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Atheletes
In Action Sports Ministry
Joy Schultheis (Assoc. Campus Director). Joy grew
up in East Lansing, Michigan, the college town of Michigan State
University. She loved going to athletic events on campus. She
also enjoyed participating in them throughout high school and
college.
Joy graduated from Hope College in 1991 and taught high school
science and coached for eight years in Calumet City, Illinois.
During the summers of 1998 and 1999 she traveled to Bolivia on
short-term missions trips to play basketball with Athletes In
Action.
Even though Joy grew up in a Christian home, and became a Christian
as a child, many years went by before she started to grow in her
faith. Through her summer experiences with AIA, she became rooted
in her faith. The peace and joy she has had knowing Christ has
given her a passion to reach college athletes for Christ. Her
first ministry assignment led her on the campuses of Stanford
and Santa Clara Universities for three years. Joy provided mission
support in Univ. Wisconsin (Madison) for 2005-6. Athletes in Action
is a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. In 2007 she began
ministering in Asia.
Barb Sobol, Missionary in Mexico
Barb is a missionary in Mexico helping to shepherd
the Purepeche Indians in the remote mountain area outside of Urapan,
Michoacan. As a nurse, she organizes medical brigades and ministers
to this people group by helping to meet some of their basic needs.
Some of her projects include putting cement floors in the kitchens
of the Purepeche Indian homes and building chimneys, along with
providing supplies such as blankets and sweaters. She has helped
to establish a church community in the village of San Isidro.
Please pray for Barb's ongoing transportation needs as accessing
the villiages is often treacherous on washed out roads and always
hard on her vehicle. One of her goals is to see the church in
San Isidro as well established and run by the Purapeche Indians.
Then she will go on to plant a church in another village. (email
her at alelobosuruapan at hotmail dot com)
Chosen
People (NY)
Klaudia Zhelezny (New York). In 1997, Klaudia
was invited to serve with Chosen People Ministries. Her ministry
is in Brooklyn among Russian Jewish immigrants. She understands
them because she is one of them. The Russian Jewish congregation
she helped start, and which her son Greg pastors, is active in
evangelism and helping the immigrants in many ways, including
offering English classes where Bible is taught and the Gospel
is proclaimed. Click the link to the left for more info.
Chosen
People (Chicago)
Justin and Judy Kron (Chicago). Since 1998 Justin
has been serving with Chosen People Ministries, an international
Jewish ministry dedicated to sharing the love of the Messiah with
the Jewish people and helping others to do the same. He leads
eXperience Israel, a short-term ministry and spiritual pilgrimage
program for young adults, and regularly assists Christian organizations,
campus ministries, and churches in developing their outreach within
the Jewish community.
Justin has served with the Danny Byram Ministries, a concert ministry
to the U.S. military, and as an Area Manager with Promise Keepers
in Chicago, where he represented the ministry as the national
liaison to the Messianic Jewish community. Justin has completed
a Masters of Divinity program at the Moody Graduate School. Justin
and his wife, Judy, their daughter, Mackenzie, and son, Joshua,
live in the suburbs of Chicago. If you live in the Chicago area
you will occasionally hear Judy hosting a program for WMBI-90.1FM
of the Moody Broadcasting Network. Justin and Judy are members
of Willow Creek Community Church where Justin serves as an elder
at the North Shore regional campus in Northfield, Illinois. Until
recently, Justin and Judy led the couple’s ministry of Axis—the
next generation ministry of the church. Click the link to the
left for more info.
East
West Ministries Int'l
Behimer's in Russia
East-West Ministries Int'l. operates a school
in the Northern Caucasus region of southern Russia called the
Biblical Leadership Training Coalition (BLTC) that is specifically
designed to multiply and strengthen local churches by mentoring
trainees in Biblical studies, evangelism and life on life discipleship
in ministry. By investing our lives into these young church leaders
in the classroom and out, we can strengthen their churches into
vibrant and multiplying witnesses for Christ among their various
people groups. It's our desire for Brennen to be a teacher at
the BLTC to pass on some of the valuable training we've received
and invest ourselves to see their lives transformed as they grow
in obedience to Christ!
