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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in foreign fields. Featured image: First team of Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries in Korea, November 1892.

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Title:
One Great Hour of Sharing.
Description:
Web site of One Great Hour of Sharing, an offering that makes the love of Christ real for individuals and communities around the world who suffer the effects of disaster, conflict, or severe economic hardship, and for those who serve them through gifts of money and time. Today, projects are underway in more than 100 countries, including the United States and Canada. The One Great Hour of Sharing committee officially comprises eight Christian denominations: American Baptist Churches USA, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Church of the Brethren, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), United Church of Christ, and Church World Service. While specific allocations differ in each denomination, all use their One Great Hour of Sharing funds to make possible disaster relief, refugee assistance, development aid and more.
Creator:
One Great Hour of Sharing. (creator)
Subject names:
One Great Hour of Sharing.
Topics:
Church charities., Charity--Religious aspects--Christianity., Church work with refugees., Church work with disaster victims., Disaster relief.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130099
Title:
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.
Description:
Web site of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA), the emergency and refugee program of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Creator:
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Church work with disaster victims., Church work with refugees., Disaster relief.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129915
Title:
Mother and baby.
Description:
No. 1532, Tyre, Lebanon, March 1952. Too little, too late! The tiny Arab refugee baby, shown here in his mother's arms, is now dead. When discovered by Christian welfare workers, he was already a living skeleton, his tiny body wasted from the ravages of malnutrition. Though emergency food of high nutritive quality was immediately supplied the child was already too weak to respond. There are many Arab children like these among Palestinian refugees, and it is only occasionally that Christian relief can save them, this mother, clad in Western church-contributed clothing, is now heartbroken, because the little one which had become so dear to her, especially under the care she had so desperately rendered with little means, is now gone from her miserable life. (WCC photo)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees, Palestinian Arab., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees--Palestine.
Geographic subjects:
Tyre (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83452
Title:
Young boy drinking cod liver oil before a meal.
Description:
Palestine 136 Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Just before their milk, the boys have to take a spoonful of Cod Liver Oil.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83442
Title:
A young child in Salt Hospital, Jordan.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Salt Hospital, Jordan. This hospital which has 65 surgical and maternity beds is the only one which is purely devoted to the needs of the 450,000 refugees in Jordan, although by arrangements with local hospitals some 860 beds can be used. Salt Hospital is staffed entirely by Palestinian doctors, nurses, and orderlies. This picture shows a small patient who seems to be thanking the churches and the United Nations for their care.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Jordan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83437
Title:
A widow and her children.
Description:
Gaza. Fatmeh Hamadeh from Gaza. Widow, has 5 children; 4 of them are twins of 5 and 7 years. Husband died 3 years ago as a result of an air raid in Gaza. They live in a room made of mud and covered with rags. No other source of income except the rations they draw from UNRWA. The children's daily food consists of bread and salt. Issued with flour, clothing, blankets and shoes. [WCC photo]
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83435
Title:
Children receiving an extra meal from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their ordinary rations, undernourished children receive a hot meal a day in UNRWA's supplementary feeding centres.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83434
Title:
A woman repairs a pair of pants.
Description:
March 1951. No. 1387 (UNRWA 1015). Ain Helweh [Ain al-Hilweh] camp in Lebanon near Saida [Sidon]. There are 7676 persons living in this camp, 1418 families who all live in tents. This picture shows a mother repairing her little boy's clothes. It can be seen from the washing drying on the stones how ragged these clothes are.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83433
Title:
Presbyterian run refugee camp in Lebanon.
