Planned Mission Giving for 2003

The Mission Committee prepares a yearly budget every January, allocating the 10% of the church's total income to various mission efforts locally, nationally and internationally. If you would like to contribute to any of these organizations, you may either make a check to the First Presbyterian Church with a designation of the mission effort or contact the organization directly.

First Presbyterian Church Local

• Kirby Center—A ministry to teenage girls in a lock-down county detention facility in Los Angeles.
• Lord's Kitchen—A ministry to the homeless and hungry of Burbank and surrounding area. Our church serves a hot lunch on the second Saturday of every month. Held in conjunction with other churches in the Burbank area.
• Mission Interpretation
  • Church Around the World—A bulletin insert with world mission reports.
  • Guest Speakers—A mission speaker each quarter at our church.
• African Mission Trip—Fund for the purpose of members of our congregation to go on a mission trip to Kenya.
• Urbana—A triennial conference sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for collegians who come together and learn about God's heart for the world.
• Youth Missions—A fund set up to help support the annual youth department mission trips.
• Ecumenical Participation: Presbyterians for Renewal—A church-wide group seeking spiritual renewal.
• Valley Rescue Mission Partnership—Funds set aside in hopes of our church participating with the San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission.

PC(USA) Undesignated

A contribution to support Presbytery, Synod and PC(USA) mission efforts.

PC(USA) Designated—National Mission Programs

• Cook Theological School—A training school for Native Americans preparing for ministry.
• Monte Vista Grove—A housing center in Pasadena for retired pastors and missionaries.
• Westminster Gardens—A housing center in Duarte for retired pastors and missionaries.

PC(USA) Designated—International Mission Workers and Ministries

• The Rev. Bernard Muindi—A PCEA (Presbyterian Church of East Africa) pastor serving several churches and ministries in Nyeri, Kenya.
• Kenya Weaving Project—A project to help local women become self-supporting.
• Presbyterian University, Kenya—A training center for pastors in the PCEA.
• Silliman University, Philippines—A support ministry for pastors in the Philippines.
• John & Anne Wheeler-Waddell—A missionary couple who teach and serve in East Africa. If you would like to correspond with them, their email address is annejohnet@earthlink.net.
• Kenya Street Children—A ministry providing food and shelter to AIDS orphans in Nyeri, Kenya.

Other Mission

• Burbank Temporary Aid Center (BTAC)—A service agency to help meet the needs for food, clothing and other support for members of our community.
• Habitat for Humanity—A ministry that builds homes using "sweat equity" for those who could not otherwise afford them.
• Mendenhall Ministries—The outreach arm of the Mendenhall Bible Church. They provide a store, a school, legal services and health clinics for members of the Mendenhall, Mississippi community.
• California Wee Kirk Conference—An annual conference that brings pastors of small churches together for fellowship and encouragement.
• African Enterprise: Jamie Morrison—Administrative support to African Enterprise office in South Africa and to founder/leader Michael Cassidy.
• At Risk Youth
  • World Impact, Los Angeles—World Impact is a nationwide, interdenominational, Christian discipling and church-planting ministry dedicated to ministering God’s love in the inner cities of America.
  • Hope for Homeless Youth—This ministry center provides homeless/runaway youth with food, showers, phone and mail reception, and counseling. Other services offered include goal-setting and job development groups through Project JOY- Jobs that Organize Youth.
• Youth With A Mission (YWAM): Cal & Carol Conkey—Produce videos that present the Gospel to unreached people groups. The videos are culturally sensitive in language of the people and use indigineous actors.
• Local Campus Ministries
  • Campus Crusade for Christ: Joseph & Michelle Butlig—Joseph & Michelle serve the colleges within the greater LA area, where there is no current Christian outreach or ministry available on the campus. Campuses which they currently work on are: Cal State Northridge, Cal State Los Angeles, Moorpark Community College, College of the Canyons, Pasadena City College, Cal Arts, Los Angeles Pierce Community College, Los Angeles Valley Community College and Glendale Community College.
  • InterVarsity Christian Fellowship: Scott McLane—Scott serves the undergraduates at Cal State Los Angeles. His ministry is primarily to latino commuter students.
• Youth With A Mission: Warren Oakerman—Warren and Jill Okerman, serve in Kobe, Japan for Youth with a Mission, to evangelize an extremely Christ-resistant culture and disciple their tiny handful of converts. Warren shares the gospel as he performs Western style weddings, currently fashionable in Japan, part of which involves several sessions of pre-marital counseling.

Discretionary