FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ GIRARD, KANSAS

The First Presbyterian Church in Girard has for years bubbled with the voices of people in recovery several nights a week, as the congregation there shares its building to local AA and Al-anon groups.  Now, it has seen new life in its parlor as well. 

 A ladies bible study, started at another location, has outgrown its surroundings and moved, at the invitation of two of the First Presbyterian members who attend, to the church. As many as eleven ladies currently meet weekly. “We are studying through the book of John, a chapter at a time,” says Bev Wilson, who expressed excitement at seeing the group meet at the church.  The group meets at noon on Thursday to allow working women to also attend.  

Ladies from the community are welcome and invited to attend.

THE PRESBTEIRAN CHURCH OF PITTSBURG, KANSAS

The Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, Kansas supports several missionaries abroad.  In addition to the funds we give to the Presbyterian Church, USA, we also directly support four missionary families in Africa :  Tim and Betsy Kubacki in Angola; Dan and Kim Scheels through SIM in Ethiopia; Tim and Emily Tanner in Tanzania, and Angie and Remy Ngumbu through Wycliffe Bible Translators in the Congo.  We also support the work of the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, formerly Affey Adeley HIV/AIDS prevention, based in Zimbabwe.  Finally, we hear annually from a representative of the Gideons International and support them through prayer and financial resources.

Locally, Pittsburg Presbyterian Church founded and sponsors an annual Community Christmas Dinner and we hold an annual Welcome Back Dinner for PSU International Students.  Other local missions include Wesley House, Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, Pittsburg Ministerial Alliance Transient Ministry, and Mother to Mother Ministries (aid to single mothers and children).  We have “adopted” the Lady Bugg House in Wichita for our summer mission project/trip for the last three years.  Lady Bugg House is a privately funded home for teenage unwed mothers and their babies.  We have built playground equipment, garden plots, painted rooms, finished a bathroom and helped with a neighborhood VBS during our visits.  While in Wichita, our youth have also worked at  Union Rescue (for homeless men).

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEVADA, MISSOURI

 Our budgeted mission dollars from our general operating fund are designated as 10 % of our congregational approved operating budget.  Not including special offerings, PW giving, mission trip spending, occasional project designations from reserved funds.  Of the 10% from our budget, one half goes to General Missions of PCUSA, one fourth to local designations, one fourth to designated international missions, including PCUSA missionaries.
 
Right now we have two favorite, ongoing international mission sponsorships with whom we are in personal contact.  For over two decades we have supported Les and Cindy Morgan, medical missionaries in Bangladesh.  Communications with them started with an elementary Sunday School class which wanted to correspond with them since their 3 children at that time were also young.  It was our joy this April to finally have the Morgan’s visit us in person while on their furlough.
 
Our other current support, two years in the relationship, is to the New Life Children's Home in Yellamanchili, India, serving children from the Dalit or "untouchable" caste.  A young woman from Nevada makes some visits there to serve, and also reports to us how the work is going.  

- GREG FERREE, PASTOR

HOLLISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ HOLLISTER, MISSOURI

Hollister Presbyterian provides support for April Erbe who works with Wycliffe Bible Translators.  We also “feed the fish” for One Great Hour of Sharing.
 
GWEN SIMMONS, CLERK OF SESSION ~ HOLLISTER PRESBYTERIAN

CRANE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ CRANE, MISSOURI

The following are some of the projects we consider to be part of our ongoing mission at the Crane Presbyterian Church:

The Crane Presbyterian Church supported our local Food Pantry throughout the year and began supporting the Weekend Backpack program in the Crane schools.  We designated the last Sunday of each month as a collection day for both the Food Pantry and Backpack programs.  Members are welcome to bring food at any time and the items will be delivered after the last Sunday of the month.
We have filled three of the "disaster buckets" for the Presbytery.  Our members sign up to provide certain types of requested supplies.  Sometimes it is a challenge fitting the supplies into the buckets but we find a way.  

We also collected money, food and other items to adopt a local family at Christmas and assist individuals in the Residential Care Center in addition to providing financial assistance to a local High School student to achieve his goals in Cross Country and Track competition.  Our Congregation also generously supports the work at Lives Under Construction in Lampe, Missouri in addition to supporting Presbyterian mission projects through donations to Share the Joy, Pentecost, One Great Hour of Sharing and Peacemaking Offerings.  

JIM HOLT, MISSION COMMITTEE CHAIR ~ CRANE PRESBYTERIAN

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ JOPLIN, MISSOURI

For decades now the phrase “Active in Mission” has been a defining element of First Joplin’s vision and work in our community.  We try in numerous ways to respond to Christ’s call to feed the hungry, heal the sick and clothe and shelter those in need.  Two of our more enduring focuses for mission activity are Crosslines and the Community Clinic.  Crosslines is our community’s busiest food and clothing “bank.”  First Presbyterian, along with other local congregations, was instrumental in creating Crosslines over 25 years ago and continues to support its invaluable service with budgeted monthly financial donations, ongoing, in-kind gifts of food and clothing, and volunteer staffing.  The Community Clinic, created in the 1990s by local physicians and others to offer crucial free medical care and consultation, had its modest origins in our church’s 502 Building before moving to its current location in downtown Joplin, just a couple of blocks from our church.  Though we are excited to see that the Clinic is now thriving independently, First Presbyterian maintains its support of the Clinic with monthly financial contributions.  

We are constantly finding that with the help and guidance of the Spirit, one mission leads to another:  since the May 2011 tornado, the building that first housed the Community Clinic has provided housing for many church, school and other groups from around the country who have come to give freely of their time, energy and spirit to help with tornado relief and rebuilding.

First Presbyterian members and friends for many years have participated in an annual, one-week Mission Trip:  this June a dedicate team was able to help people in Texas build a new home after their previous home had been consumed by wildfire.  We are looking forward now also to connecting with others in John Calvin Presbytery to work with Living Waters of the World, training ourselves to, in turn, equip those in developing countries and in the United States who lack clean water with the tools and technology they need for reliable sources for clean water.  Following the example of our neighbor, Bethany Presbyterian, we began a little over a year ago to sell fair trade coffee, tea, chocolate and soup mixes in a small “store” each Sunday.   The fair trade store grew out of a desire of many in our community to become more active in peacemaking, doing and living in ways that make for peace.  Toward that goal, people at First Presbyterian have joined with our Presbytery’s peacemaking working group and lately with the Mission and Nurture Committee to bring an International Peacemaker to southwest Missouri each fall.  The amazing experiences and the witnesses of faith that the Peacemakers share with us have always proved inspiring.  

So, we at First Presbyterian are deeply thankful for the opportunities God as opened up for us to remain “active” and keep growing in Mission! 

