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Partners and Supporters Make Familia de Fe Happen
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Welcome to Ubuntu, an occasional email highlighting both the common mission of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area and the mission taking place within PTCA congregations. In this issue we focus on Familia de Fe, a Latino New Church Development of the PTCA. Jack Reddan, a long-time member of First Presbyterian in White Bear Lake, writes about how sister congregations have helped a church of immigrants thrive and prosper.
Where would a fledgling start-up church, made up mostly of immigrants, be without the help of established churches with their willing and generous members? The answer, of course, is that it wouldn't exist -- at least not for long.
Familia de Fe Latino New Church Development is completing its fifth year with a called Pastor and its third year in a new and vibrant location in Minneapolis. In our community resources are always short -- resources of all types, but especially people and people-hours. Many of our group work two jobs in order make ends meet (and some still send money "home" to help the extended family). Many of us don't have much personal church background, so we need time for Bible study, Christian Education and learning how to be a church. That spreads us pretty thin.
Partner church members have been and are indispensable in leading our Vacation Bible School programs and our other neighborhood outreach activities, especially at Christmas and other festive times.
Keep reading... Do you have a mission story to share? Send it to us and it might appear in an upcoming Ubuntu email. Send it to communications@ptcaweb.org and please put the word "ubuntu" in the subject line.
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Ubuntu, pronounced (oo-BOON-too), is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of southern Africa.
Read other stories of mission taking place in the PTCA by going to www.presbyterytwincities.org/mission.
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