DPC - Global Missions

Thank you, members of Decatur Presbyterian Church, for spreading the good news of Jesus Christ and for meeting the needs of hurting people in His name. When one realizes that 60% of the people of the world survive on less than 10% of its resources, we can appreciate how fortunate we are. We have the opportunity and privilege to share our abundance with the many whose material resources are meager. We can be stewards of our God and proclaim in word and deed His love for all people.

OUR MISSIONARIES
Decatur Presbyterian Church provides $7,000 in salary support for each of five PCUSA missionaries. We also provide $1000 to support the work of each missionary. Links are provided to their home pages, which are maintained by the Worldwide Ministries Division of the Presbyterian Church USA. These pages include a description of their work and recent letters. One of the couples we support serves in a country in which there are few Christians and where conversion from the state religion is forbidden. To protect them and their fellow Christians, we are asked to not publish their names or the country in which they serve. They hold secular jobs as they provide support and encouragement to local Christians. They have two young children. Members of the Global Missions committee can tell you more about their work. We also support the work of the Mills family, missionaries to Mexico. A picture and a link to their web pages is provided below. We also provide support for the Rev. Johnny Akota and the fellowship held in our chapel for the Ewe people of Ghana and other West Africans, who live in Atlanta.
Hunter and Ruth Farrell - Peru		Choon and Yen Hee Lim - Taiwan

James and Jodi McGill - Malawi		John and Ginny Mills

Dan and Elizabeth Turk - Madagascar		Johnny Akota - Atlanta

Honduras Outreach We fund and send adult work groups each spring to Honduras and youth or multigenerational work groups on alternate summers. We partner with a village in the poverty stricken district of Olancho to help improve the quality of life for the people. Several individuals and Sunday School classes also provide scholarship support for grade and high school students. Rural Presbyterian Church of India We provide funds for the work of the Witnessing Ministries of Christ, which is one of the most compelling projects open to the church today. Its mission is to proclaim the healing and transforming power of Jesus Christ to the untouchables in India. Untouchables are a product of Hinduism, which claims God created people in four unequal castes. The untouchables represent a fifth group not created by God and apart from the four castes created by God. Being outcaste, the untouchables have no divinely assigned occupation. Condemned to live outside the villages, they must survive by scavenging and doing work considered too risky or filthy by the Hindus. Hindus do not permit them to worship in their temples. They are called "untouchables" because they must not come in physical contact with a person belonging to one of the four castes. Each child born to an untouchable family is considered untouchable at birth. The untouchable population is 15 percent of the one billion people in India, or 150 million people. The Constitution of the Republic of India has abolished untouchability. However, since the practice is based on religious beliefs, there has been little improvement in the conditions of the untouchables in many rural parts of the country. The growth of the church among the untouchables has been and continues to be remarkable. The untouchables respond to the Lord because the God of the Bible speaks to them. He loves them. He declares that He created them, and He was insulted and abused in Jesus Christ as they are. Equal Exchange Coffee Most coffee is grown in third world countries where small farmers receive very little for their product. Therefore church organizations have arranged to buy coffee from small farmers at a fair price, and to then market it. The missions committee sells several varieties of this high quality coffee every other Sunday before and after Sunday School and worship.

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