Mission

We are grateful for the financial gifts made to the mission budget. The Mission Distribution team meets 10 times a year to make decisions about how to share these resources. Some costs are fixed. For instance, we support our missionaries each month and buy bus tickets each month.

Then each year the team picks two areas on which to focus gifts, giving between $10,000 – $14,000 to those areas. This year the focus areas are housing and healthcare.  In the area ...

As an outgrowth of our Refugee Team, Janet Rhoads and Texie Randle have been teaching Citizenship classes through the Wichita IRC (International Rescue Committee).  Recently, four students successfully passed the Interview Test given by USCIS Officers (United States Citizenship Immigration Services), and their Oath Ceremony is scheduled for February 25.

Requirements to become a US Citizen are: permanent residency in the US for five years and successfully passing the Interview Test which includes knowledge of the US Government, and a reading, ...

Longtime Grace member Lois Fisher died in 2020 and left a financial gift to the church. The gift was to be used by the church Mission Distribution Team, a team Lois was part of for many years. The gift was $84,000, and the team spent time all winter and spring discerning how to share half of it.

After considering Lois’ life and passions, the team gave the money to organizations and missions that matched where Lois’ heart was. They are listed ...

The Grace Mission Distribution Team has met monthly via Zoom since March.  Thanks to your generosity, our church supports many people and organizations.  Our focus areas for 2020 are Homelessness and Mental Health, but we also prioritized local organizations that were seeing elevated need because of the pandemic. Feel free to contact Catherine Neelly Burton catherine@mygpc.org or team chair Shelley Duncan with questions.

January – June 2020 MISSION FINANCIAL REPORT

Undesignated Mission Spending

Cheri Ochs Wheeler, from Marion Presbyterian Church, and myself just returned from a week- long visit to Cuba.  The purpose of our trip was two-fold.  We visited the Reformed Presbyterian church in Placetas to further explore the possibility of forming a mission partnership with our churches. The second part of our visit,  we attended a meeting with the El Centro Presbytery, Baltimore Presbytery and Central Florida Presbytery.   It was an annual business meeting reviewing the partnerships the two United States ...