Missions (Page 7)

Let’s Build a Habitat House!

Let’s help build the Holston Habitat House! First Presbyterian Church volunteers, please join Ashleigh, Maloakai, Z’mya and Emberlee in building a Holston Habitat House on October 14,15,16,17. FPC volunteers will install insulation and siding at 116 Virgil Street from 8:30 to 3:00. Please go online to register and complete your waiver at: https://donate.holstonhabitat.org/campaigns/16072-ashleigh-s-build  or call or email Mandy Pentz at 239-7689 extension 801 or  volunteer@holstonhabitat.org. No experience is necessary.  Your help is needed and will be greatly appreciated.  Once again, let us…

A Message about Richard and Debbie Welch

MEMORANDUM TO: FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FROM: SARA LISHERNESS, INTERIM DIRECTOR, WORLD MISSION SUBJECT: A MESSAGE ABOUT RICHARD & DEBBIE WELCH DATE: SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 CC: TEACHING AND RULING ELDERS, THE SESSION, THE MISSION COMMITTEE AND CONGREGATION-AT-LARGE Please forward this message from Sara Lisherness, Interim Director, World Mission, to Teaching and Ruling Elders, the Session, the Mission Committee and Congregation-At-Large as appropriate. Thank you. Greetings from Presbyterian World Mission! Thank you for your prayers and your gifts in support of Presbyterian World…

Guatemala Outreach Update

Rebecca is in 2nd grade and for the last 2 years has received a scholarship from First Pres to attend La Patria Norte, a private Presbyterian school in Coban, Guatemala, which several of our mission teams have had the blessing to visit.  She is extremely bright and at the top of her class in grades. She is also a very talented musician and has been playing piano since she was 3.  Her family was able to purchase the keyboard she is…