Workers were busy Thursday morning at the Sandy Beach Women’s Cooperative in Hopkins Village, a coastal community in southeastern Belize. This was a big day, not only for the women-owned and operated restaurant, but for the country’s Departments of Agriculture and Cooperatives. The top official was paying a visit to meet with members of the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People.
Indigenous El Salvadorans in the San Isidro Izalco community call the ojushte tree “manna from heaven.”
Recently, a group of Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) leaders – Executive Director Linda Valentine, World Mission Director Hunter Farrell and Funds Development Senior Director Terri Bate, among others – saw first-hand why.
Dan is now involved in a new project working with several branches of the PC(USA)’s partner church in Madagascar, the Fiangonan’i Jesoa Kristy eto Madagasikara (FJKM). The new project will help the church explore how it can help protect creation and how it can implement innovations in growing fruits and vegetables so that they can benefit pastors, congregations, and branches of the church.