Border Ministries: No More Deaths and Humane Borders
Sarah Roberts (577-1806 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) connects us to the Samaritans and other work done by No More Deaths.  Each summer we take meals to the Arivaca camp for one week. Charlie Ambrose (326-5544 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Bob Turnbull (229-3285) organize St Mark’s to refill water stations in the desert for Humane Borders.

Health Care Justice Team
Jane Erikson (624-8016 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Martha Ortiz (623-9351), can include you in planning for health care reform actions.

Neighborhood Mission Initiative Team
Jim Butler (891-2780 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Mari Helen High (743-7966 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) worked with a team to research our neighborhood needs and produce the Neighborhood Economic Resource Fair.  You can participate in ongoing outreach to our neighborhood.

Just Coffee
Max High could use some help in this growing ministry (743-7966 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Katrina Relief
Mike and Lori Block (975-7075 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) work with Presbytery de Cristo to organize and fund a yearly trip to New Orleans each October.  There the team works with Presbyterian Disaster Relief to reconstruct homes.

Food Pantry
Lori Block (975-7075 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) has organized a St Mark’s food pantry that assembles bags of food for distribution, through the church office, to our neighbors.  Contributions and organizational assistance are needed.

Project Hospitality
For two or three weeks every winter St Mark’s hosts homeless men overnight, providing dinner and breakfast. Joeine Green (881-4356 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Janet Daub (299-6144 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), and Pat Turnbull (229-3285 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) seek people interested in organizational work as well as donations).

Pima County Interfaith Council
St Mark’s is an institutional member of this grass roots organizing group working for economic and social justice for Pima County families. Mari Helen High (743-7966 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) is seeking core team members who desire to follow Dietrich Bonheoffer’s injunction: “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, but we are to drive a spike into the wheel itself."

More Light Presbyterians
As we seek to reach out to our LGBT brothers and sisters, Sylvia Thorson-Smith (207-1825 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) is developing a core team interested in highlighting St Mark’s inclusiveness in our community.

Environmental Sustainability
You can join the St Mark’s Green Team seeking to make our church home a model of thrifty use of natural resources and an inspiration to other churches.

Asylum Program of Arizona
Pat Harris (327-9217 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) is the contact person for this effort to provide free or low cost legal assistance to those seeking political asylum in the United States.  Translators and interpreters are needed, but also, from time to time, providers of material goods to help asylum seekers live in the community.

CROP Walk
This Church World Service program helps to fund the Tucson Food Bank and Casa Maria Homeless Program and worldwide efforts to end hunger.  Our participation in the November walk can provide relief to families at home and around the world.  If you can help us in raising awareness and funds, please contact Mari Helen High (743-7966 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

House of Neighborly Service
This long-time Presbyterian community service agency seeks volunteers and material assistance from time to time.  Jean Ares (327-8035 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) is the contact person for St Mark’s.

Ministry to Children In Mexico
Pilar Ruiz (245-2921 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) is enlisting people who want to assist in her work with impoverished children in Sonora, gathering donated toys, clothing, and school supplies to deliver to poor neighborhoods in the northern Mexico state.



Links

Arizona Interfaith Network
www.arizonainterfaith.org

Border Action Network
www.borderaction.org

Borderlinks
www.borderlinks.org

Companeros en Mision
Located in Nogalas, AZ
www.pcusa.org/border/ministry_sites

Frontera de Cristo
Located in Douglas, AZ
www.pcusa.org/border/ministry_sites

Humane Borders
www.humaneborders.org

Interfaith Coalition for the Homeless
www.ichtucson.org

Just Coffee
www.justcoffee.org

No More Deaths
www.nomoredeaths.org

Presbytery de Cristo
www.presbyterydecristo.org

Samaritan Patrol
www.samaritanpatrol.org

YAVIM - Tucson Borderlands Site

http://gamc.pcusa.org/give/E051440/