Missions
The Missions Movers are a team at WCC who passionately follow the Great Commission, to be witnesses in our Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth, by the power of the Holy Spirit. We believe missions starts where you are, and then God gives you a heart for the world.
We are called to be witnesses of the power of the resurrected Christ. Having experienced that power in our own lives, we respond to Christ's command by being witnesses to our family, friends and neighbors, and to the whole world, operating in Christ's compassion and love.
We endeavor to be witnesses in our area first. Then we go to the world ourselves, send out missionaries, and partner with ministry agencies, churches and individuals where they live. WCC supports 29 missionaries and agencies.
The Missions Movers team is made up of people just like you, sinners saved by His grace. We try to meet the first Monday of each month, and we ask for your prayer and support for the big task ahead of us.
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Supported missionaries
Standing Stone Ministries, Irvine, CA
As Associates with Standing Stone Ministry, we care for pastors and their wives, as well as ministry leaders and church boards. We advocate for leader care within congregations. We also serve as mentors, providing week-long one-on-one retreats for ministry couples in need of refreshment, renewal, and re-focus, with emphasis on their marriage and ministry. Our desire is to care for pastors BEFORE there is a crisis.
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Florida
Since late 2011 after I returned from Peru, I have served in Wycliffe’s U.S. headquarters mobilizing prayer for Bible translation projects around the world. My specific role is to research and write prayer requests for translation projects (NTs, OTs or full Bibles) within 3 years of completion. We have around 300 projects in our materials called “The Finish Line,” representing over 70 partners. Praise God — all these groups are closer to having God’s Word in their heart language! BUT there are still over 2,000 language groups without one single word of Scripture in their language. If you would like to join the roughly 22,000 people signed up to regularly pray for one of those language groups, you can do so online at: www.wycliffe.org/pray . You can also sign up to be a Wycliffe Prayer Partner there and receive a monthly download edition of “The Finish Line” and other prayer helps.
Operation Mobilization, Middle East
Dave & Natalie are originally from Southern California and have been ministering in the Middle East since the early 90's. They started a ministry called R.O.C.K. Ministries (Releasers Of Christ's Kingdom) and also lead R.O.C.K Church in the Middle East. They are involved in evangelism and discipleship amongst Arab Muslims with an emphasis on power evangelism and supernatural ministry. Additionally, they are involved in training and equipping believers/churches in the Middle East to be more effective in their evangelism and outreach. Dave is an ordained minister and they serve under the missions agency Operation Mobilization.
Christians in Action, Okinawa, Japan
Okinawa, Japan, is our residence. We have been missionaries here for over 25 years, ministering to the Japanese and U.S. military communities. In June 2021, we passed the torch for Yomitan International Church to our son, Daniel. We are still very active in discipling, mentoring, and providing counsel and support in many areas. Sue is involved with the local Japanese pastors, as well. Currently, Glenn is Far East Director for Christians in Action Missions International overseeing 3 churches in Japan, one in Macau, China, one in Thailand, and 7 in the Philippines. He is also Director of Asian Relief and Medical Missions (ARMS), bringing medical and dental teams into poor areas in Asia and providing free medical and dental care. In the past 26 years we have provided care for over 150,000 people and seen over 70,000 professions of faith.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Midwest Region
Todd serves with Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), whose vision is “To see the world transformed by Jesus Christ through the influence of coaches and athletes.” Todd serves as the International Advancement Coordinator for the Midwest Region (IA, IL, NE, KS, MO), where he connects the staff of the Midwest with our teammates in Eurasia (Eastern Europe & Central Asia) through the initiatives of Pray, Give, & Go.
International Partnerships, Ukraine
International Partnerships is planting churches by connecting, evangelizing and discipling professionals in the cities of the former Soviet Union (Ukraine and Kazakhstan). Since 2000 we planted 22 churches. Currently in partnership with City-to-City Europe we are mobilizing and training church planters. Sixteen church planters have graduated this training program and now planting new churches, 13 new church planters are going to start training this Sep. As we are reaching leaders and influencers who are for the most part are atheist, we use various approaches to build bridges, like ESL, photography, music classes, hiking, etc.
Gospel Torch Charitable Mission, India
InterVarsity, Long Beach, California
Beach InterVarsity is an active student movement committed to knowing and experiencing God, reaching the entire campus with the love of Jesus Christ, and raising up leaders who will change the world. We hope to see every gender, ethnicity, major, fraternity, sorority, interest group, denomination, etc. on campus become transformed by the unrelenting love of Jesus. We long to see thriving communities of faith planted in every campus sub-culture – communities that believe that to be Christian isn't to give up who we are but rather to step into the fullness of who God has made us to be.
