Resources:
Global Prayer Digest
of the U.S. Center for World Mission |
Albania Partnership
Turkey Partnership
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Brandi and Dana Bates
New Horizons Foundation-Viata
www.new-horizons.ro/
In 2000 Dana and Brandi Bates founded New Horizons Foundation and launched Viata. Viata, a ministry of Young Life, teaches Romanian youth trust, responsibility, honesty, courage, hope and other character traits which have been devastated by communism. Through two proven experiential education strategies—adventure education and service learning—Viata is facilitating a shift in perception away from a win-lose way of thinking toward a win-win cooperative ethic and the long term benefits that result. |
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Steve and Kitty Holloway
Frontiers International
www.frontiers.org
For close to 30 years Steve and Kitty have been serving in Frontiers International working on many ministry fields helping Muslims realize the blessings promised to Abraham and found in Jesus. The aim of Frontiers is to build faith communities of Jesus followers from a Muslim background who remain and witness within their Muslim society. Steve and Kitty have mentored team leaders on the field and developed training resources. In the last five years they have developed a new initiative called Knowledge Stewardship with a vision to help their teams learn more intentiionally from their 25 years of experience on Muslim fields. |
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Brook and Sue Sturtevant
Bless China International
www.blesschina.org/ (in process of being developed)
Brook and Sue’s blog: brookandsue.com
Sent from our congregation, Brook and Sue are serving Christ as administrators and teachers with Bless China International in Kunming, China. Among BCI’s many ministries, Brook and Sue personally are involved with educational programs which assist Chinese teachers of English and educators involved with AIDS prevention. In addition they work with the indigenous, marginalized Chinese who create handmade gifs to sell both locally and in the United States affording them an opportunity o earn an income and support themselves. |
UPDATE:
Just prior to returning in Dec. Sue was appointed as the head administrator for BCI. She has responsibility over general admin, the finance department, personnel, and IT. Most overseas organizations struggle with finding administrators. In addition to providing a solid administrative foundation for BCI, Sue does of a lot of discipleship and training of our Chinese staff. This provides great joy for her. Flying is a young man in finance and MaYan is a lady in personnel, both of whom Sue is working to develop into future leaders.
Brook continues to teach English to our staff, coordinate the short term program, and write curriculum and train our staff in our HIV peer education program. Both the English program and the HIV prevention training offer opportunities to help mature our staff in their faith and daily walks. Felicia has done a particularly fine job as our peer education leader. She has shared that as our staff goes to the university, the students are asking deep faith related questions. PTL.
We continue to have a heart for developing the handicraft project. It ministers to the disenfranchised of society offering them hope and dignity as we market their handicrafts. |
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Nita Hansen
God’s Hidden Treasures
www.godshiddentreasures.org
Nita is from Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Thousand Oaks. She is the founder of God’s Hidden Treasures, a ministry in the Ukraine. Nita leads a team of Ukrainian workers who provide for the disabled, repair and distribute wheelchairs, offer rehabilitation services to stroke victims, visit and monitor diabetes patients through in-home health care, operate a mobile medical clinic, and work in the orphanages. |
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Nick and Maia Mikuluk
International Partnerships
www.ipukraine.org
Nick and Maia began with a small group Bible study movement, but today International Partnerships is a ministry of Ukrainian and Russian Christians committed to reaching the leaders, influencers, and professionals of the Ukraine and other Russian speaking countries helping them grow spiritually and plant churches. These people are the least reached and at the same time the most influential segment of Ukrainian society for Christ. |
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Hank and Mona Paulson
New Hope International
www.newhopeinternational.org
New Hope’s compelling passion to win as many people as possible, especially the youth, in Eastern Europe to Christ Jesus by partnership with the local churches in their ministry and outreach through teaching, training and mobilizing. New Hope also publishes practical resources for believers working to build Christ-centered homes. New Hope’s four-year Sunday school program for children is used by thousands of churches to teach their children life-changing biblical truths in a systematic way. And, New Hope’s orphan care program provides a channel through which the church can help to place abandoned children in loving, Christian homes where they will be nurtured and cared for. |
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Ted and Claudia Limpic
One Challenge International
www.onechallenge.org
Ted and Claudia are from San Diego. While serving as Program Director at the Forest Home Christian Conference Center, Ted got a phone call from a Brazilian who asked him to consider helping Brazilians train and send their own missionaries. In 1985 Ted and Claudia (and their two sons, Jeremy and Joel) moved to São Paulo and spent twenty-two years recruiting, training and sending Brazilians as missionaries to the least reached peoples and places around the world. In 2006 Ted and Claudia moved to southern Spain and now use Malaga as their base to visit, mentor and care for the more than 300 Brazilians now serving as missionaries in North Africa and the Middle East. |
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