Our Outreach Missions
We Love to Share the Word with the World
"He said unto them, 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the good news to all creation.' "
Mark 16:15
Known as the Great Commission, this Scripture was Jesus's post-resurrection instruction to his disciples. The Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church Missions Committee continues to follow this instruction by distributing fifteen percent of the church annual budget to local ministries and missions around the world. This page describes the organizations we support whose primary focus is evangelism.
Organizations that provide both social services and promote evangelism appear on Our Outreach Ministries page.
| Afar Development Project» | Ethiopia, East Africa |
| Baja Presbyterian Missions» | Baja California, Mexico |
| Coronado Coffee» | Coronado, California |
| The Horn of Africa Mission» | East Africa |
| Trinity Life Church» | Chula Vista, California |
| Urban Youth Collaborative» | San Diego, California |
| World Vision Child Sponsorship» | worldwide |
| Mission | Afar Development Project |
|---|---|
| Sponsor | World Vision International |
| Mission Field | Ethiopia, East Africa |
| Focus Population | the Afar tribe |
| Our Support |
• ongoing Missions Committee funding • our Pastor has visited the mission field twice • this mission is a merchant in our annual Alternative Christmas Market |
| Once calling themselves the forgotten people, the two million Afar shepherds of eastern Ethiopia are benefiting from our intensive five-year partnership with World Vision. The Afar-inhabited portion of the formerly drought-prone African desert now blooms with hundreds of backyard farms, three health clinics treat the population, and four schools are educating 3,000 Afar children, including girls for the first time. Pastor David made a missionary visit to the Afar tribe in 2007 and a second mission trip with church elder Rick Moore in 2009. Solana Beach Presbyterian Church introduced this mission to our church. | |
| Mission | Baja Presbyterian Missions Inc. |
|---|---|
| Sponsor | Presbytery of San Diego |
| Mission Field | Baja California, Mexico |
| Focus Population | Ensenada, Mexicali, San Jose de Cabo, Tecate, and Tijuana |
| Contact | Email Bob Battenfield, President of the Board of Directors |
| Our Support |
• ongoing Missions Committee funding • our church members sit on the Board of Directors • our church members tour the mission field each spring • this mission is a merchant in our annual Alternative Christmas Market |
| The Presbytery of San Diego works hand-in-hand with the Northwest Border Presbytery to plant churches, nurture missions, and support eight pastors and their church workers in Baja California, Mexico. With help from Pueblos Hermanos Presbyterian Border Ministry, Baja Presbyterian Missions funds and supplies construction work crews and mission teams to help 17 seedling churches in Ensenada, Mexicali, San Jose de Cabo, Tecate, Tijuana. Youth in church programs undertake community service projects that include graffiti and trash removal, street pothole filling, and door-to-door evangelism. Harry Jenkins introduced this mission to our church. | |
| Mission | Coronado Coffee |
|---|---|
| Mission Field | Coronado, California |
| Focus Population | Coronado women and their guests |
| Contact | Email Jane New, Director |
| Our Support |
• ongoing Missions Committee funding • our church members promote events and sell admission tickets • our church members attend the events |
| Coronado Coffee is an interdenominational, nonprofit organization that draws and schedules Christian speakers who deliver life-changing messages to Coronado women and their guests. Dessert and coffee precedes each presentation in a friendly, accepting environment. | |
| Mission | The Horn of Africa Mission |
|---|---|
| Sponsor | NewGenerations International |
| Mission Field | Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda in East Africa |
| Our Support |
• ongoing Missions Committee funding • our Pastor and one of our elders have visited the mission field • this mission is a merchant in our annual Alternative Christmas Market |
| Partnerships with local organizations are the key to fulfilling a vision of planting churches in every town, village, and community in this vast region of more than 200 million people. The Horn of Africa Mission works almost exclusively through local partners to help them to develop successful outreach strategies, train them in effective principles of church multiplication, and provide appropriate resources. To date, more than 120 of these partnerships are functioning throughout the Horn of Africa region and are responsible for developing a body of believers in the Afar tribe, which was considered to be impossible when outreach began just six years ago. The mission founder, Dr. Markos Zemede, and Ayche Beyene, the Ethiopian director appearing with his wife Tsega in the photo above, have made presentations to Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church, the most recent in June 2009. Pastor David and Richard Moore personally visited the Addis Abbaba mission headquarters earlier in the same year. |
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| Mission | Trinity Life Church |
|---|---|
| Address | 940 Hilltop Drive, Chula Vista, CA |
| Contact | |
| Our Support | • ongoing Missions Committee funding |
| Trinity Life Church anticipates becoming a vital developer of new multi-ethnic churches in San Diego communities south of Interstate 8. Marc Peña is the founding and lead pastor of Trinity Life Church, operating from the campus of Chula Vista Presbyterian Church. Marc earned his master’s degree in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, has more than 21 years’ pastoral experience communicating the gospel, and has written numerous articles whose topics include church leadership, worship, and discipleship. The Evangelism Committee of the Presbytery of San Diego introduced this mission to our church. | |
| Mission | Urban Youth Collaborative |
|---|---|
| Mission Field | San Diego |
| Sponsors |
Fellowship of Christian Athletes New Vision Christian Fellowship Presbytery of San Diego |
| Focus Population | San Diego high school students |
| Address | P.O. Box 124708 San Diego, CA 92112 |
| Contact | Email The Reverend Nate Landis, Founder / President |
| Our Support |
• our Missions Committee funds • our Director of Youth Ministries is a program minister at Coronado High School |
| Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) is a nonprofit organization that believes every San Diego young person deserves a chance to hear and respond to the good news of Jesus Christ. As students begin their relationships with Jesus, UYC connects them to a local church for healing, growth, and maturity into disciples that impact their campuses, communities, and their world. Currently, UYC shares the gospel with 750 students each week on 21 San Diego public high school campuses. | |
| Services |
• weekly lunch-time Bible club for in-depth study of God's word • leadership development to help youth discover and use their gifts to minister to hurting friends • distribution of free Bibles • a campus food pantry for all in-need families • a youth pastor assigned to each high school • tutoring resources • chaplains for sports teams and ongoing counsel • 85 full-scholarships, counselors, and transportation to Forest Home Ministries summer camp • Fellowship of Christian Athletes summer camp at UCSB • counseling for students dealing with difficult life issues • connection to local churches for discipleship and development • assemblies to hear national Christian speakers |
| Mission | World Vision Child Sponsorship |
|---|---|
| Mission Field | worldwide |
| Focus Population | severely impoverished children, and children living in the midst of the AIDS pandemic |
| Contact | Email Erica Gapp, Child Sponsorship Ambassador Email Patricia Beard, Child Sponsorship Ambassador |
| Our Support |
• two of our church members are WV child sponsorship ambassadors • our church members sponsor 72 children through World Vision • this mission is a merchant in our annual Alternative Christmas Market |
| Founded in 1950, World Vision helps children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. A $35-a-month pledge supports a child in one of more than 100 countries by providing clean water, educational opportunities, health care, nutrition, and spiritual nurturing. Members of our church currently sponsor 84 children, representing a financial commitment of $2,940 per month or $35,280 per year. Erica Gapp introduced this mission to our church. | |