Missionary: Jeff Barneson and Tara Edelschick TCC Contact: Greg

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Missionary: Jeff Barneson and Tara Edelschick
TCC Contact: Greg Bishop
TCC Background: Jeff Barneson and Tara
Edelschick are missionaries serving with InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship – Graduate and Faculty Ministries
in Cambridge, MA.
TCC first supported them in 1992 with prayer and
financial support when Jeff was a missionary with the
Conservative Baptist Home Mission Society – now
called Mission to the Americas. In 1993 he joined
InterVarsity, and the Harvard Graduate School
Christian Fellowships came under the support and
direction of InterVarsity.
What is your ministry?
I serve as a Harvard Chaplain and team leader for
the InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministry at Harvard’s 9 graduate schools. Together we welcome
friends and colleagues, seekers and skeptics, and share conversation about the things that matter most
for our professions, our relationships, our lives. Mostly we share the life we have found in Jesus and
invite others to join us in following him. It is a very joyful work!
What is your role in that ministry?
I work in a number of roles: leading teams of students and staff, training and equipping student leaders
and also directly engage student and scholars who don’t yet follow Jesus. I also serve on the Harvard
Board of Ministry (a committee that advises the Minister in the Memorial Church) and the Executive
Committee of the Harvard Chaplains (the inter-faith cohort of chaplains who advise student religious
organizations in the University).
What religious groups do you serve?
I serve students, faculty and staff who self-identify as followers of Christ and also engage others from a
variety of religious orientations (Hindu, Buddhists, Muslim, Jews, un-churched cultural Christians and
Atheists. The InterVarsity student groups at the graduate schools work hard to lower entry barriers to their
meetings so that students and faculty from any or no faith tradition are welcomed.
What age groups do you serve?
Students are mostly in their 20’s. Faculty range from 30’s to 50’s
What is the geographic area you serve?
Campuses in Cambridge and Boston MA. About half of the students with whom we have ministry are
international students (~1/2 from Asia or South-east Asia) so you might consider our geographic area to be
much larger than the graduate schools in Cambridge.
Please describe how your ministry is equipping the Christian community where you are currently
serving, to be self-sustaining and/or to support ministry growth.
Our ministry focuses on helping students understand and cultivate their vocation through engaging,
equipping and sending graduates into their work as ministers of Christ.
Briefly describe your current ministry.
It is my great joy and honor to gather and organize graduate students and faculty who are fascinated
with Jesus and are curious about what his life and teaching mean for their lives, for their study in the
University and their work in the world. Together we welcome friends and colleagues, seekers and
skeptics, and share conversation about the things that matter most for our professions, our relationships,
our lives. We do this through reading and discussion of the Christian Scriptures and connection with
mentors, through prayer and service, through friendship and engagement. My role as a Harvard
Chaplain and team leader for the InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministry at Harvard enables me to
serve at the 9 graduate schools and 12,000 graduate students.
Tell us one brief story of how God is working in peoples’ lives through your ministry.
Each Thursday afternoon I meet with a group of graduate students and visiting scholars – most of the
participants are Chinese. Most are not followers of Jesus but are curious about what Christians believe
and want to take the opportunity to study and have conversation about Jesus and the Bible. Our Bible &
Tea group is a very simple gathering. We read a passage of Scripture – usually from the Gospels –
share insights and questions and drink tea. The time is really delightful and those who participate
frequently join us for other events and retreats. After our fall retreat this year Qing shared with me that
he thought he wanted to follow Jesus but had a problem. I asked him what it was and he shared that his
membership in the Communist Party made it impossible for him to believe in the God he was coming to
know. One great thing about Qing is that he knows that a decision to follow Jesus has implications. We
continue in regular conversation and I’m hopeful that he will continue to grow in his understanding and
longing to know God and his Son Jesus.
List the three specific goals you had for the past year and describe the degree to which they were
reached – these are goals I highlighted fall’2010
Goal 1. Foster inter-school prayer between professors at the different graduate & Professional
Schools: This goal took a big hit at Harvard this year. Three of our faculty members went on sabbatical
and two left Harvard to accept positions at Hopkins. There is a growing group of professors who meet
regularly at Harvard Business School and they pray together. And there is also a growing group of
professors from other schools (MIT, BU, Brandeis, etc… who we’ve been able to gather together twice a
semester for prayer, encouragement and mission. So, while we’ve not made progress at Harvard, these
connections are growing between other schools around Boston. Praise God!
Goal 2. Formation and development of an alumni advocacy council that would work together
with IVCF staff and students to foster connections with mentors and strengthen work on
campus. In the last month I was able to host the first gathering of our newly chartered Harvard
Business School Christian Fellowship Alumni Association. Last spring we hosted the first meetings of
the Harvard Law School Alumni Council. These represent significant steps toward enlisting alumni to
come alongside work on campus. There is a long way to go but we are now in touch with over 20 local
alums who are interested in continuing to engage with one another and serve the mission of the student
groups on campus.
Goal 3. Develop a new skills-based curriculum and training for graduate students to strengthen
witness and integration of Christian Faith with academic and professional work.
A couple new initiatives are serving to strengthen witness for a limited number of graduate students: 1)
RZIM (Ravi Zacharias International Ministries) is supporting an apologetics training class this fall that a
small number of students have joined. 2) Finny Kuruvilla has worked with us to re-launch “The Society
for the Two Tasks”, a Saturday morning apologetics workshop that takes on some of the hardest
questions facing Christians. These two groups regularly serve no more than 15-20 students each week
but they are both excellent and, we hope, capable of growing in both size and effectiveness throughout
this new school year.
Please update your children’s activities,
We are continuing homeschooling our boys for a fourth year. Ezra (10) and Zachary (11) are doing well
and the whole experience has been a really good one for our family. They are members of a swim team
(Charles River Aquatics) and teammates on a traveling soccer team (BAYS) from Cambridge. Nafisa (17)
continues to thrive at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. She is a member of Young Life and hosts
club at our house each week. We are all active in our congregation, Pentecostal Tabernacle.
Web Site: http://hgscf.org
Missionary: Kevin Bauder
TCC Contact: Clark Andrews
TCC background: Kevin has been a sponsored
missionary of TCC’s since 1985. He is with
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.
Kevin was nurtured thru TCC Sunday schools,
Vacation Bible Schools and PF youth groups.
His parents are Ernie and Lorraine Bauder.
To establish and advance at colleges and
universities, witnessing communities of
students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord. This included evangelism and
discipleship via para-church organizations, training of lay leaders and evangelism of unreached
people groups.
Kevin is InterVarsity’s regional director for ministry to graduate students and faculty (GFM) in the
northeast quarter of the US. He serves on the national leadership teams for GFM and Collegiate
Ministries and leads a team of area directors and focused ministries. They serve 50 groups of
students and faculty on 27 campuses from Washington DC to Maine.
Christians, seekers, dialog with and service to many others (Jews, Muslims, Sikh, Jain, Hindus,
Buddhists, Atheists, Shinto, New Age, Mormons, Un-churched cultural Christians etc.)
What age groups do you serve? 21 – 65+
While we are located in North America, The scholars we serve are from everywhere. Many
return to prominent leadership positions with a new trust in Jesus or at least valued friends and
colleagues that are Christians. This has significant value for global missions as well as
unknowable value for international stability.
We believe that God has called and equipped Christian graduate students and faculty to be a
redeeming influence among the people, ideas, and structures of the university and professions. In
the power of the Spirit, we share the following four commitments:
Spiritual Formation
We cultivate intimacy with God and growth in Christ-like character through personal and corporate
disciplines, including the rigorous study of Scripture and regular prayer that expresses our faith,
love, and dependence on God.
Community
We gather as communities of graduate students and faculty to learn and worship, to challenge and
care for each other, and to serve as a welcoming place for believers and seekers alike. We pursue
ethnic reconciliation by practicing grace and truth and by promoting personal and systemic justice.
We also encourage students and faculty to be active members in their local congregations.
Evangelism & Service
We demonstrate & proclaim the gospel within the university and professions with love & boldness,
calling all to repentance, faith, and new life in Jesus Christ. We join with God's people to serve in our
communities and to extend his Kingdom cross-culturally on campus and around the world.
Integration of Faith, Learning, & Practice
We engage in learning and biblical reflection in every area of life and seek a unity of knowledge and
practice, because the God whom we worship is Creator of all. We labor to form leaders in every
field who honor God's gifts and calling. We believe that the integrity of these pursuits will be a
witness of his Kingdom to the academic and professional worlds.
There are many but here’s a recent one. On November 12th we hosted a Veritas forum at Yale. It
was a public discussion with N.T. Wright and Shelly Kagan, a popular Yale professor. I tell this
because it is a good example of partnership with other groups, coming together on a single
campus and creating a forum for people to gather where God meets them in ways often beyond
our hopes.
The forum was entitled “Living Well in the Light of Death.” There were between 800 and 1000 in
attendance. Two notable encouragements stand out in my mind, Dr. Kagan became quite
inquisitive with Dr. Write’s perspectives and as a result they have continued the conversation
between them since. Please pray for the gospel to shine on his heart. Another encouragement was
that many of the students who came stayed afterward for small informal discussions in a hall
across the street from the meeting venue. While most of our work is in small groups and
fellowships God also works in our larger partnerships. Much of my personal work is in supervision
and training of our ministry leaders. Bill Cutler, our New England Area Director and Yale staff was
the prime leader of this event. I’m grateful for a competent and committed team that passionately
seeks to make Jesus known. (Here’s a link to the recording of the forum on the Veritas web site:
http://veritas.org/campuses/yale-university/)
List the three specific goals you had for the past year and describe the degree to which
they were reached
1. Evangelism – While we enjoy seeing 27 people commit to following Jesus this is slow progress
in an area with significant needs. So, we are thankful and share in the joy that is celebrated in
heaven. We also have been working on ways to train students and faculty to more confidently
and comfortably have conversations about Jesus with their colleagues at various places in life.
We remain committed to praying for spiritual awakening.
2. Staff Recruitment – I recently returned for a national training week for staff new to ministering
with faculty and graduate students, three for whom are from our region. We have another staff
we have just appointed to plant new work at SUNY Buffalo. He will attend this training next year.
We have also had a staff leave our region to plant a new work in Houston TX and another move
to the UK and she is developing work among graduate students at Cambridge University. These
are losses for us but not for God’s Kingdom! We still have many openings for qualified staff.
3. Growth – I have completed my coaching role with the couple planting a new Work at U of
Washington in Seattle. That work is up and running and going well. It was a blessing to be able
to support colleagues in the west and gain new insights that can help us develop our work in the
northeast.
Please update your children’s (thru High School) activities, school / college plans, ages
(birth dates), etc.
Grete has recently moved from Madison, WI and is now living in Oxford England working with
InterVarsity’s parent organization, IFES – The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.
Sheralynn will be graduating in December from University of Idaho in a master’s program; Emily is
working in an outdoor science institute in CA, and Maria lives and works in Charlestown. Thank
you for your love and care for our family.
Web Site is: http://gfm.intervarsity.org
.Missionary:
Jeffery Bass
TCC Contact: Ken Taylor
TCC Background: TCC has supported the Emmanuel
Gospel Center for many years and Jeff Bass is the
Executive Director.
EGC’s primary focus is to “nurture urban churches.”
EGC has an integrated approach, rather than just
working in one area. EGC’s mission statement is “to
understand and nurture the vitality of urban churches
and communities.”
EGC is about growing the Kingdom in the entire city
and we have seen the continuous growth of the faith
for four consecutive decades in our city. We are now
being asked to assist many other cities in similar
developments.
Jeff is the Executive Director of Emmanuel Gospel Center, which means giving big picture oversight and
strategic leadership...He is also adjunct professor at Gordon Conwell Boston campus teaching Living
Systems in the Urban Context
EGC’s “parish” is the entire city, which includes many non-religious and some agnostic and atheistic
people, as well as those from many streams of Christianity and from Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist
backgrounds.
Our mission to “nurture urban churches” includes helping them face the challenges of ministering with
people from various religious backgrounds. We nurture many immigrant churches that face the
challenge of dealing with witchcraft, santaria, voodoo and other demonic influences that are strong in
their homelands.
EGC staff work with adults of both genders in the CUME classes, which focus on adult education.
EGC’s mission to “nurture churches and communities” implies and includes communities with all ages.
EGC especially focuses on youth as an age group in many ways, such as youth-at-risk with the Youth
Violence Systems Project, or homeless youth, or encouraging and training urban youth workers. “Youth”
in the urban context is broader than “teens”, encompassing people from 12-25.
What is the country and location of your ministry?
We work primarily in Boston, MA, and the urban New England region, but increasingly we are working
with urban leaders from other cities of the world.
There is no geographic boundary, really, because we follow the networks of the people we work with,
and those networks extend all around the world. Since we work with groups who have come to Boston
from all over the world, we find ourselves working with them as they work in their homelands.
Briefly describe your current ministry
Jeff Bass is the Executive Director of the Emmanuel Gospel Center (EGC), which seeks to
understand and help nurture the vitality of urban churches in the context of their broader urban
communities, particularly low-income and immigrant communities. We help urban Christian leaders
in Greater Boston grow in their ability to lead healthy churches and ministries that noticeably and
significantly contribute to healthy communities. Together with these leaders, we learn about the
changing dynamics of the city. We connect leaders and systems, building bridges that are needed
for effective ministry. And we equip urban Christian leaders through various forms of teaching,
training, consulting, partnering and resourcing. By working with and through churches and
ministries, EGC seeks to build a community that supports and cares for the spiritual and physical
needs of all the individuals throughout the city.
In 2003, I helped COPAHNI (the local association of Hispanic pastors), apply for and win a major
grant (about $1 million total) from the Lilly Endowment to invest in the health of New England’s
Latino churches. For the next 10 years I was the only non-Hispanic member of a leadership team
that directed the Institute for Pastoral Excellence (IEP), which accepted its first cohort of pastors and
clergy later in 2003. The goal of the IEP was to provide Hispanic church leaders with practical skills
for sustaining their ministries to foster long-term community impact. Courses offered training on
issues including conflict and financial management, mental and emotional health, spiritual reflection,
counseling, administration, technology and intercultural relations, among others. From 2003-2013,
the IEP trained 152 pastors through cohorts in Boston and Lawrence, MA; Providence, RI; and
Hartford, CT. The IEP focused on pastoral development and excellence not just for the sake of the
faith community, but to also build up organizations engaged effectively and holistically in God’s
Kingdom work. The IEP program has left a significant legacy: it developed a new culture of Latino
pastors and lay leaders with theological and professional yearnings, as well as an urban-conscious,
social justice-focused outlook.
List the three specific goals you had for the past year and describe the degree to which they
1. Help Doug and Judy Hall retire well. This goal was reached when the Halls officially retired on
August 4th, and when we celebrated their 50 years of ministry in September. The Halls are happy
to have fewer responsibilities, and are now functioning as consultants to EGC.
2. Move EGC into the future by continuing our strategic planning process. EGC is in the 4th year of
a multi-year strategic planning process. We are intentionally looking at every aspect of what we
do, and working to ensure that what we know how to do (what we teach and have learned about
effective ministry over decades of work) is effectively implemented in our current ministries and
activities, and that we are intentional about the outcomes we are hoping to accomplish. This has
been and continues to be hard work, but we are making excellent progress and EGC and our
staff continue to grow in exciting ways.
3. Hire a director of applied research to take that part of our ministry to a new level. I hired Nika
Elugardo to direct EGC’s applied research in June of this year. Prior to that I essentially directed
the ministry, which was not really sufficient. Applied Research is the engine which drives ministry
development at EGC, and there is so much potential we don’t realize here due to lack of
leadership and investment. Nika’s assignment is to change that, and to get the engine of applied
research really going at EGC. We are off to a good start and I am hopeful for measureable
progress by 2015.
Please update your children’s (thru High School) activities, school / college plans, ages (birth
dates), etc.
Our eldest son David married Charis in 2013. They live in Windsor, England, just west of London...
David just got his masters in economics and works in a non-profit doing policy management. Charis
is a school teacher.
Our second son Peter is a watercolor artist. He’s very good (see for yourself at
peterbassart.wordpress.com)
Peter has been selling paintings recently and is about to move out of our house where he has been
living the last few years as he develops his craft.
Web Site: www.egc.org
Missionary: Paul and Cheryl Bendele
TCC Contact: Dave Jenkins
Background: Paul and Cheryl have
been TCC sponsored missionaries since
1982. Cheryl grew up at TCC and
attended youth activities at TCC. They
are serving with Missionary Ventures
International in Orlando, Florida
Cheryl’s parents, Bob and Edith Knox,
have a rich history of service to TCC and
the Lord. Edith served as Dr. Donald
Ewing’s secretary for many faithful years.
Before retirement, they were both
involved with missionary work here at
TCC.
We have been asked by our director, Glen DuBois, to be the first missionaries with vast field
experience to work in the home office. We are in charge of organizing prayer for the entire mission.
That entails contacting all our missionaries each month and gathering prayer requests, printing a
booklet and distributing it. Every week we are in charge of organizing our chapel service with worship
and a speaker and prayer.
We have also been put in charge of recruitment of new missionaries. In this position, we receive all
new requests for mission and make first contact. We interview them and then arrange for an
application and then for them to attend orientation at the home office here in Orlando. This coming
week we have seven new missionaries coming for the ten day orientation. We are on the staff to teach
and on the personnel committee with the board for the final decision.
Our assignment stateside is to organize and train teams to Central and South America. Also, we are
available to the home office to train teams for other countries as needed. Besides this, we are
coordinating the activities of Argentine Nationals who are bringing teams to the USA upon request of
churches in the USA.
We serve the national church overseas and churches of all denominations here in the USA.
Our mission is open to working with all age levels. We work primarily with families and teens.
At present we are assigned to the USA in the home office in Orlando, FL. Our main assignment as
missions’ coordinator is over Central and South America.
Please describe how your ministry is equipping the Christian community where you are
currently serving, to be self-sustaining and/or to support ministry growth.
Cheryl and I serve in a home group and try to bring a missions emphasis to the group by sharing our
past experiences as well as opportunities for outreach on short-term teams. We would like to create
an environment in our church which will encourage the development of new missionaries. Please let
people know that they can find missions opportunities for short-term teams of a great variety on our
website www.mvi.org.
North America and International through the home office
In August, I led an evangelistic team from Great Britain to Cordoba, Argentina. Because of the years
we spent in Cordoba and the surrounding villages, we were able to arrange meetings with many
pastors of the region. We ministered in 17 meetings and saw over 1,000 souls come to know Jesus.
•Please list at least three specific goals you had for the past year and describe the degree to
which they were reached
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We had a goal to see four new couples join MVI and we praise God there were six.
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We hoped to enter two new countries. We have not but the good news is that we have established
a new Latin America office in Nicaragua and their goal is to reach the Muslim world with Latin
missionaries.
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We want to revive the “Rabbi” drama and we have done that.
dates), etc. The family information is from 2013
Hannah (30) is married to Jake and has 4 boys: Nathan-5, Paul-4, Calem- 2 ½, & Brice 1.
Sarah (28) is a full-time grad student in Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
David (25) has been studying for undergrad degree and wants to take time for an internship in Britain,
if accepted.
Noah is engaged to be married and is a full-time student at Moody Bible Institute studying linguistics to
become a missionary
Elisha (18) is working odd jobs and looking at university.
Esther (16) and Lydia (14) are home-schooling with Cheryl.
Web Site: www.therabbifromtarsus.blogspot.com
Missionary: Bridge House – David Lang
TCC Background:
Bridge House was incorporated in 1984,
and opened in 1987 under the direction of
Jim Spence. Nelson Gildersleve
introduced Bridge House to TCC.
What is Bridge House?
The Bridge House Program is the primary program of New England Aftercare Ministries, Inc.
(NEAM), which was incorporated in 1984 and opened its doors in 1987 to help men (18 and over)
recover from the effects of alcohol and drug abuse. Men enter our program from prison, county
jails, courts, detox centers and the streets as the life of an addict is simply put — messy. We offer
hope and a path to reconciliation.
We are a faith-based recovery home for men with substance abuse problems. Our program
provides individualized treatment including counseling to support the spiritual, physical, social and
intellectual health of each person in recovery.
The only requirement for acceptance to the Bridge House is a minimum of 30 days of verifiable
sobriety from drug and alcohol abuse and a true desire and commitment to stay sober and build a
life that sustains their new found freedom.
Where are you located?
We maintain 2 adjacent houses in downtown Framingham.
The Bridge House provides residential care for parolees, probationers, homeless, and various
men who have a drug/alcohol addiction. We provide food, shelter, one on one counseling, small
group interaction to address the variety of issues the men face. Our goal is to provide a gospel
rich alternative to the men as they transition to living in society. They enter the program from
courts, jails or detoxes; many are homeless, and find employment, housing, and a range of
resources to help them live stable, productive lives in society. Many have criminal attachments
like parole or probation and many come from detoxes/transitional services.
We provide the church of Jesus Christ a venue to demonstrate compassionate, affirming care
for their transition to drug free responsible living. In addition to the many case management and
clinical services, we also provide Christian, spiritual, and practical training to enable the men to
change. We provide a venue for the church of Jesus Christ to help meet these men and
encounter God’s amazing grace and love where they live.
As executive director of The Bridge House it is my responsibility to oversee the program, its
operations, and development. I lead a team of 11 individuals to match them with the trainings
they need and the talents they are given to serve the residents we have. We are licensed with
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a residential recovery home. We feed, shelter, guide,
encourage, and hold accountable up to 33 men to pursue their plan of recovery.
What religious groups and age groups do you serve?
We serve adult men who are un-churched cultural Christians plus an indefinable mixture that comes
from the prison culture.
Tell us how God is working in peoples’ lives through your ministry.
We were able to increase our outreach to more men by hiring more staff and keeping our
numbers up and continuing counseling to graduates. Some come once a week for counseling.
One of them was a career criminal now on a court mandated “radio bracelet”. He has been
sober for three years, visits his family out of state and has been employed for over two years.
He attends a local church and is also helping out other men along the way. Before he couldn’t
keep enough money in the bank for rent. Now he owns a used car, has thousands in savings,
lives simply and is content with his life. His family is back in his life and he is one of the sources
of encouragement to the staff as well.
were reached
1. Increase our outreach by keeping higher numbers of men in program. This means having a
few part-time clinicians. We were able to do this with four interns/counselors.
2. Renew our license. We successfully achieved this by God’s grace.
3. Our plan to remodel the kitchen. We were not able to raise sufficient funds for this project.
Please share some goals that God has placed on your heart for next year.
1. Get out development department on track with a website, brochure, display
2. Rebuild our deteriorated fire escape at the 18 Summit property
3. Obtain a new kitchen exhaust fan.
Web Site: www.thebridgehouse.org
Missionary: Bill and Laurel Coolbaugh
TCC Background:
Bill and Laurel Coolbaugh were members of TCC for many
years. Bill served on the Board of Deacons and worked with
Boys Brigade with their son Gethin. Laurel was active in the
music program while working in the office as the church
administrator and has since completed her Masters of
Divinity at Gordon –Conwell Seminary.
My ministry with Boston International Student Ministry
affiliated with Emmanuel Gospel Center’s Intercultural
Ministry.
My role is the direct evangelism of unbelievers, training and administrative director
All, we are a multi-cultural, multi-religion ministry
College/University ages on to adults
United States, Greater Boston Area
Greater Boston area, Metro West and Central Mass.
Boston International Student Ministry is an Non Governmental Organization that builds the
Kingdom of God in international communities that God has brought to the Greater Boston area by
serving their leaders and potential leaders – whether students, scholars, or otherwise. Through
mutual training and collaborating with the wider Church (cross-culturally and -geographically),
BISM helps each community build its own culturally relevant, holistic, and self-replicating church. I
am the administrative director and metro west & central Mass area ministry director.
A Chinese woman attending Clark University came as a graduate student. One of the Chinese
men who I had led to the Lord the prior year invited her during her first week to come to our
church with him and she came. Within a week this woman accepted the Lord! She right away
began attending three Bible studies a week at Clark and inviting others. She was so hungry for
the Lord that my wife began mentoring her on top of the Bible studies. We became her
American parents as she would tell others and her parents. As we got to know her and heard
her spiritual testimony we found out 6 years before she had been invited to a Christian group in
China and wanted nothing to do with it. But God was working on her heart and she had hard
times in China. By the time she got to the US she was so touched by the love we showed to her
that she wanted to know why and when she heard the gospel she believed. She has been a
real evangelist and witness for the Lord here, but left this fall for a job in Nevada. To me this
was a powerful lesson of how God works and we never know when he brings someone here
what may happen and how fast it may.
they were reached
1) Develop a Bible Study at WPI and keep working on developing a Bible study at UMass
Medical. This will give a Bible study on every main campus in Worcester. We already have
students from other Worcester campus coming to current studies, and plan in the future to use
these main four bible studies as a source for any international student in Worcester to come to.
.
Progress: The WPI students continued to come to the Clark bible study. WPI has no direct
staff on campus ministry, but has a student led one. This has proven hard to work with, not only
by BISM but the other Worcester campus ministries. When I met with the student leaders they
saw no connection with international students. We continue to pray and seek the Lord’s timing
on this.
2) Continue developing a place to get essential items for international students upon their
arrival. This past year we did give away several items to new internationals. I am finding a key
person to run this and hope to get it off the ground over the school year.
Progress: It has proven illusive to find the right person to share and implement this outreach
vision. The person I thought might do this was too busy all semester. We continued to give
away some items, micro wave, fans, etc. I am now working with the largest campus ministry in
Worcester. Campus Ambassadors, who shares this vision to help bring it to life.
3) Help build more international student ministry inside RT128 with my other BISM partner
David Miller. Plans to begin a weekly Bible study in Medford at David’s ministry house are being
made. We have now several students’ connections from Worcester now that are in Boston, and
we are using these connects to begin this.
Progress: We made good progress on this over the past year; we did several joint events
where Worcester internationals invited their Boston friends so David could meet them. The new
Mass College of Pharmacy & Health Science (MCPHS) English program is proving out best
method. Many of these students will continue their studies in Boston upon graduation from
Worcester ESL program. Already we have connected the students via Boson events with
David. Since MCPHS has no English help in Boston, David (a linguistic major and ESL teacher)
is well positioned to attract many of these students. Many are Saudi Arabian and mid eastern!
(birth dates), etc.
My family is doing very well. My wife Laurel continues to pastors at Woodville Baptist Church
(WBC), but felt a new calling elsewhere. This led to a new ministry at WBC to use the facility for a
second use as a spiritual formation and retreat center called the sanctuary at Woodville (a name
given to her in a vision by God). The center plan got a unanimous vote by the church and began in
July, with an open house in September after some improvements to the facility. She continued in a
pastor group (John 17 group) out here, as well she continues as an active trained certified spiritual
director. Laurel is through her class work for her Doctoral of Ministry program at Gordon Conwell,
and in process of doing her thesis My son Gethin, now 23, lives with us and works at a few part
time writing jobs for sport and now has his own sports blog site www.bostonsportstoday.net. He
continues as a great help to me in many ministry events. This past year he covered all of the
Celtics home games. Laurel and I celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary this year. We
appreciate TCC’s support very much.
Web Site:
www.ismbostonwest.org
Missionary: Mark and Kris Crooks
TCC background:
Mark and Kris have been TCC supported
missionaries since 1989. Mark’s father, Dick,
served as assistant minister to Dr. Donald Ewing for
about seven years in the ‘80s. Dick was involved in
missions and this is where Mark found his calling for
missionary work.
Planting new churches
Mark is the team leader and church planter. We are involved in training church leadership –
small group leaders – church people to be missional in their lifestyles and to be fruitful in making
other disciples.
Un-churched cultural Christians
All ages – primarily families
We are in Venice/Mestre, Italy
Europe
Briefly describe you current ministry
We serve in metro Venice, on the mainland. The whole northeast quadrant of Italy has an
estimated 2000 evangelical believers, with an overall population of 5 million. Our ministry is to
establish a church that reach out across our city through a multiplying network of smaller
communities, spreading the Gospel and meeting the needs of people in each local area where
these communities are formed. At this stage our team consists of one other missionary couple,
an Italian couple and a single gal from England. These teammates are already actively
shouldering the responsibility for the ministry along with us.
The newest family in our community of believers is really growing! Last week their oldest
daughter (22) announced that she too would “like someone to teach her how to believe!”
So, she is now meeting regularly with her mom and with one of the Italian ladies on our
leadership team to study the scripture and learn to follow the Master.
they were reached
1. Pray as I work to bring Il Faro to full potential in the area of community classes that will bring in
some income for us. I will be working to organize teams here from within the church to start
programs and forming partnerships with a Christian U. in America to help us teach English. This
goal is well on the way! We have a new coordinator for our ESL program, Nicola Lambert, who
is a gal from Manchester, UK and is raising missionary support to work fulltime in this ministry.
We have also launched a partnership with Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids MI that will
begin to funnel short-term missionaries into our ESL program. We are thankful and excited for
this new initiative! This should produce income to help support our community center operating
expenses.
2. Pray as we get three Gospel Communities (small groups) off the ground this year. We have the
leaders; we just need full agreement on the leadership to step forward with the plan to form the
groups. We are moving forward – but still haven’t been able to “multiply” our groups. This will
remain a goal for 2015.
3. Pray as we continue to seek financial autonomy. Through biblical teaching, growth in numbers
and growth in our community center we trust the Lord to move us out of the dependency stage.
This will continue to be a goal in 2015 – Here are the creative ways we are trying to get our
community center to produce income: renting it out for parties, conferences, banquets, etc. ESL
and computer classes are also beginning to produce some income.
(birth dates), etc.
Thanks for inquiring about our family! It is growing! We are now grandparents two times over!!
Anna (and Ben) had their first baby in September, Emma – and Jos and Alissa had their first baby
as well and his name is Judah. Both families live in Grand Rapids, MI. Anna is a graphic designer
and Ben is working as a missions coach for TEAM in the Mid-West Region.
Beka is just completing her first year in the culinary arts school in Grand Rapids. This is her
passion and she hopes to use it in God’s Kingdom somehow in the future.
Benjamin and Samuel are in 5th and 3rd grades respectively at the International School of Venice, a
British based school that teaches everything in English and Italian. This has been a tough
transition for them, so please continue to pray for them. Most of the families are Italian and from
our area, so please pray that we will be able to make friends and spread the Gospel among them.
Ben asks for specific prayer that his friend Alex and his family will come to know his Savior!
Thank you for your ministry to us and through us as you continue to support and pray for us! We
are so grateful for the long partnership we have enjoyed with TCC! May God richly bless you as
you continue to make disciples in your community
Web Site:
www.impactoveneto.org
Missionary: Steve Daman
TCC Contact: Carolyn Lippmann
TCC background: Steve has been a TCC
sponsored missionary since 1987. Steve and his
wife, Debby, live in Bolton.
In describing his relationship to TCC he states:
My relationship with TCC goes back to the early
1960s when my parents were planting a church
in Bolton, and Dr. Ewing encouraged the
Wayland congregation to come alongside to help
us organize, purchase a building, and hire a
pastor. As a junior high student, I remember him
preaching every Sunday evening one winter in
the home of one of the Bolton families.
EGC is a broad-based ministry working to equip churches and train leaders in Boston in all of
the areas you listed: We work to train leaders in urban churches as they support and care for
the spiritual and physical needs of all people in the city, especially those who are marginalized
or underserved. This work gets us involved in training lay people, seminary students, and
college students; in creating and encouraging pastors’ prayer groups; helping churches equip
their young people to succeed in education; training church groups to serve people who are
homeless; helping organizations develop effective infrastructure; building peer fellowships
among those planting churches in Boston; and much, much more. (Though we do not major in
Bible translation, because of our connections to Boston’s Haitian community, EGC was asked to
serve as the fiscal conduit partner for a ministry in Haiti working to translate the Old Testament
into Haitian Creole from the original languages for the first time.)
I am the Senior Writer for the Emmanuel Gospel Center in Boston. I use my gifts in writing, editing,
database design, and research to support the Center’s work to train and equip leaders in Boston
who will, in turn, help create vibrant churches and healthy communities. This year, I am focusing
my energies in configuring the Sales force constituent relationship management platform for the
Center in order to measure the progress of their dozen programs and also to track the everchanging church system in Boston.
We serve Christian churches in Boston, cross-denominationally and cross-culturally. Our ministry
centers on training and equipping people who call Boston home. Boston’s residents come from
over 100 nations.
Our main focus is Boston, but the people we work with are networked globally. As we follow
these networks, we find we are becoming more involved in projects that take us into other cities
in Massachusetts, and also give us opportunity to network globally. We have been able through
our Haitian Ministries International to serve Haitian believers living across the Caribbean, and
we have close ties with a church-planting organization in India.
I am working upstream from “how God is working in people’s lives.” Because I do writing, editing,
and research to create ministry tools, and these tools are placed in the hands of other workers, I
am not sure how the many projects I work on affect the final end users! I suspect that these
projects, into which I invest my time, talent, energy, and prayers, as well as your resources, are
being used by God to create change in people and in the Kingdom. If this were not so, I am sure
God would have me serving him somewhere else, and the doors of EGC would have closed long
ago. I think maybe in heaven folks will come up to me and thank me for my part in their growth
toward Jesus Christ, but for now, I am content to work for the Lord with little feedback, though my
particular personality actually thrives on feedback! It is just not now.
List the goals you had for the past year and describe the degree to which they were
reached.
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Last year’s GOAL #1. The Boston Church Database: “to continue to create online forms
for gathering and updating data on Boston’s 575 churches as well as churches in neighboring
cities; to redesign the way we publish our church data on the web and create the tools and digital
pathways to make our Boston church data web pages more useful, more attractive, and user
friendly.”
I have made great progress in this goal. When we decided in April, 2014, to acquire Salesforce for
EGC (free for nonprofits) in order to begin tracking program outcomes. Over the summer, while I
was learning Salesforce, I worked closely with other EGC research staff to update and revise our
data and to choose which fields of data we wanted to carry forward. Earlier this fall, I moved all our
church data into Salesforce, and I am in the process of finalizing the forms we use to enter new
churches and new church staff. After that, I will begin to create the online tools we have needed for
many years, all of which can be done very effectively in the new platform. This will revolutionize the
way we can update data on Boston churches (information which changes week by week) and
provide online tools for church research.
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Last year’s GOAL #2. Other research projects: “to provide database support and
research for new initiatives.”
At the time I wrote this goal, I was experimenting with a different platform which held some promise
for allowing us to do what we wanted to do. Since then, the acquisition of Salesforce has proven to
be a much better approach. My work priority is first to shape Salesforce for measuring program
outcomes, and second for managing the Boston Church Directory.
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Last year’s GOAL #3. “to explore the Quiet Revival Back-story Project, to publish in
print or online materials related to the motivations and key players responsible for leading the citywide church revitalization over the past 50 years.”
I was able to start a web portal on the Quiet Revival for EGC, and write a few lead articles.
(birth dates), etc.
Debby and I have three grown children and five grandchildren. Hannah, 27 in 2015, has been
living with us, but is making plans to move, perhaps to Portland, Maine. Laura, who will be 32 in
2015, is married to Andy Papia, lives in Dorchester, is a stay-at-home mom, a former math teacher
at Brookline High, and is active as an urban missionary in her community. She and her husband
own an 11-room Victorian which they are using as an intentional Christian community. They have
two children, Drew and Liam. Nathan, 35 in 2015, is married and has three children, Olivia, Isaac,
and Samuel. Nate and Caroline are campus directors with the Navigators at UMass Amherst.
Debby and I are blessed that all three of our children follow Christ and are active in building God’s
Kingdom.
Website: www.egc.org
Missionary: Pastor Dieuseul Estivene
TCC Contact: Rita Hernandez
TCC Background: The Rev. Dieuseul Estivene and
his wife Magda have been ministry partners with us
since 2000 when our first TCC short-term mission team
met them in Haiti and toured their work. They live and
minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Rev Estivene was called by God in 1981 to minister to
these desperately poor people. He started a small
elementary school to provide a basic education to
some of these children and today the small school is
filled to capacity and has over 450 children enrolled.
Win the people (bad, poor, and children) to Jesus
through: church, spiritual formation of the leaders, vocational school, School youth activities,
medicines project, micro business project, feeding project.
What is your role in the ministry?
Pastor and founder
Baptist
What age group do you serve?
Adults, young, children
What are the country and the location of your ministry?
Haiti –Cite Soleil and Delmas
Haiti is an Island, mountain, tropical sunny area .Cite Soleil is a biggest, poor slum in Haiti and
Delmas is near of Cite Soleil.
I am Pastor Dieuseul Estivene, Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church at Delmas. In the past
the focus of our mission was located at Delmas and Cite Soleil. However as a result of an
unfortunate event that took place in 2014 at Cite Soleil, we only minister at Delmas and in the
churches in AEI (Alliance Evangelique Internationale).
As a result of the events in Cite Soleil, we moved the school and the church to a borrowed
location ’’ La Plaine ‘’. We have 120 pupils in 6 grades since October 1, 2014.
We thank God for the success of our 6th grade class: 20 of 28 of our students passed the
government test. Consequently, all 20 students are requesting our school to proceed with the 7th
grade at the school. Unfortunately the youths who cannot go to secondary school end up getting
involved with drugs, issues with the law; the girls usually get pregnant. We pray that the Lord will
provide the means to start a secondary school at Delmas where our church is located.
Attendance to our school is almost free. The parents do not work .The financing of the school
depends greatly on the donation of the sponsors and friends. So far 2014 has been a difficult
year because we continue to face reductions in the sponsorship program. As you know, we had
a feeding program for the school children and also for the very old living near of our church.
Unfortunately we have abandoned this program because of lack of funding.
Every month, one physician, one nurse and my wife Magda (she is a nurse) establish a medical
clinic for the children at the school and some people near of the church. This group of medical
volunteer collect medicines from friends and also provide health education. Indeed it is a
blessing for ’’we don’t have anybody who died from cholera in the school and the church”. We
are praying that God will help us find the resources to make the clinic open every day where
they could provide urgent care.
At Delmas, we have the Berean Baptist Church where 350 to 400 people praise our Lord (212
are baptized). In Delmas, we have the chorus for the youth. It is a way to help these young
people spiritually and socially .The boys and girls scout, the kids groups are a way to keep the
youth in the service of God and prepare them to be good leaders in the future.
After the earthquake, many people didn’t have anywhere to live. We accepted some of those
people to remain on our land where we intend to build our school. It is a blessing for the women
in our church to evangelize in the camp. They preach, share food, water, dresses and shoes
.Some of the occupants of the camp accepted Jesus in their lives, others renewed their faith in
Jesus. It was a great moment for our church to witness people coming to Christ.
The year 2014 has been difficult for both the school and church at Cite Soleil .Sometimes I
asked God if it is His plan to continue this ministry. Every time I feel this way, God brought me
encouragement in so many ways that cause me to continue this ministry. For examples, when
parents approach me and ask me to start the secondary school or when the young pastor who
attended the school in the past came forward and offer his church for a temporary location for
our school from Cite Soleil. Then I realized that God is working through our ministry and
appreciate that work
they were reached.
A) Successes
1) Unstable economic and social situation in the ministry and Haiti. But God helps us in the
midst of all our financial difficulties and failures .The church and myself have grown strongly to
rely on His provisions and directions .Our faith has grown stronger .We thank TTC for both their
prayer and financial supports .
2) Even if the economic situation was very bad and the lack of security where we minister, we
enjoyed a good academic year in the school and the percent of success for the entire grade was
70-71%.
3) It was very difficult to pay for the schooling for our older son; Thierry who need to go to
College. God allowed us to find money to pay the school for Thierry. He is going to College now.
B) Disappointments
1) We did share the Gospel with non-Christian in the City. However we cannot call it a success
due the lack of improvement in our approaches.
2) We were not successful in raising fund for the construction of the secondary and vocational
schools at Delmas and the continuation of the feeding program. Because of the economic
problem, we could not gather both local and foreign aid to achieve this goal.
3) The lack of security in Haiti was really bad .We became victim and lost our school at Cite
Soleil.
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Missionary: Mitchell Forman
TCC Contact: Nancy Haskins LeBlanc
TCC Background: Mitch Forman has been a
TCC supported missionary since 2009 and has
been in the mission’s field for 25 years. He is with
Chosen People Ministries.
My ministry is evangelism and discipleship and
planting new churches
Being the V.P. of U.S. Ministries, I wear many
hats. My time is split between direct evangelism
and discipleship & training staff.
Jews
Families, college students and communities of all ages.
United States
Boston and Northeast US
My title is “VP of US Ministry”. In this role, I am responsible for the recruitment, training
development and leadership of all ministries being done in the United States. Currently I oversee
the ministry of 70 other missionaries. I assist the President in making strategic, financial and
deployment decisions. I also continue to mentor and disciple younger Jewish men to serve the
Lord
Because our ministry is focused on reaching Jewish people with the Good News and equipping
others to do the same, I continue to have opening to witness to Jewish people and help disciple
newer Jewish believers.
1. Jeff is an unsaved Jewish person who has a Christian wife. He goes to church faithfully
with his wife. We have talked on a number of occasions about the gospel message and
the objections Jewish people have to overcome to us.
2. Bruce is a new Jewish believer who came to faith through a pastor in a church I have
spoke at quite a few times over the years. Bruce lives near my home and will start to
attend my weekly bible study and hopefully this year we can meet one on one to go
through some areas where he needs to grow.
they were reached
1. Isaiah 53 – Boston Campaign in 2016 We have been given the green light to have a local
Isaiah 53 campaign in 2016 so my goal this year is to create a local team that will help me
co-ordinate our efforts as there is much to do in:
a. Recruiting churches to help with the cost of advertisement, billboards & mailings.
b. Create a better relationship between Chosen Peoples Ministries and Gordon-Conwell, so
they can host a major event on Isaiah 53 at the college.
c. Recruit local Christians and churches to train to get them ready for direct evangelism.
So far the stats of Isaiah 53 in three years of Campaigning online and the streets remain very
positive. Here are the states for the Isaiah 53 campaign for the first 3 years. Even though we
have had hundreds of thousands clicks to Isaiah 53.com, we have been very successful in
sending out our free book called “Isaiah 53 Explained”.
Gentile believers who got the book ( with 1992 ordering it
for Jewish people)
Unsaved Gentiles who got the book
11,802
926
Jewish believers who got the book
1,046
Unsaved Jewish people who got the book.
2,578
Total “Isaiah 53 – Explained” book sent out
16,352
2. Volunteer Involvement Program (VIP) Nationally. Our VIP program is designed to equip
those who may not be called to full time ministry but have a heart to stand with CPM and reach
the Jewish people in their local community.
Results: We accepted 3 new people as VIP’s this past year. We will cover Dallas, Huston and
Tennessee with these three. We also started to re-write our VIP Orientation and Training
Manual, which we plan on introducing and using by January 2015.
3. Increase my support to 66% by the end of 2014. My goal is to recruit 10 new churches to
take me on budget support.
Results: I hit my goal of being 66% funded.
1.
Please update your children’s activities, school, ages (birth dates), etc.
Kaelee is in 7th grade & doing extremely well in school. She is in Drama Club, Honor Society and
Cheerleading.
Alana is in 4th grade. She does swimming & softball...
Joshua is now in pre-school.
Kina continues her job as an admin assistant at our local First Baptist Church of Haverhill.
Web Site: http://www.chosenpeople.com
Missionary: Glad Tidings India – Rev. William D Teate, Jr.
TCC Contact: Mike Hall
TCC background: Glad Tidings India has been a
TCC supported missionary organization since 1983.
Bill Teate was first introduced to TCC by Dr. Donald
Ewing in the 80’s. He has been a tireless worker for
the Lord’s work in India for over 35 years.
He has been instrumental in raising funds and the
awareness of the need for evangelism in India with
great energy and enthusiasm.
Our ministry is to train and equip the indigenous
church in India to reach their own people with the
Gospel by providing Scriptures, training in Church
Planting, training in conducting Literacy Classes,
training in conducting Vacation Bible School, and
Self-Help projects.
President, Glad Tidings India and to raise funds for ministry in India and coordinate projects to
be undertaken.
Primarily Hindu and Muslim (in India)
All ages
Throughout India, main offices in Chennai
India
Our ministry is to train and equip the indigenous church in India to reach their own people with
the Gospel by providing Scriptures, training in Church Planting, training in conducting Literacy
Classes, training in conducting Vacation Bible School, and Self-Help projects.
Glad Tidings India shares the Gospel through:
Unreached People Groups - Transforming an entire Unreached People Group through BibleContent Literacy courses, Church Planters, and Vacation Bible School.
Church Planting - funds from the sale of Bibles train and equip national evangelists to establish
new churches throughout India.
Literacy - providing training to churches and other agencies to conduct Bible content literacy
classes for adults throughout India.
Empowering Women - setting women free from physical and spiritual bondage through the Gospel
and literacy courses.
Christian Education - supplying the curriculum and training of teachers to conduct Children’s' Bible
Schools, reaching up to one million children per year.
Self-Support - assisting churches to become self-supporting by providing income generating
enterprises
Church Grows Out of Women’s Literacy Classes
Living Conditions for the Sugali Tribals were most difficult:
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Lived in shacks with mud walls or in shelters made of plastic sheets
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Almost all were illiterate
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Treated as “untouchables” or slaves
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Drank stagnant water
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Could barely afford one meal per day
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Known to eat rats
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Living conditions so deplorable many often considered suicide
Beginning in 2010, Bible-content literacy classes were held for 300 Sugali Women. As a result:
* 129 started taking daily baths
* 83 began reading their Bibles
* 83 began hygienic preparation of food
* 46 accepted Jesus Christ
* 36 women started generating income
* Average daily wages increased 68%
* 11 were baptized
* 129 began attending prayer cells
Since then, additional literacy classes have been conducted and four bore wells were provided to
supply clean water. At K.V. B. P. Tribal Village, 80 believers are meeting regularly to worship God
in a hut that leaks. The church is growing rapidly. They have purchased land for a church building
but need help with the cost of construction.
they were reached
1. Begin work in 10 new Unreached People Groups. We began work in 13 new
Unreached People Groups.
2. Print 300,000 Bibles in Indian languages. We printed 263,967
3. See 10,000 decisions for Christ and 18,000 attending church as a result of ministry in 24
unreached people groups. Saw 12,636 decisions for Christ and 31,838 attending
church as a result of ministry in 24 unreached people groups.
Please describe how your ministry is equipping the Christian community where you are
currently serving, to be self-sustaining and/or to support ministry growth.
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Church Planters are trained to be self-supporting and begin self-supporting churches.
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Literacy students are taught self-help skills, simple math, saving plans.
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Some literacy students become “Each One Teach One” teachers and reach others.
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Entire ministry in India is indigenous, and built on a self sustaining model. Funds from
the sale of bibles are used to seed fund new projects for an initiation period, and the
workers are trained to grow the ministry in a self-sustaining manner. Often this ministry
then begins to plant additional ministries of its own.
Web Site: http://www.gladtidingsindia.org
Missionary: Neale and Barbara Goetsch
TCC Background: Neale and Barbara
have been TCC sponsored missionaries
since 1973 serving with Christian
Missions in Many Lands, Inc.
Evangelism, discipleship, church
planting among internationals
(immigrants & students/student families)
English language teaching/tutoring as an
evangelistic outreach. Bible teaching,
discipling, pastoral care.
Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist
College/postgraduate students, resident immigrant families and children (particularly Barbara),
England - University town of Loughborough (80,000 pop.) and North America
Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire (Midlands in UK). Now, via internet, worldwide - many who have
returned to S. W. Asia or other home countries.
The International Bible Fellowship of Loughborough and Sunday Family Fellowship is an
outreach to immigrant Asian immigrant families (Gujarati Hindu and Bengali Muslim) and to
international students, mostly Chinese, in Loughborough, England. While our geographical
location is now divided between the USA and England (for legal reasons), 80% of our ministry is
directed toward the work overseas both in the UK and to our now widely scattered international
friends in China, Europe, the UK and North America. We remain a part of the church planting
team in Loughborough where the focus is on evangelism and discipleship, and write and send a
Friday E-Message along with numerous emails/letters and telephone calls to follow up contacts
made and to disciple/counsel others. Some are in places where local Christian fellowship is
very limited or non-existent (China). During extended periods of ministry in England we are
busy with hospitality, visitation, and teaching in the international fellowship. In the States we
have a weekly ESL/Bible study ministry to students/immigrants as part of the local church we
attend.
Ten years ago Stella (a Chinese student in Loughborough) trusted Christ and was baptized.
She went on to study in Hull, went through a very intense time of spiritual struggle, and then
returned home to Sichuan. There were periods of silence and then renewed contact – struggles
shared and counsel sought. Rejoice with us that she and Daniel, a new believer who was
recently baptized in China, were married in May. They are bubbling over with praise for the
Lord’s blessing and goodness toward them. How we rejoice that He who beings a good work
both promises and works to complete it. They have asked for prayer as they witness to heir
unsaved parents.
were reached
1. The resident team in Loughborough consists of one missionary couple and one retired
English school teacher/lay preacher. Our prayer was that God would bring us a Chinese couple
to help with the continuing outreach and fellowship meetings. He has answered! Thiam and
Pearl Chung have joined the team. Thiam is a retired professor from Loughborough University;
Pearl is trained in ESL. Both have a heart for evangelism and discipling international students.
2. The costs involved in our multiple annual trips have become challenging in the light of lower
support coming in. The supply is a key prayer goal as we look ahead to 2014 and 2015. We
have seen the Lord provide through some extra gifts for the early 2014 trip and the
coming trip (October 29-November 25). We are trusting for His supply for the January-March
2015 journey.
3. This autumn we have seen the largest influx ever of Chinese students coming to SFF each
week and the Wednesday Bible studies. The Christian message is totally new to all of them.
We recognize the work of salvation is ALL God’s work, but we see a great need to meet these
seekers “where they are” as programs are planned and initiated. Using the DVD series
Christianity Explored and Glad You Asked are options. The goal would be to work through at
least two of these 7-8 week series in the coming months. That goal was attained.
(birth dates), etc.
All three of our children are grown and married.
Laura (45) together with four grandchildren, lives in Paris, France. It was special to spend two
days in Paris with the family in February 2014, and we look forward to another two days
with them soon in early November. Laura works with special needs children. We
continue to pray for the salvation of Joseph (19), Sarah (16) and Marie (13). Emily (18)
knows the Lord.
Jeremy (40) with his wife Mary and two sons, Britain and Gabriel, live just five minutes from our
home base in Lexington, SC – a great help in looking after things when we are back in
the UK. We rejoice that the family all have trusted Christ and are active in their local
church. In early August we took the grandsons on a trip to the Creation Museum in
Kentucky which was a special time of bonding with them.
Claire and husband Bill live and work in Athens, Ohio at Ohio University. We continue to pray
that the Lord will draw Claire back into vital fellowship with Himself and that Bill will also
be saved.
Missionary: Ellis and Colleen Goldstein
TCC Background: Ellis and Colleen have been
TCC supported missionaries since 1979 serving
with CRU, the U.S. Ministry of Campus Crusade
for Christ.
As the Director of Ministry Partner
Development, I oversee the support
development for the 6,000 American Campus
Crusade for Christ staff members in the United
States and overseas. Our ministry is
evangelism & discipleship.
I am the national director.
College students, Families and communities of all ages.
Worldwide-wherever we have staff members.
As the National Director for Ministry Partner Development, I am responsible for training our 5000
American staff members who serve in the US and overseas so that they can be fully-funded for their
ministries. Our objective is to flood the nations with spiritually healthy, vision driven, fully funded
Great Commission workers. Raising their full funding is one of the greatest spiritual challenges for
missionaries. Many are willing to go some of the most difficult countries in the world and at the
same time struggle trusting the Lord to bring in their support. As a ministry committed to winning
people to Christ, building them in their faith and sending them as laborers for the Great
Commission, I have the privilege of training these laborer so they can fulfill what God has called
them to do. Part of my job focuses upon training new missionaries and raising up the next
generation of missionaries.
I’ve been training missionaries about biblical fund raising for 33 years. Throughout those three plus
decades over 11,000 missionaries have been trained and were deployed on every continent. Many
are still serving the Lord. What’s important is how God has used them to reach the lost. Today we
are living in one of the most unchurched times in history. In spite of the challenges our staff are
seeing God do incredible things. This past year has been the most fruitful time in evangelism our
ministry has seen since our beginnings in 1951.
In the Campus Ministry alone 5.1 million heard the Gospel. 73,000 became Christians. Every 3
seconds some hears the Gospel. Every 3 minutes someone has come to Christ. 15,000 students in
our ministry are involved in evangelism.
The privilege I have is training the staff members who are making Christ known. My job is to not
only train them how to be fully funded, but to help them stay funded so they can be fully devoted to
what God has called them to do.
they were reached
Our goal was to train 300-400 new full time missionaries from the US. The number of new
missionaries that joined us this year is the largest we’ve had in several years (about 400).
The goal of being a resource to other mission agencies had continued. I continue in a
partnership with one of the largest mission agencies in the US. We trained a number of their
missionaries last year. One denomination has asked me to train a core group of their full time
campus leaders. I’ve consulted with a number of Christian workers from other ministries
throughout the year.
I asked you to pray how we could come along side our ministries in other countries where our
ministries are at various stages of training their missionaries to raise up their financial support.
We need to determine how we can come along side of them to help them improve what they are
doing so they can be more affective in their training efforts. I recently met with some of our
global leadership about this. There is much work to do here, but I am hopeful.
Please update your family’s activities
Our family is just Colleen and me. We would appreciate your prayers for Colleen as I travel. She
is the first one to encourage me to take on new ministry opportunities. I couldn’t do what I do
without her support.
Missionary: Sue and Jay Jenkins
TCC Background: Sue and Jay are
with Wycliffe Bible Translators and have
been TCC supported missionaries since
1985.
We work with the Konyagi (Waméỹ)
people of Senegal and Guinea, West
Africa to translate Scripture into their
language and to encourage its use in
formats that are the most “user friendly”
for them.
Bible Translator
Catholic - 90 % claim to be Catholic and all are animists
All ages.
Senegal, extending into Guinea and the Gambia.
Sub-Saharan West Africa (part of the 10/40 window)
We work with the Konyagi (Waméỹ) people of Senegal and Guinea, West Africa to translate
Scripture into their language and to encourage its use in formats that are the most “user friendly”
for them. We have, to date, translated over 85% of the New Testament and Genesis. We have
distributed portions of these translations in written form, on cassette, on the MegaVoice (like a
pocket sized MP3 player) and are now on SD memory cards. We work very closely with the
Catholic Mission (the established church in the area who would be the ones to use the
translation at present), New Tribes Mission (doing storying and discipleship), WEC (doing
church planting), short term Baptist groups (who have started coming on a more regular basis in
hopes of supporting some of our efforts here on the ground), and the Presbyterian church who
is working with many Konyagis in The Gambia.
We have also worked to produce small booklets in the language, Christian radio dramas, and
weekly devotionals sent out by email. We are currently contemplating the need to produce an
Ebola booklet in Waméỹ.
2014 has not been at all what we expected. Up through December we were pushing strong
toward a completed NT for June 2015. We had checked, with a translation consultant, the rest
of Matthew and all of I Cor. Several other books were drafted in various stages. Papa, our
translator, made a trip into The Gambia to visit the Presbyterian churches, which we had heard
were full of Konyagi believers. He brought down many translated materials to distribute and they
were very well received. Because he was having some health issues he stayed in Dakar for a
doctor’s visit while we went out to dedicate the new church in our village at the end of Dec.
When we got back to Dakar we found Papa in very bad shape. Tests indicated he was dying of
liver cancer. On January 19th the Lord took him home.
Over time we moved from grieving to a time of expectation. God worked. Against what seemed
like insurmountable odds He has led us to two new translators who are living in Guinea and
working with us via Skype. We have continued to work on first drafts that Papa left behind and
have been able to check, with a translation consultant, all of II Cor. and 1-3 John. The 5 “T”
books are almost ready to be checked and the first draft of Revelation has been completed.
were reached
This is indeed a walk of faith. God has found us two new translators, but they are now locked in
Guinea because of the Ebola virus and the closed borders between our countries. We are able
to communicate via Skype and, of all things, Face Book! Some old friends working in Guinea
have offered help. We are hoping a translation consultant with Pioneer Bible Translators will be
able to get into Guinea in December and work with Pierre and Louis Raymond, with me on
Skype here in Dakar, to check at least some of the “T” books. After that, it’s going to be touch
and go depending on what happens with Ebola. It is currently spreading at an alarming rate.
In the meantime, P. and LR are drafting Ephesians while I do an exegetical check on the first
draft of Revelation. We really want the “T”s and Rev. checked before we leave here in June.
Once in the States, we will take six months to rest, spend time with family, and visit churches.
Come January we will start work again on the remaining NT books, using Skype to
communicate with our translators.
dates), etc.
We praise God regularly for our kids. Jamie is happily resettled in NH, close to my family, and is
working two jobs that make use of her artistic bent. She keeps close tabs on our best friends
there, the husband having also recently been diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer (this is one
thing that could bring us home before June). Jeremy is in Palmer, AK doing his first semester at
the Alaska Bible College. He seems very content there and is enjoying both school and other
activities, including ministering to the homeless. Jason is in his last year of high school here in
Dakar. He misses his brother and sister very much, but he’s doing well and looking forward to
us all being together again soon.
Missionary: Ben and Nickaela Keyes
TCC Contact: Paul Mueller
TCC Background:
Ben & Nickaela are members of TCC’s congregation and have
been working with L’Abri for 9 years.
L’Abri is a Christian intentional community and study center. We
provide a place for reflection and study in the context of Christian
community. One of our emphases is apologetics, which is
offering a reasonable defense for the truth of the Christian faith.
However, not everyone who studies with us is a Christian. Some
have grown up in Christian homes; others have not. All of them
have questions that they are struggling with and L’Abri attempts
to provide a safe place to ask those questions, to voice doubts
and to openly discuss matters of truth. Because it is a community
as well as a study center we are always faced with people’s
physical needs as well as their brokenness (including our own).
In this sense it is as much a compassion ministry as it is a
teaching ministry. We attempt to participate holistically in what
God is doing in the lives of our students; helping them come to
faith or deepen their faith in God, helping them grow as critical
thinkers, helping them heal from emotional pain, and caring for
their physical bodily needs as we go. The community aspect of L’Abri inevitably requires abstract ‘ideas’
to be demonstrated and lived out in visible ways. For example: We talk about prayer a lot; but if it was
not for ACTUAL prayer for our tangible needs (prayers that God answers), there would be no
demonstration of the reality of God for us and our students. L’Abri would have disappeared long ago
without the concrete reality of answered prayer. In this way we struggle very imperfectly to ‘live out’ and
demonstrate the truth of the Christian faith with our students.
My wife and I are both L’Abri ‘workers’ which means we live at L’Abri permanently and offer hospitality to
the people that show up on our doorstep. All the staff at L’abri have roughly the same job description. We
all do some teaching, some one-on one tutoring of students, some hospitality (preparing meals, serving
meals and leading discussions around the table) and organizing work crews (our students work for half of
every day)
Most of the people who come to L’Abri are from Christian backgrounds. However many of them are
uncertain about what they believe, and so use their time at L’Abri to address long-time doubts and
questions. Frequently we have people come who are not Christians at all. We pray that God would
send more non-Christians to us. We seldom have people of other faiths. This is not by design (they
would be welcome). We try to respond to whoever God sends us.
