Katherine Parker
- We have entered into a covenant
relationship with Methodist Missionary Katherine Parker. She came to
meet with us on October 19th, 2010.
Katherine is a young, dynamic missionary with the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church. She is supported by the California/Nevada Annual Conference and grew up attending the Mt. Tamalpais UMC. Katherine serves as part of the Community Health and Agricultural Development (CHAD) Initiative of the Methodist Mission in Cambodia. She has a degree in biology and works with local Cambodian congregations to help ensure their communities have access to safe drinking water. She also helps develop food cooperative projects and small business projects to improve living conditions.
Katherine is supported through covenant relationships with Methodist churches in the conference and beyond. Large churches contribute $2,500 for a full covenant relationship while smaller churches give $5 per member to support a full covenant. Through a covenant relationship with a missionary a church enters into an exchange of information about the missionary's activities. The missionary provides frequent updates, information for study for both children and adults, and an opportunity for the church to support global mission outreach through a personal connection.
Katherine has served as a missionary in Cambodia for the past three years. She returns to the United States each fall to visit churches and share information about the Methodist Mission in Cambodia. This will be her first visit to ACUMC and a great opportunity for us to learn about this Methodist mission outreach. If you would like to know more about Katherine in anticipation of her visit, you may read her biography at Global Ministries of the United Methodist church. You can also read about her on her blog. Here is a link to her blog: Katherine's blog.
Here are a few pictures from her visit with us.
The first ones are from the "Meet and Greet" time we had before her presentation:
The following pictures are from Katherine's presentation:
