16,000 Members in 33 Congregations, Reaching Out
Presbyterian Urban Ministries Is a 501(c)(3) Outreach of the Presbytery of San Diego
The Presbytery of San Diego ministers to and with the community. The 33 San Diego and Imperial Valley congregations represent a cross section of society, including consumers of every description and influential academic, business, governmental, and spiritual leaders.
The Presbytery reaches out to the urban poor and homeless through Presbyterian Urban Ministries. It reaches out to and raises up first-generation college students who follow God's Word through the Reality Changers ministry.
It reaches out to diverse ethnicities through the Iglesia Presbiteriana Hispana ministry, Sudanese-American Presbyterian Church ministry, and new church plantings. Each weekend, members throughout the Presbytery worship in six different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, and Sudanese.
And the Presbytery connects with other churches, mission agencies, and ministries to extend
the Kingdom of God throughout Imperial and San Diego counties.
The F. Helen Pratt-Kurz Endowment Fund
The Golf4Good tournament committee named the annual tournament trophy in honor of F. Helen Pratt-Kurz, a graduate of San Diego High School, lifetime San Diego resident, and business partner-owner-operator of Keith's Drive-In restaurants. In 2004, when Mrs. Pratt-Kurz died at the age of 98, she bequeathed more than $400,000 to the Presbytery of San Diego for exclusive use by the Presbyterian Crisis Center, the former name of Presbyterian Urban Ministries ( PUM ) from 1968 to 2006.
The Presbytery Budget, Property, and Finance Committee established a Fund Committee to manage assets of the bequest and resolved that all earnings be reinvested from 2006–2009, unless an urgent need arose to fund operating expenses or pressing emergent capital requirements. After that germination period, the Fund Committee had hoped that the endowment fund would be able to generate $10,000 each year toward PUM operating expenses. Although reinvestment of funds has been consistent, the 2008 economy left the fund with less worth than the previous year. So the endowment fund will remain untouched until it regains losses and returns to producing consistent gains.
Meanwhile, the Golf4Good annual tournament is the single largest fundraising activity for Presbyterian Urban Ministries.