Read
more about their calling & testimony...(pdf)
Street Pastor Ed Kannapel... more to come...
A
sample sermon recently sent to 400 prison inmates...
Jews
for Jesus
Jhan Moskowitz, (Chicago) branch leader, was born
and raised in the Bronx in New York City. From his refugee parents,
he learned at an early age what it means to be a Jew. He was disenchanted
with religion in his teens, but was committed to the survival
of his people and became a short-term volunteer on a kibbutz in
Israel. It was there that he became a seeker. He found his answer
in 1971 when he came to terms with God through His Messiah, Jesus.
Jhan was one of the "original" Jews for Jesus volunteers,
even before the organization's incorporation in 1973. He received
a B.A. in history and philosophy from Long Island University and
received theological training from Simpson College in San Francisco.
He also has a master's degree in missiology with concentration
in Jewish evangelism/ Judaic studies from Fuller Seminary, and
is currently doing post-grad work at TEDS in Deerfield, Illinois.
He was ordained through the Christian and Missionary Alliance
in 1979. Jhan co-founded the New Jerusalem Players (a mobile drama
team of Jews for Jesus) and toured the United States as leader
of that team for several years. He has headed up the New York
branch, where he also served as pastor of a Messianic congregation
in Manhattan. Jhan has taught a Bible study for the legal community
of downtown Chicago for the last 20 years.
Jhan also serves as a platform speaker for Promise Keepers and
has brought the message of reconciliation through Messiah Jesus
to tens of thousands of men. He mentors college students at Moody
Bible Institute, as well as being a wonderful father to two grown
daughters of his own. More
info...
Latin American Ministries
Since 1983, we have been serving the Lord on the
Mission field. We have three wonderful “Angels”; Joshua
26, Veronica 22, and Jonathan 20.
It has been our joy to minister in church planting, preaching,
teaching, hosting short-term missions groups, and ministering
in song and music. By the Lord’s blessing we have extended
the work of God to Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala
and now in Mexico.
The Lord has given Angelica and I a burden and desire to train
those in the community and prepare them to go out into the mission
field. We are building a Bible School in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Our desire is to focus on equipping church leadership for serving
on the mission field. The Lord has also allowed us to use the
Bible School Building (still under construction) for a Rehabilitation
Center, which has served men while overcoming their addictions
to drugs and alcohol as well as leading them to the Lord.
Throughout the years, we have hosted over 60 groups from the United
States, Mexico and even Japan who are interested in short term
missionary work. They have helped us by providing materials as
well as constructing church buildings, the Bible School in Mexico
and a Pre-school in Nicaragua. We encourage and welcome all who
are interested in this short-term missionary work to be a blessing
and encouragement to those in foreign countries.
Jesus & Angelica Angel (e-mail: missionaryangel at hotmail
dot com)
New Tribes Mission
Ian & Julie Fallis
Ian assists New Tribes Missions (NTM)
in planting churches among tribal people who have no access to
the gospel. The goal is to use the indigenous churches to make
disciples. Establishing a church is a complex and time-consuming
task. Missionaries on the field need support in a variety of areas
including receiving medical care, schooling, cultural questions,
visas, managing donations, strategic methods, training, security,
and communication to name a few. Ian works in a supportive role
for NTM establishing strategies, communicating ideas, providing
direction, and leading departments. He is part of the leadership
team for the Communications department, and he also provides leadership
and guidance for other departments and the NTM-USA board. He also
assists a team of writers to create articles and text for NTM
publications and electronic media, in order to help churches and
individuals partner in planting tribal churches.