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ GOLDEN CITY, MISSOURI

The First Presbyterian Church of Golden City, Missouri has a special missionary collection the third Sunday of every month.  The money collected either goes to a needy individual or family in the form of a gift certificate to our local grocery store or lately to a college bound graduating high school senior
to help buy books for the fall.

BARBARA NICHOLS, CLERK OF SESSION ~ GOLDEN CITY, MISSOURI

Mission program....for many years I have supported world vision ...having 2 sponsored children...it is rewarding to hear from them and see what they are accomplishing for Christ in the various countries. My 2 present ones are Zambia ..in an aids village...and Albania...the poorest country in Europe....

May god continue to bless our church and ministry to the world.

HELEN G. QUIMBY, OZARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ OZARK, MISSOURI

WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI

Last year, Westminster provided funds, in-kind donations, and/or volunteers to support several mission projects, including the Well of Life Food Pantry, Friends Against Hunger, One Great Hour of Sharing, Christmas Joy Offering, JCP-PDA, Rare Breed, Council of Churches of the Ozarks, Campbell Elementary School and Delaware Elementary School.
 
Much of our work this year has been focused on Delaware Elementary, as we are a “Partner in Education” with them.  We have people who volunteer as tutors and reading buddies, our PW and VBS collected school supplies, and on July 31 we will host (in partnership with National Avenue Christian Church) the Crosslines Mobile Food Pantry to serve those in our immediate neighborhood who are hungry.
 
In August we will hear from (and likely give support to) a young woman who grew up at Westminster about her upcoming service as a Young Adult Volunteer for the PC(USA).

KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI

We, Korean Presbyterian Church of Springfield, support 2 missionaries in Africa and South Korea (for the blind), and a mission institution, PGM (Professionals Global Mission) with $300 each quarterly. We treat the homeless at the Missouri Hotel with dinner a couple of times yearly.

We also spread the gospel through our Church Web-site (http://www.kpchurch.org/)--
more than 2 million people have visited the web-site to read Pastor Young Yoon's English and Korean sermons. We always give heartfelt thanks to God for our John Calvin presbytery with prayers every morning.

In His Love,
YOUNG YOON ~ KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI

CROCKER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ CROCKER, MISSOURI

Missions Team Report-2013

Special mission offerings throughout the year include the following:

April 		One Great Hour of Sharing		October 	Festival of Sharing
May 		Women’s Birthday Offering		November 	Women’s Thank Offering
June 		Crocker Senior Center		Nov & Dec	Food Baskets
July 		School Supplies			December 	Joy Gift/Group Home 
August 		Food Pantry			January	Missionary Sunday
September 	Theological Seminary Offering	February 	Souper Bowl Offering

Our main mission is the Food Pantry located at the Crocker Presbyterian Church.  We receive assistance from other groups in the community.  We have received donations of food from the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Crocker Library, VFW Ladies Auxiliary, Crocker School, Crocker Christian Church each month, and City of Crocker.  The Baptist Church has started collecting donations of food each month.  The Presbyterian Women have purchased perishable food using proceeds from the Bazaar and the Potato Bake.  

There were 10 people from our church that attended the Festival of Sharing in Sedalia.
The church contributed the following items to the Festival of Sharing:
1-Backpack of Love
1-Readin’ & writin’ pack
2-Baby Bundles
4-Family Food Packs
2-Paper Product Packs
2-Prison Packs
2-Personal Hygiene Packs
1-Quilt 76”x80”
10-Children’s Quilts or Lap Robes

The items received from the Festival of Sharing for our community were:
20-Family Food Packs
  6-Personsal Hygiene Packs
  9-Readin’ & Writin’ Packs
  2-Paper Product Packs
  3-Boxes Dry Beans (40 lb. ea.)
  2-Boxes Rice (40 lb. ea.)
 20-Sacks Potatoes

In 2012 we helped 94 families or 393 people or in our community with food.   In addition to that we gave out 20 food baskets at Thanksgiving and 8 food baskets at Christmas.

RONNIE LAYMAN ~ CROCKER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CROCKER, MISSOURI

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~  BRANSON, MISSOURI 

Mission Overview

First Presbyterian Church Branson tithes its total income to missions.  Ten cents of every dollar collected is designated for the support of missions.  Several of our mission partners are located in the Branson area, but we also work directly with missions in Mexico, France and Cameroon and an occasional gift response to a special need from Christian missionaries in China, Indonesia and elsewhere.    

It is the responsibility of the FPC Branson Mission Team to prayerfully consider the requests of the many very worthwhile mission projects both here and abroad who seek our support and then recommend to Session which of them we think can make the most impact with the funds, time and talent we can provide.  Each mission partner selected for ongoing support is assigned a liaison from our Mission Team.  It is the responsibility of the liaison to stay in close touch with their mission partner and determine ways we can best assist them utilizing time and talent in addition to our prayer support and the funds this church contributes.    

In 2012 FPC Branson contributed $45,907.00 to missions and sent a team of 18 youth and adults to Puerto Rico for a week of service projects and witnessing for Christ.   Many from this congregation participated in the clean-up following the Branson Leap Day Tornado.  Several served meals as a part of the Loaves and Fishes program, others work with Christian Action Ministry distributing food to the needy.  Many have been a blessing to children in our school systems through the Care for Kids program, to single moms through The Caring People, with a group meeting with our congregation on Wednesday nights, and much more. This year, our youth spent a week at Camp Barnabas where they worked one on one with physically and mentally challenged children.

Our 2013 mission partners include:
The Caring People, helping single moms grow in Jesus and share their faith with their children, their friends and family
Options Pregnancy Clinic, a ministry that encourages and empowers individuals to make life-affirming choices regarding pregnancy and sexual health.
Church Army, a community of recovery from addictions and substance abuse... This group began their Branson ministry in our Old Stone Church.
Lives Under Construction Boys Ranch, providing boys the opportunity to become capable, committed, Christian citizens...
Presbyterian Preschool, serving the children of this community since 1969, right here on our campus.
Care for Kids, preparing the hearts of kids to become men and women with Christ-like character. 
Our own Neighborhood Assistance Program, providing emergency assistance to area residents.
Faith Community Health Center, committed to providing Stone and Taney Counties’ working uninsured with quality, affordable health care and wellness education.  
Christian Action Ministry, providing caring assistance, in Christ’s name, to people experiencing temporary crisis.
 Jesus Was Homeless, ministering to homeless folks who live and   work in the Branson area.
Loaves and Fishes, a cooperative community program in the Branson area to provide hot and nutritious dinner meals to our neighbors in need....

Outside the U. S. our Mission partners include:
The Bordeaux Project, a ministry of the Kent and Sonya Becker family that is attempting to start culturally relevant churches in France that are self-sustaining and capable of reproducing themselves.
Torchbearers, a Christian humanitarian organization that works with local communities in Africa, helping them eliminate poverty by providing them with the resources and knowledge they need to be subsequently independent.
Little Ones Ministries, meeting the physical needs of children in Jerez, Mexico and Corinto, Nicaragua through their feeding centers and meeting their spiritual needs by sharing the hope of Jesus Christ.
It can truthfully be said that First Presbyterian Church Branson has a heart for missions.