Mission Dispatch, Kenya
Benjamin & Judith have been serving in Kenya as missionaries since 1990 when they joined Campus Crusade for Christ International. For the first 18 years, they were training pastors and other church leaders at the Nairobi International School of Theology, now International Leadership University, a ministry of CCC. In 2008, they launched a new ministry, the Community Light Mission International through which they have been training pastors and planting churches, primarily in the rural communities in Kenya where about 80% of the pastors are untrained. Last year 2020, they launched the Africa Mission Training Institute to provide competency and wholistic based formal and non-formal training for church leaders and the youth with emphasis on the Church as the agent of community transformation, spiritually, socially, and economically.
Reliant Mission
Tim is working with the Kumiai Indian Tribe to establish an indigenous-led church among them. He facilitates bible studies based using the Discipleship Making Movement methods as the primary focus. His hope is to see a discipleship movement birth out of the Kumiai and into the 4 other regional tribal groups as well as local nationals in and around the Baja California region.
Equipping Leaders International
Imagine a Church that is united, maturing, and mobilized. 95% of current global pastors have little formal theological training. ELI is on a mission to train leaders to think and live biblically.
As a member of the ELI Faculty, I provide sound biblical teaching to thousands of national leaders who have the calling and capacity to pass on their training to others in India. We aim to produce biblically mature leaders who will bring gospel wholeness to the places they live and serve.
Because you give, we can equip leaders to impact their world. My wife Elaine and I are eternally grateful for your faithful giving. May we continue to fulfill the Great Commission.
Hope and Help International
Hope and Help International equips and supports national pastors in South Asia. This means we also help them meet the needs of their local community. In South Asia, the local needs often include helping widows and orphans. We bring hope and love to communities that desperately need it. Today, partner with us to bring help and hope!
CRU, Florida
Marc and Patty have served Christ through the ministry of Cru for 42 years. Marc grew up in Tulare, California and graduated from UC Irvine and Patty grew up in Dunbar, WV and graduated from Marshall University. Right out of college they began serving the Lord on university campuses including Temple University, University of Delaware and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The Lord then expanded their responsibilities over the years to giving leadership to the Campus Ministry in the U.S. and now in their current role of providing directional leadership and leadership development to all Cru ministries in the U.S., Canada, and Oceania. Their ministry now influences college students, professional athletes, military personnel, executives and marketplace professionals. As the U.S. National Director of Leadership Development and HR, their desire is to serve Christ and our staff humbly and fully, build ministry leaders who will effectively reach their communities and campuses with the life-changing power of the Gospel, and send many out to change the world for Christ.
Makanalani, Kauai, Hawaii
Makanalani Kids exists solely to give life-changing camps at no charge to youth who would otherwise not have the opportunity to experience such a camp. These free camps, located on 130 acres of beautiful Northshore Kauai, inspire our young visitors to leave with the seeds of change knowing that life can be different. By working alongside local churches and organizations, we are able to provide specialized camp experiences for each youth group. These partnerships are essential as we partner to shape the lives of kids and teens. Makanalani provides a peaceful environment that allows people to connect with God through exploring His creation.
World Venture, Tokyo, Japan
Ken Taylor has been a WorldVenture missionary to Japan since 1997. He is involved in church-planting, disciple-making, innovative ministries, and Business As Mission. Ken leads a unique ministry that uses Black gospel music to evangelize to Japanese non-Christians. He is the main director for Hallelujah Gospel Family that now has 50 choirs with over 1,000 members all over Japan. Ken is also the Japan mission field leader where he is responsible for 60 missionaries in Japan.
Converge, Asia
The Converge Asian Impact Team is designed to assist Asian leaders and churches unleash gospel movements all across the largest block of Least-Reached Peoples in the world. Larry and Helen Taylor are uniquely gifted for this kind of ministry. In Asia they planted five house churches in one of the largest Muslim ethnic groups; Helen set up a medical clinic, and Larry co-founded (with a Chinese Pentecostal denomination leader) a national mission agency that fields church planting teams in 15 Asian Unreached People Groups. They led their own church planting team of multinational believers, while mentoring other teams and founding missionary-sending bases in two Southeast Asian countries. Here in the USA they remain active bridging believers with the unreached, assisting local immigrant churches, leading a Bible Study for Asian immigrants, serving on the Board of a significant annual Christian conference on Islam, plus direct engagement with local Muslims, while also weekly training leaders in an Islamic Asian country via the internet. Their goal? They aim to facilitate movements of Least Reached Peoples to Christ, through multiplying the intentional witness of trained, organized Christians who care. Your fellowship, prayers, participation, connections and financial support are deeply appreciated!
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Philippines
Dave and Nancy Wolfenden are serving with Wycliffe and SIL in southeast Asia. Dave is working in digital publishing which involves preparing, formatting and creating the scripture apps for the Bible translation work going on in southeast Asia as well as other parts of the world. They have been with Wycliffe and SIL since 1999.
BCA & Payatas Feeding, Philippines
Bridges International, UCI, California
AWANA Clubs International, Texas
Ilolio, Philippines
Pakistan
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