MISSIONS AT GENEVA
PRIDE IN THE WEST SIDE REVITALIZATION PROJECT
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The Crop Walk is a Geneva annual tradition.
We gather at South Jax Presbyterian Chruch and walk through the San Marco neighborhood. It’s good fun, and good exercise. A win-win for all!
Thornwell is an organization from Clinton, SC that we support!
Thornwell’s Mission:
Thornwell serves to prevent child abuse and neglect, to build up and reunite families, and to support healthy communities in the name of Jesus Christ.
REGULAR BLOOD DRIVES
The blood mobile regularly visits Geneva Church on Sundays. Usually 3 times per year. If you wish to help save a life and donate, please call the church office.
THIS CHILD HERE, UKRAINE
Needing Volunteers!!
We help Ukrainian high school graduates displaced by this war to prepare for admission to colleges in America. Below are five teens who plan to attend. They all need to speak better English.
We need young adult volunteers to come for 1-3 months to help. You don't have to be an English teacher-they've studied it in school. They just can't speak it. You have to enjoy hanging out with teens.
Interested? Write me: robertgam@gmail.com
This will look very good on your resume.
Zhenya Mikhailova, here with her mother and brother has been purposeful and persistent in getting an education. She is interested in linguistics. In addition to knowing Ukrainian and Russian, she takes courses in Polish, German and English, and is engaged in choreography. Zhenya grows up in a single-parent family with a brother whom she helps with his studies (he has dyslexia), and his mother Alena. Alena is a tennis coach who also runs our sports center and leads a group with children with developmental disabilities - autism and Down syndrome.
This is Andrey Shishkin with his mother Alla from Mariupol. From a destroyed city, he has again found a peaceful life, home, school, friends and favorite hobbies. Andrey is a hardworking, responsible, calm young man. He loves to read, and is interested in mathematics, information technology and programming. He takes care of his mother to the best of his ability. Alla’s mother was diagnosed with cancer. Now she is fighting this terrible disease and dreams that one day her son will not hear the sounds of the air raid.
Dasha Butenko with her mother and younger sister Varya came from the Donetsk region. Their family was affected by the war back in 2014, when they had to urgently leave their hometown due to hostilities. Creative, musical girls, with the support of their mother, try to realize their abilities even in wartime. Dasha dreams of getting an education in the theater field; she loves to sing in English, dance and reads a lot.
Yana Kramarets, together with her mother Yulia and younger brother Maxim, came to Izmail from the Kherson region. The family survived the difficult months of Russian occupation, evacuation under bombing, and with great difficulty, they were recently able to evacuate their grandmother from the combat zone. Yana’s dad is a soldier in the Ukrainian army, one of our heroic defenders. Yana loves to play sports, reads a lot and started learning to play the guitar in our music club.
Bob Gamble came to Westminster Woods to talk about his ministry in Ukraine! Here are some photos from the event!
Farsijana Adenney-Risakotta is a missionary we support serving in Indonesia!
Watch below to hear more
about her and her ministry!
Read her update by clicking below:
MISSION GIVING THROUGH THE YEAR
LOCAL
We give time and talent (and occasionally resources) to Food for Kids, making sure to meet the nutritional needs of kids in St. John’s County, Habitat for Humanity in St. John’s County (Apostles Build), the Betty Griffin House, and the Family Integrity Program of St. Johns County. We find ways for kids to help out, too. At VBS, for example, we collect school supplies. And the youth gather non-perishable food to give away in the Fall.
Other Local Programs:
Camp Montgomery, Starke, FL
Thornwell Home for Children in Clinton, SC
GLOBAL
We collect offerings to participate in the mission of the Presbyterian Church (USA), providing disaster assistance, mission, and witness world-wide.
Jamaica Mutual Mission
The St. Augustine Mutual Mission Team oversees, coordinates and recruits participants in the various ministries of the Mutual Mission, in cooperation and consultation with our partner, the Jamaica Ecumenical Mutual Mission. It administers and is guided by the presbytery’s policy, “Activities of Ministers, Churches, and Session in Participating in International Missions.”
Mission Co-Workers
Bob Gamble, This Child Here, Ukraine
Farsijana Adenney-Risakotta, Indonesia