We welcome all people from age 18 up.
We are located in Southborough, but people come to us from all over the country and from other countries
as well. Our prayer is that God would use us to impact our local area to a greater extent.
L’Abri is a Christian intentional community and study center. L’Abri staff live permanently on the
property and our students come and live with us for up to 3 months at a time (we call these blocks
‘terms’ although they do not correspond exactly to school semesters etc.). Our students work for half of
the day and study for half of the day. Work consists of practical tasks that make the community life
possible; splitting wood, hanging laundry, cleaning, gardening, helping prepare the next meal. We view
these mundane tasks as not just helpful to the community but spiritually significant when offered to God.
Study at L’Abri varies tremendously depending on the student’s interests and concerns (common topics
are: how can God be good when evil is rampant in the world? How can we learn to forgive? How do we
seek God’s guidance for our vocations? Is scripture trustworthy? Is the God of the Bible even real? How
do we think as Christians about the arts? Etc…). One of the emphases in L’Abri teaching is the
Lordship of Christ over All of life. Because Christ is Lord of all things, Christians are called to engage
deeply with the culture. The range of topics to study and discuss is therefore very broad.
Jim came to L’Abri this past summer and is still a student with us this fall. He comes from a secular
Jewish family and was not raised in any particular faith. Through contact with some Christian friends he
wound up attending a small seminary but came to a crisis of faith while studying there. When he came
to us he was sure that he was not a Christian. He doubted that the Christian faith could be true and
found scientific and materialistic explanations for the world to be much more convincing. Gradually
through much study and many long conversations he moved towards a belief in the God of the Bible.
He admitted that nothing in the world made sense without the existence of a personal God. The reality
of God’s grace being more important than his own achievements remained a difficult thing for Jim to
accept. Even after accepting that the Christian faith was true, Jim was honest enough to admit that He
still was reluctant to commit himself to this God because of the social cost of doing so. He was anxious
about the response that he would get from family and friends who still think the Christian faith is for
weak-minded people. Since then Jim has weighed this cost carefully and prayed for courage. He is now
a Christian and is preparing to live as one. It has been a joy to see God at work in his life over the past
6 months. We are grateful that he found the time and space at L’Abri to wrestle with these all-important
questions.
List the three specific goals you had for the past year and describe the degree to which they were
reached
One of our on-going desires is to be a more effective witness in Southborough and the surrounding
towns. With the help of a local Episcopal minister we have begun holding informal events called
‘Open Mic Theology.’ They are held ‘off campus’ (a local pub and a bookstore). The vision is to
provide a short talk followed by an open discussion in a setting that is unthreatening to nonChristians. I gave one talk on ‘modern break-up songs’ and I am scheduled to do another entitled:
“Do we need God for Thanksgiving?” It remains to be seen how effective this effort will be, but it is
the type of thing we have been praying for. If these events go well we hope to continue holding them
as a series into the new year.
On a more practical note, one of our goals is to cut and split enough wood to burn through the winter
while burning as little oil as possible. We are a bit behind in this process and have been pouring
much of our energy into gathering wood. Much depends on the length and severity of the winter!
dates), etc.
Our daughters Ellie and Abby are 7 years old and enjoying the 1st grade at the Imago School. Noah
is 3 years old and will start pre-school in the fall. We can all be seen at TCC on Sunday mornings!
Web Site: http://www.labri.org/
Missionary: Straight Ahead Ministries, Scott & Hanne Larson
TCC Contact: Dan Haggett
TCC Background: Scott & Hanne have been TCC
supported missionaries since 1991.
Scott and Hanne Larsen co-founded Straight Ahead
Ministries in 1987, a national organization focused
on reaching juvenile offenders in more than 400
juvenile detention centers in 14 states. Dr. Larsen
has authored ten books on working extensively with
youth, and travels as a speaker to youth, parents,
teachers, social workers and youth workers.
Straight Ahead Ministries
Founder and president
We serve a mixture of religious and non-religious groups.
12 – 21 years of age.
Worcester, MA, USA
New England
Describe your current ministry
We founded and direct Straight Ahead Ministries, which runs Bible studies in more than 400
juvenile jails throughout 21 states and in 5 countries, and works with youth when they are released
back into their home communities. We also develop training and materials for others working with
juvenile offenders and at-risk youth
Each week in 14 states across America, volunteers trained by Straight Ahead Ministries staff hold
more than 350 weekly Bible discussion groups in locked juvenile facilities. We also hold PROMISE
Discussion Groups which are based on “Living a Life of PROMISE”, a recovery discussion guide
that coordinates the biblical principles of traditional 12-Step programs and Christian character
development. We also develop training and materials for others working with juvenile offenders
and at-risk youth.
Olivia, one of the girls we worked with eight years ago when she was locked up, is now 24. She
worked in our café, catering, and thrift store in Worcester and has felt called to go into fulltime
ministry working with youth like herself. In September we launched a 2-year internship program
for youth like her. She takes Scott’s 5 courses through Gordon-Conwell’s CUME program, two
street worker courses through Clark, and is involved in one-on-one discipleship through Hanne.
She also goes into the same place she was locked up and leads a Bible study, and is working
part time as a life coach intern in our Worcester program. She just returned from a week in Haiti
with us, and is one of the brightest spots in our ministry these days of God transforming a life,
and using her to transform others.
were reached.
1. To expand our affiliate program throughout the U.S. and hire a national director. We
have entered a strategic partnership with Youth for Christ USA to work together to have ministry
in all 1,280 juvenile facilities across the US. We are looking to move Robb Zarges, our
Executive Director into the role of National Director to facilitate this project and oversee our
affiliates around the country.
2. To develop our Theory of Change model and for Scott to write a book on our
Transformational Model of Engagement to be used by other ministries as well. Scott wrote
a book on our transformational change model that is called “Groundwork: Preparing the Soil for
God’s Transformation. It is going to be released January 5, 2015 with Group Publishing.
3. To get our silk-screen and barber shop micro-enterprises launched and sustainable in
Lynn, MA. We hired a full-time director for Straight Up Silkscreen in May, 2014. The barber shop
was completed in April, 2014 and we are now looking for a barber school to partner with to provide
the apprenticeship hours and licensing.
Please update your children’s (thru High School) activities, school/college plans, ages
(birthdates), etc.
Sarah Larson, 20, 10/30/94 – hobbies are reading, singing, working with kids. Is a sophomore at
North Park University in Chicago to become a nurse practioner and open a medical practice in a
third world country.
David Larson, 18, 2/24/96 – hobbies cross cultural missions. Freshman at Palm Beach Atlantic in
Cross Cultural studies and go to seminary to eventually become a missionary in South America.
Will lead a trip to China in June.
Web Site: www.straightahead.org
Missionary: Cindy Leonard
TCC Contact: Nancy Germain
TCC Background:
Cindy has been a faithful and dedicated
member of TCC since 1987, and we have
supported Cindy’s work with Wheels for the
World since 1994. Gary and Cindy were
married at TCC June 29, 1991 and Gary is
the key to her work with Wheels for the
World by getting her where she needs to go.
Wheels for the World
I am the Area Coordinator for donations
of wheelchairs and mobility aids. I am
the liaison between donors and
volunteers who pick up the donated items. I also help and train Chair Corps Representatives on
paperwork and having WFTW collection drives.
All
All
USA; Wheels for the World is a Joni and Friends ministry located in California
All of New England and ultimately the 22 countries worldwide with mobility aids we collect and
restore.
Wheels for the World here in New England and “Area 8” send Chair Corps Representative
volunteers (CCARs) to retrieve donated wheelchairs and parts; walkers, and other mobility aids
from individual donors and many facilities such as Senior Centers, Rehab and Nursing Homes,
etc.. We also hold wheel chair drives where wheel chairs and mobility aids are collected in one
place for a day or week…such as the 2 radio drives held this summer in CT (4th annual) and VT
(1st yr). There is also an annual collection with an event by Joni and Friends New England
each October. Individual church collections are also held by Chair Corps. Ultimately CCARs
bring the wheel chairs to our storage trailer in Hopkinton, MA and ultimately to MCI Shirley, MA;
or a warehouse in CT and the Cheshire, CT Restoration facility (also a correctional facility)
My specific role is to coordinate the CCARs to the areas they are closest to in receiving donated
wheel chairs, etc. and helping to get the donated items to the storage or restoration facilities. If I
receive a call from a donor I look to see who is closest and has the right vehicle for the pickup.
This can often require CCARs to team up in a “bucket brigade” style or to send one or more
teams together.
Recruiting more volunteers is something I am on the lookout for.
I also am required to do a monthly count report on how many wheel chairs are collected and any
other activities (such as speaking engagements; partner shipping, or just speaking to possible
ongoing donors done by the CCARs each month).
We also share each other’s lives and support each other in spiritual moral.
I have the most organized and “team” oriented group of volunteers anyone could hope for. I
have been told we are the most productive in collection nationwide.
I think this would be best described by members of my New England Team who have been on
outreaches to give out mobility aids and the Gospel.
In particular Joy Eusebio (CT) who went to Romania in June and Bernadette Harvell (ME) who
went to Brazil a few years ago.
Joy did share a story about a woman who had been in her bed for years and when she got a
new wheelchair she was thrilled to be able to go into her kitchen and cook again. When they
went to see the kitchen it was barely enough for the w/c to fit; a kitchenette by US standards; but
she was thrilled none the less!
Personally I have been extremely touched by my team (actually we call ourselves family)
support this past year in helping me out when I cannot be “at the helm” so to speak. With mine
and Gary’ surgeries, recovering from my fall in August and just generally need help with
computer related things (it is not physically good for me to use the computer to type or use the
mouse even with DRAGON). They have risen to the occasion to help out and keep things
running smoothly by taking over certain areas and aspects of the ministry. I am extremely
blessed!
they were reached.
To have a healthier year and be better able to do the work on my end. Maybe get someone to
help me? Gary tries but we often butt heads.
To find additional storage in needed areas such as Metro West and Portland, ME.
Web Site: http://www.joniandfriends.org/pg_wheelchair.php
Missionary: Justin and Andra Loy
TCC Contact: Dan Sack
TCC Background: The Loy’s have been
Consortium sponsored missionaries with the
Greater Europe Mission (GEM) since 2004 – the
other churches are: Grace Chapel, Westgate,
Hopkinton Congregational, and The Fellowship in
Easton.
Evangelism, Discipleship & training and church
planting
Direct evangelism of unbelievers
Atheists
We serve teens.
Czech Republic
Justin works as an English and Bible teacher in a Czech-run Christian high school called
Beskydy Mountain Academy. This 4- year high school is devoted to teaching quality education,
Christian values, and high level language skills with the ultimate purpose to see lives
transformed by Christ.
Because of the emphasis on language and western-style teaching, it attracts non-Christians.
Three-fourths of the students are unbelievers. Justin also directs extra-curricular activities that
give him a chance to develop Christ-revealing relationships with these teens.
Share one story of how God is working in the lives of people through your ministry:
Three boys came to Christ this past year at BMA! Three girl BMA students have been coming
to church this year. By developing personal relationships with students on a daily basis,
challenging them through the Word in Bible classes, opening our home to them for dinners, and
organizing big events such as Thanksgiving to share Christ we create the atmosphere for
students to feel comfortable to seek God.
were reached
1. Re-acclimation back to Czech Republic in January and settle into relationships to disciple
teach and evangelize, including at church, at the school, and in the community.
We have achieved this goal. We are settled back in Czech Republic, well into the school year
and all the ministries that go along with that. We are starting a small group dedicated to praying
for the school and community and church.
2 To return with students on a service trip to Ukraine and work to make this a yearly school
project, where believers and non-believers to serve together side by side.
In view of the political situation in Ukraine and Russia, this is not a viable option at this time. We
are considering putting together a trip for students to go to Ireland instead.
3. To make BMA Family into a full-fledged program, link it to the church body, increase its
evangelistic effectiveness, and begin some sort of regular, outside-school activity akin to youth
group.
BMA Family is a full-fledged, official program that meets regularly with various kinds of activities.
These activities serve to strengthen the relationships between the Christians and non-Christians
at the school so that there is a basis for evangelism.
(birth dates)
Jonas (9 years) is in 3rd grade in the local public school this year.
Anna (6) started first grade in the Czech school.
Evelyn (3) is home with Andra and doing activities with other moms when able.
Andra tutors two junior high students in English, provides refreshment for the Fusion music
ministry, plays on a worship team at church, and teaches Sunday school once a month.
Missionary: Walter and Jane Mutti
TCC Background: Jane &
Walter Mutti have been serving
the Lord for most of their
married lives and have been
supported by TCC since the
late 1980’s.
Walter and Jane spent 14 years in
Venezuela assisting in ministries that
ranged from support work in the cities to
tribal church planting in the Amazon
jungle until the Venezuelan government
forced all U.S. based Christian
missionaries to leave the country.
Upon returning to the U.S., they were redirected by God to serve in New England and have
established “Reaching New England for Christ”.
At this point we are serving New England by preaching and teaching. I am doing evangelist
work plus discipling both believers and un-believers. Our ministry is to make disciples that make
disciples.
I (Walt) am an evangelist both sharing Christ, preaching in New England churches and
discipling folks. Jane helps me in this, although she is more involved in the teaching aspects.
We serve 70% un-churched cultural Christians, 25% atheists and the remaining 5% is a mix of
all kinds.
All ages are welcome to be taught. We will share Christ with anyone that will listen.
Mostly in New England, although God has opened up opportunities to share in various churches
around our country.
Here in New England.
Briefly describe you current ministry.
My primary ministry is evangelism and discipleship. I am involved anywhere that God opens the
doors. In Prison, (MCI Concord) one on one, home bible studies, marriage studies, conferences
and seminars on evangelism and discipleship. Men’s and Woman’s conferences also.
I have been called to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to make disciples. That is what I am
doing. I love it and pray that I will run the race finishing it with honor. I am seeing disciples
growing in their faith bringing Glory to God. Amen and amen!
This is a difficult one. I have many great stories that God has blessed me with. • I think what I love
most about the ministry that God has given to us is my freedom to stop and talk to people on the
street without having to be controlled by the American clock. For example: I was talking to a young
man that I met at the local general store. I asked him how he was doing, which led to a deep
discussion on his failing marriage. We have since met together and it looks like God is doing a
healing in his life.
•List the three specific goals you had for the past year and describe the degree to which
they were reached
I still want to develop a website for this ministry. But time and ignorance has been a major
roadblock. I would love to still do that. Secondly I would like to preach more at local churches.
(birth dates), etc.
Micah, he is now home from Afghanistan and is serving on a military base in Florida teaching
underwater medicine, married with two beautiful baby girls.
Jacob and Simon have now moved out, they need prayer for direction in life. They are awesome
young men and I praise God for them. Pray for two godly little girls to come into their lives.
Our son Caleb is married living in NY City. He graduated college with only a $20,000 college dept.
Pray for that to be paid off; it is weighing on Jane and me.
