WHAT DO YOU SEEK?
With God’s help, we can help!
Listed below are examples of ways we are offering to work with local leaders. Drop us a line to begin a conversation, arrange for visits, or simply to ask your questions.
FREQUENTLY-SOUGHT HELP
- Encouragement, prayer
- Troubleshooting, problem-solving
- Biblical foundations for mission
- Immigration-related topic
ASSESSMENT, INNOVATION, and/or EVALUATION
- Help design or re-design overall strategy
- Optimize human and/or $$ resources
- Evaluate effectiveness of current missions
- Discern new or local mission possibilities
- Learn more about… [agency or program]
- Launch a new worshiping community
- Become a missionary
- Mission engagements for children
- Understand cross-cultural joys and challenges
ASSISTANCE for MISSION-THEMED LOCAL PROGRAMS
- Help organize a mission celebration event
- Help a mission-interpretation program
- Invite mission speaker(s), local or international
- Mission-themed worship resources
FUNDING
- Grant-writing help, skills, and/or ideas
- Finding funds for new mission projects
- Funds for current or expanding projects
- Designating gifts; ensuring accountability
- Campership grants
- Emergency/Disaster grants
- Mini-Mission grants
- Youth Ministry & Youth Triennium grants
NETWORKING, whether NEAR or FAR
- How to partner with other congregations
- Albany Presbytery’s Guatemala partnership
- PC(USA) country/region Mission Networks
- How to relate to a particular missionary
LEARN MORE about ALBANY PRESBYTERY MISSION PARTNERS
- Chaplaincy at Sage/RPI
- Chaplaincy at SUNY/Albany
- Chaplaincy at Union College
- Rural & Migrant Ministry in NY State
- Schenectady Inner City Ministry
- Troy Area United Ministries
DISCOVER PC(USA) MISSION PROGRAMS
PC(USA) World Mission, including our international mission co-workers
- Young Adult Volunteer Program
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
- Presbyterian Hunger Program
- Presbyterian Peacemaking Program
- 1001 New Worshiping Communities
- Self-Development of People
PC(USA) SPECIAL OFFERINGS
- Christmas Joy Offering
- One Great Hour of Sharing
- Peacemaking Offering
- Pentecost and Global Witness Offering
- Theological Education Fund
- Resources to interpret special offerings
AGENCIES RELATED to the PC(USA)
- Medical Benevolence Foundation
- Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship
- The Outreach Foundation
- Antioch Partners
VARIOUS AGENCIES NOT RELATED to the PC(USA)
- American Bible Society
- The Gideons
- Heifer Project
- Joni and Friends
- Operation Christmas Child
- Salvation Army
- Samaritan’s Purse
- World Vision
- Other … [you name it]
2019 Committee Members and Task-Force Liaisons
- Rev. Jim Cortelyou (H.R.)
- Ruling Elder Roger Ellis (Granville)
- Ruling Elder Nancy Pienta (Valatie)
- Rev. Karen Pollan (Delmar)
- Rev. Katy Stenta (New Covenant)
- Rev. Susan Strang (State St. & Christ Church of the Hills)
- Deacon Connie Vooys (Brunswick)
- Ruling Elder Elizabeth Meehan (Saratoga) / Peacemaking T.F.
- Rev. Kathy Gorman-Coombs (Trinity Scotia) / Guatemala Partnership T.F.
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