Presbyterian Women at First Presbyterian Branson, is a small but a active group with a heart for helping others.  Throughout the year, PW’s various luncheons and member giving has  raised nearly $3,000  for various charities both worldwide and local; we have collected sundry toiletries to help the homeless and those in the Crisis Centers; we have collected cans for the hungry; we have given our pennies to the Least Coin; we have filled baby bottles for the Options Pregnancy Center; we have taken meals and sent cards to our members; and we have  made every effort to welcome newcomers,  and give them an opportunity become active in our group..

Giving is more than collecting money, it is more than gathering cans; it is making everyone feel liked and needed.  This winter, Kendra Timm, a new college graduate, came to Branson to work the night shift  in the accounting department at the local Walmart,  She knew no one.  Seeking a church, seeking new friends she came to PW.  We were old enough to be her mother,  her grandmother, and in some cases her great grandmother.  However, our age did not scare away. She has responded to our caring by becoming active in our group. One of our members calls Kendra” her adopted daughter.”  She has taught us that caring knows no age boundaries.

One of our luncheons raised money for theTentmakers, protestant missionaries, to post Christian France.  We set beautiful tables, we decorated Fellowship Hall, we cooked a delicious meal and we welcomed the Beckers.  In a note thanking us,the Beckers wrote “We enjoyed the Sunday worship service so much at your very friendly church, and the taco bar lunch was delightful--thanks to all the women involved—It was the culmination ofa  beautiful time with loved ones! Praise!!! With all our Love to ‘you all,’
 Cousins, Al & Iola(Isely)”

Today, the number of unemployed, the number of homeless, the number of those who have to choose between a meal and a utility bill is increasing.  Many find their way to First Pres, Branson.  Meg Pyron listens to their stories and does what she can do to help. Often it is no more than a word of encouragement, an address where a job is available, or a warm coat to ward off the winter weather.  Most of the time, however, the need is financial--- money for rent, money to pay the utility bills, money to buy gasoline, money for food. The monetary needs are endless.  From our luncheon proceeds, PW has given almost a $1,000 to Neighborhood Assistance. Coupled with our prayers, and  God’s love, maybe those helped,  will find a better life and willingness to later show God’s love to someone needy..

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ COLUMBUS, KANSAS

The Community Free Lunch Program began 19 years ago and has been going strong every summer since.  It started when an anonymous gentleman brought in a large jar of change and said, “God told me to give this to the church.”  It held over $900.00.  It has also grown in scope.  We started out serving only children but after two years took the faith step to feed everyone who comes through our doors, no questions asked. Since 2006, we have served over 38,000 meals, with almost 8,500 of those meals being served to children.  This summer we have served about half adults and half children.  It is a truly ecumenical mission as other churches and organizations support it.

Overwhelming Grace Keep You,
Toni Spieth

HAMPTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ EVERTON, MISSOURI

Hampton Presbyterian Church, rural Everton, MO, contributes annually to Back to School programs, and gave assistance this summer to the Healing Fire Crusade for area youth, a new joint venture of Dade County churches.  Additionally, we enjoy the presence of Regional Girls' Shelter residents in worship as we offer them our support at Christmastime.

Our Hampton ladies have helped make many patriotic quilts that are sent to Germany for wounded military who arrive there from the Iraq-Afghanistan area.  They also have made dozens of crumb catchers (bibs) for area nursing homes and Missouri Veterans Home at Mt. Vernon.
 
Two Hampton members and friends, in a music group known as Vegetable Soup, take their smiles, old-time songs and gospel music to assisted living/nursing homes about once a week.   
 
To complete our report, Hampton supports General Mission and the work of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.   

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ CHANUTE, KANSAS

We participate in a city-wide mission to provide a meal once a week on Tuesdays during the school year to the community for free.  We take the Peacemaking, Joy, One Great Hour of Sharing, and Pentecost Offerings.  The first Sunday of the month we take a food stuff offering for the local food pantry.  We have participated in the support of a local medical missionary to Honduras; however, she is no longer able to go to Honduras so we have no source of sending our support.  She is still doing a local coffee roastery that gives the profits directly to the growers – no middle man.  We take a coin offering every Sunday that is administered by the Outreach Committee.  They donate 100% of the funds to organizations of their choosing.  These organizations may be local missions or more wide reaching missions depending on the need and situation.

 
 OZARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ OZARK, MISSOURI

From Ozark Presbyterian:

  1. Conduct “Souper Bowl” Sunday to collect can of soup for the Least of These: Over 200 cans of soup 
donated annually
  2. Develop and maintain Community “UNITY” Garden for local needy families and Least of  These:
  3. Sponsor OPC Community Thanksgiving Horn of Plenty
  4. Support Least Of  These on a monthly basis
  5. Support Domestic Violence Shelter on a monthly basis in 2011, 2012 Christmas donated over 
300 children’s books.
  6. Donate money to the “Operation Half Pint” program in Ozark Elementary Schools, supplying snack 
milk to needy children
  7.  Adopt-a- Conduct Hwy clean-up done annually or semi-annually
  8. Christmas gift giving to Least of These families, Century Pines residents and OPC kids
  9. Mission trips with PDA to St. Joseph, Iowa, Nashville, Joplin Mo tornado clean up
10. Use Fair Trade Coffee for fellowship, Fair Trade Bazaar at church open to public
11. Participate in the Christian County Salvation Army Bell Ringing at Christmas
12. Support the Ozark Care to Learn Program by donating time and supplies
13. Support local mission: Springfield Girls Shelter, Convoy of Hope, Salvation Army
14. Conduct CERT training for church members
 
JEANIE SKIBISKI, MISSION CHAIR, OZARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ OZARK, MISSOURI

TOM WILLCOX, PASTOR

My personal Mission Statement is: Helping people come into passionate alignment with God and with each other.

My primary ministry expression is, of course, the pastoral leadership of the church family at the First Presbyterian Church of Branson. In order to be missional and in order to model missional living I involve myself in ministry and service in the community, in our country and internationally.

My service to the community includes chairing the COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disaster) and for the last year and a half chairing the LTRC (Long Term Recovery Committee) for Taney County. The LTRC has led the way for the recovery of those impacted by the Leap Day tornado that hit Stone and Taney Counties on February 29th, 2012. The COAD is the organization the promotes disaster preparedness and resiliency within Taney County and it is the parent organization for the creation of a LTRC in response to any major disaster that might hit our county.

I am also involved in nearly every cooperative effort of The Church in Branson through active, personal support of many of our community ministries. And, I involve myself in unique programs and activities that seek to support and build the welfare of the poor in Branson. 

