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Interesting Facts About PaLM Short-Term Mission Trips (up to and including 2019):

PaLM has sent forth Short-Term Missions teams to the Navajo Reservation from the New York/New Jersey Region since 1992.
Over those years, PaLM has sent out seven different types of teams:
 1. VBS teams to the Navajo Reservation: 1992, 1994-2019
 2. Reverse Short-Term Missions trip (Navajos to NY) 2008
 3. Herald Sports Camp: 1993-1994
 4. Evangelistic teams to Guatemala: 1996-2005
 5. Evangelistic teams to Spain: 2000-2001
 6. Tutorial teams to the Navajo Reservation: 2004-2005
 7. Labor team to the Navajo Reservation: 2005

The churches that have the greatest number of participants include:
     a) Chinese Evangel Mission Church, Queens: 82 participants
     b) Oversea Chinese Mission: 47 participants
     c)  New York Chinese Baptist Church: 32 participants

Excluding couples, 16 complete families [father, mother and child(ren)] have gone on our VBS Navajo Reservation trip....10 from CEMC-Q
     01) Howard & Fay Chan and family 1994-2006 (QHC, CEMC-Q)
     02) Mon & MIchaeline Chan and family 1996 (CEMC-M)
     03) Richard & Edwina Quan Choy and family 2018 (NYCBC)
     04) Sam & Diana Huang and family 2009 (CEMC-Q)
     05) David & Lois Lee and family 1996, 1997 (CEMC-Q)
     06) David & Kathy Yee and family 2001 (CEMC-Q)
     07) Dexter & Diane Yee and family 1998 (CEMC-Q)
     08) Steve  & Anna Wan Yee and family 2009 (CEMC-Q)
     09) KaChung & Mee Mei Wong and family 2004 (CUMC)
     10) Charles & Rosemary Kim and family 2012 (NLF)
     11) Elon & Whoy Shang and family 1998, 2001-2002 (SICCC)
     12) Ka Ming & Frances Liu and family 2013-2018 (NYCAC)
     13) John & Mui Chiu Wong and family 2013 (CEMC-Q)
     14) Billy & Fiona Tan Seah and family 2014 (CEMC-Q)
     15) Paul & Tsuner Jiang Cheng and family 2015 (CEMC-Q)
     16) John & Karen Lin Tsai and family 2015 (CEMC-Q)

Three people have the distinct honor of having gone on our trips while attending THREE different churches:
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     a) Pamela Chan: Queens Herald Church (AZ 94-02), Chinese Evangel Mission Church Queens (AZ 03-05), Connection Alliance Church (AZ 11-16)
     b) Wing Ng: Queens Christian Alliance Church (AZ 94), Oversea Chinese Mission (AZ 95), Vision Church (AZ 96, GU 99)
     c)  Yan Ng: Oversea Chinese Mission (AZ 97-00), Vision Church (AZ 01), New York Chinese Baptist Church (AZ 02-07, 12, 16)

Outside of the Chan family, the top three individuals who have gone on PaLM STM trips the most often include:

     a) Yan Ng 13 trips: AZ 97-07, 12, 16
     b) Diana Huang 10 trips: AZ 09, 10, 11, 12, 13 ,14, 15, 16, 17, 19
     c) Judy Chang 7 trips: AZ 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 11

Outside of the Chan family, the family who has gone on PaLM STM trips the most often is:

 Ka Ming & Frances Liu and family 6 trips: AZ 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
From 1992 to 2019:
360 different individuals have participated on our trips.


Team Members have come from 44 churches
     01. Brooklyn Chinese Baptist Church
     02. Brooklyn Community Christian Church
     03. Brooklyn First Free Methodist Church
     04. Calvary Baptist Church
     05. Campemento de Johva Iglesia Cristiana
     06. Christ Apostolic Church International
     07. Chinese Conservative Baptist Church
     08. Chinese Evangel Mission Church, Manhattan
     09. Chinese Evangel Mission Church, Queens
     10. Chinese United Methodist Church
     11. Christian Testimony
     12. Community Church of Great Neck
     13. Connection Alliance Church
     14. Covenant Church
     15. Grace Chinese Alliance Church
     16. Grace Faith Church
     17. Giving Church
     18. Harvest Time Church
     19. Hong Kong Baptist Church
     20. Hope Brooklyn
     21. House of the Lord Church
     22. Kalam Lutheran Church
     23. Korean Presbyterian Church of Queens
     24. King's Cross Church
     25. Living Faith Community Church
     26. Living Word Foundation Ministries
     27. Long Island Abundant Life Church
     28. Manhasset Baptist Church
     29. New Life Fellowship Church
     30. New York Chinese Alliance Church
     31. New York Chinese Baptist Church
     32. New York Ling Liang Church
     33. Oversea Chinese Mission
     34. The Plant Church
     35. Queens Christian Alliance Church
     36. Queens Herald Church
     37. Reformed Church of Newtown
     38. Redeemer Presbyterian Church
     39. Staten Island Chinese Christian Church
     40. Transfiguration Church
     41. Trinity Baptist Church
     42. Trust in God Baptist Church
     43. Vision Church
     44. Winfield Reformed Church
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 LARGEST and smallest AZ Teams:
LARGEST: 2015 - 33 team members
Smallest: 1992 & 2010 - 14 team members

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