Serve Globally
Though we serve locally, we know that serving globally and acknowledging our brothers and sisters around the globe is equally important. We have partnerships with the many organizations noted below. We strive to address global needs and where possible provide relief through financial support, resources and opportunities to serve abroad.
Serve Globally
Though we serve locally, we know that serving globally and acknowledging our brothers and sisters around the globe is equally important. We have partnerships with the many organizations noted below. We strive to address global needs and where possible provide relief through financial support, resources and opportunities to serve abroad.
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Inspired by a mission trip to Israel in 2003, LOPC left feeling compelled to support a classroom at Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, a registered Palestinian NGO located in Gaza City. Today, LOPC continues to support students with hearing disabilities annually. Atfaluna provides education, audiology, speech therapy and vocational training to all its students and teaches their families on how best to support them.
LOPC began their relationship with COF after a group of 65 high school youth went on a mission trip there in 2014. Since the trip, the relationship has grown stronger with several additional visits as well as annual support to help over 200 children thrive.
The LOPC Congo Mission team was formed in 2012 in response to the horrific conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly the suffering of women and children. The country, while rich in minerals, has suffered years of warfare, poverty, corruption, and other forms of violence and devastation. The LOPC team takes a holistic approach to its mission efforts by providing financial, advocacy and spiritual support. Working with PC(USA) mission co-workers, it focuses on funding Healing Hearts, a curriculum that offers healing to children in response to trauma, and Build Congo Schools, an organization that supports the building of new schools and teacher training and textbooks/vocational manuals.
Nancy McGirr, founder of Fotokids began her journey as a Reuter’s photographer in Guatemala and was compelled to help children living in the Guatemala Dump dream of a brighter future. She started Fotokids as a means of using photography, graphic design, and media technology as tools for self-expression and ultimately a way to rise up out of poverty. LOPC has been a partner since 2006 and has led several mission trips there.
Local Lamorinda Pediatrician Dr. Daniel Robbins, Executive Director of the Kapnek Trust brought his organization to LOPC’s attention in 2007. LOPC quickly embraced the work JF Kapnek was accomplishing including a reduction of mother to child HIV transmission; early childhood education including immunizations and routine health care as well as daily vitamin fortified meals for each student. LOPC has also taken several mission trips to Zimbabwe to work at JF Kapnek preschools and clinics.