Feed Our Kids – For one week in the summer, friends from FPCGV serve lunches to children at a local apartment complex, bridging the gap for children who normally receive free or reduced lunch at school. We are NOT just feeding tummies but feeding hearts and souls.

Food Pantry – A large amount of our mission ministry budget goes toward providing eggs and butter for this food pantry. There is also a collection box outside the church office for other non-perishable donations.

Transitional Housing – This case management program allows homeless families to enjoy clean, stable housing while working toward self-sufficiency.

Medical Clinic – This is a comprehensive program that provides a holistic approach to health care for families who do not have access to traditional medical care.

Resale Stores – Donated items not needed for other programs are received and sorted at “Donation Station” then sold at resale stores.

Rachel Crilley is blazing a trail being the only Westerner and first American to study mission history and post-colonial theology at the University of Yonsei, Seoul, South Korea. Presbyterian Missionary Horace Underwood founded the university along with many of the South Korean hospitals and schools. Rachel is creating connections with the Presbyterian Women in Korea as well as working at the largest Presbyterian church in the world, Myungsung with a membership of 20,000. It’s an honor and privilege for her to be able to work there. She graduated from Princeton Seminary.

The Mission Ministry and Presbyterian Women at First Presbyterian Church of Grapevine, Texas support her financially and with our prayers as she works towards ordination and a possible PhD. Rachel’s father, Rev. Dr. Bob Crilley, is the lead pastor at First Presbyterian and her mother, Rev. Judy Crilley, is a chaplain at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

Jim and Jodi McGill began mission service in 1995, as PC/USA missionaries, working with the Church of Central Africa in Malawi in the areas of water/sanitation and health.   Our church has supported this PCUSA mission team since 2018.

Jim works with the church in being a strong participant in the rural development of Niger and South Sudan and an effective advocate for the health of its people. Jodi serves in Niger training students in its new nursing school. She also works in the health clinic on a regular basis.

Jim received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Wake Forest University and his master’s degree in geological engineering at the University of Arizona. Prior to his service as a mission co-worker, Jim spent many years in Africa as the child of Presbyterian missionaries to Congo and doing geophysical research with the Geology Department of Duke University.

Jodi holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Arizona and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and microbiology from Northern Arizona University. She also holds a Master of Science in Nursing as a family nurse practitioner and a Master of Public Health from Emory University. She has served as a nurse both in the Atlanta, Georgia area and in Africa.

The McGill’s are the parents of six children, twins Jason and Michael, Salome, Selina, and twins Joseph and John. They are members of Columbia Presbyterian Church, Decatur, Georgia,

The McGill’s said: As always, we are grateful for your prayers and support. We are blessed to be able to serve God in Niger and South Sudan, and previously in Malawi, because of your support. We are sincerely and humbly grateful.