Interesting Facts About PaLM Short-Term Mission Trips (up to and including 2018):
PaLM has sent forth Short-Term Missions teams to the Navajo Reservation from the New York/New Jersey Region since 1992.
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Over those years, PaLM has sent out seven different types of teams:
1. VBS teams to the Navajo Reservation: 1992, 1994-2018 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: 80 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: 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, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 12, 16 b) Diana Huang 9 trips: AZ 09, 10, 11, 12, 13 ,14, 15, 16, 17 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 2018:
344 different individuals have participated on our trips. Team Members have come from 37 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. Hong Kong Baptist Church 16. Hope Brooklyn 17. House of the Lord Church 18. Kalam Lutheran Church 19. King's Cross Church 20. Living Faith Community Church 21. Long Island Abundant Life Church 22. Manhasset Baptist Church 23. New Life Fellowship Church 24. New York Chinese Alliance Church 25. New York Chinese Baptist Church 26. New York Ling Liang Church 27. Oversea Chinese Mission 28. Queens Christian Alliance Church 29. Queens Herald Church 30. Reformed Church of Newtown 31. Redeemer Presbyterian Church 32. Staten Island Chinese Christian Church 33. Transfiguration Church 34. Trinity Baptist Church 35. Trust in God Baptist Church 36. Vision Church 37. Winfield Reformed Church LARGEST and smallest AZ Teams: LARGEST: 2015 - 33 team members Smallest: 1992 & 2010 - 14 team members |