Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. The stories in the 2013 Mission Yearbook were gathered around the question of Jesus to his disciples, “How many loaves have you?” from Mark 6:38. The book is filled with stories of God’s abundance in the face of overwhelming needs and a scarcity of resources.

Today in the Mission Yearbook: March 31, 2013

MINUTE FOR MISSION: RESSURECTION OF THE LORD, EASTER. ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING - The prophet Isaiah speaks of a time when a new creation will come to pass, when “they shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. . . ; they shall not plant and another eat” (65:21–22). Haitian farmer Childeric Placid, who also serves as a facilitator and community trainer with longtime Presbyterian Hunger Program partner the Mouvman Peyizan Papay, had the opportunity to taste the reality of this promise as the result of a seed-and-tool program funded by the One Great Hour of Sharing after the 2010 earthquake: “The seeds, when they arrived, were deliverance for me. I was able to plant corn and Congo beans. I’m eating the [harvest] even now, and in the future I will be able to plant the saved seeds, and I’ll eat again. Yesterday, I ate from my garden. Can you imagine? You have a product at your house that you made; you didn’t have to buy it in the market to be able to eat. I’m not like other people that don’t even have a cup of beans. Do you see how you’d feel? How you’d feel like you are a man? That’s what this is for me.”

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