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MissionsAll Christians are called to be in mission--with their time, their talents and their financial resources. Eastminster encourages it's members to reach out to those in need in our community and in our world. The specific missions supported by Eastminster for 2009 are described below. Additional support and missions are considered as additional funds become available. The annual mission offering and proceeds from the Fall Festival are used to support Eastminster missions. These funds are dedicated to mission work and funded separately from the general giving fund. Collection boxes in the Narthex next to the main Sanctuary provide ongoing opportunities for donations of food items for MUST and infant clothing items for Cobb Pregnancy Services. Each of these organizations has ongoing needs. To assist our adult mission volunteers in defraying the cost of a mission trip, Eastminster offers a scholarship for those who apply. To be eligible you must be an active member of Eastminster Presbyterian Church. The offer is available as long as the funding lasts. To date we have been able to honor all applications. Eastminster supports adult mission trips both monetarily and with our time and talents. To learn more about missions or to become more actively involved, prayerfully e-mail Leslie Michaels. Mission Survey is Here! (Complete Mission Survey). Eastminster strives to uphold our mission statement, "Building christian Lives,, in the people and organizations we support' our support ranges from the elderly at Presbyterian Village, to college students through CELTIC CROSS and campus crusade, to children through our support of Thornwell and Camp Cherokee.and to infants and toddlers with our support of Cobb Pregnancy Center. We focus on hunger with our support of Emergency Food Baskets, PATH and MUST and we partner with Row and the Carpenters Footsteps for international outreach. we spread the gospel through our support of seminary students and missionaries. We feel God provides the opportunity and means for this support. Your God inspired mission referrals provide the opportunity. Your heartfelt generosity with the annual United Mission Offering, pioceeds from the Fall Festival, and the direct giving of items such as food for MUST, booties for the Cobb Pregnancy Center, and sewing and school supplies for the Carpenter's Footsteps provide the support. Eastminster members have also volunteered their time and talents making sandwiches for the Summer Lunch program' serving MUST meals, picking up food from Panera Bread and delivering it to MUST, building homes with Habitat for Humanity, construction and sewing in Costa Rica. But we are called to do more. God gives each of us a passion, a passion to serve and a direction for that passion. I Peter 4:10 tells us ..Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others." Where is God leading you in missions? Your Mission Team wants to identify where God is calling you and Eastminster. Please click the "Complete Missions Survery" link. The survey contains several simple questions that will help us identify your God given gift and calling to serve others. The insight gained from the survey will help us discern God,s plan for our mission outreach. Please prayerfully consider your God given talents and interest in preparation for this survey. Our MissionsCobb Pregnancy Services
Thornwell Home for Children
Rivers of the World
Carpenters Footsteps
Ministries United in Service and Training (MUST)
Habitat for Humanity
Presbyterian Homes of Georgia
Presbyterians Answer to Hunger (PATH)
Youth Mission TripsOur youth groups participate in a local mission project once a year. In addition they travel over the summer on a mission trip to a depressed area either within the United States or internationally. They usually take one international trip every four years. The youth groups have been to Tallahassee, Washington DC, New York City, and Canada and experienced rebuilding houses damaged by hurricanes, soup kitchens, worked in day cares for low income families, and taught Bible School. The Mission team supports the youth in their mission projects both monetarily and with our time and talents. Seminary Student SupportEastminster also helps sponsor its members who respond to God's call to attend seminary in preparation for full time ministry and mission. Eastminster is proud to support those whose work will directly touch thousands of people. | |||||||||||||
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Cobb Pregnancy Services is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization that helps anyone in a crisis pregnancy, regardless of age, race, creed, nationality, country, marital status, circumstances of conception or condition of the unborn baby. CPS helps women and men deal positively with an unexpected pregnancy by providing practical assistance, as well as emotional and spiritual support which includes sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Eastminster is proud to support CPS both monetarily and with our time and talents. Visit them online at 
