International Missions

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International Missions Opportunities

Join First Pres for Peru Mission trip!

July 26-August 3, 2023

$1,600

The Lima, Peru trip will take place on July 26-August 3 and is open to all adults, college students, seniors, and age 14-18 with guardians. The cost for airfare and hotel is about $1,600. We’ll work in medical and optometry clinics. VBS too!

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Join First Pres for Honduras Mission trip!

May 12-18, 2024

$500

The Copan, Honduras trip will take place on May 12-18 and is open to all adults, college students, and seniors. The cost for airfare is about $500. We’ll work with local churches, food distribution, and children’s programs.

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Friends of Samburu Mission Trip

June 7th - June 24th

Come travel with Friends of Samburu to Kenya, June 07-24. This charity is Christ-centered and is a witness to His love. Its focus is on improving the lives of the Samburu children and their families. The Samburu are a pastoral, nomadic, tribal community numbering over 250,000 people. It seeks sustainable ways to alleviate their poverty and to provide for their future while preserving their culture. Only 11 spots available! We’ll spend time painting, teaching, interacting with the community, dedicating a new classroom, and more. For a detailed itinerary and cost, please email friendsofsamburu@yahoo.com, or call Margaret Ellis @ (713) 501-5140. Must be fully committed by March 20th. Click here to learn more about the Samburu Mission Trip

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International Missions

Honduras Mission

For several years, the Rice Foundation has hosted teams from First Pres in western Honduras, near Copas Ruinas, with ministries to local churches and mountain communities. Construction and neighborhood outreach. We learn about Honduran educational, health, and economic challenges. Aimed at college age (usually held after spring finals and before Memorial Day), and also multi-generational participants. For info: Mark Smith at doc@firstpreskingwood.org

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Friends of Samburu, Kenya

Friends of Samburu, Kenya. Loving hearts ... helping hands... giving hope. This charity is Christ-centered and is a witness to His love. Its focus is on improving the lives of the Samburu children and their families. The Samburu are a pastoral, nomadic, tribal community numbering over 250,000 people. Their land, 8,000 square miles, is located approximately 250 miles north of the capital Nairobi. This charity raises funds to meet identifiable and well-defined needs of their villages. It seeks sustainable ways to alleviate their poverty and to provide for their future while preserving their culture.

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Peru Eductation Fund

For many years, our local mission partner churches in Lima identify promising students from their congregations, whom we support with funding to attend higher education. Graduates have completed studies in nursing, engineering, medicine, tourism, and they give us update on their progress during our annual visit. For info: Clark McCollough@me.com

Peru Medical Missions/VBS

Since 2000, First Pres Kingwood has supported an annual trip to Peru, serving poor communities on the outskirts of Lima, with medical clinics and vacation Bible school. Our local mission hosts, MISIUR, oversee a variety of ministries throughout Peru. Trips are usually one week, around the last week of July each summer. Adults 18 and older, teens to age 14 with parents. For info: Clark McCullough at clarkmccollough@me.com

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Peru Love-a-Child Iglesia Presbiteriana De San Genaro

San Genaro Iglesia Presbiteriano, located in a community outside Lima, hosts a children’s feeding program, bible school, health clinic, and social service program at their facility named CEDIN. They serve 90 children a day with healthy meals and other support. First Pres supports the program with an annual appeal for funds and visits the children each year during the mission. For info: Clark McCollough@me.com

Living Water International

Living Water International exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience “living water”—the gospel of Jesus Christ—which alone satisfies the deepest thirst. Learn more below.

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