Mission and Outreach Committee
The Mission and Outreach Committee of Holy Trinity Church focuses on overseas mission using the Eight Millennium Development Goals as a guide for where our energy and money will be used.
- We will look at ways to use the overseas mission offerings of Holy Trinity Church.
- We will watch for opportunities to participate in hands-on overseas mission, and communicate them to the parish.
- Current members are The Rev. John Lindsay, chair, Pastor Mary Gustafson, Deacon Mary Hicks, Suzanne Sharp, Lana Pieczynski, and Millie Smith.
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
- globalgood.org - A resource portal for Episcopalians working together to support the Millennium Development Goals
- Gateway to UN System's Work on Millenium Development Goals
The Mission and Outreach Committee lifts up the FEEDING PROGRAM
in Harare, Zimbabwe, A project of the Balm in Gilead Ministry
Read about our friends at the Balm in Gilead Ministry in Zimbabwe here
During his visit to Zimbabwe last summer, Rev. Abiot Moyo, president of the Balm in Gilead Ministry was asked to sponsor a feeding program. An old farm house was given by the municipality of Harare to operate the ministry. 60 orphaned children were chosen to participate and Rev. Abiot has committed to feed them through the new food program; he is going on faith and prayer that they will be able to raise several hundred dollars a week for this effort.
This program provides the 60 children with both tuition and one meal a day. Some of the orphans walk 10 miles to school on empty stomachs; there are no school buses in Zimbabwe! Paying tuition is impossible for most of the orphans; by the 11th grade most drop out and never graduate from high school.
The mission plate offering through the end of 2009 will go to the BigM for the Feeding Program. Going forward into 2010 one-half of all the mission plate offerings will go to the Feeding Program.
