{"id":292,"date":"2016-11-29T21:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/weekly-offerings\/?p=292"},"modified":"2016-11-29T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T21:20:39","slug":"giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/weekly-offerings\/2016\/11\/29\/giving-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Food for thought<\/h3>\n<p>Usually, when you hear about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppas.org\/\"> Presbyterian Pan American School<\/a> on this blog, it is because they are recipients of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pma.pcusa.org\/donate\/make-a-gift\/gift-info\/CJ999999\/?appeal=SO-OA&amp;package=B16\">Christmas Joy Offering<\/a>. So when members of the Student Council wanted to host a fundraiser, they decided to raise funds to give back to PC(USA) mission.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_293\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-image-293 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/PPAS-Student-Council-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"ppas-student-council\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/PPAS-Student-Council-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/PPAS-Student-Council-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/PPAS-Student-Council-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/PPAS-Student-Council-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/PPAS-Student-Council-1500x1125.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/PPAS-Student-Council-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presbyterian Pan American School Student Council 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The council members made food to sell to other students, and voted on how to donate the profits. They chose <a href=\"https:\/\/presbyteriangifts.org\/gift\/PG10002\/?appeal=SG-AB\">School Supplies for Displaced Students<\/a> from the Presbyterian Giving Catalog.<\/p>\n<p>Student Council President Jesus Perez says, &#8220;We chose this because we are also students, and many of us know the struggle of studying away from our homes.&#8221; The students had such a good time with the fundraiser, they are planning to do it again.<\/p>\n<h3>Presbyterian Pan American School is a Christian college preparatory school that educates and empowers young adults for leadership in the global community.<\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Their mission is to prepare young people for lives of Christian leadership through:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Preparing them for admission to the college or university of their choice;<\/li>\n<li>Developing young people who can relate to and function successfully in an increasingly complex, multicultural society;<\/li>\n<li>Teaching them the value and dignity of work;<\/li>\n<li>Training and encouraging them for church and secular service as Christian Leaders for the Americas and beyond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food for thought Usually, when you hear about Presbyterian Pan American School on this blog, it is because they are recipients of the\u00a0Christmas Joy Offering. 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