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Our Website
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www.calledtocolombia.org Our blog, with musings, photos, links, and other digitized thoughts on our journey. We hope to update this often, so check in regularly, or subscribe (it's free) to get notified about updates.Our PC(USA) web page Our official link on the PC(USA) website. More links here on other Mission Personnel, ways to contribute financially to support us, and other ministries of the church. |
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Maybe its because we don't have a physical address, but we seem to be getting many digital addresses these days:
Mamie's email:
Richard's email:
Mamie and Richard are both on Facebook, and will be posting there; Richard is on Twitter (rawillia13), so tweet me, and we are both on Skype, so let us know if you want a video call!
Our Partners:
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Join us on the Journey!  We are leaving tomorrow (Saturday) for a seven week stay in Guatemala for language school. Then we're off to Barranquilla, Colombia, to begin our time as Mission Co-workers with the Presbyterian Church. We'll keep you updated on where we are and what we are doing - so join us for the ride! Peace~ Mamie and Richard A quick word about this email list. We plan send send our monthly-ish updates on it. Our blog will (hopefully) be updated more regularly. We won't share your contact info with anyone, and you can unsubscribe from the list at any time (through a link at the bottom of the email.) If you want to add emails, there is a sign up form on our website - www.calledtocolombia.org.
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A little more information:
Mamie and Richard have been appointed as mission co-workers with the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) in partnership with the Presbyterian Church of Colombia (IPC). Our position is called "Pastoral Accompaniers for Human Rights and Displaced People". We will be helping in country with the accompaniment program that the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship has been running since 2005 (www.presbypeacefellowship.org/colombia) as well as communicating with churches and anyone who will listen to us about the situation in Colombia and the ways in which people in the United States can assist and advocate for change. Beyond that, we will wait and see! Richard has a lot of Spanish to learn, Mamie has some Spanish to improve, and we both need to learn a lot more about the needs and hopes of the IPC and determine together how we can serve in the ministry of this wonderful, vibrant church
Our appointment with the church is for three years, and we will start out in Barranquilla, near the Caribbean Coast (that's us, suffering for Jesus...). The headquarters of the IPC are there, though we will likely travel throughout the country. We would love to have visitors, and if you are really anywhere above Texas, who doesn't want to escape February? You can come down and stay with us, or come down with a group that you create or we hook you up with. Either way, you are always welcome.
We will also be grateful for your prayers - for patience with language learning, for boldness in making new friends, for strength to be far from current family and friends, for humility because we never have enough of it, for hope and faith because we never have enough of that either, and for safety.
Que Dios les bendiga (may God bless you all),
Mamie and Richard
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