Nationally and internationally I seek to help folks come into passionate alignment with God and each other through my involvement in PRMI (Presbyterian Reformed Ministries International). I am a Master Teacher of the Dunamis Project materials, our core intellectual product. The goal of the Dunamis Project to ignite the Church in the power of the Holy Spirit by teaching a biblical understanding of the person and work of the Holy Spirit. 

I have been teaching in Dunamis Projects in the USA and internationally for more than two decades. This year I am making several trips to South Korea to teach in Dunamis Projects and to help the Church in South Korea develop their own regional expression of PRMI. I am also currently the President of the PRMI Board of Directors. 

I hope that this helps to encourage you that it will, in some measure, be helpful in encouraging our colleagues in our presbytery.

TOM WILCOX, PASTOR, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ BRANSON, MISSOURI

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ ROLLA, MISSOURI

The following is the list of Mission projects that the First Presbyterian Church of Rolla is currently participating in:

1.	GRACE, Russell House, Presbyterian Manor, and the “Backpack Program “.
2.	Church has a linen closet for GRACE.
3.	Congregation serves on the boards and volunteers for Backpack Program, GRACE for Christmas.
4.	The church supports the “Back to School Fair” that helps children in Rolla, Newburg, and Edgar Springs with school supplies.
5.	Helps Camp David with school supplies and financially.
6.	Church donates household cleaning supplies for Russell House, and paper supplies and canned goods for GRACE.
7.	During Thanksgiving and Christmas the church adopts families.  At Thanksgiving we give food, and at Christmas food and presents.
8.	The Presbyterian Pre-School gave out 10 scholarships to children who fall through the crack for Head Start.
9.	The church is supporting a youth from our church that is going to intern for Campus Crusade for Christ in Southwest Missouri.
10.	The church has sponsored Boy Scout Troop 83 for over 50 years.
11.	The church sponsors Men’s AA on Wednesday and Women’s AA on Saturday
12.	Participate in the Festival of Sharing.
13.	For our World Mission the church is planning to adopt a Presbyterian School in Kenya. Four members of our church visited that school this year.

  The Mission Committee is always looking for new projects that will help spread the word of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the world.

WILLOW SPRINGS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ WILLOW SPRINGS, MISSOURI

Each year we collect food items for MUNCH (the local food pantry). We collect tuna and peanut butter during Lent and all kinds of canned goods for their Christmas baskets. We have put together kits for Church World Service and collected for the Blankets+ Offering each year. A variety of local causes have received our financial support as well as volunteer hours (Salvation Army Christmas bell ringers, WS Back to School Fair, etc). The women's organization knits (or crochets) caps and mittens for the 40 students of the Headstart classes. We give financial support to our denomination, the One Great Hour of Sharing, the Regional Girls Shelter, and Victory Mission, and we respond to emergency needs in our community.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ MOUNTAIN VIEW, MISSOURI

With disaster buckets, hygiene kits, financial gifts, and volunteer hours, our church supports the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance program. We provide monthly support to FEED, a local food distribution program, and to the Agape House, a center for domestic violence. Our women knit or crochet caps and mittens for the 80 students in Headstart and MV Elementary Preschool classes.  A number of our members are active in the Newborns in Need mission. We support the One Great Hour of Sharing, our denomination's mission programs, and local concerns. Since its inception last year, our church has taken a leadership role in providing a Back to School Fair for low income students of the Mountain View Birch Tree school district. We contribute volunteer hours, money, and lots of energy for this important event for our local students.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ FORT SCOTT, MISSOURI

Fort Scott First Presbyterian has celebrated God’s love by holding two (with one more to come) Sunday Serve days.  In preparation for the first Sunday, we signed up on work crews, some to stay at the church to either do clean-up projects at the church or help set up, prepare, serve and clean up lunch for the other work crews.  Others went out to help members and friends of the church with repairs and yard work. One crew worked at The Beacon, Bourbon County’s food pantry. We met early for a short worship, went out, and returned at noon for tacos.  135 were served.  That night, April 7, Fort Scott and some of the county had a record hailstorm which left some 70% of the houses in the county damaged and also left some of the yards where the crews had worked pretty trashed. Ah, well! We picked up the pieces (or rather, raked up the debris) and went back to our everyday ministries.
 
Not easily discouraged, First Pres scheduled another Sunday Serve for July 14th.  This time we had some smaller projects, but the teams took on two homes badly damaged by the hail where the people were unable to afford repairs.  We were blessed to be joined by Presbyterians from Southminster,  Scammon and, I think, Pittsburg, working with PDA, along with friends from the Apostolic Christian Church and the United Methodist Church to re-roof and do other necessary work. These folks came on Saturday. Kathy Reed, our kitchen guru, and her family made sure the Saturday workers had snacks, drinks and lunch.
 
 This time, on Sunday, the roofers started at 5:30 (and refused to come down off the roofs and back to the church for 10 minutes of worship—we assume the Lord understands!)  The rest of the teams did gather to worship and be sent out with prayer, and believe me, we were praying for the safety of those folks on the roof in the heat.  Again, more needed yard work was done for members, friends, and The Beacon. Needed cleanup and repairs were made at the church, and the kitchen team provided tacos and “church lady cakes” for a big group of sweaty, tired, happy men, women and teens who returned to the air-conditioned church at 11:30 for lunch.  We still have work to do at those homes, and some of the workers will be continuing to follow that, along with other volunteers from the community.
 
Our next Sunday Serve is scheduled for October.  In the meantime, we continue in ecumenical ministry with our Methodist, Disciples and Missionary Baptist brothers and sisters with Bible School next week, held this year at the First United Methodist Church.

We have made our building available this summer for two weeks for the SEKA children’s program when their regular location was unavailable.
 
Some of the ways we serve we take for granted:  The Beacon Director is Presby Bob Eckles;  I chair that board and Karen Epps and Michele Lyon serve on it. Mary Sue O’Keefe and Jean and Tim Randles are providing regular transportation on Sunday mornings, as needed. Lloyd and Sally Olson volunteer at Mercy Hospital. Others in the congregation manage their schedules to transport and be with folks who need trips to doctors and to run errands.  Bill Pollock agreed to be a case manager for houses needing to be repaired whose owners were unable to afford to make the repairs.  Our pastor, Dr. Jared Witt, energetically supports and encourages both church family and outreach ministry.  Our Children’s Ministry Director, Holly Samborski, provides plenty of outreach opportunities for children and teens “not of our flock” to be included in camp, youth meetings, VBS, and summer events. There is a nearly endless list of church members reaching out to help their neighbors in a myriad of ways. None of these is looking for applause or recognition, and no doubt their stories could be repeated by Presbyterian churches throughout the denomination.  “Blessed to be a blessing” says it all.