Jane is still teaching Spanish at a local High school. Jane just finished her Master’s degree at
Worcester State. PTL!
Missionary: Ian and Beka Rideout
TCC Background: Ian & Beka have been TCC
Ian works with the aviation branch of SIM (SIMAIR).
SIM’s goal is to see a mature church In Niger which
is reaching out to the people of Niger and beyond.
SIM is involved in some of every kind of ministry as
part of this ultimate goal
Beka is the administrative secretary in the SIM
office and serving on the School Board for Sahel
Academy (SIM’s School for Missionary Kids in
Niamey).
Ian flies/maintains the airplanes and does related
paperwork of flight clearances, etc. Beka works in
the office coordinating directorate details.
The country of Niger is over 90% Muslim. SIMAIR
partners with all the evangelical mission groups in
West Africa.
All ages! Boarding school students, families with
small children, returning retirees, people being
medically evacuated, those coming in and out of the city for mission business, short term doctors,
and the list goes on... all might fly with Ian and/usually pass through the office as well!
We serve out of the capital city, Niamey, of the country Niger.
SIMAIR covers the countries of Niger-also Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Togo.
Ian & Beka Rideout work with SIM in Niger, West Africa, in support of the many varied ministries
SIM is involved in. Ian oversees the aviation ministry of SIM, SIMAIR, and has many opportunities
to care for missionaries and ministries through his flying and airplane maintenance. The hours and
fatigue, not to mention safety, saved by flying instead of traveling by road enables missionaries to
focus on their ministries and be much more effective.
Beka lends a hand in several key ministries. She works as the Administrative Secretary to the SIM
Niger Field Director prepares housing for many short-term missionaries, and is currently serving as
a Regional Director encouraging and helping people in services roles in Niamey.
These ministries often mean the difference between missionaries being cared for and staying on
the field to continue the work the Lord sent them to do or leaving discouraged and burned out. Ian
& Beka enjoy seeing the Lord working to encourage those around them to continue in their
ministries of advancing the gospel.
Recently one of our sister mission organizations had a vehicle involved in a serious car accident. It
was actually on a section of road that had been recently repaired but a vehicle coming the other
direction decided to overtake a truck right then and hit them head-on. The two men in the passing
vehicle were killed. The two people in the mission vehicle were more fortunate as they were riding
in a large SUV. One of them was taken to the hospital. Their mission director called to see if he
could fly out with a team to survey the situation and meet with their personnel. After flying around
a large storm system, they were able to arrive in time to meet with everyone, see the accident site,
and return home that evening, where the director's son was at home sick alone because his wife
was currently out of the country. We can see how the Lord brought everything together to meet
the needs of this sister mission and the director's family too.
they were reached
1. The larger plane was flown to the US in April to be sold. We are working with an aircraft
broker to advertise and sell the plane. Selling this plane is a big priority for SIMAIR this next
year.
Attempts to sell the plane using a broker fell through. We are now in the process of getting the
plane advertised through someone else.
2. With two new pilot/mechanics this year, one of our main goals is getting them trained and fully
up to speed in the SIMAIR flight/maintenance program.
The short-term pilot was fully trained and provided a huge amount of help last year. He and his
family have reintegrated back into life in the US. The second pilot, coming long- term, returned to
the US for the better part of last year. He and his family are back now and we are in the midst of
his training.
3. New teammates bring new interpersonal relationships. As our team grows larger we want to
ensure that each family is well cared for and well established in life here. We want to do
intentional relational and team building this year.
We have been very intentional in this and happy with the way things are going. The majority of
our team just returned recently and increased our numbers so we will continue to work toward a
new level of team building this next year.
(birth dates), etc.
Heidi is a sophomore this year at Sahel Academy (15y in January;, she did very well on her
British exams last year and will take further exams this year in hopes of attaining a special
certificate. We're currently researching which AP classes would be most helpful and most
available to her next year. While we are in the States this next summer, we are hoping to tour
some colleges with her to help her in her thoughts about the future.
Kay is a seventh grader (12y) and is in her first year of the newly formed middle school at Sahel
Academy. She is thriving with studies and friends there and enjoys finally being involved in youth
group.
Tom is a fifth grader (10y) doing very well at his studies, but still enjoying building forts, playing
Mario Kart, and playing soccer much more. His class recently gained another boy, who has quickly
become a new friend. He and Kay have the official chicken caretaker duties at home. It is hard to
believe this is our last year as elementary parents!
Web Site: www.k2rideout.blogspot.com
Missionary: Kevin and Krista Rideout
TCC Contact: Clark Andrews
TCC Background: Kevin & Krista have
been TCC supported missionaries since
2001.
We are a part of SIMAIR, which is the
aviation arm of SIM in Niger. Our main
purpose is to support the work of other
missionaries across West Africa by providing
safe, reliable and affordable air
transportation.
My (Kevin) main role is as a pilot / mechanic for SIMAIR.
Niger is almost 98 % Muslim. Our primary purpose of SIMAIR is providing air support to
missionaries.
All ages.
We are based in Niamey, Niger… West Africa
About 75 % of our flying is within Niger and 25 % to other nearby West African countries.
Kevin serves as a pilot/mechanic for SIMAIR, which is the aviation arm of SIM in Niger. Our
main purpose is to support the work of other missionaries and the Church across West Africa by
providing safe, reliable and affordable air transportation. This ministry involves flying and fixing
the planes, but also doing the flight scheduling, acquiring flight permits, bookkeeping, parts
ordering, shopping for missionaries in remote locations, and building relationships with and
witnessing to airport and government officials. It’s a real joy to help support numerous ministries
across West Africa.
Krista’s main ministry is being a mom to our four children. In addition to that, she often has
people in our home whether it is a new missionary arriving in the country or seasoned
missionaries leaving for their Home Assignment. This school year, Krista is helping lead an
outreach team of secondary students from Sahel Academy. They spend one afternoon a week
at a local Christian orphanage running a kids’ club with the children. Krista also continues to
care for one of the orphanage boys, Moise, at our home a few days a week as well as Brielle,
the premature baby that Krista fostered before we left for our home assignment. Krista is
studying Zarma (the main local language in Niamey) several days a week so she can
communicate better with women and children. She’s also leading a Bible study for some of the
9th/10th grade girls at Sahel Academy.
When we returned to Niger, we were encouraged to learn that our former guard, Abdoulaye, is now
a follower of Christ. His wife left him when he became a Christian and took with her his youngest
son. He has 4 other boys that are still living with him. Abdoulaye used to work part time during the
day making bricks, but they no longer allow him to work there because he is a Christian. Despite
the persecution, he is standing firm in his faith. We also learned that our current guard, Ibrahim,
has recently started meeting once a week with a missionary colleague to study the Bible. He
hasn’t yet made a decision to follow Christ, but we’re encouraged by his continued interest.
were reached
1. Selling the Piper Saratoga is a top priority as we need to the funds from it to keep moving
forward with the aviation ministry:
We are still trying to sell the Saratoga. Pray for a buyer for this plane.
2. In the fall of 2014, we’ll be having a safety audit of SIMAIR by Mission Safety International
(MSI). We have several projects to finish and implement before their visit:
MSI came in September for the safety consultation. We had a good visit with them. They
provided us with a helpful report detailing things we are doing well and areas to work on over
the next months and year. We’ve already implemented many of their recommendations and will
continue to work on them over the coming months.
3. It would be very helpful for Krista to learn some Zarma, which is the main local language
spoken in the Niamey area. One goal is to arrange for her to begin Zarma classes in the fall of
2014 after our return to Niger:
Krista is currently in the middle of her 2nd six week session of Zarma classes. It is going well
so far. We plan for her to continue studying Zarma for the remainder of the school year. Being
able to communicate in Zarma will be very beneficial in the years to come as it will open up
more ministry opportunities with women and children in Niamey. Many of the women and
children Krista comes in contact with don’t speak French.
(birth dates), etc.
-Kira (12/23/02) – 6th grade (Sahel Academy). Kira enjoys reading, crafts, animals, sewing,
cooking & swimming.
-Brynn (3/19/04) – 5th grade (Sahel Academy). Brynn enjoys reading, playing the piano,
sewing, cooking & swimming.
-Elayna (8/25/05) – 4th grade (Sahel Academy). Elayna enjoys reading, animals, playing with
dolls, & swimming.
-Silas (2/18/07) – 2nd grade (Sahel Academy). Silas enjoys playing any sport and riding bikes.
Web Site: www.k2rideout.blogspot.com
Missionary: Dennis and Linda Ryan
TCC Contact: Mike Hall
TCC Background: Dennis and Linda have been
supported by TCC for approximately 20 years
and serve with Campus Crusade for Christ.
Chief Financial Officer of Jesus Film Project
(This is not just a support role but a key
leadership role.)
Give leadership to a team that provides financial
training and systems to carry out our mission.
We are reaching Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, atheists, animists, as well as those from every
kind of Christian background from Orthodox to Catholic to Protestant. We are also reaching postmodern youth in urban areas all over the world.
What age groups do you serve? All
I live in Orlando, FL, but I serve our national ministries around the world.
What is the geographic area you serve? World-wide
The JESUS Film Project is about engaging people with Jesus thru film. Our ministry scope
is vast, stretching from the shanties in big cities like Mumbai to the bazaars in North Africa and the
Middle East to remote villages in places like Peru, Nepal, and Mali. We are also entering into
homes and living rooms in places like Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and rural China where
evangelism must be done more discretely. We are present as well on college campuses in Ohio,
Oceania, Istanbul, and Barcelona. As of October 2013 anyone with internet access can now
download to their smart phone, tablet, or computer anything from our film library using the JF
Media app. We are now anywhere and everywhere where cell phones can be used. We are
actively involved with church planting in places like India, Africa, Latin America, and East Asia. We
have partnerships with hundreds of mission agencies and denominations, providing new
translations of the film JESUS for those reaching the remaining unreached people groups.
My specific role is that of Chief Financial Officer. In this position I am able to use my
professional training and years of international experience to play a vital leadership role in a
ministry that has brought hundreds of millions to faith in Christ and continues to reach millions with
the gospel. The JESUS Film Project is not only reaching millions with the gospel, we are playing a
strategic role in missions community to help reach the remaining unreached people groups and
thus helping to fulfill the Great Commission. The JESUS film is second most commonly used tool
for sharing the gospel around the world, the Bible being the first (as it should be!)
Tell us one story of how God is working in peoples’ lives through your ministry.
My time in London reaching out to Gulf Arabs on busy street corners allowed me to have
some great conversation with young Arab men. One was an Iraqi Kurd and the other two were
from Qatar. The Kurdish man, Ibrahim, was hungry spiritually but felt he was so busy that it was
hard to make spiritual things a priority. He was a non-practicing Muslim and really wanted to know
more about Christ. I was able to give him a New Testament in Arabic, something he was very
grateful to have, and to give him card with information on the Jesus Film Media app. I was also
able to encourage him to seek spiritual truth and shared my testimony which has that as a theme.
The guys from Qatar were very interested in getting New Testaments, but raised the common
misconception of Muslims that the Bible has been changed. I challenged that and explained how
though it’s a widely held view, it’s not logical. This is the first time they had heard anyone offer a
different perspective on this question and it made them all the more interested in reading the New
Testament which they gladly took.
were reached.
1. I was able to participate in a short-term mission project to London and brought five lay people
from one of our supporting churches with me. I was greatly encouraged that my missions
involvement spilled over to others. We had an excellent time of ministry together.
2. I completed a theology course called “God, Bible, Holy Spirit” which counted toward my Biblical
training requirements with Cru. I have two more courses to go to complete my certificate.
3. Our Executive Director (the CEO of The Jesus Film Project) asked me to come up with a new
way to fund our internal operations. I was able to study the needs, get input from various
leaders, and change our internal funding system in a way that met the goals of our director.
(birth dates), etc.
Emily (23), who graduated from New College of Florida in 2013 where she studied literature
and French, is now working as an editor/project manager in Boston. She hopes to go to graduate
school and someday be a college professor.
Kelsey (21) is a senior at University of North Florida and is studying Public Relations. Her last
requirement to graduate is a public relations internship which she will do at Cru beginning next
week.
Audrey (15) is in 10th grade at the local public high school and doing well there. She went to
Thailand last summer on a mission trip and had a life-changing experience which included seeing
three Thai college students come to faith in Christ. She came home with a remarkably different
attitude toward her younger sister and toward our family in general. This year she is a leader in the
Cru ministry and is planning to play on the girls’ flag football team in the spring.
Isabelle (13) is in 7th grade and is homeschooled. She plays the piano and takes art and
animation classes. She likes to draw, sew, read, and do crafts for her dolls.
Web Site: www.jesusfilm.org
Missionary: Dr. Rick and Debbie Sacra
TCC Contact: Paul Church
TCC Background: Rick is the son of Glenn
and Shirley Sacra (strong and faithful members
for over 40 years). Glenn has served in many
leadership roles. Shirley was a tireless worker
for the Lord’s work before she passed away in
2006. She was an inspiration to all whom she
met and worked with.
Rick and Debbie have served the Lord in
Liberia, West Africa since 1995, where Rick
has been a doctor at ELWA Hospital outside
Monrovia. Now that their sons are grown and in
the USA, Rick and Debbie are collaborating to
develop a Christian Family Practice Residency
training program for Liberian doctors.
Rick: Medical Doctor involved in treating
patients and training staff, covering night call
and emergency surgeries;
Liberia has a mainly animistic population. Many identify themselves as Christians (but the number
of nominal believers is very high); about 20% would identify themselves as Muslims.
All ages!
We live and work in Paynesville, a suburb just east of the capital, Monrovia, LIBERIA.
Liberia is a nation on the coast of West Africa, between Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire. Most of
our ministry takes place in Monrovia.
Right now we are based in the US, since our kids are in high school and just starting college. I
have been making a 4 week trip to Liberia every quarter or so. In August I had Ebola and have
had a little time off to recuperate and to do some media appearances and public speaking since
there is public interest and it gives an opportunity to give a testimony.
My ministry involves helping ELWA Hospital remain open during the current very stressful time
in Liberia caused by the Ebola crisis. My colleague, Dr. Fankhauser and I are working to
arrange a schedule where one of us will always be there, at least most of the time.
We continue to focus on the #1 goal of keeping our staff. Since I got sick with Ebola, many
changes have been made in how we triage patients and how we protect ourselves at the
hospital.
Providing spiritual comfort and a gospel witness in the midst of the Ebola is also a key focus of
the ministry.
During August, I was able to assist Dr. Jerry Brown and the other ELWA docs to reopen ELWA
Hospital for the care of pregnant women. I often was either doing surgery or anesthesia. I was
able to pray with and counsel these women and put them at ease during the time when the Ebola
crisis was at its worst. Many had lost their babies (before they even arrived at the hospital, since
they had been in labor for days) and so we had the opportunity to provide comfort as well.
Just this past weekend I gave a 20 minute talk to over 1,000 high school students who want to
go into medicine or science (the “congress of future doctors” in Washington DC). I was able to
explain that my key motivation for going into medicine in a developing country was my
relationship with Jesus, and explained my dependence on prayer during my trial with Ebola.
