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GLOBAL MISSION NETWORK

The Global Mission Network is a welcoming community of congregations engaged in global missions and interested to learn more about NCP mission activities.

Are you interested to learn about global mission activities across the presbytery? Click here to download the Global Mission Partnership Directory. Contact Judith Dahmann (jdahmann@MITRE.org) if your congregation has a partnership you would like to be included in the directory or if you have updates to your mission partnership information.

Join us for bimonthly meetings where we share mission experiences with global mission and zoom with PC USA Mission coworkers and partners. We meet via Zoom.

The next meeting will be June 14, 2025

For announcements and Zoom link contact Colette Ramm, (coletteramm1@gmail.com)

Highlights from the April 5, 2025 meeting include:

  • Opening Devotion/Prayer – Dr. Rev. Robert Gamble
  • War, Trauma, and Communities of Resilience in Ukraine – Rev. Dr. Robert Gamble and his wife, Olya Balaban.Rev. Gamble is an ordained Presbyterian minister who served in several churches in the US before undertaking mission efforts in Ukraine in 2006. His nonprofit This Child Here began to focus on support for Ukraine subsequent to the Russian 2022 invasion.See Rev. Gamble’s website [https://www.thischildhere.org/} for information and videos of his work with mothers and children in the Ukraine and his plans to be here in the NCP at the end of April.
  • Report on Mission to Honduras – Rev. Henry Britton and Pete Rogers -This present share the work of the Fairfax Presbyterian Church – Men and Mujeres on a Mission (MMM). Their presentation highlighted their recent trip to Honduras to install solar panels funded under an NCP Global Partnership 2024 grant for Camp Rancho Vida (Youth for Christ Camp) for continued improvement of the facilities to reduce the camp’s operating costs and continue to build on last year’s project to enable the camp to become more self-sufficient for its electrical power needs. This is the latest initiative of this 20-year partnership! https://www.fairfaxpresbyterian.org/mission/mmm. Click here for the presentation

Global Mission Grants continue under the NCP Equipping Congregations Committee (ECC). The Global Mission Network, along with the ECC of the Presbytery has added a third yearly call from Global Mission partnership grants – the next opportunity for grant applications is July 15!

The Global Mission Network (GMN) is soliciting applications for the National Capitol Presbytery (NCP) Global Partnership Grants program from congregations for new cooperative initiatives between congregations and their global mission partners.  Applications will now be accepted three times a year – March 30, July 15 and September 30.

Five grants were awarded from the March 2025 call:

  • Arlington – $5000 – Purchase and delivery of materials to allow local residents to construct freshwater wells in two places in Cameroon.
  • Georgetown – $5000 – The ‘STEAM for Teachers’ (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) project will equip teachers for introducing STEAM in their classrooms in Niger and will include the necessary materials and training through Remember Niger.
  • John Calvin – $5000 – Support sustainability and education objectives of Kisima Child Care Academy (KCCA)
  • Saint Mark – $5000 – The project will help with the purchase of materials to lay the foundation and make significant progress toward the walls and roof for a three-classroom block for Institut Gufwa-Gubila High School in the Congo.
  • Trinity Arlington – $2,810 – VBS program, serving 600 Dalit children (India)

Click HERE for information or contact Judith Dahmann

Interested to learn more about current NCP mission activities? Click to connect with NCP mission networks for:
Kenya – Mark Reimers and Beth Braxton
Malawi – James Munthali
Cuba – Marilyn Seiber
Community Coalition for Haiti
Eastern Europe-Eurasia – Howard Frost

Contact Judith Dahmann for information on how to create a new mission network within Global Mission Network of NCP.

Planning a mission trip and welcome others to join? Contact Judith Dahmann

Want to learn more? Contact the Leadership team:
James Munthali, (Burke) NCP Global Mission Network Leader – jakmunthali@gmail.com
Mark Reimers, (Clifton) – kibwezi@aol.com
Rhonda O’Bannon, (Old Presbyterian Meeting House) – obannonrk@gmail.com
Judith Dahmann, (Old Presbyterian Meeting House), NCP Mission Advocate/ECC Liaison – jdahmann@mitre.org
Colette Ramm, (Saint Mark) – coletteramm1@gmail.com
Roland Frenck (Darnestown) – rolandfrenck@icloud.com
Tara Spuhler McCabe, Director for Congregational Development & Mission – tspuhlermccabe@thepresbytery.org

 

 

 

 

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