Ellen Collins This is Me

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1. 1. www.presbyterianchurch.org

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   Published on: 2/18/2004   Last Visited: 9/29/2004

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   A letter from Andy and Ellen Collins in Nepal
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   Ellen Collins (left) and two nursing students attend to Sharmila's twins. Another of God's "angels-on-earth" helped with the above situation, and that is my friend Vijaya. She served with CDHP for ten years and is now one of the leaders of a new Christian organization called Shanti Nepal. She has a heart for the poor, and has facilitated many a case such as this one in the past.
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   Ellen Collins
   
   Previously a health educator with the Community Development & Health Project, Ellen is currently advisor to Shanti Nepal and other Christian NGOs.
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   Andrew and Ellen Collins
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   Andy and Ellen Collins
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   "We felt a call to return to serve the Asian people who had taught us so much and whom we have learned to respect," explain mission specialists Andrew and Ellen Collins, who are serving a third term in Kathmandu, Nepal. Jointly appointed by the United Church of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Presbyterian Church (USA), Andy and Ellen are serving with the United Mission to Nepal (UMN).
   
   For nearly fifty years, the UMN has coordinated the work of missionaries from over thirty different Protestant denominations and 15 countries. As an audio-visual consultant of the UMN's communications office, Andy is involved with the creation of training, educational and promotional materials for the UMN. His particular focus is video production. Ellen has been a health education consultant for the UMN's Community Development & Health Project, which serves the rural populations in the districts of Lalitpur and Makwanpur. The Collins have two sons. Christopher Jai was born in Lalitpur in 1995, at the hospital where Ellen is based. Jonathan Prem was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, while the Collins were on home assignment in 2002.
   
   "Andy and I are both Presbyterian missionary kids," writes Ellen, "and have felt that our backgrounds have been a major part of the calling we have had as adults to work in the developing world. We feel very comfortable in the Asian context, having grown up in Thailand (Andy) and Nepal (Ellen). Nepal is one of the poorest countries on earth, landlocked and mountainous, a Hindu kingdom opened to the outside world only in the 1950s. There is great need here-physical, social, and spiritual-and we are privileged to be among those God has enabled to live and work with the Nepali people.
   
   Andy and Ellen Collins.
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   Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Ellen in the daughter of PC(USA) missionaries Dr. Richard and Suzanne Harding, who retired from active service in early 2002. She was raised in Nepal. While earning a BA in cultural anthropology from Davidson College in North Carolina, she spent a term at the Madras Christian College in Madras, India, and a term in Mexico. She spent her summers working for the Migrant Workers Head Start Program in Clinton, North Carolina. After graduation she spent three years teaching English in Thailand, then returned to the United States to earn a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Ellen then worked as a consultant for the Institute for Development Training, a women's health organization in Chapel Hill.
   
   Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy was raised in Thailand where his father, the Rev. Robert Collins, still serves as a Presbyterian missionary on the faculty of the McGilvary School of Theology. Andy earned a BA degree in international studies and communications from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. After teaching English as a volunteer in Thailand, he returned to the United States to earn a master's degree in technology for international development from North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
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   Ellen - March 6

2. 2. MBF Missionaries Need Your Support

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   Published on: 9/18/2003   Last Visited: 2/13/2005

   Andy and Ellen Collins
   
   Jointly appointed by the United Church of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Presbyterian Church (USA), Ellen and Andy are serving their third term with the United Mission to Nepal (UMN) in Kathmandu. Ellen is a health education consultant for the UMN's Community Development & Health Project, which serves the rural populations in the districts of Lalitpur and Makwanpur. Andy is involved with the creation of training, educational and promotional materials for the UMN. His particular focus is video production.