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To financially support Mamie and Richard as Mission Co-Workers :
As an invididual:
Contribute to an Extra Commitment Opportunity - ECO Number E200337
As a congregation:
Contribute to Direct Mission Support - DMS number D507518
Both methods can be accessed through the web:
www.pcusa/navigation/giving.htm
OR you can send them through mail processing (please note the DMS or ECO number on any check mailed) and send to:
PC(USA) Church Remittance Processing
PO Box 643678
Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3678
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We are so grateful to all of you for your support. Some of you we have known for a long time, others for a shorter time, and even others who have continued their support for us because of their dedication to the Colombian church even though we have never met! We hope you all will have the chance to contact one another and strengthen ties within our own church as well.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
of Pampa, Texas of Oak Park, Illinois in Streator, Illinois
Terry Community Church in Terry, Montana 317 Logan Ave
. 406-635-5726 in Meford, Oregon in Odessa, Texas
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Barranquilla, Colombia
April 21, 2010
Friends~
Greetings in this Easter season, when we are reminded again and again that God´s work continues in new ways all around us.
We wanted to write to you specifically as a supporter of our mission and ministry here in Colombia as Mission Co-Workers of the Presbyterian Church (USA). We know that this support comes in many ways - through prayer and concern, through financial donations, and through advocacy and moral support. We are deeply grateful for all of the ways that you and the congregations you are a part of take a part in our work with the Colombian Presbyterian Church (IPC).
Through the wonders of technology we are interested in finding ways to share the wonders of God´s mission. We believe that we work together in a partnership, a relationship where both of our churches are nourished, challenged, and equipped for further service. We have brainstormed a list of ways in which we can possibly further the partnership between your congregation and our work here. Of course, we are all learning, so we invite you to brainstorm as well and think through ways that we might draw closer ties to your congregation and please share them with us.
Video / Teleconference Resources
Skype to Church Education Programs:
- adult discussion series- children´s or youth Sunday Schools - youth group conversations - week night supper discussion groups
Sharing in Worship:
(with just us or maybe a Colombian church here) - Minute for Mission - Shared prayers from mission - Scripture reflections
Discussion of our partnership and the situation in Colombia in general with your Mission/Outreach Committee, Session, or other interested group of members.
Print / Web Resources
Our Website - www.calledtocolombia.org (occasional lectionary reflections, sermons, other worship aides, general reflections on our experience here)
PC(USA) Colombia Resources
Advocacy Resources
There are many ways that we can share and partner together to further God´s mission in both Colombia and the United States. Again, we are truly grateful for your continued support, and we look forward to deepening our work together in the future.
Blessings and Peace,
Rev. Mamie Broadhurst and Rev. Richard Williams
Mission Co-Workers
Presbyterian Church (USA)
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| This past weekend (April 18-19) were the Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia. To mark these days many of you may have participated whether through  prayer, in "Face the Displaced" gatherings as part of the Witness for Peace campaign, or in other ways in which you showed your solidarity with the people of Colombia. We thank you. We want to share with you a prayer written by a group of displaced people. You are welcome to use it in your worship services or personal prayer. If you would like further resources you can find them at the Mennonite Central Committee and Witness for Peace websites.
Prayer from a group of displaced people in Colombia:
All: Merciful God, today with immense pain and even with terror we recall the day in which we were displaced from our lands. God of consolation, even today, with tears in our eyes, we remember our family and friends who were not able to escape the arms of those who displaced us and did not make it out alive.
With this pain in our heart and with tears still in our eyes, we give you thanks, O God, for allowing us our lives. We thank you because you sent your angel who warned us of the arrival of those who displaced us, even though we are still not able to understand why He was not able to escape those assassins. Thank you God for our lives and for the strength to continue fighting for the land we live on now, and which we hope with your help will soon become our own.
God of love, today we ask you for dignified employment in order to have food, housing, and health, and in order to continue moving forward with our sons and daughters. Creator God, we ask your justice so that we might return to our land and begin to cultivate it with every type of herb, fruit, and tree and enjoy them. God of hope, we ask of you peace, tha tthere be no more spending on weapons and that we may grow in the solidarity that permits us as people to live in complete joy. Amen.
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