BETHANY PRESBSYTERIAN CHURCH ~ JOPLIN, MISSOURI

THE MISSION OF THE CONGREGATION ~ 85 Members
	Bethany was founded as a Sunday School mission outreach of First Church, Joplin, in 1891. When it was organized as a congregation, the people of Bethany declared their new organization to be a “missionary church.” Since that time, mission in the community, through the denomination, and world-wide, has never left the agenda of the Session or the congregation. 

	At the present time, Bethany has a large percentage of its members involved in mission outreach of one sort or another – some directly through the church, some indirectly involved because of their faith. A significant amount of church income is channeled into mission projects as well. Here is a description of most of Bethany’s direct mission activity:

•	a group of peacemakers who have been continuously active locally, in Presbytery, and with General Assembly programs for more than a decade;
•	an on-going Fair Trade Mission Store, begun with a small grant from John Calvin Presbytery Peacemaking Funds, which has returned more than $5000 to artisans and growers through the Fair Trade and Presbyterian Coffee Project system, travels to churches and Presbytery meetings on request, and has represented John Calvin Presbytery at the Mid-America Wee Kirk Conference for several years;
•	a monthly volunteer team works at the Crosslines Churches of Joplin facility, with food, clothing, and household items contributed on a regular basis, and church representation on the Board of Directors, along with annual financial contributions;
•	financial and material support for the Joplin Community Clinic, where our own Parish Nurse, Doris Carson, serves on the medical staff;	
•	financial support for local mission to the homeless through Watered Gardens, including contributions of furniture and household items of their gifting program;
•	following the 2011 tornado, hosting of Camp Noah (a therapeutic day camp program for traumatized youth) in our (damaged) building, with on-going financial support of that program since 2011;
•	receipt of the four PC,USA annual One Great Hour of Sharing, Pentecost, Peacemaking, and Joy offerings, with Session-directed use of the local portion of those which are shared;
•	sponsorship of Angela Williams-Ngumbu, a Joplin native, who is a linguistic specialist with Wycliffe Bible Translators serving several tribes of the Congo;
•	since the Joplin tornado, commitment to building-sharing, first with Peace Lutheran, now with Christ the King Presbyterian (PCA), as an act of corporate stewardship, as well as a way to increase congregational financial stability;	
•	for several decades, Bethany has provided its Sunday worship services first on audio-tape, then video-tape, now on DVD for distribution to shut-in members, nursing homes, and other churches;
•	three years ago, the Session approved live-streaming of Sunday worship as a form of local outreach and service for area churches needing live Sunday leadership, a commitment which required significant investment in new sound system and video equipment and licensing, along with many hours of volunteer technical consultation;
•	with DVD recording and live-streaming in place, the Session acted to present Bethany as a “Small Church Resource Center” (a brochure is available), serving small congregations in the area, including worship leadership via recording or live-streaming, shared choral music library, meeting space, pastoral care assistance at area hospitals, etc.

--To God Be the Glory—

ST. ANDREW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ KIMBERLING CITY, MISSOURI

St. Andrew, in addition to the normal mission projects churches contribute to on a regular basis such as One Great Hour, Per Capita and donations to the Synod, has had a long standing commitment to “hands on” mission projects.  Our entire congregation is engaged in relational ministries led by our Session, Men’s Fellowship Group, Presbyterian Women and our Mission Committee.  Our Pastor is by our side in all our mission work.
 
Last November, we were active in starting the Stone County Loaves and Fishes Program to feed the seasonal workers during the 3 winter months when Silver Dollar City and many theatres are closed. We partnered with our neighbor St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. This program was administered through the Love In the Name of Christ (Love INC) Organization. They used our church as a model for other churches to visit as this program grew. By the end of the program’s first year in March, meals were being served 7 nights a week at 7 different locations. St. Andrew and St. Mark’s decided the need was too great to stop in March, so we continued the program another 2 months. There is one fact we all know for sure: the volunteers were fed spiritually every bit as well as the guests were fed good meals! We were truly humbled when we received a thank you note for our work in the community from our State Representative Don Phillips with the official stamp of Missouri on it. This important hands on mission will remain at the top of our list.
 
St. Andrew is also the home of and supports Love Inc’s Relational Ministries every Tuesday night. This program teaches people in debt how to get out and stay out of debt, using Christian principles. Our small groups donated many hours working for the Toys For Tots Program for Stone & Taney Counties at Christmas. The congregation collected stocking stuffers and over 1,200 knitted hats, gloves and scarves for underprivileged  children. Through our Mission Committee we collected school supplies for The Back To School Fair and ladies from the Monday morning Mission Possible small group helped stuff back packs with supplies. We were named Love INC’s  Tri-Lakes Volunteer Church of the Year for 2012 and  one of our members received the Tri-Lakes Individual Volunteer of the Year for 2012.
 
The Stone County Food Pantry is an important mission for our Men’s Fellowship Group. They contribute not only with financial support, but with volunteer hours every Wednesday. Once we were up & running with Loaves and Fishes, the Food Pantry started bringing their leftover canned goods to St. Andrew to pass out to our guests. Our Mission Committee has a church wide Share Sunday every month to raise money for this important community service.  Our Mission Committee also fills a Christmas tree with paper bell ornaments. Needed and wanted toys and items for children in our Caring People Program are written on these ornaments and purchased by our congregation.  This committee also works closely with Christian Associates providing volunteers and financial aid whenever needed. A new project for our Mission Committee is the Costa Rica Project. We have church members who travel to Costa Rica to do mission work and the committee has donated money for food and supplies. Coffee made in Costa Rica will be sold at our Time & Talent Auction this year to raise money for Loaves and Fishes. We are always looking for those special hands on mission projects to support, such as our recent Peace Making Mission Project that found one of our college students traveling to the Middle East through the International Studies Program. We also helped with medical expenses for a church family with a seriously ill child. Our Prayer Shawl Ministry comforts all church family and friends who are ill. 
 
Our small groups have mission projects of their own. Our Tuesday Hideaway small group has a very special relational ministry with the Gateway Group Home for Girls and they are all deeply committed and involved with that mission. Two of our members sponsor the Possum Holler Fiddlers, a group of young musicians honing their craft and keeping the music of the Ozarks alive. These children recently performed, by invitation, at the White House. Our Monday morning Mission Possible small group has helped our church family with everything from plumbing, yard work and electrical repair to transportation needs. Our Presbyterian Women support Youth Scholarship Bowling and have held many diaper, blanket and baby item drives for Pregnancy Lifeline.

Our Deacons faithfully serve their church family by assisting during communion and special   services, keeping in touch with members through cards and visitations and being there to assist during emergencies. Our Parish Nursing Program helps our congregation with health care concerns. In addition to teaching health care skills, our Parish Nurse helps with home and hospital visits, transportation and assessing health care needs. Delivering health care is the primary purpose of this program, but this ministry also serves to help people realize that their church family cares and help is available through a loving, healing God.

