Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Visit to the Museum With Summer Camp in Tijuana

Two New Plymouth Houses Ready to Open


Combined, these buildings will provide 122 new homes for chronically-homeless people
in our community.

We had an overwhelming response from local organizations and people in the community who donated household items to build Welcome Baskets for our new residents, many who will have no belongings when they move into Plymouth.

Thank you to the following groups for their generous support in furnishing our new apartments: Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, Emily Fries & Sarah Hartman, Fauntleroy Church, Fortune Bank, Kira & Andy Turner, Marc Stiles, Matthew G. Norton Company, The McHale Family, Microsoft, Mercer Island Presbyterian Church, Pacific Coast Feather, Puget Sound Labor Agency, Seattle Works Volunteers and Sunnycrest Elementary School.

Parking
Street parking is available on Cedar Street, 1st Avenue and near Blanchard Street. Pay parking lots are also available along 1st Avenue between Lenora and Cedar Streets.
Bus
King County Metro Bus Routes 15 and 18 stop along 1st Avenue between Cedar Street and Blanchard Street.

For more information, please contact Mary Ann Lambert at mlambert@plymouthhousing.org or call 206-374-9409, ext. 144.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

More on Social Justice News from General Assembly

The PCUSA is to become "an HIV and AIDS competent church," including encouraging all Presbyterians, especially ministers, to be tested to help eliminate the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS testing.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Girl Pictured in Bulletin Has a New Sponsor!

A family of lawyers from MIPC sponsored Pin to go to school...all the way through law school if she desires. Pin lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.


Name: Kong Srey Pin
Age: 17
Date of birth: 10/10/92
Place of birth: Prek Tapouv Village, Prek Pra Commune
Home: Prek Tapouv village
School : Chbar Ampouv II, grade 11
Family Detail: Father died ten years ago. She lives with her mother, grandfather and one sister.
Caregiver: Mother
Future Dream: Lawyer
School favorite subject: Mathematics.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Social Justice Updates from General Assembly

PCUSA's General Assembly voted to pay increased attention to human rights, particularly in the areas of human trafficking, detention of immigrants and the continuing problem of torture.

MIPC's partnership with International Justice Mission directly works on rescuing trafficked persons and our International Student Scholarship Fund indirectly is a preventative to the threat of young girls being trafficked because of a lack of educational opportunities.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Update on Thai Scholarship Students

In a recent update from Mekong Minority Foundation in Chiang Rai, Thailand, we learned that four of our scholarship students recently graduated from universities. One of the students earned the Prince Royal Scholarship to continue her studies in nursing.

We continue to pray for the lives of all of these girls, that God will be with them as they use their education to better their lives and the lives of their families and their community.