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International Partners
Serving in Ghana, West Africa
Fellowship International Mission & West African Mercy Ministries
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Brian & Debbie McIntyre, along with Tommy, Derek, and Jessi, returned to Ghana in June 2010 after their 7 month furlough. They completed their first two years as missionaries with Fellowship International Mission in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. Their plans are to continue developing their ministry to orphans. Brian is serving as the Field Director of FIM-Ghana, which has adopted a three-pronged focus for ministry: orphan care, medical care, and church planting.
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The McIntyre’s left Wisconsin 3 years ago to work in West Africa with Fellowship International Mission. They founded West African Mercy Ministries (WAMM), a ministry whose core goals are: orphan care, church planting, medical ministry and youth ministry. This was founded in response to the enormity of the orphan crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. The UNAIDS report from 2008 shows that there were over 200,000 orphans in Ghana alone, and that figure continues to climb. The Bible is very clear that God has a heart for orphans. Psalm 68:5 states, "Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation." If this is the kind of heart God has, sub-Saharan Africa (of which West Africa is a part) must be an area of the world for which he has great concern. And that is great news because it gives us confidence that as we pursue mercy ministry with orphans in mind, we are working in concert with the God we desire to serve.
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Serving in Spain with Agape:
The European Division of Campus Crusade International
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We are originally from Argentina and 10 years ago we followed God's calling to go and make disciples of Jesus in Spain. We've been doing that among the youth (High School and University) since 2001, after having done that in our home country for about 7 years. We got married in 1997 and after 11 years of marriage, God blessed our family with two wonderful twin boys (Teo and Tomás), born in 2009. |
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Spain is a country with rich history and culture, and you may think of it as mainly Catholic. However, today less than 10% of the people in Spain have a connection with the Church, and it is estimated than less than 1% have a relationship with Jesus. It has become a post-Christian, pluralistic and postmodern society.
Our vision is to help build spiritual movements among youth and families, by living missional lives and sharing what we have with others.
We work with Agape, the European division of Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ), and we live in Tres Cantos (northern Madrid), a very strategic city in which 30% of the population is under 15 years old. We work in three main areas:
- Winning (connecting with the un-churched): Through a Summer English Camp and EJE (Youth encounter in the Spirit)
- Building (transformational discipleship): Through El Camino de Santiago (St. James pilgrimage) and our ministry in the Local Church
- Sending (training leaders): Through mentoring and providing opportunities for our disciples to grow in their faith as they learn, serve and share the gospel with others which we do through training Conferences or at The Pilgrim’s fountain in the Camino.
Mariano is a Socio-cultural Animation Educator and has a Theology degree from the C&MA Seminary in Buenos Aires. Fanny is a Socio-Cultural Anthropologist from the University of Buenos Aires and she is pursuing her Master’s in Counseling at a university in Spain. Mariano enjoys soccer (fútbol), reading the newspaper, photography and graphic design. Fanny enjoys tea, scrapbooking and writing. It's a privilege to collaborate with God to change the World for Jesus! We are grateful for your prayers and support.
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Serving in Camdenton, MO
New Tribes Mission
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We believe God desires for people from every tribe, tongue and nation to hear the good news of Jesus and be able to read God's Word in their own language. In order to play our part in this, God has called us to be global workers with New Tribes Mission (NTM). New Tribes focuses on unreached tribal groups who do not have a written language. Their purpose is to plant mature churches and translate the Bible among the millions of tribal people around the globe. |
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Lael and I moved to Waukesha,Wisconsin in the fall of 2009 to begin the first half of a 4 year training process with NTM at their Bible Institute. These first 2 years of training consisted of in-depth Bible classes to give us a foundation for teaching the Word of God and ultimately translating it. We graduated from the Bible Institute in May of 2011. Now we are moving on to our last 2 years of study at NTM's Missionary Training Center in Camdenton, MO. While there, we will learn about animism (tribal spirit worship), linguistics, church planting principles, survival and medical skills and many other things that will prepare us for life in the tribe. We are still praying about where to go long term, but have our sights set on the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Planting a church and translating the Bible can take anywhere from 10 to 20 years, depending on the difficulty of the language. Please pray that God would open doors and grant us wisdom. Check out the blog on our website to keep up with us!
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Serving in Congo, Africa & Latin America
Riverwind Global
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Dick Robinson and Ruth Hidalgo met in 2002, when Dick visited the jungles of Peru, on a mission team with Leadership Resources International to train local Shipibo Indian church leaders. Ruth, a Peruvian national from the city of Pucallpa on the Ucayali River, served as a missionary with LRI. Dick, born and raised in Africa to missionary parents, was a pastor at Elmbrook Church for thirty years, with wide experience teaching pastors around the world - Kenya, Sudan, Congo, Uganda; China, India, Vietnam; Guatemala, Peru, Argentina - on every continent.
They married in 2010, then joined Palm Missionary Ministries, a mission out of Florida supporting national church leaders to serve as missionaries, church planters and leaders. |
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Supported through Palm Ministries, Dick and Ruth formed a ministry called RiverWind Global, which exists to TRAIN DISCIPLES - GROW CHURCHES - (and) ENCOURAGE MISSION, joining with Latin American churches to promote the kingdom of God in local contexts; discover, develop and place kingdom servants in the mission of the church; and speak and teach about church and indigenous mission.
In addition, Dick is a co-founder and Board member of the Congo Initiative, establishing a bilingual (French and English) Christian university in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, to train and develop strong, indigenous Christian leaders who will transform their communities and nation; modeling, nurturing and shaping an authentic, redemptive community of Christ’s followers.
Ruth teaches the narratives of the Bible - many of the Old Testament stories of God’s calling of a people to Himself - as a foundation for the gospel stories of the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus to oral cultures in the Amazon basin of Peru. She uses materials produced by Scriptures In Use.
Dick and Ruth are in Congo for the first-ever graduation of UCBC - Université Chretienne Bilingue du Congo - this July. They will be doing training in LIma, Peru, as well as leading a mission team to the Shipibo villages on the river from September through November; then back to Latin America early in 2012, in partnership with APOYO, a ministry of HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, doing leadership development for churches in Ecuador, Argentina and Peru.
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Serving in Missouri
New Tribes Mission
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BJ and Jill Sanders met in 2005 while Jill was pursuing a degree in Elementary Education and BJ was pursuing a degree in Cultural Anthropology. In 2008, they graduated from college and got married! As they spent more and more time in prayer and reading God's Word, it was evident that God desired them to be involved in spreading the Gospel to the ends of the earth. In 2009, God opened the door for them to train with New Tribes Mission. In May 2011, they graduated from the New Tribes Bible Institute in Waukesha, WI. |
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They are currently living in Missouri at the New Tribes Missionary Training Center, where they are gaining all the practical skills needed to live overseas among a tribe. They plan to go overseas as missionaries with New Tribes Mission when they finish the training next year. They have a daughter, Olivia (17 months) and are having another daughter on December 12th.
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