It has been our privilege this year to form a relationship with St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Our partnership in the Loaves and Fishes Program has evolved into working together on other mission projects, bible study, fellowship and worship services. Both churches have benefited   from this relationship while attempting to model to our community what it means to be the Body of Christ in this particular time and place.

When members of St. Andrew are talking about the missions they are involved with 
you always hear the same words: “We were blessed more than anyone we helped.”

HILLCREST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
 
We support an orphanage and a school in Tuanggyi, Myanmar (Burma). Members of the congregation travel every other year to deliver funds and supplies.
 
We support Crosslines with contributions of Peanut Butter, Jelly and Crackers to feed children during the summer months.  We have coat drive during the winter months.   We have a school supply drive to support Pleasant View Elementary School.  We collect toys for the Toystore at Christmas.
 
We have a food pantry. 
 
We host a Community Blood Drive.
 
We host “Trunk or Treat” providing a safe place for the children on Halloween.
 
We host a dinner for the residents of the Ashley House (Regional Girls’ Shelter.)
 
We have a route for Meals on Wheels.
 
We provide dinner for the residents of two Ronald McDonald Houses. 
 
We provide refreshments for Labor Day travelers at a rest center. 
 
We provide food baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN OF JOHN CALVIN PRESBYTERY ANNUAL MISSON REPORT

REPORT OF THE PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN FOR THE YEAR 2012

Organization/Project									Amount
Crane Presbyterian Church-2012

- Ozark Mt. Regional Healthcare (activities)						   75.00
-Regional Girls Shelter									 200.00
-Camp Barnabas									 100.00	
-Lives under Construction							              250.00
-Help Residents at Ozark Mt. Regional Healthcare				                50.00
-Residential Home of Crane								200.00
-S. S. Children Christmas								100.00
-Crane Ministerial Alliance								  50.00
-Care for Kids										290.00
-Track Shoes for Crane Students								150.00
-Helped church members in need							125.00
-Purchased candle lighters								283.00
-Purchased flowers for church (outdoors)						  60.00

We collect Best Choice Labels, give money to Care Packs at school, Labels for Education, to Lives under Constructions, Box Tops for School for Crane School, soft drink tabs for Ronald McDonald House.
We help when church adopts a family at Christmas and make fruit baskets for 13 at Christmas for Nursing Home.
We donate to the Food Pantry the last Sunday every month and serve meals for any church family,
And donated our white elephant to Lives Under Construction after our bazaar to their second hand store.	
							              
Submitted by Nellie Bracht, Treasurer

Southminster Presbyterian Church 2012

Church Women United Donation							  24.00
Fellowship of Least Coin								  14.50
Coffee for after worship fellowship time							100.00
Kathy Kaps for Cancer Patients (100)						             700.00
Funeral Dinners										106.56 
Christmas Projects by Circles								295.04
Total Contributions 	         $1259.60	

Submitted by Carolyn Mitchell, Treasurer

Monett First Presbyterian Church 2012
Lives Under Construction								200.00
Church World Service Blanket Plus							430.00
Barry County Youth Camp								100.00
Easter Lilies ordered by PW and placed in church.  Paid for and taken home by members      0.00
	                                                                              Total Contributions 	            $730.00	
							
Submitted by Karen J. Brady
Ash Grove United Methodist and Presbyterian Church 2012

Festival of Sharing									   175.00
Corsage for Missions (Methodist)							     42.00
Helped pay for bathroom remodel project						1,200.00	
Helped buy playground equipment for church					         	1,200.00
Blanket fund
Special Offerings : Call to Prayer and Self-Denial (Methodist)
Birthday Offering
Thank Offering
Fellowship of Least Coin
Label for Education to local schools
Drive for Meals on Wheels
Volunteer at food pantry, clothing bank, Senior Center.
Donate through Ministerial Alliance at Thanksgiving and Christmas
Cook, serve, and clean up funeral dinners, fellowship meals, Dear Meal
Donate time and money to Vacation Bible School, seasonal parties for children in coordination with Christian Church.
Donated Disaster Buckets to Presbytery 							160.00
Donated hats and mittens local school at Christmas
Garage sale in June to support our projects/missions
                                                                         Total Contributions 		         $2,777.00
Submitted by Pattie Moulin	  

Willard-Mt. Zion Church 2012

Local Missions 	Regional Girl’s Shelter & Harmony House 				600.00
Willard Missions	Willard Chapter Care to Learn					500.00
			Willard Care Center Christmas Gifts					  40.00
Dorcas Circle		Newborns in Need, Fresh Start &				         5,188.00
			Willard School Clothing Bank					
			(Items for Layettes & All Size Quilts)
			
			Newborns In Need New Diaper Bank				   84.00

								Total			          6,412.00

Dorcas Circle has also provided 65 knitted or crocheted prayer shawls to church members over the past
Years and 15 prayer shawls were sent this year to the New Ministry of Breast Cancer at Mercy Hospital.
No cash value has been placed on these items.

                                 Scammon First Presbyterian church Ladies aid mission report- 2012

-Annual Easter breakfast
- Hosted a quarterly dinner with churches from Columbus, Galena and Oswego
- Made several blankets given to elderly in care centers and others in need
:-Collected cans of Soup and money for Souper Bowl Sunday given to local family in need
-Donated 100.00 dollars to the Columbus Summer lunch program and worked the site	            $100.00
-Help assist the Community of Christ serve a funeral dinner
-Filled two PDA buckets									 100.00
-Bible study for 6 weeks at care center Medicarelodge in Columbus, Ks.
-Hosted community Thanksgiving Service in Nov. with all four churches attending
-Sent cards three time a year to friends in care centers and home bound signed by all members in church.
-Help sponsor children to church camp 
-Game day on Tuesday, everyone welcome to share in fellowship 
-Sent cards to a prison to let them know God loves them and we also love them.

Submitted by Lela Grant 

PW Report 1st Presbyterian Church, Columbus, KS.- 2012

We sponsor a Community Free Lunch Program each summer.  June, July and August of 2012, we served 1785 people, 859 of whom were children.  This involves 25 volunteers each week for about 2 hours a day.  The entire community volunteers to make this possible including churches, scout troops, 4H etc. 

