MISSIONS

LOCAL

Tall Timbers Camp - Our church is closely involved with this ministry and we continue to increase our giving to the camp as funding from other sources is reduced.  Each year many of our families participate in the Snow Camp, and various youth and adult activities occur during the summer months.  A tremendous amount of volunteer hours by both adults and the youth of our church are spent on work projects throughout the year.  www.tt.talltimber.org

Giving Tree - The Opportunity Council helps identify needy families to whom we provide Christmas gifts anonymously.  www.oppco.org

Divorce Recovery Workshop - This is nine week healing ministry for those dealing with the hurts associated with divorce. 

Opportunity Council - A private nonprofit human services organization based in Bellingham serving San Juan, Island, and Whatcom counties.  Various needs of low income families are addressed.   “Margie’s House” was built in Oak Harbor in 2004 for which the congregation collects personal care items which are greatly appreciated.  It provides transitional housing for homeless women and small children.  It’s clever, flexible design allows the staff to reconfigure apartments to fit the size of each family.  www.oppco.org

Tierra Nueva Del Norte - Outreach to immigrants based in Mt. Vernon.  Emergency assistance, advocacy, domestic violence, prison ministry, and family farm plots are only a few of their community programs.  The Word is shared through Bible studies, noon prayer services, communion, baptism, and a “Peoples Seminary” which offers classes covering both Biblical and social subjects.  Tierra Nueva Del Norte

Gideons - 100% of all contributions from churches go toward the purchase and shipment of Bibles.  Every other year a representative visits Whidbey Presbyterian and gives a presentation to us at our Sunday worship services.  www.gideons.org

Day Break & Respite Program - A nonprofit community service offering support to the ill and disabled as well as relief for their fulltime caregivers.

Habitat for Humanity - Active locally on Whidbey Island, approximately two houses a year are built for the poor on the Island.  www.habitat.org 

Help House - Located within sight of the Church, this is a nonprofit organization distributing donated food to the needy.

Cub Scouts - Pack 62 uses our facilities for their meetings.  http://www.scouting.org

NATIONAL

Gambell Presbyterian Church, Alaska - A new church building is planned to serve in this subsistence village of 400 Siberian Yupik Eskimos.  This last year the village suffered a terrible tragedy when a number of folks were lost in a whale hunt accident. In this harsh climate, modernization has resulted in some very negative consequences.  Introduction of processed foods has made diabetes a really serious health issue.  And worse, the availability of food from "outside" has resulted in a move away from the major occupation; food hunting and survival.  This has left the youth with too much free time, and the suicide rate on the island for youth is at astronomical proportions.  This church has an outreach program to Siberia, Russia which is called Bearing Witness.  http://www.pbyukon.org/gambell_presbyterian_church.htm

Bearing Witness - Russia’s “Ice curtain” fell and the Yupiks on both sides of the Bering Strait can now travel freely to each other.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is preached to the peoples of Siberia!  Gamble Church is poor, yet they expend their resources and efforts to reach their brothers and sister across the water.  Bearing Witness is the program that helps fund the church’s outreach to their Russian relatives.  Funds are being raised to build a church which can help accommodate the travelers from Siberia and support Christian training.

Whitworth College - Spokane, committed to the Christian perspective in higher education of mind and heart.  www.whitworth.edu

Neah Bay Mission Church - Oldest church in Western Washington located in a remote area of our state struggles as its members are poor and unable to financially support a pastor.  Neah Bay Presbyterian Church

INTERNATIONAL

African Enterprises - Growing African-born evangelists from a wide spectrum of races and denominations.  With a strong emphasis on discipleship, indigenous teams minister also in practical, community based development projects.  Our Mollie Brunner is planning her second mission trip to Rwanda with African Enterprises. www.africanenterprise.org

Wycliffe Bible Translators - The church adopted family is the Burkes:  Larry, Diane and sons Ronnie, Jonathan, Benjamin and Joshua.  We were blessed this last year with a visit with them and finally meeting them in person.  The Burkes home church is West Seattle Presbyterian and they are serving the Dangaleat people in Chad, Africa.   www.wycliffe.org

Mission Aviation Fellowship - Provides outreach and support to remote areas servicing all denominations of missionaries.  Our adopted family is the Raneys:  Jonathan, Cindee, Aaron, Stephen, Elena & Elisa.  They, too, blessed us with a visit this last fall before retuning to their work in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.  www.maf.org

Evrianto & Semidang Church - Scholarship support is provided for this Evangelical student in West Kalimantan, Indonesia through World Venture (formerly CBInternational).  Animism, illiteracy and poverty is the day to day reality of the villages served by Evrianto and his father who is a church elder.  Joan and Bob Bell attended the Semidang Church in this remote village on the island of Borneo where head hunting is still practiced.  Semidang Church is active in expanding to other villages with satellite churches and is raising money to build a house so they can "hire" a pastor.

Day Star University - Located in Nairobi, Kenya, it is non-denominational and the largest Christian liberal arts college in Africa.  Dr. Marta Bennett is a missionary teacher there to whom we direct our support. www.daystarus.org