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Through our mission partners Student Mobilization (StuMo) and RUF (Reformed University Fellowship), First Pres supports missionaries to college campuses and a community in India, bringing Christ to young people in transition stages of their lives. For information about our church's connection, contact Tammy Hemphill at 713-305-9519.
A mission partner who organizes short-term mission opportunities to aid communities in crisis globally. First Pres has sent teams to Ukraine since 2023 to aid in housing construction for refugees. For info, contact Mark Smith at doc@firstpreskingwood.org.
For several years, the Rice Foundation has hosted teams from First Pres in western Honduras, near Copas Ruinas, with ministries to local churches and mountain communities. Construction and neighborhood outreach. We learn about Honduran educational, health, and economic challenges. Aimed at college age (usually held after spring finals and before Memorial Day), and also multi-generational participants. The 2026 trip will take place from May 14-20. Cost to particiapnts is airfare only. For more info: Mark Smith at doc@firstpreskingwood.org
Friends of Samburu, Kenya. Loving hearts ... helping hands... giving hope. This charity is Christ-centered and is a witness to His love. Its focus is on improving the lives of the Samburu children and their families. The Samburu are a pastoral, nomadic, tribal community numbering over 250,000 people. Their land, 8,000 square miles, is located approximately 250 miles north of the capital Nairobi. This charity raises funds to meet identifiable and well-defined needs of their villages. It seeks sustainable ways to alleviate their poverty and to provide for their future while preserving their culture.
For many years, our local mission partner churches in Lima identify promising students from their congregations, whom we support with funding to attend higher education. Graduates have completed studies in nursing, engineering, medicine, tourism, and they give us update on their progress during our annual visit. For info: Clark McCollough@me.com
Since 2000, First Pres Kingwood has supported an annual trip to Peru, serving poor communities on the outskirts of Lima, with medical clinics, construction, eyeglasses ditrubution and vacation Bible school. Our local mission hosts, MISIUR, oversee a variety of ministries throughout Peru. Trips are usually one week, around the last week of July each summer. Adults 18 and older, teens to age 14 with parents. For info: Clark McCullough at clarkmccollough@me.com
Click here to watch a video recap of 2026's trip!
Click here to learn more about MISIUR!
San Genaro Iglesia Presbiteriano, located in a community outside Lima, hosts a children’s feeding program, bible school, health clinic, and social service program at their facility named CEDIN. They serve 90 children a day with healthy meals and other support. First Pres supports the program with an annual appeal for funds and visits the children each year during the mission. For info: Clark McCollough@me.com
A mission partner who aids in connecting First Pres volunteers and teams to serve in short-term missions to disaster-stricken communities in the south and east USA for recovery and repair after weather events. To advise of your availability for a team, contact Mark Smith at doc@firstpreskingwood.org