International Partnerships
The international organizations reflected on this listing are currently supported in the church's
mission budget and represent organizations with which we have enjoyed prayer and
participatory relationships.
African Enterprise - South Africa
(http://www.africanenterprise.org) (http://twitter.com/michael_cassidy)
AE is committed to the transformation of Africa through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our methods include the work of evangelism, reconciliation, leadership training and
community development. We have ministry teams in ten countries in Africa and operate
throughout the continent. We believe in the future of Africa under the grace of God.
Michael Cassidy, founder of AE, shares: Africa is set to become the fulcrum of world
mission in the 21st century. I believe this with all my heart, and am excited to be
a part of the Lord's Kingdom effort to transform our continent. Thank you for praying
and partnering with us to change the destiny of Africa!
NPC contact:
Irene Koerner
Bethlehem Bible College/Hope Evangelistic Outreach - Bethlehem, West Bank (Palestine)
(http://www.bethbc.org)
Bethlehem Bible College seeks to train and prepare Christian servant-leaders for the churches
and society within an Arab context who model Christ centeredness, godly humility, biblical
wholeness, creative mercy and justice in their jobs and ministries as life-long learners.
The college offers programs in Biblical Studies and Christian Education, Tour Guiding and
Media Studies as well as reaching out to the community through the Shepherd Society,
our humanitarian branch. The college is led by Dr. Bishara Awad who has had many years
of experience in education and administration.
NPC contacts:
Carolyn Gochenour DiCarlo and
Jim Ransom
Chisinau Seminary, Moldova (College of Theology and Education) - Chisinau, Moldova
(http://www.binook.com/moldovacte)
Chisinau Seminary (and partner, KEYS Ministries) educates national Christian leaders in theology,
education, social services, and small business development for ministry throughout Central Asia
and in Eastern Europe. The church is being equipped, strengthened, and encouraged in republics
of the former Soviet Union, Romania and Slovakia to the glory of God.
For more about NPC members' involvement with Moldova, click here:
http://npceurope.org/index.cfm?main=Moldova.
NPC contacts: Howard and Miley Tucker-Frost
Evangelical Theological Seminary - Presbyterian Church (USA) Ministry in Osijek, Croatia
(http://www.evtos.hr/en/home)
Evangelical Theological Seminary, founded by Dr. Peter Kuzmic in 1972, provides graduate and undergraduate
training for pastors. ETS is the only evangelical graduate theological institution in Eastern Europe.
For more about NPC members' involvement with Dr. Kuzmic and ETS, click here:
http://npceurope.org/index.cfm?main=ETSKuzmic.
NPC contacts: Howard and Miley Tucker-Frost
Foundation for Peace - Dominican Republic, Haiti, Kenya, and Jamaica
(http://www.foundationforpeace.org)
The Foundation for Peace is dedicated to education in the United States and to working alongside
people in materially impoverished areas to provide educational support, healthcare access,
economic opportunity, and hope. As a 'hand-in-hand' ministry, FFP works together as longterm
partners in solidarity to enable personal success and community achievement, which, long-term,
will result in sustainable and successful initiatives that relieve the effects of poverty,
encourage personal growth, and overcome injustice.
NPC contact: Charlie Glendinning
Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation
(http://www.hcef.org)
HCEF is committed to the presence and well-being of Arab Christians in the Holy Land and
to developing the bonds of solidarity between them and Christians elsewhere. HCEF has a
variety of programs to help Christians that want to remain in the Holy Land that include
jobs, education, housing and other forms of support.
HCEF Senior Daycare Center (Birzeit)
The Birzeit Senior Daycare Center improves the living conditions of the elderly Christians
in and around Birzeit by providing day care services including nutrition, social, cultural,
psychological, physical and medical support services. Social customs in the West Bank are
for children to take care of their elderly parents; there are no government programs to help
the elderly. But with difficult living conditions, high unemployment rates and a shortage
of housing, many of the younger Christians are moving to other countries where they can find
employment and a better life. This often leaves the elderly vulnerable in their homes
struggling to survive on their own with diminishing capabilities and without an
infrastructure to assist them.
NPC contacts:
Carolyn Gochenour DiCarlo and
Jim Ransom
Moldova Marriage Ministry - Republic of Moldova/Washington D.C.
Moldova Marriage Ministry (MMM) is a model member-initiated ministry involving a rich collaboration
of NPC Marriage Ministry, discipleship, and Outreach. Building on the work of mission teams to
Moldova in the ‘90s, the MMM team works closely with partner organizations to deliver and support
Alpha's The Marriage Course to couples across Moldova, in response to requests from
Moldovans to help strengthen marriages in their country.
For more information on this ministry, click here: http://npceurope.org/index.cfm?main=Moldova&cont=Marriage
NPC contacts:
David Wallace and
Phyllis Wolfe
New Hope International
(http://www.newhopeinternational.org)
New Hope International's passion is to build bridges of ministry partnership that
mobilize churches to win the next generation for Christ in Eastern Europe.
Hank and Mona Paulson work in this organization to empower national teams
in countries such as Moldova, Ukraine , Bulgaria , Romania and elsewhere to share
the Good News of Jesus with children, youth and families through creative and impactful
leveraging of resources, books, materials, expertise and web-based platforms.
It is our privilege to partner with churches such as National Presbyterian using
curriculum such as Alpha to make an eternal difference in the lives of people in need
of hope for their future.
For more about NPC members' involvement with New Hope, click here:
http://npceurope.org/index.cfm?main=NewHope.
NPC contacts: Howard and Miley Tucker-Frost
Our Lady Queen of Peace (Regina Pacis) - Birzeit, West Bank (Palestine)
(http://www.birzeitchurch.ps/en-index.php)
A Roman Catholic community of Palestinian Christians,
this church works to improve the education, housing, and other material needs of their
Palestinian community, as well as enriching their individual spiritual lives.
The parish offers a message of hope and reconciliation through Jesus Christ in this
very troubled part of the world.
NPC contacts:
Carolyn Gochenour DiCarlo and
Jim Ransom
Unsung Heroes - South Africa
Unsung Heroes, led by Lance Carr and Madoda Nzima, is a ministry which seeks to awaken
South Africa to a new dawn of outreach to those who live in poverty, who are infected
or affected by HIV/AIDS or have become orphaned. It is a dawn in which grass roots
African ministries are being equipped at a spiritual and organizational level to
better serve our people who are in such great need. Our passion is to follow the
discipleship model of Jesus by engaging in the active and intentional mentoring of
these community leaders who are unknown and unrecognized. They are the true
Unsung Heroes and it is them that our organization serves.
NPC contacts:
David Wallace and
Phyllis Wolfe