This testimony was really well received, by both the students and the sponsors of the event.
When the talk was over I had a chance to meet some of the students
1-on-1 and many of them said to me “Thank you for sharing such a strong testimony. I love
science and I’m a Christian and most of my biology teachers say ‘You can’t be a Christian and a
scientist!’.” So I think this was a great opportunity that God opened up.
were reached.
We got to a point where the Liberian Post-Graduate Medical College had agreed that ELWA
would be the ones to develop a Family Medicine Program. Points of discussion included: Who
would test and choose candidates (ELWA or the College); Could we restrict the program to
Christians? (The College wants us to accept any candidate whether Christian or not); and how
many months residents would be asked to spend away from ELWA. The negotiations were
interrupted by (1) the interruption in my service in Liberia, and (2) the Ebola epidemic.
(2) to mentor Dr. Jerry Brown into the Medical Director Role. Dr. Brown and I collaborated very
well as he was inducted into the role and took it over. He is doing great in his role!>
(3) to improve the quality of care at ELWA through in-service training as we prepare to move
into a new hospital facility (being built by Samaritans Purse).
This goal was displaced largely due to the cessation of work on the new hospital, due to the
Ebola crisis. However, we did spend a lot of time training and developing protocols for safety
from Ebola in the hospital. Even though we had 3 expatriates get ill with Ebola at ELWA, we
have only had 3 Liberian staff get sick with Ebola, 1 of whom survived, which is far fewer than
any of the other Monrovia area hospitals.
(birth dates), etc.
Caleb: Age: 17. Senior in High school at St. Peter Marion Catholic High School in Worcester;
Making college visits now and working on applications. Pray for wisdom about college choices.
Jared: Age: 20. Enrolled in a 1 year HVAC technician program at the Ben Franklin Institute in
Boston which he is really enjoying.
Max: Age: 24. Currently home, in between school and looking for a job. Pray for motivation
and direction.
Web Site: www.sim.org
Our personal blog: http://iscripts.blogspot.com
Missionary: Marianne Smith
TCC Contact: Paul Muller
TCC Background: Marianne has been a TCC
supported missionary since 2004 and active with
the Women’s Bible Study for several years.
Campus Staff member with InterVarsity,
planting new chapters and evangelism.
Lead students and mentor growth in faith and
integration of study/work with faith. Develop
witnessing communities on campus and train
student leaders toward mission on campus and
a lifestyle of integrated faith and profession for
the future (whole life transformation).
Students at colleges and universities which have about 45% international students.
18+
USA
New England.
I am part of a seven member team serving graduate students and faculty in the Boston area for
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. We are on 9 campuses including Harvard, MIT, Brandeis,
Babson, BU, and Boston College. Our vision is to see students and faculty transformed,
campuses renewed and world changers developed. We work towards whole life conversion for
graduate students and faculty. Not only do we want students to meet Christ, but we want to see
lives transformed over a lifetime and for students to discover their place in the story of God and
understand their calling into the Kingdom of God. We want them to discover how their faith
infuses life and vision into their professional calling. In the Boston area, we work primarily with
international students.
This year, I am most proud of the work being done by students at MIT who are committed to
seeing their friends come to Christ. There are two separate small groups that are being run by
friends and for friends who are interested in learning more about Jesus. Just one year ago, one
of these students came to faith and it was then that we realized that he had been considering
suicide until his friend brought him to church and he eventually found Jesus through many
prayers and conversations. This is one life saved, but there are others. One student had a
medical emergency and was not expected to live through the night when students began texting
each other and praying throughout the night. Her life was spared beyond anyone’s
expectations. This fall over 40 new student have been welcomed really well at MIT and 3 new
small groups started in order to accommodate all of the new students who were welcomed. A
group of MIT men who have been meeting with seeker friends have invited two of them to live in
their apartment so that they can share life with them more closely. These are just a few stories
of the fruit we are seeing in our work.
they were reached
One surprise that surpassed my goals last year was being invited onto the chaplaincy board at
Babson. I had an opportunity to introduce some of the history of the college from someone who
knew Roger Babson. Through those efforts, the school is now considering re-introducing one of
the founding scriptures that was very important to Roger Babson: “What does it profit a man if
he gains the whole world but loses his soul?” I have also been able to provide Christian
programming at the Glavin Chapel on campus. This includes a monthly worship night and a
monthly speaker series.
Another set of goals has been to see a graduate chapter planted at each of the graduate
schools in our area. I have worked towards the planting of chapters at Boston College, and
Brandeis, as well as Babson. These are all up and running now. What is difficult is that we
need more staff. Now that I have started these works, I need more staff who can work these
campuses.
(birth dates), etc.
Torus has graduated and is studying for the MCAT. She will be applying to med schools this
spring.
JJ is a sophomore at Bryant University. Wade continues to work at Trader Joe’s evenings and
as a mortgage broker during the day.
Missionary: David Spinale
TCC Background: David has been a TCC
supported missionary since 2014 He is with
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and was
nurtured thru TCC Youth Groups. His parents are
TCC members Jim & Robin Spinale.
I am on staff with InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship planting new chapters in the
Manchester, NH area.
Develop witnessing communities on campus
and train student leaders toward mission on
campus and a lifestyle of integrated faith.
Christians, Un-churched cultural Christians, Atheists and anyone willing to talk about Jesus.
18+ (College / University students)
USA
New England – New Hampshire
The vision for InterVarsity at SNHU is to cultivate a community where students can learn and
discover Jesus Christ. We want to see students commit their lives completely to Christ while
walking with each other and boldly sharing the gospel with others on campus.
We seek to do this through holding bible studies, individual meetings of discipleship and the
encouraging of students to go share the gospel on campus. My role as staff on campus is to
meet with students and encourage all the forms of ministry listed above. I will hold bible studies,
train students to lead bible studies, evangelize to non-believing students, train Christian
students to evangelize, and hopefully be able to walk with these students guiding them closer to
Christ.
So far, there are six consistent students who meet together in the word. I have been
encouraging these students to intentionally pursue their friends, roommates, coworkers, etc. for
the purpose of loving them like Christ and sharing the gospel. Two students are in the process
of starting bible studies and two others have the first steps in a plan to reach their non-believing
friends. We also have three students so far signed up to come on our spring break trip to New
Orleans.
they were reached
I haven’t been doing ministry for a year but one huge goal was getting funded. Thanks to God
and how he moved in TCC, he has achieved that Goal for me.
A second goal was finding students who love Jesus and want to share the gospel on campus.
We have six core members at this time.
A third goal was getting recognized by the University as an official organization on campus.
This would give us complete access to campus and gives us almost unlimited potential in
reaching students for the sake of the gospel. As of Wednesday, January 28, we are recognized!
(birth dates), etc.
Lindsay and I have been going through premarital counseling these last few months with the senior
pastor at our local church. Lindsay has been working at two Genesis long term care locations in
Danvers Mass and recently picked up another location in Saugus. Please pray that she can see
God move in her work and that He can use her where she is for his glory. Only 4.5 months till we
get married!
Missionary: Starlight Ministries
TCC Background: Starlight
Ministries has been supported by
TCC since 2007 and is a program of
the Emmanuel Gospel Center.
Brian Gearin is the current director.
The mission of Starlight is to train and equip individuals and churches to build life-changing
relationships with people affected by homelessness. For the purposes of evangelism and
discipleship, we train lay leaders to establish relationships with the relatively unreached who are
homeless. Compassion is a secondary goal, as we continue to offer human service
referrals/advocacy, clothing, haircuts, showers, toiletries, and food via the Opportunity Resource
Center (ORC).
Starlight exists to equip individuals to build life-changing relationships with people affected by
homelessness. We do this by having classroom-type training and experiential training on our
ministry venues so that volunteers are empowered to do ministry on their own.
All
Youth and young adults
USA, Boston Area
Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts
Briefly describe your current ministry:
I serve as the Director of Starlight Ministries at the Emmanuel Gospel Center in Boston, MA.
Starlight’s mission is to train and equip individuals and churches to build life-transforming
relationships with people affected by homelessness. To fulfill our mission, we offer customized
coaching sessions to train Christian leaders who will then have greater empathy and increased
skills to engage in effective strategies for homeless ministry. We also develop and lead a
number of different workshops. Additionally, Starlight anchors several programs that offer
volunteers a safe environment in which to learn and practice ministry. My responsibilities include
ensuring that the day-to-day fulfillment of Starlight’s mission reflects Kingdom principles;
managing Starlight’s full- and part-time staff; and fundraising.
Henry*, an elder of a church in Lexington, began volunteering at Starlight’s Opportunity Resource
Center after an invitation from his daughter. Since April, Henry has lived out the commandment to
“love our neighbors” faithfully every week, and he has shared his experiences with the elder board
of his church. This year, the Lexington is planning its first Thanksgiving meal with people affected
by homelessness and living at a nearby motel. Henry invited and arranged for Starlight staff
members to speak at his church’s worship service to train and prepare the congregation on how to
connect with people in transitional living situations. Henry’s involvement with Starlight is helping
him to see how he can encourage his local church to minister locally to people in need. Starlight
plans to train more volunteers who are equipped to influence their local church and community in
ministry to and with people in need.
*name changed to maintain confidentiality
they were reached
Goal 1: Multiplication of Ministry
Starlight formed a partnership with Friends of the Homeless of the South Shore and the Sanger
Center for Compassion, to bring together a program known as “Home with Friends” (HWF). The
goal of HWF is to address the burgeoning issue of family homelessness over the last few years,
specifically, by pairing a family affected by homelessness with (1) a church mentoring partner and
(2) a social worker. In 2014, Starlight helped form HWF’s first two partnerships. We led trainings for
two church groups to become mentors and advocates, found a social worker, and facilitated the
first meeting between them and the families chosen for the program. Churches commit $6,000
towards one year of walking with the family through its necessary next steps towards housing,
employment, financial stability and other aspects of life stabilization.
Goal 2: Church Collaboration
Starlight convened the From Good Intentions to Good Deeds forum on Saturday, May 17. The idea
was to bring together people engaging in the good works prepared in advance for them to do (Eph.
2:10). Representatives from six churches presented their current ministries addressing
homelessness, including what sparked the idea, what inspired church members to get involved,
and challenges or learning moments since the ministry began. Discussion topics ranged from
leadership to church culture to handout strategies to advocacy to mentoring. Although the
ministries highlighted at the forum were very different from each other, all are infused with a
genuine love and care for their neighbors. (read more here: http://egc.org/ie-2014-july-starlight)
Goal 3: Program Development
Starlight developed a working logic model that articulates short-, intermediate and long-term
goals of our program. We have also developed new methods of measuring outcomes, including
how a relationship has been established between a guest and a volunteer/staff, or how a
volunteer describes his/her next steps as a minister to people affected by homelessness. We
are excited to begin using our new tools, which will help us tell God’s story on the streets and in
the churches in Boston!
Please update us on your children’s activities, school / college
Sandy and I married 4 years ago, and together we have 5 children:
Ruthi (30) is married to Felix, and they have two children, Jaikob (5) and Jayla (2).
David (26) is married to Mimi, and he currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Sarah (24) lives and works in Worcester, MA.
Kaitlin (24) is married to Adam, and she lives and works in St. Charles, MO.
Becca (21) is a senior at Fitchburg State University.
Web Site: http://www.egc.org/programs/starlight/
Missionary: Thomas, Gladys & Foundation for the Children of Haiti
(USFCH)
TCC Contact: Carolyn Lippmann
TCC Background: Gladys Thomas and Foundation for
the Children of Haiti have been TCC supported missions
for about 16 years.
Our ministry is through Foundation Pour Les Enfants
d’Haiti (Foundation for the Children of Haiti). Our work
is providing under-privileged children in Port-auPrince, Haiti with an opportunity to live and grow in an
atmosphere of love and security. We have three
orphanages: a nursery, children’s home, and a home
for severely disabled children. We operate a hospital,
a school as well, and an adoption administration as
well.
I am the president of the organization
We serve all religious groups, however our perspective is Christian. I grew up in the Baptist church
where my father was a pastor. We are associated with all Bible believing Christian churches.
We primarily serve children from newborn to early 20’s. We also serve heads of families, mostly
single mothers, with small businesses. That number is very small.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The foundation for the children of Haiti is in existence for 34 years now. My role as the director is to
pray and follow the vision that God has given me to care for the children, the orphans, the disables,
the poor and the sick. I am the director of the overall program which is divided in 4 different
programs: orphanages, education, medical, and supporting various needs of individuals and families
in need.
ORPHANAGE: 135 CHILDREN
AGE RANGE: 0 – 30 + ( Most of the children 30+ are severely handicapped. They have all been
abandoned. 2 older young people of that age are total orphans still studying and in vocational
schools)
SCHOOLS: 3 elementary schools with a total of 436 children. For several years, we received some
food supplement for an organization for the school feeding programs, however, this program stopped
unexpectedly at the beginning of the school year. We are sadly saying that we have no food to offer
the students so far this year, however, we are actively searching other organization able to provide
us with food for the schools.
CONSTRUCTION
FEH had for several years hoped to start the construction of a new school building that was to be
available in a new community of the Children’s Village. Building was planned to start before the end
of 2013, unfortunately that was not possible. Due to a partial grant from a German organization, the
construction finally started in April 2014. FEH is actively seeking additional funding to complete the
construction and operate the new school hopefully no later than 2016, but that could happen in 2015
as well. We are trusting God for a miracle.
MEDICAL: HOPE HOSPITAL opens in 1993 and is 20 years old. It is a full capacity hospital, one of
the best since the earthquake, and offering quality care to over 15,000 patients a year.
The Foundation for the children of Haiti had to make a presentation to a community where God is
sending us to provide technical training to young people. We needed a portion of land in order to
plan for the school. The land however was being used by farmers, but the land belongs to the state
and could be donated. As we shared with the farmers about God’s love and plans and how we feel
this is in God’s will that the new school come to their community, we met up with resistance,
however, we were not discouraged. It had taken almost 4 years but this year, the farmers opened up
and decided to give up the land and work somewhere else so that in the near future a technical
school can come to their village for the young people there. Many had been praying for us, as we
shared our faith, several have accepted the Lord as well.
were reached.
The third primary school which is not in town has been fast increasing in number and at the same
time plan for one more grade had to be underway as that involved the construction of 1 last
classroom to accommodate the 6th grade. Efforts to raise the necessary funds were successful and
now the school is a full elementary school with over 200 students. For this we thank the Lord.
Hope Hospital had become one of the medical centers in the city and receives a lot of patients.
There was a major need to add additional rooms for patients but we did not have the space, neither
did we have the funds to do any additional work. A couple from the States was visiting and they
happen to operate a construction company. They had a desire to do some construction work for the
Lord in Haiti and when they heard of our need to expand the hospital, they took upon themselves to
raise the money and clear a depot area of the building to create a new Pediatric Ward. This ward is
soon to be opened and true miracle and a testimony to God’s faithfulness.
