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: 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 LARGEST and smallest AZ Teams: LARGEST: 2015 - 33 team members Smallest: 1992 & 2010 - 14 team members |