FOOD THIS YEAR WILL GO TO THOSE IN NEED IN UGANDA.
Kairos Prison Ministry
The mission of Kairos Prison Ministry is to share the transforming love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ to impact the hearts and lives of incarcerated men, women and youth, as well as their families, to become loving and productive citizens of their communities. Through personal testimony, prayer, home-baked cookies, and chapel service, the Lord is praised, and lives are changed. While only a few members actually serve inside the prison, the congregation is involved with baking cookies and prayer.
Contact: Sam Parris