SUMMER MISSIONARIES

Carrie Lee Arant

Caroline Gaskin

The two pictured here; Carrie Lee Arant and Caroline Gaskin are serving in special assignments for the summer of 2012.

Carrie Lee will be traveling to Africa where she will be living with the people of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.  A special focus will be the children who live on the streets.  She will be working with (AIM) Adventures in Missions.

 Caroline is an Intern in our church through the CBF summer missionary program and also supported by the Missions Committee of Providence.  She will focus with our Rama Road students and the Burmese students with day camps and ESL classes.

MISSIONS INVOLVEMENT AT PROVIDENCE:
From its beginning as a church, Providence has been extensively involved in missions.  Through the years, this involvement has been expanded to include a range of activities from Monthly Collection Projects to Mission Trips to other continents.

RECENTLY, our international missions involvement has occurred here in Charlotte, and in our facility.  A number of Burmese families have been worshiping with us and several individuals and families have joined our church.  For the Sunday worship services, a translator is provided for the 11:00 am worship.  With a generous gift from a church member, the translator has a wireless transmitter and he translates the sermon from English to the Burmese language and "broadcast" it to the numerous wireless receivers held by the individuals.  Sixteen different individuals can use the receivers during the service.  In addition, we have ESL class for the Burmese community regardless of their church choices.  These classes are held on Wednesday evening and the individuals attending the class are our guest for the Wednesday evening dinner..

Listed below is a sampling of the missions activities throughout the year.  Providence supports additional mission endeavors in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area with financial aid and personal involvement.

Missions projects in other counties, states, and countries occur at various times through the year depending on the requests for assistance and the availability of volunteers.  You are invited to visit the other mission pages as listed in the "tab" under the "MISSIONS" navigational buttons.  Of if you wish you may CLICK HERE for Local Missions; CLICK HERE for National Missions; CLICK HERE for  International Missions.

The following is a sampling of the Missions Projects through and by our congregation. 

One of the mission projects for May has been the College Mission Trip to New York City, New York.  Twenty-three individuals made the trip to work through and the with the Metro Baptist Church in the "Hell's Kitchen" area of the city.  The group will return on Saturday, May 28.

"Connecting People and God in Christ."