Don Justo, Coffee With Dignity. Don Justo coffee is grown in the mountains of eastern El Salvador. The coffee is hand-sorted and roasted in small batches. By supporting this fair-trade coffee, our church supports farmers who, in turn, pay their workers a fair wage. In addition, a portion of the profits from coffee sales go directly back to help small communities, suffering from extreme poverty, receive basic human needs of clean water, medical services and safe housing. You are not drinking just a cup of coffee. You are drinking a JUST cup of coffee.

The first Sunday of each month Mission Commission serves and sells Don Justo Coffee. The coffee can be purchased in many flavors as ground or whole bean.

Missions

Local Ecumenical Missions:

1. Ecumenical Lord’s Cupboard:  ELC provides food to those in need.
2. Ottumwa Community Outreach Ministry:  They serve meals to those who are hungry.  They are also just starting a Men’s Homeless Shelter.
3. Ottumwa Habitat for Humanity:  We help to build affordable housing for those in need by providing funds, workers, and people on the board.
4. FPC Community Assistance:  We provide limited financial help for those needing assistance with utilities, rent, etc.
5. Heartland Crisis Pregnancy Center:  They help nurture young women through a positive pregnancy demonstrating that there is a Christian alternative to abortion as well as ongoing compassionate concern and support for women caught in a difficult pregnancy.
6. Salvation Army:  They help provide food and shelter to those in need.
7. The Crisis Center and Women’s Shelter:  They provide emergency shelter and services to survivors of domestic or sexual violence.
8. The Gideons International:  The Gideons provide Bibles and Scripture worldwide in over 75 languages.
9. Ottumwa Area Fellowship of Churches, and Church Women United.  We are active in both of these groups.

Selected Giving to PCUSA Projects:

1. Des Moines Presbytery Mission--C.R.O.S.S. Ministries:  C.R.O.S.S (Christians Reaching Out Seeking to Serve) Ministries provides an inner city ministry to those in need of immediate assistance in Des Moines.
2. Des Moines Presbytery Mission--Sudanese Evangelist--Goanar Chol:   Pastor Chol works among the Presbyterian Sudanese refugees primarily in Des Moines, but also has some contact with Sudanese in Omaha, Minneapolis and Kansas City.
3. Des Moines Presbytery Mission—Our Sister Parish in Berlin, El Salvador:  This is a joint mission project among the Parish of Saint Joseph in the Berlin, El Salvador region, the Des Moines Presbytery and several Presbyterian Churches within the Presbytery.  A number of community self help projects have been done to help the poor communities around Berlin.
4. Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship:  Supports work among the Kurds in northern Iraq.
5. Seminary Education (1% Fund):   Funds are used to support our 10 Presbyterian Theological Seminaries plus two that are closely affiliated.
6. Miraj Medical Center:  This is a major medical center and hospital in Miraj, India that was started by the Presbyterian Church many years ago and continues to have ties with our denomination.

Other Presbyterian Missions:

1. C.H. Diebold Missions:  Our church provides the salary for Pastor Valdemar Miranda who ministers to 8 rural Presbyterian churches about 100 air miles southwest of Mexico City.   Two lay pastors serve four additional churches.  The churches are located in remote mountain communities.
2. FPC Preschool Scholarship Fund:  Financial assistance is provided to several preschool students whose families might otherwise not be able afford preschool.

International Missions:

1. Training Evangelistic Leadership:  We help support a family in Asia thru TEL who is busy spreading God’s Work and Love in their community.
2. Southwest Asia:  Through the Presbyterian Church of America, we help a fledgling National Presbyterian Church grow in Southwest Asia.