CCPC currently sponsors three mission trips each year, providing opportunities for children (7 and older), youth and adults to spread God’s love and help others in His name.

Adult and Family Mission Trip to Mexico: In March, we sponsored our second annual family mission team to Mexico. There were 33 members on this team ranging in age from 8 to 73. This team embarked on an adventure to Isla Fantasia in the Laguna Madre off the Gulf of Mexico where the team built a new school building and completely tore down and rebuilt another existing school building that was not being used. Each morning, the team drove 60 miles from their lodging inland to the shore where they boarded launches for a five minute boat ride to the island. The island has just one small fishing community on the south end of the island. The remainder of the island is covered by short, brushy trees that offer little shade and the northernend of the island is covered by sand dunes. The people living there have no running water, no electricity and no plumbing. They live in huts constructed from mostly plywood and tarpaper or tin roofs with dirt floors.

The men and women of this tiny fishing community worked right along side us as we developed many new friendships with them. The women helped paint while holding their babies and the men helped as we raised a new classroom and rebuilt another. The people on this island live in poverty that we find hard to imagine, even hard to comprehend, but they are people of great faith. To receive more information about our upcoming trip, click here.

 

Senior High Mission Trip: Every summer our youth participate in a mission trip which is a combination of work and witness as we seek to live out our faith in Christ. People from all different denominations and areas of the country converge on a community and spend a week repairing homes and serving the local residents. This is an invaluable chance to live out our faith and understand what it means to be ambassadors and imitators of Jesus Christ. This trip is offered to all young people grades 9 through 12. For more information, contact Ellen Dittman, Interim Director of Youth and Family Ministries.

 

The Mission Trip to Cambodia supports the growing partnership between CCPC and three churches in Cambodia. Our first mission trip to Cambodia was a "vision quest" to discern God’s will for the involvement of CCPC in Cambodia. Based on what we saw, learned, and experienced, the mission team developed a plan to respond to God’s call. So that we may work with Christian Cambodians already there, we have established partnerships with two groups that we visited on our trip. The first is the Church of Mercy, led by Pastor Chheng Nuon. He has one congregation in Prak Ambel and another in Sre Treng. The second church is the Khmer Presbyterian Church led by Pastor Sambo Yauk. The main church is located in Phnom Penh, but he also pastors seven cell churches in and around the city. With these two partnerships in place, we have set up scholarship funds to enable leaders identified by Chheng and Sambo to attend the Phnom Penh Bible School. For more information about how you can become involved, contact Sharon Wittmann.