We Welcome....
We hosted a delegation of 6 persons from
Tabasco the week surrounding our October 15, 2011
presbytery meeting.
Our committee members are ready and willing to come and
present information about the partnership to Sessions and
Missions Committees if this will help your church in the
process of exploring this Mexico partnership further. Please contact Kathy Beach-Verhey
kbeachverhey (at) gmail.com
PRESBYTERY PARTNERSHIP TRIP
TO TABASCO, MEXICO
JANUARY 24 – 31, 2012
Churches
represented are:
1.
Faison,
2.
Lillington,
3.
Lake Waccamaw,
4.
Wallace,
5.First
Pres/Jacksonville,
6.
Jonesboro.
Purpose of Trip:
Work/Evangelism Study Trip in January (We hope ½ of this
team will go to work on the medical clinic construction and
½ will attend a conference with PGM pastors to learn about
their very successful small/cell group model of evangelism.) To work
with our partner presbytery, El Presbiterio del Golfo de
Mexico, on the construction of the health clinic
located in Comalcalco, Tabasco, Mexico. Trip activities will
include manual labor, visiting in local churches, staying in
homes of church members, sightseeing, worshiping, and
strengthening the partnership.
Dates of Trip: Tuesday,
January 24, 2011 – Tuesday, January 31, 2012
and
July 30-August 7, 2012
Youth and Adult Work Trip to work on medical clinic and
visit area churches (details posted later)
Summer 2010: Visitors from Mexico to Visited our Presbytery August 9-17, 2010
See FULL schedule
June 2009:
Visitors from Tabasco were
in our midst and at Presbytery meeting June 2009. We discussed the future
of the Partnership and set new objectives
We will be planning a work
team trip for January 2010
Folks from Tabasco will also come here again to help us in mission outreach.
Photos from the June Visit
October 2007:
Four visitors from El Presbiterio
del Golfo de Mexico visited at the Wallace Presbyterian Church
during the week of July 23-30, 2007. A report on this visit was shared
with CMO.
The
Partnership Committee had two workshops at the 2007 Leadership School in Lumberton: (1) An
introduction to the Presbytery Partnership, and (2) TheNuts-and-Bolts of
planning a trip to Tabasco.
The Partnership
Committee had a trip to Tabasco during November
2007.
According to our agreement, “The hope is that this partnership will:
strengthen Hispanic ministry in southeastern North Carolina;
focus mission education in the churches of Presbytery toward a shared goal;
facilitate participation in the PCUSA’s
primary procedure for mission in today’s world (how to be in mission WITH
people in other countries, rather than in mission
FOR others);
encourage members and churches to share
faith, learn about Presbyterian missions,
and be involved in mission.”
Based on the events and developments of the past years in
this presbytery partnership, with thanksgiving to God, the members of the
Presbytery Partnership Committee and the Presbytery of Coastal Carolina
have enthusiastically voted:
that the partnership continue;
that congregations of the Presbytery of Coastal Carolina be
encouraged to plan visits to Tabasco;
and that information continue to be shared presbytery-wide
and, in particular, with congregations about the joys and opportunities that
are available through our work with our brothers and sisters in el Presbiterio del Golfo de Mexico.
