Newsletters From PC(USA) Mission Workers

• YAV Whitney Palmer in Guatemala
  A reflection from a Young Adult Volunteer about her experience in Guatemala and her insight into the meaning of accompaniment.
  
  
• YAV Megan McCarty in Florida
  Young Adult Volunteer writes about the effect of her volunteer experience on her life, her understanding of the world, and how God acts in one's life.
  
  
• Bob and Kristi in Congo
  As newly appointed mission co-worker to the Congo, Bob reflects on the theological significance of kneeling for ordination, kneeling before the people of Congo, and humbling oneself by giving up the privilege and status of English, taking off one's shoes on the holy ground of another's culture and learning their language.
  
  
• Robert Collins and Esther Wakeman in Thailand
  Esther writes of the privilege and joy of sharing the journey of students of Payap University, sharing joy and struggles, and sharing God's love with those who do not know him yet. Also a critical need for English speaking teachers to offer courses in the Hotel and Turism field.
  
  
• Carolyn Weber in Ethiopia
  Highlights from the first weeks of a new mission co-worker with an introduction to her classes at the seminary, the students she teaches, and her sense of mission there.
  
  
• Doug and Elaine Baker in Northern Ireland
  Doug wwrites of a "rare moment of grace" and tells of how one participant in his workshop, "Opening up Difficult Conversations" lived it out in an encounter of unexpected grace.
  
  
• Don and Wei hong Snow in China
  A brief excursion into the past. . .and the future as Don describes the growing church in China, looking at the shift in perception of their missionary past and their new desire to know their history, to learn from it, and to pass it along to future Christians. "One of our tasks is to help churches in China and the U.S. to recover lost connections and to build new ones."
  
  
• Christi and Jeff Boyd in Cameroon
  "They are going to crush all us small farmers. . . " Christi writes, reflecting on the life of small farmers and the work of "Joining Hands" with an invitation to join them through a Fair Trade opportunity.