Mission: Serving Serving Locally and Globally
As a community of faith, hope, and love, WVPC has a long standing commitment to local and global mission. We believe this is how we tangibly make the “love” of Christ known to a hungry and hurting world. That is why we annually commit more than 10% of our entire church budget to support local and global mission, why we regularly seek to bless our local community with a wide range of local mission projects, and why we support 8 international mission projects and missionaries throughout the world. God has an extraordinary purpose for our lives – to see the poor lifted up, the hungry fed, the broken healed, and the lost to find life in the kingdom of God. This is how we find the greatest fulfillment in our relationship with God through Jesus – how God uses us to bless the entire world. At WVPC we encourage everyone to begin serving missionally and discover God’s deep and beautiful purpose for their lives. For more information, check back at this page for periodic updates of featured mission projects, or contact the church office at 252-1365.
Featured Mission Projects and Links
- Presbyterian Church-USA 2008 Mission Yearbook. Discover what’s happening in your world! Be part of what’s happening every day! For over 115 years the Mission Yearbook has led the way, bringing the Presbyterian family together daily for prayer and study. Join with them. Learn about and pray for those in situations of joy or need and those who come alongside them to minister in Christ’s name. Now the Mission Yearbook is online! Click on the following link and see what God is doing in the world, and how you can participate. http://www.pcusa.org/missionyearbook/intro.htm
- Adopt-a-Chaplain. Adopt-a-Chaplain is a Christ-centered ministry dedicated to supporting our troops through the ministries of Chaplains.
- Adults Toward Independent Living. Housing for disabled adults capable of independent living.
- City Team Ministries. Helps men and women through rehabilitation and temporary housing gain educational and training skills to find jobs.
- Community Pregnancy Centers. Meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of young women dealing with crisis during pregnancy.
- Cupertino Community Services. Provides emergency housing, food and other emergency services in the community.
- Friends at Farm Drive. Food, clothing, ESL classes, Bible Study and tutoring are provided for neighborhood youth.
- Beautiful Day Projects. Compassionate care unleashed in the local community to foster goodwill and to aid needy individuals and groups.
- Global Mapping/The Dickson Family. Missionaries involved in producing maps, CDs, and books to enable more effective worldwide evangelism.
- SEND International/The Mangels Family. Missionary family serving in unreached area of Macedonia.
- Arab World Ministries/The Clark Family. Missionaries serving in unreached area of Northern Africa
- Campus Crusade/The Goodson Family. Missionaries serving and witnessing to students on Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo campus.
- ISCO/The Rusckow Family. Missionaries serving and witnessing to International students on Stanford University campus.
- Campus Crusade/The Crone Family. Missionaries assisting in the translation and distribution of Josh McDowell’s books in Europe and Asia.
- Christar/The Ryon Family. Missionaries to the Gujarati people in the United Kingdom.
- Wycliffe Bible Translators --The Curry Family. Missionary family involved in Bible translation into the many languages of the people of Papua New Guinea
- Presbyterian Church – USA: General Assembly – Directed. Through the Directed Mission Support program of PC-USA funds support selected missionaries throughout the world. http://www.pcusa.org/missionconections/.