Thornwell Home for Children is all about helping children and youth -- caring for them, nurturing them, helping them to prepare to become the faithful individuals God intended them to be. Founded in 1875, today Thornwell is a vital ministry of the Presbyterian Church (USA), serving children and families throughout the three-state region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Eastminster currently supports Patience, a 20 year old college sophomore. We have sponsored Patience since she was 13 years old and watched her grow into a lovely young Christian woman. Eastminster supports Thornwell both monetarily and enjoys a personal relationship with Patience. Visit them online at 
Dr. Ben Mathis, a Presbyterian minister in our Presbytery leads this mission into 13 countries. ROW is a non-profit Christian ministry that targets remote river basins.To date, 200,000 people have been inoculated for river blindness, 65,000 children have been vaccinated against polio and over 2,000 Megavoice solar powered digital bibles have been distributed in nine countries and in six languages. There is now a hospital ship to reach many areas. ROW has built schools, churches, and clinics. ROW projects run the gamut of human, physical and spiritual needs. Academics, research, education and medical/dental concerns go hand in hand with church planting, construction, evangelism and Bible distribution. These missions are ongoing and the need grows each year as Ben reaches out into more areas. Eastminster supports ROW monetarily. Visit them online at 
In the Carpenters Footsteps is a non-profit Christian group founded by Buddy Searcy. Carpenters Footsteps provides services to churches and communities who need a construction project built or repaired. In the Carpenters Footsteps arranges two mission trips a year and are currently working on church buildings in Costa Rica and Belize. Volunteers are needed to share their faith and perform manual labor. Eastminster is proud to have sent volunteers for the past 4 years to help with these construction projects, teach bible school and sew. Members have already expressed interest in also participating in the 2009 mission. Eastminster supports In the Carpenters Footsteps both monetarily and with our time and talents. Visit them online at 
Ministries United in Service and Training (MUST) is a non-profit Christian organization founded in 1971. MUST is dedicated to providing services to persons and families in crisis while maintaining their dignity. MUST is a place where one's faith can be put into action and where we can minister to the poor, the brokenhearted and those who are in crisis - in a place where "your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet" (Frederick Buechner). MUST addresses the basic needs of individuals, families, and children in the Marietta, Smyrna and Canton/Cherokee county communities. Eastminster provides dinner the 9th of every month to the residents at MUST and also provides sack lunches every summer for children on the subsidized lunch program during the school year. Eastminster supports MUST both monetarily and with our time and talents. Visit them online at 
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness, and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat is founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a simple, decent, affordable place to live in dignity and safety. Eastminster belongs to a coalition of Presbyterian churches that join together to build for eligible recipients in Cobb County. Eastminster supports Habitat both monetarily and with our time and talents. Visit them online at 
Since 1949, Presbyterian Homes of Georgia has provided exceptional services, loving health care, and affordable retirement accommodations for more than 6,000 senior adults. This ministry of the five Presbyteries of Georgia has grown from a 10-room residence in Quitman, Georgia, to four campuses that serve more than 1,000 seniors and their families annually. The Austell facility, Presbyterian Village, is composed of independent living in private residences and apartments, assisted living, a nursing home, and a state of the art Alzheimer's unit. Eastminster donates to the Caring Hands Fund which covers the difference between Medicaid and the per diem fee when a patient's funds have been used up. In all these years no patient has ever been asked to leave due to lack of funds. We have also participated in Santa Express, the Angel Tree and our choir provides vesper services several times a year. Eastminster supports Presbyterian Homes both monetarily and with our time and talents. Visit them online at 
PATH is a well-established program in the presbytery with a broad vision of addressing the root causes of hunger around the world. PATH accepts application requests for funding support and disperses funds to those who meet the criteria. The one restriction is that the funding must be used for food only. In the past funding has been given to food banks, after school programs, day care programs sponsored by churches, MUST, and helped a village in Nicaragua to become self sufficient through a crop program. Eastminster supports PATH both monetarily and with our time and talents. Visit them online at | Copyright © 2009. All rights reserved. | AthensGuy.com - Christian Church Web Designer | |  |