Local Giving
We have our home at FPC and help people learn English
What is Open Doors English?
Educate the Children helps build schools in this Asian country known for its mountains
What is Nepal?
Who is Jan Parsons?
Tom Cruise dangled off the Burj Khalifa in this Arab city.
What is Presbyterian Disaster Assistance?
We provide meals to homeless people in Ithaca (and FPC provides a meal once a month)
The Coral Tree Foundation works in this country that borders Vietnam and Thailand.
What is Cambodia?
I often sit with my Dad at church and I am Chair of Finance
Who is Christina Mead?
US-American relations were set back decades when Russia thought that Tom Cruise blew up this building.
What is the Kremlin?
Our presbytery shares a name with a slightly more famous place in Switzerland
We might sound like we are for seniors, but we provide mentoring to local students.
What is Golden Opportunity?
This partnership network works in a Middle Eastern country that borders Turkey and Iran
Where is Iraq?
I know a LOT about weather and work with NOAA.
Who is Sylvia Reeves?
The electric car from this German automaker became famous in MI: Ghost Protocol
What is BMW?
Students at IC and Cornell benefit from the money we give to this organization.
What is Protestant Cooperative Ministry?
School district north of Ithaca that operates a lunchbox program
What is Lansing?
EREP is a rural educational effort in this landlocked country in East Africa (hint: Hawi restaurant...)
Where is Ethiopia?
I graduated from Cornell in 1948 and won an alumni award in 2023!
Who is Martha Mapes?
To perform the terrifying final stunt in MI: Fallout, Tom Cruise learned to do this.
What is fly a helicopter?
Some of our money goes to this national body that is sort of the 'high court' of PCUSA
What is General Assembly?
This organization operates the Ithaca Free Clinic
What is the Ithaca Health Alliance?
This Christian Center is located in the 2nd largest city in Syria.
Where is Aleppo?
Right after I married my husband, we headed to an Apache native reserve where he served as a physician.
Who is Margaret Munchmeyer?
This is the name of the main character in Mission Impossible, played by Tom Cruise.
Who is Ethan Hunt?
Might have to cheat and ask Kiri or Cindy - this body that gets some of our $ ccomes from the Greek word for "assembly"