Engaged in impactful mission work
GLOBAL MISSIONS
For over a decade, Yorkminster Presbyterian Church was engaged in impactful mission work in Honduras, including medical clinics, housing projects, and clean water initiatives.
Through partnerships with organizations like Living Waters for the World, we have installed sustainable water systems in several communities, improving health and quality of life for many.
As we celebrate these past efforts, we are also looking forward to new and exciting global missions opportunities. Our leadership is currently exploring how we can continue to spread the love of God and serve communities in need around the world in fresh, meaningful ways. Stay tuned for updates as we embark on this new chapter of our global outreach.
Missionaries We Support
Cambodia
Alan and Judy Norman
Alan and Judy Norman are doctors working with "Healing Hearts in Cambodia." Through the Mercy Medical Center, they are training doctors and nurses to serve in their communities, and of course, they were on the front lines working to end the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Normans have been missionary doctors in Cambodia for the last 14 years. They met at Eastern Virginia Medical School, honeymooned in Ethiopia on a missions trip, and have carried that call forward since.
Alan did his residency in Internal medicine and pediatrics at Miami Valley hospital in Ohio, while Judy studied obstetrics and gynecology at University of Cincinnati. They returned to the area in 2001 as Judy was active duty Air Force, serving in the four years immediately following September 11, 2001. Alan worked at Olde Towne Medical Center, an indigent care center in Williamsburg.
Judy had time at home to home school and be mom before they went to Cambodia in 2012. The initial ministry there was to start a small family
practice residency teaching hospital where they are both attending physicians, training Christian Cambodian doctors. Now the role has grown as the hospital has increased and they have Khmer (Cambodian) attending physicians.
Alan has, for the last several years, worked on a regional referral network grant that assists graduate physicians in starting outreach clinics in their homeprovinces. These dedicated Khmer doctors are missionaries in their own country which is 96 percent Buddhist/animist.
Judy has been working with the women's health program and outreach through government education and rural health care.
Alan and Judy have four children who were all born in Virginia and grew up in Cambodia. They are now all adults settled in various parts of the United States doing well with school and work. They noted, we do not YET have grandchildren.
They are supported by several area churches, including Yorkminster. Avalon Christian Church in Virginia Beach, Alan’s home church growing up, is a contributor. Chapelgate Presbyterian Church in Maryland and its daughter church, and their home church on the Peninsula, Northside Christian Church, as well as many individuals, provide support.
The Normans do not take a salary from the hospital in Cambodia but contribute through fundraising to the efforts for the poor there. The sending agency, which has ministry and financial oversight, is Team Expansion.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Our Sister Church
In addition we are continuing to nurture our relationship with our sister church, Kindele, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the capital city of Kinshasa.
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Nadine Nsamba, the delegate from Kindele who visited Yorkminster in 2009. They speak French, so, if possible, have your messages translated before sending them.