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VOLUME 33 | ISSUE 1
Youth Mission
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by Rev. Alexander Lang
On June 22, 2013 eleven youth from Pine Street Presbyterian Church will be participating in a mission trip to Haiti. For the past three summers Pine Street’s youth mission trips have provided opportunities for youth to serve people facing different sorts of poverty. The first year our youth learned about urban poverty as they ministered to children and the homeless in Chicago. The second year they learned about rural poverty, building two ramps for a man with multiple sclerosis who lives in the mountains of West Virginia. This past June they learned about poverty of the mind as they served the mentally handicapped at the Duvall Home in Florida. This year our trip to Haiti will represent the final type of mission trip in our cycle of missions: international mission work. Our youth will serve the adults and children of Haiti by providing Bible school activities for
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children in orphanages; spending time with the elderly in their homes; and helping the Haitians with building projects in their community. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere and, since the earthquake in 2010, has spiraled even further into poverty. We will be working through an organization called Praying Pelican Missions that has developed important mission ties with churches in Haiti. In 2005, I had the opportunity to travel to Haiti and experience the country and its people. The church I worked for in California had a relationship with a church in the province of Jaridun. I think it is an understatement to say that trip changed my perspective on the world. I had never seen or experienced poverty on that large a scale. However, in spite of their plight, they are a wonderful people who have such an amazing outlook on life and faith. It has been my desire See YOUTH on page 2
Love Songs for Valentines to Benefit DDB by Tom Clark-Jones
There is an old saying among church professionals that one best be really sold on any program that is introduced into your ministry because it well might become a tradition. I’m not sure the Music at Pine Street committee thought the Broadway revue through that clearly when we first put this program on the agenda, but it has become a Pine Street tradition, and one that everyone seems to enjoy. See VALENTINES on page 4
Session Notes. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trustee Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 DDB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 January Calendar . . . . . . . . 7 January Scripture. . . . . . . . 8
January At A Glance Bagels & Belief . . . . . . . . Jan 6 Men’s Breakfast. . . . . . . . Jan 12 Congregational meeting.Jan 13 Potluck luncheon. . . . . . . Jan 13 Youth Sunday. . . . . . . . . . Jan 27
PSL Deadline Articles, photos and items of interest for the February, 2013 issue of Pine Street Life are due by January 15, 2012. Please e-mail to Sue Black at BL3COL@aol.com