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Interesting Facts About PaLM Short-Term Mission Trips (up to and including 2017):

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, 1994-2017
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: 79 participants
     b) Oversea Chinese Mission: 47 participants
     c)  New York Chinese Baptist Church: 29 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) Sam & Diana Huang and family 2009 (CEMC-Q)
     04) David & Lois Lee and family 1996, 1997 (CEMC-Q)
     05) David & Kathy Yee and family 2001 (CEMC-Q)
     06) Dexter & Diane Yee and family 1998 (CEMC-Q)
     07) Steve  & Anna Wan Yee and family 2009 (CEMC-Q)
     08) KaChung & Mee Mei Wong and family 2004 (CUMC)
     09) Charles & Rosemary Kim and family 2012 (NLF)
     10) Suen Lau and family 2012 (QHC)
     11) Elon & Whoy Shang and family 1998, 2001-2002 (SICCC)
     12) Ka Ming & Frances Liu and family 2013-2015 (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
     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: AZ 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 12, 16
     b) Diana Huang 8: AZ 09, 10, 11, 12, 13 ,14, 15, 16
     c) Judy Chang 7: AZ 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 11

From 1992 to 2017:
339 different individuals have participated on our trips.


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

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