park street 200k
[announcing finalists]
Graduate Category Finalists:
Global Medical Education Project [Arthur Celestin, Carolee D. Estelle, Emily George, Ruth Gonnella, Kristen Guilford, Leila Hepp, Sasha Jean, Erin Alexandria Jones, Jeremey Kim, John Kim, Ara Ko, Daniel Kao, Matt Mielke, Roxanna Moayer, Alicia Parsons, Bill Pearson, David Skadahl, Amy Y. Tang, Natalie Witek, Paul Yi, Joan Zhou]
Jesus View Finder [Leo Iwai, Hyewon Lee]
Metamorphosis [Nate Brooks, Carly Grovhoug]
Mobile Gospel Network [Heather Griffin, Becca Nelson]
Nawng E Hku Child Development Center [Napitchaya Panum, Zanny Perrino]
Praying for Justice, Supporting Families [Rachel Schatz Wegner, Noelie Creaghe, Regina Guerra]
Second Chance [Janaiana Pinto, Jacqueline DeVar]
Sinapis [Courtney Rountree, Karibu Nyaggah, Jeanette Cajide, Sunkyo Im, Ying Sun, Hannah Lantos]
Teen Challenge [Ed Doreau, Rebekah Good, Josh Morgan, Will Horn, John Dao]
The Sachar Project [Anna Sparling, Kendra Merluzzo, Bobby Jacobsen, Rebekah Frangipane. Peter Needham]
True Sojourners [Ralph Leo, Bjorn Anderson]
Undergraduate Category Finalists:
Find Your Calling [Amber Brady, David White, Harold Hinds, Chris Miller]
Light of Hope [Tiffany Yuh, Bianca Yuh, Daniel Jiminez]
MIT – IV [Jeremy Chang, Kate Phillips, Hannah Rice, Chinua Shaw, Chris Thorsvick]
Parables [Edward lee, Eric Lu, June Ho Kim]
South Africa Project [Michael Silvestri, Kellie Courtney, Matthew Gibbons, Ken Moore, Loyal Egan, Chris Jensen, Abioloa Laniyonu, Loren Raiford, Tim Baker, Cort Van Ostran, Emily Henderson, Natalie So]
Sozos [Benjamin Au, Emily Chen, Susie Park]
Team 211 [Gabrielle Williams, Christopher Theodat, Jeremy Butler]
The Street Child Project [Amanda Davis, Tatiana Wilson, Tracy Bindel]
UVM [Kelsey Hammond, Michelle Richard, Rachel Styers, Hannah McQuilkin, Natalie Pulido]
UNH Basic Injustice [Joe Cheslock, Sean Matthews, Abigail McNamara, Karen Smith, Laura Yegge, Erica Santuccio, Jessica Dick]
Social Change Competition For Students
Park Street Church was founded in 1809. Throughout its 200 years, the church has preached the good news of Jesus Christ and attempted to live out his teachings by emphasizing missionary endeavor and social awareness. The advent of Park Street Church’s bicentennial year provides the church with an opportunity to celebrate and share God’s grace and faithful guidance in Boston and in the world. The theme of the Bicentennial Celebration is “Sharing the Journey” with a desire to Remember, Rejoice, and Rededicate as we share the journey of past experiences and new endeavors.
The Missions Program of the church was launched with a New England Student Movement which spread across the country. It was the commitment and passion of undergraduate and graduate students that led to the forming of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission. It was the students of New England who challenged the American Church to engage in global missions and who offered themselves up for the cause. In the early years of our church, students from New England began going out all over the world: starting schools, hospitals, medical colleges and universities; initiating commerce; planting churches; advocating against injustices; and developing relationships that would change the face of nations.
The Missions Program of the church continues to reach out to the students of the greater Boston area by supporting the efforts of Campus Crusade for Christ, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, International Students Incorporated, and international students and scholars through our FOCUS program.
The objective of the Social Change Competition (SCC) is to harness the high-powered education of New England students to engage them in missions that will create new initiatives and propel advanced thinking. The proposals should address the problems of this world as they relate to poverty and immoral and unjust practices in specific areas of the world, particularly in places that have the least amount of exposure to the good news of Jesus Christ. Proposals can also address detrimental environmental issues and offer new ideas to create renewable energy. By relating the good news of Jesus to these issues, it is hoped that a new strategy of missions will emerge that may concentrate on the poor, the disadvantaged, and the environment.
Our desire in this competition is to honor those who have given generously and sacrificially to our church and to our missions program by unleashing a new engagement of students in missions. Project proposals that meet the requirements of this RFP and that are judged to be exceptional will be presented to the Park Street Church Missions Committee (PSCMC) as Partnership Proposals. In addition to receiving an award, winning projects may be considered by the PSCMC with a view to forming ongoing partnerships.
