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Mission Opportunities
What Can We Do about Homelessness?
Our Mission Committee has been asking that question and we’ve come up with a very compelling answer: Family Promise. Family Promise Networks provide up to fifteen people with housing and other services to help families with children get back on their feet. The program has been very successful in over 144 locations. The session is now learning more about this program and will be deciding soon if Tustin Presbyterian Church will make a commitment to serve as a host church. Watch for more information on this program in the coming weeks.
If you haven't already gotten a flu shot, it’s not too late! TPC’s Mission Committee is hosting our fourth Flu Shot Clinic in partnership with Hoag Hospital. Come to church on Saturday, November 12, from 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge, and after just a few moments of paperwork you will receive a free flu shot, administered by one of Hoag’s nurses. This clinic is open to all members of the community, so bring your friends and neighbors. Children and teens ages 9–17 may receive the vaccine with a parent’s written consent. Questions? Contact the church office.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is responding to the storms, tornadoes, and flooding in the Midwest and South as well as to the earthquakes and tsunami in Japan through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and its partners. For updates on these natural disasters and the church’s response, please visit PDA at www.pcusa.org/pda.
You, too, can be part of God’s answer to prayer for those affected by natural disasters. Information on the situation and prayers and worship resources are available through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. Funds from One Great Hour of Sharing are already helping with the initial response. You can give to the ongoing relief through PDA account number DR000064.
After School Homework Helpers Needed
Sam's Children of Hope Foundation
Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Education, One Child at a Time
Sam’s Children of Hope Foundation is a US based, non-profit organization dedicated to giving practical support to orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS. Their primary goal is to provide needy orphans of HIV parents the tuition support they need to attend and stay in school. The Foundation believes that the only way to lift orphans out of the grip of poverty is through basic education and healthcare regardless of gender, race, tribe, or creed. Nothing liberates and empowers orphans like education because it gives them the power to make a difference in their lives. It creates choices and opportunities, reducing the burdens of poverty and disease and gives them a stronger voice in society. Furthermore, educated and trained orphans will in turn pass the knowledge and skill to their peers. Fighting HIV through education is the foundation for creating an AIDS-free world. Education is the ULTIMATE weapon against HIV/AIDS!
The Foundation focuses its efforts on five critical areas:
The Foundation focuses its effort in Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Mfangano Island is the largest island in Lake Victoria – the second largest fresh water lake in the world. While the rate of HIV among the adult population of Kenya is 6%, it’s 38% on Mfangano Island. Out of a population of nearly 30,000 people, there are 5,000 orphans as a result of the disease. HIV has all but wiped out a generation of villagers between the ages of 25 – 48. Many of those left are now the elderly, young children, and widows or widowers.
Tustin Presbyterian Church is now supporting this foundation. We are sponsoring a child for a year in secondary education. Her name is Novina Atieno and she is a 15 year old girl whose father recently passed away from HIV and her mother is ill with the disease. Please see her picture below:
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Presbyterian Church, Santa Ana is starting another exciting year of
their After School Homework Program called Amigos. This successful
program, which is paired up with music and arts education classes, is in
need of volunteers to work with children in 1st through 6th grades to
improve their homework learning skills and thereby provide them with a
better overall education. The Amigos Program has been operating for one
full year, including a summer session, and needs additional volunteers
to help expand the program to more students. If you are interested in
volunteering, please contact Jere Murphy for more information.