School reopens and all the children registered were able to enter school. We had hoped to start the
construction of this new elementary school with a section for Special Education for our disabled
children. This dream is now being realized with the construction underway since April of this year.
We count on God’s faithfulness!
Please update your children’s (thru High School) activities, school / college plans,
My children are doing well by the grace of God.
My oldest daughter is now the administrator of the hospital. She returned from living in the States
and devoting her education and skills to Haiti. She is married with 2 children, thus I have 2
grandchildren that I enjoy having near me.
My second daughter is a teacher in Kuwait for the second year
My oldest son lives in Florida and working.
My youngest son is in NY working to sustain himself. He is 27.
My prayer is that they would have a heart for missions and serving God, in Haiti someday. In the
meantime pray for them and their protection wherever they are at this time in their lives.
Web Site: WWW.USFCH.ORG
Missionary: David and Susan Tsumura
TCC Background:
David & Susan have been TCC
Seminary training of pastors and study
of the Bible
Teacher and scholar
Japan Bible Seminary
(http://www.bibleseminary.jp/html/aboutjb
s/english/english.htm). I also preach at
churches of various groups
Adults.
Tokyo, Japan
The seminary students come from and go out to places throughout Japan, and sometimes
abroad.
At present my activities can be divided into three types:
I have been teaching Old Testament courses such as Hebrew Exegesis, Researches in
Pentateuch, Prophets and Poetic texts, and Hermeneutics, to the students at Japan Bible
Seminary for nearly 40 years. The Japanese church is especially now in great need of pastors,
and of pastors who can work with the Bible in the original languages.
Currently I am the chairman of the editorial committee for the revised edition of the New
Japanese Bible (Shinkaiyaku), which has the proposed publication date of 2016. I have had to
limit my other activities to work on this.
Scholarly: I am finishing up my commentary on 2 Samuel (NICCOT), and am working on articles
on Gen. 1-2 and Hebrew poetry. Besides, I give lectures and publish Japanese articles on
various problems in Biblical exegesis.
Bible translation helps in understanding of God’s word.
they were reached
1.
I do need to spend more time for the translation of the Bible and for the editorial works, at
least three days of week during the next year, instead of two days during the past year.”
I have been working on the revision of New Japanese Bible, three days a week most weeks, but
there is a tremendous amount of work still to do, especially with so few people really good in
Hebrew. We will have two or three concentrated editorial meeting every few months. The writing
needs to be done by the fall of next year so that the actual editing work such as layout, font, etc.
can start in the fall of 2015.
2. “I hope to send the final draft of the 2 Sam. NICCOT commentary to the publisher next year.”
I have sent a draft of the commentary on the text (minus the introduction) to the series editor.
3. “Our church has to find a new head pastor, and I am on the search committee. It is difficult,
especially as many other churches are also searching for pastors. Good pastors is a growing
need in Japan.” We are still searching.
4. In the midst of busy schedule, I was asked to participate in a conference on the Books of
Samuel in Belgium, and read a paper on 2 Sam 7. There, about 40 scholars read papers; about
10% of them are Evangelicals, the languages used are Eng, Ger, Fr. and Dutch. I was asked to
be a chairman for a small session.
5. At the seminary, several senior teachers have retired, and we are thankful that we have several
new teachers to replace them. We are encouraging some younger graduates to go into
specialized training hoping they can join the staff in the future. Several younger graduates are
studying abroad, including one at Gordon Conwell.
(birth dates), etc.
My son Michio and his wife Ai are expecting a fourth child in May. They are active in church. He
is the leader of the Boy Scouts at our church and the chairman of the building committee of the
church.
Our younger son Makoto and his wife Rutsuko were working in camp ministry. But because of
stress and overwork in the period after the earthquake he had trouble with stress when the work at
camp got too heavy, so he stopped that and is now a full-time auditor in a seminary in Hokkaido.
They will have their first child in November. Please pray for the recovery of his health and for their
future ministry.
Missionary: Soliny Vedrine
TCC Contact: Dan Haggett
TCC Background: Sol Védrine, Director of Haitian Ministries
International (a program of Emmanuel Gospel Center), has
been a TCC-supported missionary since 1985.
Haitian Ministries is building fruitful partnerships between the
Haitian community in Boston and other Haitian communities
in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and Haiti.
Since 1985, I have coordinated the work of Haitian
churches in Boston, counseled and consulted with pastors
and ministry leaders, assisted Haitians immigrating to
Boston, and organized programs and crusades that serve
the Haitian community in Boston and the Bahamas.
Churched and unchurched Haitians.
Mainly adults. In some cases, young adults considering
ministry.
New England, Haiti, Dominican Republic, The Bahamas, other Caribbean Islands where Haitians
now live)
Briefly describe you current ministry:
The mission of Emmanuel Gospel Center’s Haitian Ministries International is to encourage and
strengthen Haitian pastors in Boston and to facilitate Haitian churches working together to spread the
Gospel and serve Haitians in Greater Boston, Haiti, and across the Caribbean.
In 1972, when Pastor Soliny Védrine moved to Boston, there were only 2 young churches serving the
growing Haitian population here. So Pastor Sol and his wife started a new church, which continues to
thrive today. By 1985, there were 20 Haitian churches in Greater Boston. Pastor Sol joined EGC that
year to coordinate ministry among these churches, because he did not want them to work in isolation or
competition. Today, more than 75 churches are part of or work closely with the Fellowship of Haitian
Evangelical Pastors of New England (which Pastor Sol helped found). Pastor Sol counsels pastors and
ministry leaders; assists Haitians immigrating to the Boston area; and organizes evangelistic,
discipleship and training programs that serve the Haitian community in Boston and across the Haitian
Diaspora.
The nature and emotional impact of his work changed after the January 2010 earthquake. He has been
coordinating efforts to provide financial assistance to some of the churches and church-based relief
efforts in and near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as well as counseling and coordinating financial assistance for
local Haitian churches who are serving a wave of earthquake refugees.
As you may know, all through June and July, we were busy coordinating the mission trip to La Romana,
Dominican Republic. It was the 10th anniversary of our ministry there, and we wanted everything to be
special. Usually I bring about 20 people in my immediate travel team; this time, we were 43.
On August 4, our team flew from Boston, Hartford, and Newark to meet at the Santo Domingo
International Airport. The Gospel services of the week were well-attended, reaching about 3,000 by
Thursday and culminating at about 5,000 on the closing night (August 10). During the day, our team
taught Bible classes to some 200 kids, distributing 200 New Testaments in Spanish. Marie Françoise
Privat, a probation officer from Boston, led workshops to young adults on staying out of trouble and
shining for Christ in this world. Samuel Alexis (age 13) led a Bible class to a group of 107 kids. Others
preached, and others prayed with those in need.
were reached.
Goal 1: For Pastor Robert’s church in Surinam, I will try to raise at least $5,000 for their land
purchase, and a similar amount for three other churches in Haiti.
Soon after my return from La Romana, I welcomed Pastor Jean A. Robert, of Surinam, South America.
He came to share an update on the construction of his church, counting on me to help him raise funds
over the next 30 days. I introduced him to many pastors and attended 3-4 revival services. Pastor
Robert agreed that we could not raise $150,000 overnight, but $5,000 would help move the construction
process to the next level.
Goal 2: To extend the Vision Globale experience and further its philosophy of bringing church
leaders together for sharing and supporting one another
Over the past 16 years, the conference Vision Globale (short for “Global Vision of Protestantism in the
Haitian Milieu”) has been my most rewarding experience. We are all reminded of Christ’s command to
“go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all nations.” Many of us have realized that though it may
not be easy for one Kingdom worker to go into all the world, it is yet possible to bring a part of the world
to us.
This is what we have been doing through our Vision Globale conferences. With Haitian communities in
some 27 countries of the world today, it has been good to have Christian leaders from many of those
communities meeting every four years to report on the progress of the gospel, fellowship and be
instructed. Yet this year, 2014, in the midst of the many activities of the La Romana, Dominican
Republic (D.R.), crusade week, we put Friday, August 8 apart for a special conference, a first of its kind!
A global vision of Christianity on the whole island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the D.R.), from the arrival
of Columbus in 1492 to today.
Goal 3: In order to continue to build a strong pipeline of leadership within the Haitian Diaspora, I
will continue to mentor and support younger leaders both locally and abroad (particularly in the
Caribbean Islands)..
The Bahamas crusade is moving toward stronger self-sufficiency. Many leaders are on the planning
committee for this event, and the jobs of coordination, facilitation and supervision have fallen to them.
As much as I can, I try to serve as a sounding board, a place that these leaders can go to if they need
advice and counsel. Because I have many years of experience and many global connections, I am a
natural resource for pastors to go to when they are facing challenges. As the leadership team grows
stronger and more confident in their role, my input is needed less and less. The La Romana crusade is
a much younger event. I am using many of the same strategies to build up the leaders in the La
Romana crusade as I did with the Bahamas crusade. The main ways I do this is through building
network connections and one-on-one mentoring.
dates), etc.:
All the children are grown. Our four girls are involved in various levels of ministry: Bible classes, singing,
youth ministry, and children’s ministry. Our son, Soliny Jr., needs prayer for greater commitment to
Christ.
Web Site: http://www.egc.org/programs/haitian-ministries.html
Missionary: Judith Warren
TCC Contact: Nancy Germain
TCC Background:
Judith is a TCC member and is a supported missionary.
What is your ministry? “
Speaking from the Heart Ministries”-- Helping God’s
people to write and speak His story in their lives.
(Testimony preparation, faith story writing, and
evangelism)
Director of ministry, teaching and workshop training in
churches, Bible studies and weekend retreats to help
God’s people write and speak the Gospel, the good
news of their lives, how they came to faith and how
knowing Jesus Christ has changed them for the better.
Christians and non-believers.
Primarily the adult population, although I have taught some middleschoolers.
United States
Our local community, the New England states, Florida and conferences within the United States.
Speaking From the Heart Ministry (SFHM)
Equipping and Encouraging followers of Christ to share the Gospel through their Faith story
within their Sphere of Influence.
1) SPEAKING and Discipleship/Bible Study follow up with new believers: Stonecroft Outreach
Evangelism venues: Sharing the Gospel with secular groups to bring people to a saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ.... John 3:16
2) TEACHING: Workshops, Churches, Bible Studies, and Retreats: Working with groups and
individuals to prepare and practice their testimonies to be shared verbally.
1 Peter 3:15 ‘Be Prepared to share a reason for the hope that you have... and become confident
missionaries within your “sphere of influence
Workshops
HOW TO SHARE YOUR FAITH IN 5 MINUTES OR LESS,
WITHOUT MAKING THEM SORRY THEY ASKED!
3) WRITE AND PUBLISH YOUR SPIRITUAL LEGACY: (Testimony preparation for future
generations and plans for distribution) Deuteronomy 4:9 “take care...lest you forget the
things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your
life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—
This year in addition to Spiritual Legacy Classes, I worked with people one on one interviewing
them over a period of months and recording how they came to have a personal relationship with
Jesus Christ and how that has changed their lives. I helped them remember the times when
God had intervened on their behalf.
I was amazed at the change in them over the course of our visits. They took on a purposeful
intentional outlook, as they focused on all of the things God had done for them. They were
reminded and assured that they still had Kingdom work and value to the Lord as He continued
to work through them.
List the specific goals you had for the past year and describe the degree to which they
were reached
(Relocating to Florida and Expanding the Spiritual Legacy Project through others at TCC)
RESULTS:
1) Evangelism: Expanded speaking opportunities to Southern Florida. I spoke for several
Stonecroft Groups in New England and have applied for certification to speak in Florida.
I published another 50 evangelism books (tract) with one of my speeches titled Choices That
Will Change Your Life. The Power of Your Words. I distribute these tracts to people I meet who
inquire, “What do you speak about?”I ask them to feel free to call or email me, my contact
information in on the back cover.
2)Discipleship: In Florida I am involved in a 1)small Discipleship group that meets weekly, 2)
also a large weekly group, “Defending the Gospel and why you believe.
3) Education and Training: Few Churches have ongoing programs for equipping and
encouraging their community to share their faith. This year SFH offered two Church training
workshops( 6-8 weeks), and 3 one on one Legacy preparation with elderly homebound people.
It is my hope to raise up a team of lay leaders who can carry this curriculum into the Yearly
Education Curriculum.
Web Site www.judithwarren.net and www.spirituallegacy.net
Missionary: Nick and Ginny Woodbury
TCC Contact: Dan Sack
TCC Background: Nick and Ginny has been TCC
supported missionaries since 1970, serving with
United World Mission. Nick is a former Natick pastor
who spent many years in Colombia in leadership
training.
What is your ministry? Director of Christ for
Miami, a ministry of the LAM, Advisor for the
Colombian Institute for Pastoral Education
What is your role in that ministry? Team
leader/ Director
Particularly the Christian community
Adults - Pastors and Christian leaders
In the US – the Greater Miami Metropolitan Area.
Both the Greater Miami area and Colombia (Latin America)
As Director of Christ for Miami, a ministry of United World Mission to pastors & leaders in the city,
we strive to promote unity of the body of Christ across denominational lines & ethnic lines. We
encourage prayer for our community in order that people might be more open to the Gospel & that
we might have a unified effort to reach Miami for Jesus. Our theme: “The Whole Church taking the
Whole Gospel to the Whole City”. I currently am a member of the leadership team of Mission
Miami, which birthed out of Christ for Miami, works as a ministry in City-Reaching.
As advisor for the Colombian institute for Pastoral Education (CIPEP), I make periodic trips to
Colombia to counsel the leadership of the Institute of some 10,000 students. Ginny & I lead a
seminar each year with pastors on “Finishing Well”. I also help the Institute in promoting this
ministry with churches & friends in the U.S.
In May, Ginny and I had the privilege of helping lead the seminar on “Finishing Well” with 42
pastors and eight young Christian leaders in Medellin, Colombia. Since the seminar stresses
the importance of mentoring, one of the young couples, looking forward to marriage, asked us to
help mentor them. As a result, they have now asked us to help lead their marriage ceremony in
April, 2015, in Colombia. We consider this a real honor.
they were reached.
a. Christ for Miami – We continue to encourage pastors through the weekly prayer groups
though some have lacked consistency. The participation of the National Day of Prayer
events is encouraging and this year there were opportunities to actually pray in the offices
with several mayors. We continue to work closely with key pastors and leaders in CityReaching efforts.
b. CIPEP – As usual, CIPEP invited us to help the director, Ubaldo Restan, in teaching the
“Finishing Well” seminar with pastors and leaders. Nick continues as advisor for this
ministry with 10,000 students and just returned from a visit with them in Colombia this
month.
c. SEAN – (Seminary by Extension to All Nations) – Nick was re-elected at the September
meeting, to serve for three more years on the Board of Trustees. He will have the
responsibility of maintaining contact with the Council of Reference members located around
the world as SEAN continues to provide discipleship materials for Christian leaders
worldwide.
(birth dates), etc.
Our 4 children are scattered around the U.S. and have given us 13 grandchildren
Web Site: www.lam.org

Missionary: Jeff Barneson and Tara Edelschick TCC Contact: Greg

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