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.
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Over those years, PaLM has sent out seven different types of teams:
1. VBS teams to the Navajo Reservation: 1992, 1994-2017 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 |