Presbyterian Mission Agency

AIDS Crisis Overseas

Gifts support church and community-based programs that address poverty, behavior and other root causes of AIDS transmission. Programs include skills training, education, income-generating activities and Biblically based behavior formation and change. A particular focus is women and families.

Chair, Post-Graduate Studies, Kenya

After 12 years teaching at Daystar University, Marta Bennett now serves on the faculty at Nairobi International School of Theology (NIST). She writes, "The African church is exploding, in numbers, in vitality, in holistic ministry, and in mission to the world beyond its own borders. It is a singing, dancing, praying, and praising church, living very close to the challenges and rawness of life, not blind to the context, but claiming God's healing and hope in the face of great odds." In addition to teaching and chairing the Leadership Studies Department, she is acting dean for postgraduate studies.

Children Of East & South Africa

We are called to support the various efforts of our partners in Africa as they engage in ministering to children in need. Programs reach out to orphans, street children and education and skills building opportunities.

Daystar University College

Daystar is the largest Christian liberal arts college in Africa that is fully indigenous and African-led. It provides training and research for Africa, by Africans, in cooperation with the church and Christians around the world. Daystar's fully accredited programs allow the nearly 800 students to receive a quality Christian education within their own cultural context.

Disaster Relief--Kenya

This designated account supplements the One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) offering to enable a significant response for relief and disasters in Kenya. Your faithful giving is deeply appreciated.

FM: Murle Bible Translation

The New Testament has been completed but the entire Old Testament remains to be translated. Funding is needed for the ongoing salaries and training of indigenous translators. Many of the Murle have fled from Southern Sudan to refugee camps in Kenya, and one of these refugee camps is the current location of the translation effort.

(FM = Frontier Mission)

Leadership Trainer, Kenya

Rev. Brenda Harcourt is filling this position with the Presbyterian Church of East Africa. She works in the eastern and Mt. Kenya regions, where she works with both professional and volunteer church workers to improve their leadership skills. She trains Sunday school teachers and evangelists as well as ordained pastors.

Lois Anderson Memorial Education Scholarships

This project provides scholarship money for students in Kenya and Sudan, in memory of Lois Anderson, former missionary to Africa.

Presbyterian Church Of East Africa, General Support

The Presbyterian Church of East Africa has congregations, evangelistic programs, educational, medical, and development institutions throughout the nation. Because of the general poverty of the nation, each of these programs can function only with outside contributions.

Presbyterian University Of East Africa

For every 100 Kenyan students who would be eligible and qualified for college level studies, only about twenty university slots are available. The Presbyterian Church of East Africa has launched an ambitious project to help insure that the next generation of Kenya's leaders are committed Christians and well-trained citizens. The Presbyterian University of East Africa, with its Institute for Pastoral Studies, is already providing advanced degree study opportunities, but needs to do more. A gift of USD $1,000 will provide a full tuition scholarship for one year. A gift of USD $100 will purchase 10 library books. Gifts ...