Cuba Partnership

 

Four members of First Church traveled to Cuba in October 2016 to become familiar with the Presbyterian Church of Cuba and explore opportunities for partnership. A detailed report is available below; click here for a summary of the team's observations.

 

As a result of this trip, we have been exploring a potential partnership with the Iglesia Presbiteriana-Reformada of Los Palos, in the Havana Presbytery, and its mission church in Nueva Paz. First Church has joined the Cuba Partners Network, a group of reformed churches that encourage and support partnerships between Presbyterian churches in the United States and Presbyterian churches in Cuba. We were fortunate to be able to host the pastor of the Los Palos church, Rev. Izett Sama Hernandez, in January 2020. Rev. Sama was named an International Peacemaker for the PCUSA Peacemaking Program in 2019.

 

If you are interested in learning more, please contact the church office.

 

To read about how a "Living Waters" installation has impacted one of the churches we visited in 2016, as well as the surrounding community, click here.

 

To read about one of the young seminarians we met on the trip, and the mission partnerships between his church and three churches from the PCUSA, click here.

 

To learn more about mission partnerships, see the website for the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

 

Report on Exploratory Visit to Cuba, October 2016