Cuba Partnership Network Trip Begins Next Week
The Cuba Partnership Team is leading a trip to Cuba March 12 through 20. Thirty (30) people from Central Florida - half of them first timers! - will visit 8 churches in the Central Presbytery of Cuba. The participating CFP churches are GraceWay, El Buen Vecino, El Redentor, North Lake, Wekiva, First DeLand, and Pineda. We are looking forward to seeing old friends and to introducing our newest travelers to them. While in Cuba, we will participate in the daily life of the Cuban churches, and meet with the El Centro Council to discuss ways to enhance the partnership between our two presbyteries. Most of our luggage will be filled with medicines and other supplies - which literally save lives in these very difficult times for Cuba. The medicines are of utmost importance, but the Cubans repeatedly tell us that it is the lasting relationships we are building which help sustain them and give them hope for the future.
The Cuba Partnership Team committed $12,000 to support two major projects of El Centro for 2024, and will take the money with us in March. We’ve raised nearly $8,000, but are still $4,400 short of our goal. Please consider making a personal contribution or a donation from your church’s mission budget. Send your check to the Central Florida Presbytery’s office and mark it for one or both of the projects, which are described below.
The Transportation project allows the presbytery to bring people together for presbytery meetings, youth and women’s ministry events, training events, etc. Cars are scarce and most people, including pastors, don’t have one, so the old American school bus we donated is vital to El Centro. Diesel fuel is scarce and very expensive, and the bus needs a lot of maintenance. Our Transportation fund covers the cost of bus maintenance and pays for tires for the cars owned by a few pastors.
Lay Leadership Training, the second project we support, strengthens their churches and congregations. It brings church lay leaders (elders, deacons, youth leaders, Sunday School teachers) together for training, helps purchase training materials and supplies, and enables workshops to be held at local churches.
Your support of these projects helps the Cuban churches survive and be a strong, visible witness to the love of Christ in a very dark time.
Thank you for your continuing, generous support of this partnership!
The Cuba Partnership Team committed $12,000 to support two major projects of El Centro for 2024, and will take the money with us in March. We’ve raised nearly $8,000, but are still $4,400 short of our goal. Please consider making a personal contribution or a donation from your church’s mission budget. Send your check to the Central Florida Presbytery’s office and mark it for one or both of the projects, which are described below.
The Transportation project allows the presbytery to bring people together for presbytery meetings, youth and women’s ministry events, training events, etc. Cars are scarce and most people, including pastors, don’t have one, so the old American school bus we donated is vital to El Centro. Diesel fuel is scarce and very expensive, and the bus needs a lot of maintenance. Our Transportation fund covers the cost of bus maintenance and pays for tires for the cars owned by a few pastors.
Lay Leadership Training, the second project we support, strengthens their churches and congregations. It brings church lay leaders (elders, deacons, youth leaders, Sunday School teachers) together for training, helps purchase training materials and supplies, and enables workshops to be held at local churches.
Your support of these projects helps the Cuban churches survive and be a strong, visible witness to the love of Christ in a very dark time.
Thank you for your continuing, generous support of this partnership!