A Global Mission Recollection

by Jim Carter, Stewardship Committee Co-Chair

Looking forward to the coming weeks as a co-chair of the 2012 Stewardship Program and aware that 20% of Westminster’s operating budget is committed to local and global mission efforts, I know that we are indeed blessed.

In 2007 Nancy and I were fortunate to be part of Westminster’s trip to Cameroon to help commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the independence of the Presbyterian Church there (previously part of the Basel, Switzerland Mission). Here are a few images reminding us of some of the blessings we felt and still fondly recall...

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The orphanage worker in Douala who gives her all in support of the children;

The exuberance of Cameroonian church members celebrating this anniversary in Buea with all their heart;

A child racing down the beach in Kribi (as his predecessors have for generations) in juxtaposition to an offshore oil rig (Kribi being where Dr. Arnold Lowe served as a missionary before WWI);

The energy and enthusiasm of the students at the Church School at Kumba Presbyterian Church, Westminster’s thriving sister church;

A fisherman finding food for his family as his father and grandfather did for him;

A church off in the distance in Limbe… a refuge for followers of Christ, whatever their denomination.

Thanks be to God.

Comments

[David Liddle]

Jim and Nancy,

Thanks for sharing your mission experience in this way, and thanks to you, Jim, for co-chairing this year's stewardship effort. We are blessed to have you two as part of Westminster!

Thanks be to God indeed!