Description:
March 1951. No. 1371 (UNRWA 1017). Mia Mia [Miye ou Miye] camp near Saida [Sidon] in Lebanon. This camp is a property belonging to the Presbyterian USA. 1400 refugees in this camp live in tents and the remainder of the total population of 3180 live in barracks. This picture shows a barrack room divided by sacking into several compartments in order to give a semblance of privacy to the families living here. Washing lines and cooking utensils are hanging round the walls.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83432
Title:
Undernourished refugees receive an extra meal from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their normal rations, refugees who are suffering from under-nourishment receive a hot mid-day meal, which is prepared in accordance with modern dietary principles at UNRWA's supplementary feeding centers. The majority of the recipients are children, but the old and sick also benefit. At present, 26,888 free meals are served monthly at a cost of 24,199.20 dollars. (1$ = 3.50 Lebanese pounds approx.)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83427
Title:
Refugee camp in Amman, Jordan.
Description:
Palestine 120 Jafar camp Amman. This shows tents put up by refugees in one section of Amman, capital of Jordan. It is not an UNRWA camp and both government and the agency have been waiting to transfer the inmates to a better site with proper sanitation facilities. But as the people have found work in the town and cannot afford to pay the high rents required for accommodation they are resisting proposals to transfer them. Amman has more than trebled [sic] its population in 2 years as a result of the influx of Arab refugees from Palestine, who now form over 40% of the population of Jordan (including Arab Palestine). Some refugee children are seen in the foreground.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jordan--Amman., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Amman (Jordan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83424
Title:
A kindergarten class at the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
Description:
Palestine 214. The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 868,000 refugees, more than half are below sixteen years old. Furthermore, with the high birth rate of 40.8 per thousand, some 36,000 refugee babies were born last year. This picture shows the kindergarten at Dekwani camp, Lebanon, where, although there is no backyard, and no blackboard, few books, and the children sit barefoot on the floor, there is a keen attendance.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83417
Title:
Children receiving an extra meal from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their ordinary rations, undernourished children receive a hot meal a day in UNRWA's supplementary feeding centers.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83415
Title:
A student reads at a school located in the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
Description:
Palestine 215 The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 860,000 refugees more than half are below sixteen years old. At this school a lesson in Arabic is going on. This school in the Dekwani [Dekwaneh] camp in Lebanon has 155 pupils who need books, stationery, and blackboards.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83414
Title:
Group of children.
Description:
Among the 750,000 Arab refugees are many children like those in this camp.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83411
Title:
A mother and two children weave baskets.
Description:
Two Arab refugee children watch their mother weave a basket to carry food. The little girl wears a dress made from materials contributed by Christian churches. Note bare feet and dirt floor of the tent. 850,000 homeless Arabs who formerly lived in Israel are now living under conditions like these in miserable tent camps scattered from Egypt to the Lebanon. (World Copyright fee paid by World Council of Churches to cover use in church periodicals only.)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83406
Title:
Refugee children at unhygenic water supply.
Description:
1951. No. 1376 (UNRWA 1005) Israel. Unhygenic water supply for refugee children in Jordan.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Jordan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83400
Title:
Families receiving meals at United Nations Relief and Works Agency facility.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency no. 13518. In most of the camps and in towns where there are concentration of refugees, UNRAW maintain Infant Health Welfare Centres. Here mothers may come for pre-natal care, to learn mother-craft and bring their children to attend the special clinics up to the age of two. Each centre has its own kitchens which serve milk and a daily cooked meal to all babies under two years old. Visited at first with some reticence, the centres have become immensely popular with refugees mothers and today have an average of 21,000 visits per month.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83391
Title:
Refugee family bathing.
Description:
1951. No. 1374 (UNRWA 1009). Rafah camp, Gaza. The camp has a school where 1796 boys and girls receive education. This picture shows a refugee family having a bath. 2 litres of water for three children. Note the characteristic physical condition of the child on the mother's knee due to under-nourishment.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83389
Title:
Woman in refugee camp washing clothing.
Description:
March 1951. No. 1379 (UNRWA 1036). Ain Helweh [Ain al-Hilweh] camp near Saida [Sidon] in Lebanon. There are 7676 persons living in this camp, 1418 families who all live in tents. This picture shows a bit of the camp. The woman in the foreground is washing the ragged, patched trousers of the boy standing near her is a clear indication of their poverty.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83388

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