Mission Trips
Responding to God's call by walking side-by-side with our brothers and sisters in service:
The Good Samaritan Project - Dominican Republic
June 22-29, 2007
The planning for the mission trip to the Dominican Republic is well under way. For over a dozen years Fairmount teams of youth and
adults have spent a week of vacation time helping to build the
hospital in La Romana. Aside from paying all of its own expenses,
Fairmount also raises money to pay for building supplies and
equipment, wages for local workers, medical equipment and
supplies. The participants – as well as their families, friends, and
church – are afforded an opportunity through this project to learn
much more about the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
and the systemic forces affecting their lives.
This is a mission trip organized and planned for high school students (those students entering 9th
grade through graduating 12th graders). However, all members and/or active participants of
Fairmount Presbyterian Church and their families and friends are welcome to apply.
Download our complete information packet.
Jubilee
Jubilee USA Network began as Jubilee 2000/USA in 1997 when a diverse gathering of people and organizations came together in response to the international call for Jubilee debt cancellation. Now the PC(USA) and over 60 other organizations including labor, churches, religious communities and institutions, AIDS activists, trade campaigners and over 9,000 individuals are active members of the Jubilee USA Network. Together we are a strong, diverse and growing network dedicated to working for a world free of debt for billions of people. Visit then at www.jubileeusa.org.
Covenant Network
The Covenant Network of Presbyterians is a broad-based, national group of clergy and lay leaders, including our own Senior Pastor Louise Westfall, working for a church that is simultaneously faithful, just, and whole. We seek to support the mission and unity of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in a time of potentially divisive controversy. We intend to articulate and act on the church's historic, progressive vision and to work for a fully inclusive church. For more information see www.covenantnetwork.org.
Fairmount is one of the Jubilee Congregations which seek to grow the voice and moral presence of faith communities in the struggle to break the chains of debt in the developing world. Jubilee congregations aim to broaden and deepen the roots of U.S. faith communities in standing with our brothers and sisters in the developing world. Our hope is that Jubilee Congregations will be a practical way that communities can get involved in global justice and advocacy in solidarity with sister communities in the developing world.
InterReligious Task Force on Central America
The InterReligious Task Force on Central America (IRTF) is a Cleveland-based interfaith group that promotes peace and human rights in Central America and Colombia. People of faith and conscience founded IRTF after the 1980 execution of four U.S. church women in El Salvador by U.S. trained soldiers. (The Cleveland mission team lost Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kaze.)
Carrying on the legacy of the martyrs, IRTF educates, advocates, and organizes for peace and human rights, economic justice, and aid to Central Americans and Colombians. IRTF works to change U.S. policies, corporate actions, and consumer behaviors that undermine these aspirations, both here and abroad.
For more information, visit www.irtfcleveland.org
Fair Trade
Members sell coffee and chocolates to benefit workers in underdeveloped countries.
Presbytery of the Western Reserve
Distributes mission contributions to support outreach mission programs locally, nationally and internationally.
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