Submitted by Toni Speith

Ozark Prairie Presbyterian Church Presbyterian Women

-We meet monthly (2nd. Wednesday of each month) for Bible Study
-We host Community Ice Cream Supper in August.
-Sponsored Souper Bowl Sunday and collection was 111 cans of soup			 $120.00
   Soup was given to Mt. Vernon Food Bank.
-Hosted Thanksgiving meal for Thank Offering Service. Collected			   170.00
-Support monthly bank collections.
-Send used spiritual material to South Dakota Indian Reservation
-Fellowship of Least Coin and Birthday Offering
-Members serve on Presbytery’s Presbyterian Disaster Board service
-Enjoyed December meeting with a luncheon at Maggie Mae’s Tea Room, attended by all 
  the ladies of the church.
-Our Christmas Project was to the baby diaper pantry- supplied by First Presbyterian
 Church of Mt Vernon and gave a total of 736 individual diapers				   100.00
-Bible School Support											
									Total		  $390.00

First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View 2012

Presbyterian Women- specific
-Donated 12 lap robes to Nursing Home.
-Hosted the John Calvin Presbyterian Women’s Spring Gathering May 5, 2012
 JCPW gave the host church a total of $360.00 which went to the Mountain View Back to 
 School Fair.	The women also brought items for the Back to School Fair.			$360.00 
-The annual salad luncheon for Mt. View, Willow Springs and West Plains was held May
  10th and hosted by the West Plains PW.
-June 18th volunteers went to McDonalds to help greet customers and McDonald’s
  donated 20% of the proceeds from 4-8 pm to Mt. View Back to School Fair
-Fall workshop of JCPW was held in Forsyth Presbyterian Church and 14 Hygiene Kits were
  Taken to this gathering.									  140.00
-Total for Least Coin										    26.59
- One of our ladies made 115 items for Newborns in Need this year.
- The women made 69 set of Hats and Mittens for Head Start   				             576.00
								Total			         $1102.59

First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View 2012 (cont’d)

Combined efforts of the whole congregation

Agape House 							            400.00
FEED 					                                                   565.99
JCP Disaster assistance 		                                                                724.85
Health ministries (glasses) 		                                                     94.00
Campus Crusade for Christ 	                                                                  90.00
*Back to School Fair 	                                                                           3602.27
Newborns in Need        		                                                                155.00
Ministerial Alliance 			                                                   542.00
One Great Hour of Sharing 	                                                                505.45
Shared Mission                                                                                         1000.00
                                                                                                       Total 	                                 $7,679.56
* grant from Presbytery for ecumenical missions
Other Mission Giving;
-Four members participated in Mission Trips to Joplin.
-Delivery of meals for Senior Citizens
-Contributing food/paper products/items for women and children to Agape House
-Unloading groceries for the FEED Program.
-Assisting in the Back to School Fair and store supplies.
-crocheting, knitting, and baby clothes to Newborns in Need
-provide worship for Mountain View Health Care several times a year.
-Make the church available for AA and Al Non meetings- free of charge.
-Church available for Financial Peace program that is open to the community.
-Available to assist (as needed) in the school clothing closet. 
-participate in the Christmas Shoe Boxes for the children in Back-pack program.
-fill Christmas stocking for Nursing Home clients. 
-collect “Souper Sunday” canned soup for Agape House and FEED program.
-four women and one man volunteer at local hospital
-three individuals deliver Senior Citizens meals
-Collect Best Choice labels for FEED program.
Grand Total	                       $8,782.15	

					
Hollister Presbyterian PW 2012
Wycliffe Missionary April Erbe	    							     1050.00
Christian Action Ministries Food Pantry							       300.00
Missouri Children’s Home								       100.00
Gideons										       252.00
Presbyterian Disaster Agency								         50.00
							Total                                              $1752.00
      
Submitted by Gwen Simmons

Report of the Presbyterian Women in the Willow Springs Church 2012

-$50 to "Community Foundation of the Ozarks".
-Helped with bloodmobile furnishing sandwiches, cookies and drinks
to 22 donors.
-Made 7 Health Kits.
-Made and distributed 40 hats and mittens to girls and boys at "Head Start".
-Filled 4 disaster buckets.
-Made 4 hats and booties, 4 gowns and 4 diaper bags for "Newborns in Need". 
-Made and filled 46 book bags for "Church World Service",
-Brought peanut butter and tuna during Lent for the local food pantry 
-Brought canned goods during Advent for the food pantry.
-Had soup and pie dinner for "Blanket Sunday" taking a collection during worship
-and selling pie @.50 slice with proceeds going toward blankets. 

Submitted by Pat Holland

First Presbyterian Church, Nevada, MO 2012

-Disaster Relief
-Community Outreach program (provides food and other items to those who need it.)
-Purchase These Day's magazines for the Church
-Heifer Project (purchased a goat and bees this year)
-Church's Children Mission trips.
-We have a member that is an Ombudsman for one of the Care facilities in Nevada and visits weekly.
-Donations to the Salvation Army and Loretts's Attic. 
-Thank Offering
-Birthday Offering
-Our pledge to the Presbytery

Submitted by Shirley Baxter

Rolla First Presbyterian Church-2012

For the year of 2012-2013.

Organization/Projects:

On the fourth Sunday of each month during the year we provide Vespers at 4:00pm to the residents of Presbyterian Manor, an assisted living facility. We have three circles that rotate in planning and providing the services. We give money to the Presbyterian Manor’s Good Samaritan Fund which is for residents whose pensions and funds have been depleted. 

We give assistance to the Friday Backpack Program in the Rolla Public Schools. During the school year, over 300 children who exhibit “food insecurity” are provided “kid-friendly” food each week which they can fix for themselves on the weekends. 

The Regional Girls Shelter in Springfield is another mission to which we gave. This past year two of our members went on the Mission-in-a-Weekend to help clean and paint the residence for the girls.

We give money each year to Russell House, a home for battered women and children. 

Community Partnership is an organization for helping young families to which we provided monetary assistance. We also gave left over goods from our rummage sale to their re-sale shop.

PW gave to GRACE, a charitable organization sponsored by local Rolla churches which assists residents of Phelps County.  PW helped provide food baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas. We filled Christmas stockings for children and gave Christmas gifts to families selected by the GRACE director. 

PW gives monetary gifts to the church staff each year at Christmas in thanks for their dedication and service throughout the year. 

The main sources of our funds are a rummage sale in the fall and a bake sale “cookie walk” and craft sale in December. 

