Dedication to Mission:

Park Church has a long history of reaching out to serve and bring the Good News to Jerusalem (local), Judea and Samaria (regional and national), and the ends of the earth (international). Administered by the Mission Commission, activities and programs are chosen with the intent to minister with a balance of both deed and word, by serving the physical needs of others and by spreading the good news of the love and saving grace of Jesus Christ. We also believe it is important that Park people are in some way personally connected to and invested in the ministries we support–not always easy or practical, but when it is part of the mission effort, this connection creates both local excitement and a sense of accountability and responsibility.

Highlights of Mission Support at Park

Park Church contributes to the mission work of the Beaver-Butler Presbytery.

Local Mission:

  • Churches Are Serving Together (CAST). Park supports CAST both financially and in hands-on ways, including the annual "Back to School" clothing drive and monthly donations of canned goods and staples. CAST has recently concluded a community assessment study to better define areas in which CAST can be most effective in its service. This analysis is setting the direction for CAST’s growing outreach to those in need in Beaver County.
  • Through activities in church school and the youth program, the young people of the congregation are involved in various mission projects throughout the year. The youth collect non-perishable food for CAST, raise money for hunger relief through World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine, and have an outreach to local nursing homes.
  • Park Church provides financial support to the Beaver Ministerium and Christians United in Beaver County.
  • Other local mission service by the congregation has included Christmas presents for shut-ins and needy children, food boxes at Thanksgiving, and other good stuff.
  • Salvation Army dinners happen one Saturday a month, with a group of Park people going to Rochester to serve an evening meal to about 40-50 people.
  • Park Church also supports the work of Tiger Pause, a ministry for youth in Beaver Falls.

Regional Mission:

  • West Virginia Mission Trip:  For the past nine years, Park Church has sent a team of teenagers and adults to Circleville, WV to help provide a Vacation Bible School(VBS) for children in Pendleton County, West Virginia. Pendleton is the poorest county in the state. The past two years, our Park team has specifically helped North Fork Baptist church with their Bible School.  During Bible School, our teenagers from Park teach the children in elementary school, and our adults serve as "resource people" and also provide support for the VBS.  We have had the VBS in the evening the past two years - that way families can come together.  We provide a free dinner and then the adults can go to a Bible Study while their kids/teenagers go to VBS.  The West Virginia Mission Trip takes place in the summer, usually at the end of June.
  • Park Church supports Ginny Huston in her ministry to college students through the Campus Crusade for Christ.  Ginny serves at several college campuses in western Pennsylvania.

World Mission:

  • Park Church supports the work of Dr. Sue Makin, who provides Ob/Gyn services to women in Malawi, Africa and is an amazing servant. Park has played a small part in her work in various places in Africa for many years. Dr. Makin provides regular updates to us.
  • The Belo-Beaver Partnership: On May 24, 2000, Park’s session entered into a covenant with Igreja Presbyteriana No Jardim America (IPJA), located in the inner city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to share Logo of IPJA churchwith each other our gifts and resources. Since May of 2000, through Park budgeted funds, special giving, and grant monies, financial assistance provided to IPJA, has allowed them to complete construction of their new sanctuary, as well as funding smaller projects and providing support for education and other programs. Several small teams, and seven organized mission teams of 10-22 people have traveled to Brazil to work with IPJA on their Vacation Bible School, build friendships, and develop the partnership. IPJA has sent three teams here to Beaver.