Send
Int'l (Alaska Native Eskimos)
The Wilsons joined SEND in January of 2003. They
currently reside in the small remote hub village of Aniak Alaska
in an area where most of the villages have no resident gospel
witness. Working hand in hand with the few believers there they
strive to see the Body of Christ built among the Native Eskimo
people of this region. Due to the remoteness of Western Alaska
and the lack of any road system, the Wilsons are also one of our
missionary families who use aircraft for their main means of travel.
Please see their website and ministry updates at http://bwwilson.mystarband.net/
Sent to Server Ministries
The LaRosa Family
Sergio
and Susan, along with their family, Jessica and David, have
served in Latin America as missionaries since 1991. The first
5 ½ years were in Quito, Ecuador, working in leadership
development with Leadership Resources, on loan to HCJB World Radio.
They moved to Peru in 1997, changing missions, and continued to
work in leadership development, theological education, family
ministries, and counseling, through Sent to Serve Ministries.
Since 2002, they have been serving in both Ecuador and Peru. Jessica
and David attend the Alliance Academy International where Susan
also teaches. They also continue their ministry in Trujillo, on
Peru’s northern coast.
House of Hope, Manhattan, IL
House of Hope is a Christian Home established
ito provide a safe place for expectant mothers who do not have
a place to live an are experiencing a life crisis. We are dedicated
to providing our residents with resources and services that establish
a foundation for self-sufficiency and self-confidence to care
for themselves and their children. Residents are able to reside
at the Home for the duration of their pregnancy. This 8,300 Square
foot facility is specifically built for housing expectant women
in a crisis situation. Eight semi-private rooms capable of housing
up to 16 women. Ten bathrooms are also a part of the floor plan
of the home. (Donna’s counsel) Two private, three bedroom
apartments, are available for staff quarters and transitional
housing.
Youth With A Mission (YWAM)
Anna M. Bastounes serves in the Communications
Department at the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) training center
near Tyler, Texas. She directs the editorial office and assists
in writing and editing a wide variety of publications, including
a quarterly missions newspaper. Her editorial contribution has
been instrumental in setting hundreds of volunteers mobilized
and needed funds received for numerous international missions
programs.
Anna has also launched a video department, which documents the
worldwide work of the YWAM Tyler center and presents opportunities
for involvement. In addition, she oversees the computer services
department which recently established a communications network
to link foreign missionaries with their contacts at home.
Since joining YWAM in 1986, Anna has worked with missions training
schools and with evangelism and relief assistance projects in
Turkey, Mexico, Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, and various US cities.
Locally, Anna serves as a counselor at YWAM’s crisis pregnancy
assistance center and volunteers as a youth leader in a Black
church.
Anna’s work in world missions is made possible through the
prayers and financial sponsorship of interested friends. To join
her write:
Anna M. Bastounes, YWAM, PO Box 4600, Tyler, TX 75712
Yossi
Ovadia CJF
Ministries www.kehilathaderech.org/english/
CJF Ministries has established missionary outposts
in the major Jewish population centers of the world. Field representatives
are stationed across the United States—as well as in Israel,
England, Argentina, France, South Africa, and the former Soviet
Union. Born in Haifa, Israel to a ‘Masoraty’ (traditional
Jewish) religious family, Yossi Ovadia established 'The-Way' congregation
in Karmiel which first gathered together in his rented apartment.
Now people come to their services not just from Karmiel, but also
from the whole Galilee and even further, from Katzerin on the
Golan Heights. The congregation is an Israeli Messianic congregation
with their main aim being the Hebrew speakers in the Galilee and
all others who are willing to learn the language and desire to
integrate into the Israeli culture. The CJFM goals are Evangelizing:
To reach Jewish people with the Gospel of Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus
the Messiah. Like Paul, we want to proclaim the Good News that
God has fulfilled the promise He made to the Fathers: The Messiah
has come (Acts 13:14-39)! Equipping: To build up the Body of Messiah
and equip believers for service by means of Bible study and discipleship
training (Eph. 4:11-12). Educating: To teach the local church
about its Jewish roots and to train other believers in how to
share the Gospel with their Jewish friends (Rom. 9:4-5, 10:14-15).
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