Submitted by Sondra Crow, Secretary

First and Calvary Presbyterian Women  2012

First and Calvary‘s Presbyterian Women participated in the John Calvin Presbytery Fall  Gathering at Forsyth . First and Calvary PW had our annual Spring Gathering honoring our Senior Girls, and our annual Birthday offering. This fall we had our Fall Gathering with a quest speaker for the brunch. We also gave our Thank offering at that time.
First and Calvary Presbyterian Women work each year to increase our membership in our circles, Bible Study groups and other activities of our church.
Mission Giving
Church Women United                                 				          100.00
Meals on Wheels                                              				          100.00
Well of Life                                                       				          150.00
Harmony House                                                				          200.00
Isabell’s House                                                  				          150.00
Regional Girls Shelter                                      				          150.00
The Kitchen                                                       				          150.00
Mission Sewing                                                				        2200.00
Adopt-A-Case-worker                                    			                     1900.00
Binnie Clements Guild                                    				     18,897.20
							              Total      $23,997.20
Contributions
PC(USA) World Wide Mission                         				         3000.00
John Calvin Presbyterian PW                         				           714.42
Synod of Mid America                                        				           136.08
Birthday Offering                                                    			           600.00
Thank Offering                                                         			           600.00
Least Coin                                                                			             65.00
Abigail’s Circle Mission project                             			           310.00
 								 Total         $5.425.50
Festival of Sharing for First and Calvary Presbyterian
Non cash international gifts
18 School kits @ $13.00                                                                                 total   234.00
5   Eye glasses @$1.00                                                                                   total       5.00
Non – cash Missouri Gifts
2 Personal Hygiene Packs @ $20.00                                                              total     40.00
First and Calvary Presbyterian Women  2012 (cont’d)

37 Prison Packs @ $9.00                                                                                total   333.00
3 student Dental Packs @ $11.00                                                                   total     33.00
For Hunger needs in Missouri
50 Best choice Labels    @$.03                                                                       total       1.50
Total value for all non-cash Gifts                                                          Total     $ 646.50
Total Cash 								               30.00                           
            Grand total of $676.50 

First Presbyterian Church, Joplin, MO 2012,  P W Mission Report
Cook dinner for the Blind Association in July.
Cards sent to our “At Home” members.
Christmas trees delivered to our “At Home”  members.

Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church PW Report 2012
Through bake sales and a taco salad lunch, the ladies of our church were able to provide funds for;
- Crosslines, 
-Heifer International project,
- Isabel's House-crisis nursery of the Ozarks, and
- Bowerman Elementary School (winter clothing and personal hygiene items). 
- Woodland Heights PW hosted Church Women United's "World Day of Prayer" in March.  
-Our first"Tea" was held in May and was such a success that we hope to hold another event in 2013. 
- We volunteer once a month on "Fish Day" for Crosslines and
- helped with the distribution of food baskets during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Gibson Chapel PW 2012
-The NAACP college scholarship fund
-Crosslines 
-The Regional Girl's Shelter
-Rare Breed  	

Submitted by Ferba Lofton
PW of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Springfield, MO
Women of Westminster are truly dedicated to our Church as they participate in so many events and activities of the Church, such as:, helping PDO with lunch breaks, teaching Sunday school, Vacation Bible School, helping with blood pressure checks,  knitting Prayer Shawls.
We participated in the Well of Life; the Cross lines Toy Store and helped the Membership Care Committee with dinners for funerals.  We also helped with a wonderful bazaar.
We invited ladies from eight Presbyterian Churches to join us on June 12 for dinner and an evening of fun and to discuss Clustering in the future.  Ladies from six of the eight Churches came, for a total of sixty-one ladies.
We partner once a month with the ladies from Gibson Chapel for Horizons Bible Study.
We made forty-seven Little Dresses for Africa and along with this shipment we sent ten pairs of little boy’s shorts.
We collected Campbell labels, education labels and Smillie’s grocery receipts for Delaware school.
We have a box in the narthex, along with a list of items needed, for The Foster Care Program (which is a part of the Children’s Foundation of Mid-America), Campbell School, Delaware School and Care to Learn.                                                                        

Submitted by  Louise Rook, Moderator 

Presbyterian Women First Presbyterian Church, Fort Scott
PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN 2012 Annual Report
Member ship Care-Ruth Farmer and Norma Comstock sent over 196 get well, sympathy, birthday and anniversary cares in wo12.  We sent our heartfelt sympathies to all of the families who lost a loved one this past year.

Bible Study found Sally Olson and Jeanne Randles with lessons of “Confessing the Beatitudes” which was finished in May. Starting in July with “Dispatches to God’s Household the General Epistles”.  Please come join them as they start lesson 5 on January 17, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.

In the Church Sewing Room;
Mission Sewing- Jackie Allison, Jeanne Randles, Mary Sue O’Keefe, and Norma Comstock made 8 lap robes for the area nursing homes; 8 pillow cases for Heartland Behavioral Hospital in Nevada for new youth clients to keep.  Activity bags and baby quilts were made for our congregation 4 of each, 17 simple robes and several head wraps for the Vacation Bible School in August on very short notice!  They also made 38 dresses/shorts for the children in Africa.
Knitting ladies chaired by Bernita Hill include Norma Comstock, Jane Adams, Rachel Thompson, Shirley Burcham and Carol MacArthur made a total of 152 caps for babies at Freeman Hospital Neonatal Unit through the Ronald McDonald house in Joplin, Mo. 101 of them went in the fall and the other 52 were sent in the spring.  Thank you so much ladies!!

Dinner and Receptions- Betty Reed, Kathy Reed with lots of help from Ralph and Mert started 2012 with a dinner for our interim pastor feeding 104.  What a treat. Our Valentine lunch we served 61 hungry Presbyterians. Lenten lunches in Feb, and April we fed 94 from First Presbyterian, First Christian, First United Methodist as well as other Friends.  May women of First Presbyterian had a potluck supper for ladies and their families with 22 attending and WOW did we laugh out loud!!! July we had a Welcome Dinner for Pastor Jared and his family sharing in our good news were 154 attendees.  We had a total of 7 funeral dinners in 2012, serving over 250 family members and their friends.  November 3rd we hosted the morning welcome brunch for those attending the John Calvin Presbytery meeting serving 70 plus.  A huge thank you to all the ladies who made food.  It was awesome! November 4th we hosted the New Member after Worship coffee in the dining room with 8 new members. November 25th we hosted the Annual Hanging of the Green lunch serving 60 plus; last but not least we did the coffee fellowship on December 9th.

Mother’s Day in 2012 we handed out 75 plus carnations to the ladies at worship, served the coffee fellowship and most importantly we honored two deserving ladies of First Presbyterian Church with the “Church and Career Award” going to DeeDee Cheney and Rosemary Carruthers with the “Honorary Membership For Faithful Service” award.  July 12, 2012 our women were invited to share in the annual Tri Church Tea held at First United Methodist church along with women from First Christian church.  Much fun and good fellowship was shared by all attending. 2013 we will host the Tri Church Tea July 11, at 10 A.M.  Plan to come.

Sunday December 2nd we held our annual meeting presenting the slate of officers and coordinating team members; this was approved by acclamation. They are as follows: Gloria Key- vice Moderator, Search/Nominating Committee-Crystal Mason1st yr.; Hack Memorial:-Bernita Hill 1st year.
Please refer to the 2012 PW Financial statement and the Hack Memorial Trust Fund for further information.
Generous pledges, donations, sharing of time and talent made it possible for the Presbyterian Women of Fort Scott, KS to carry out our Mission for 2012.  THANK YOU to everyone!

Kathryn A. Reed, Moderator