World Missions at Second

This is a very exciting time to be involved in world missions! Urbanization and globalization have opened doors to communicating the Gospel and sharing resources unlike any time in our history. While much of this change can be mind-boggling, it ultimately represents a strategic time to be engaged in world missions.  

Our goal is to identify strategic fields and ministries and to partner with those involved in advancing the Gospel in those areas. We seek to call, train, and send missionaries to the field, as well as partner with national and international workers involved in that same endeavor.   

Below are the six strategic regions of the world in which we focus these efforts: 

  • Africa
  • Europe
  • Middle East
  • Central and Southeast Asia
  • East Asia
  • Central and South America

How Can You Be a Part of World Missions?

By Praying, Welcoming, Going, and Sending.

 
 
Pray Faithfully

Our missionary partners are engaged in a cosmic spiritual war. The great news is that our Lord Jesus Christ has won the victory by his life, death, and resurrection! However, the battle continues until his return, and the greatest need of these Christian soldiers as they await is the prayers of the church. Let us join the battle.

Here are several opportunities to pray for our missionary partners:

2024 World Missions Prayer Book

We also have physical copies of the 2024 World Missions Prayer Book on campus! You can come by and pick one up  or view a digital copy of the prayer book here. 
 

Mid-Year Update

In this booklet, you will see an updated list of 2PC missionary partners, new prayer requests from each of our current partners, and our Strategic National Impact Partners. You can come by and pick one up on campus or view a digital copy of the prayer book here. 

 
The following websites are helpful resources to help you pray for missions and people across the world:
  • Operation World highlights a different country each day, offering general information about the country as well as specific prayer requests for the people there.
  • Joshua Project provides information about unreached ethnic groups around the world.
  • Engage 2025 is the EPC movement which seeks to plant Protestant Reformed churches in 10 unreached Muslim communities by 2025. 

Welcome Kindly

One way to be involved in World Missions at Second is by welcoming our missionary partners when they are in town. 

Here are some ways that you can welcome them:

  • Sponsor a refugee family
  • Teach English to new arrivals
  • Join the World Missions Team
  • Host a missionary family when they pass through town
  • Offer a vehicle for a missionary family in Memphis temporarily

If you are interested in being involved in any of these ways, please contact our World Missions office.

Go Sacrificially

2024 Short-Term Trips

Contact the World Missions office or listed Team Leaders for info.

India: March 22-28 (full), Team Leader: Kathy Hammond
UK: May 7-13 (full), Team Leader: Lisa Ritenour
Zambia: May 15-June 15 (CO Memphis students/staff), Team Leader: Caleb Brantley
South Africa: June 18-26 (full), Team Leader: Jessica Uke
Indonesia: July (full), Team Leader: Sam Shaw
Iraq: July 6-16 (full), Team Leader: Charlie Scheel
Kazakhstan: July 10-22 (full), Team Leader: Donna Sanders
Mexico: July 13-20 (True North students; full), Team Leader: Will Nease
UK: July 16-28 (True North students; full), Team Leader: Mary Raine Ivy
Malawi: September 14-21 (4-10 needed), Team Leader: Andy Cheely
Mozambique: September (3-4 needed), Team Leader: Lucy Wepfer
Argentina: October 4-12 (full), Team Leader: Philip James
Greece: December 3-10 (full), Team Leader: Kelsey Rivers
Thailand: January 1-8, 2024 (4-5 needed), Team Leader: Brooke Cheely
Greece: Spring 2025 (5-8 needed), Team Leader: Bradley Morrow
Japan: TBD 2025 (4-5 musicians needed), Team Leader: Leo Davis

Send Generously

The World Missions budget is separate from Second's general budget, supported exclusively by your giving designated for World Missions. 

  • Give Online: 2pc.org/give
  • Give by Text: Text WORLD to (901) 410-9500 to give to World Missions.
  • Give by Mail: Second Presbyterian Church, 4055 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38111

World Missions Conference

Each year, we host a World Missions Conference where we welcome a keynote speaker along with many of our missionary partners to our church. Last year, we were delighted to welcome Dr. Conrad Mbewe (PhD, University of Pretoria), pastor of Kabwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia, and founding chancellor of the African Christian University, as our speaker, along with some of our mission partners from around the world.

This weekend is an annual favorite. We can't wait until next year's conference on February 19-23, 2025!

See Last Year's Conference Schedule

Emeritus Missionaries of the Year

Emeritus is an honorific designation given to someone who is retired from the public performance of a duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services. Because of the long history of World Missions involvement at Second, the faithfulness of some partners to serve for multiple decades in some very hard places and with uniquely distinctive impact, and the enduring consistency of 2PC in maintaining those partnerships, the World Missions Team has created the category of Missionary Emeritus for missionary partners who have made an exceptional contribution to Missiology, World Evangelization, and the ministry of the Second Presbyterian Church.

Our first two Emeritae are Ms. Aileen Coleman and Rev. Judy Mbugua.

 “There is always some reason not to do the work of God.” -Aileen Coleman

Learn more about Aileen.

 “We will not be judged by what we began, but by how faithfully we persisted to the end.”

Learn more about Judy.