Serving with EFCA ReachGlobal

Southern Brazil Team Leader / GlobalFingerprints Latin America Division Leader

Steve and Liz currently live in the city of Piçarras where they serve in leadership over church plants and church planters in Southern Brasil. Part of Steve’s role comes in helping to develop lead, mentor and coach church planters and church plants. In addition, Steve is giving leadership to ReachGlobal’s child sponsorship Sites throughout Latin America (Haiti, Panama, Cuba and Brasil). Owing to Liz’s medical condition, Steve is ministering much more locally and traveling much less internationally.

Converge Worldwide International Ministries
David is a global worker with Converge, presently located in Minnesota with his wife Carol. He is focusing efforts in engagement with Chinese and India students that temporarily reside in the Twin Cities area as well as training volunteers who work with these students. Hospitality Center (www.hospitalitycenter.org) will be one of several agencies of cooperative work. Access to these students is challenging. Students here in America are the next generational, multicultural future returnees to their hometowns. We talk with them in English and encourage them to know God in their native language.

One Challenge International

Sara lives in Bulgaria and has been involved in a number of ministries over the years, including research, teaching, and project management. Sara and her Bulgarian coworker Raina have started an agricultural project that has the long-term goal of providing employment and life-on-life evangelism and discipleship for Roma. Unemployment is high in rural areas, and many Roma are functionally illiterate, further limiting their options. Sara is also a member of the Global Research Team of her sending organization, One Challenge. Her most significant project to date involved interviewing workers in Europe to get a better understanding of what ministry practices are most effective in working with refugees and immigrants from the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.

Chris and Faith transitioned as Converge missionaries to a ministry called Pinnacle/Antidote Ministries. Pinnacle and Antidote have very close ties with Converge and specializes in giving care to pastors, missionaries and hurting churches in the US, Asia and wherever the Lord may provide opportunity. Under this new missions agency, Chris and Faith are ministering to hurting churches, pastors and missionaries in bringing strategic resolution and training in the areas of conflict resolution, soul care and those suffering from burnout in ministry. They will be doing many of the same things they have done in the past, but with more depth in doing caregiving and with a broader field in more countries. Part of their ministry consists of teaching Doctor of Ministry and other courses for several Asian seminaries. Additionally, they are training their successor, Tunji Olasunkanmi. For more information, please visit the-antidote.org

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

Steve and Deb serve in full time evangelism and discipleship of Canadian and International Olympic athletes. Their purpose is to reach athletes for Christ, mentoring them and sending them to reach the world utilizing their platforms as athletic heroes.

India T.I.M.E. INC.
Chacko, along with a group of mission minded Christians in Minnesota, organized The India Mission for Evangelism in 1975 to bring awareness among the American Christians to provide training and tools to Christians in India and neighboring countries. He founded Peniel Bible Seminary and Missionary Training Center in India 33 years ago. Since then they started a home and school for poor children. The Varghese family live in Arizona, but travel and minister in India on a regular basis in various ways.

Steiger International
As part of Steiger, they are involved in a music ministry called No Longer Music. NLM travels throughout the world and presents a clear Gospel message in secular places. They also have a local ministry band, Cosmonaught, and hold a weekly Bible study as a place for new believers to be discipled into mature, life-long followers of Christ. Their vision is to proclaim the truth of Jesus to those who would never step foot into a church.

United World Mission

After 21 years of serving with Avance Mexico, Paul and Nydia are moving into a new leadership role with United World Mission in the area of Spiritual Formation. Paul is serving as Director of Spiritual Formation globally, Nydia teaches at Oaxaca Christian School (a school for missionary kids) and she also supports formation ministry in Latin America.

They train and resource leaders in UWM’s regions of service in spirituality formative practices and rhythms. They encourage others, both UWM missionaries and national leaders in their walks with Christ through retreats, training, and spaces for reflection and rest.

Their desire in UWM is that their ministry flows out of who they are in Christ. UWM describes this process of spiritual formation as “the process of developing relational connectedness to Christ while learning the themes and disciplines of Biblical spirituality, so we can discern, experience, and respond to God’s presence, work, and Word."

Serving with ReachGlobal (EFCA)

Leadership Training Globally

Mike and Linda serve with ReachGlobal on two different teams. Mike trains under-resourced pastors and church leaders overseas how to study, teach, and preach the Bible . He also leads a team of trainers who mainly focus in Latin America/Caribbean, although his training takes him to other continents. Linda comes alongside missionaries as a spiritual director, supporting, listening, and caring for them as they answer God’s call to serve overseas. She also helps train missionaries as they head to the field and debrief them when they are on home assignment.

ReachGlobal
Jennifer serves in the Latin America-Caribbean Division of ReachGlobal. After living and serving in Haiti for almost 9 years, she is now based in the U.S. due to the horrible insecurity in Haiti. But, praise God, the ministry of GlobalFingerprints (child sponsorship program of ReachGlobal) continues in Haiti! Jennifer is thrilled to continue serving (albeit remotely) as the Site Coordinator for the four GlobalFingerprints sites in Haiti which help support more than 600 vulnerable children. She also helps out on the ServeLAC team doing some other jobs to support the missionaries throughout the division. Jennifer lives in West Palm Beach, FL with her step-kids, Kendall (22 y.o. young man) and Kourtney (20 y.o. young woman), and she's seeking the Lord for where He may lead me in the coming years.