Aleksei & Lena Khodakovsky
Kyiv, Ukraine
The Khodakovskys’ focus is on leaders in different professions such as managers, HR, business owners, entrepreneurs and on young professionals. They help Christian leaders share the gospel through their professional connections. They share good news with nonbeliever leaders to help them become Jesus followers. They help leaders grow in professional, personal, and spiritual spheres of life and transform local communities through the gospel.
Ministry: Campus Crusade for Christ
Andre Furmanov
Vyborg, Russia
The Furmanovs’ ministry is to be true reformers of the Russian Church, to challenge the traditional thinking of Russian people and church leaders, to breed new leaders for the birth of a reformed Church in Russia, and to raise up laity-lead ministries to the churched and the lost, all for the purpose of carrying the truth, love, and fellowship of Christ to the people in Vyborg, Russia and even to the ends of the earth.
Ministry: Vyborg Christian Church
Corazón de Esperanza
Perú, South America
Corazon de Esperanza serves at-risk youth, children, and women. They have the first youth transitional home in Northern Peru, providing for girls who age out of orphan care. They also provide educational scholarships, mentoring and discipleship for youth living in poverty or at-risk situations. The ministry extends to provide training for youth still living in local orphanages and helping them prepare for the day they may age out.
Eric & Angela Wolthuis
Southeast Asia
Eric & Angela have been serving in Southeast Asia with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 23 years. Angela is a country director, managing both teams doing Bible translation for various language groups and also a technical team that writes software for Bible translation. Eric teaches middle and high school for the children of their colleagues and of other Christian workers at a Christian international school. Their daughter, Molly, is in 6th grade at this same school while their son, Gabriel, is studying nursing in Michigan.
Ministry: Wycliffe Bible Translators
Gary Barnes
Sathorn, Bangkok, Thailand
World Changers International’s mission is primarily to the forgotten, abandoned, and often discarded street kids, bar girls/boys, rescued trafficked teens, asylum seekers, and young Thai professionals and entrepreneurs in the city center. They are a “mutual fund” of ministry–teaching English to Thai and asylum seekers, partnering with local churches to develop street kid clubs, mentor/coach Thai pastors and Western missionaries, and serve as catalyst for thinking outside the box to the small and often older congregations in Southern Thailand.
Ministry: World Changers International
Hogar de Esperanza
Trujillo, Peru
Hogar de Esperanza (Home of Hope) is an orphanage which offers a loving home and a future to orphaned, abandoned, and abused children in Peru. They are a non-denominational Christian ministry which first opened their doors to homeless children in October 2001, delivering quality care to at-risk children. The children come from a variety of backgrounds including abandonment, extreme poverty, family violence, and abuse. The orphanage provides kids with a safe and loving family environment and an education, as well as a faith-filled atmosphere where they can learn about a God who loves them unconditionally.
Christian Missionary Fellowship Joel and Rachel Williams
Turkana, Kenya
Joel and Rachel partner with the American church and existing national churches to reignite the missional edge of the church. Through partnership, they strive to utilize culturally appropriate methods to nurture the local church to innovations in youth ministry, disciple-making, and community health. Since 2016, through youth conferences, youth leader trainings, discovery bible studies, disciple-making trainings, discipleship, community health trainings, and microbusiness ministry, 7,000+ people have been baptized, over 12,000 people have heard the gospel, 36 churches have been planted, and 2,500+ discovery bible studies meet weekly throughout Kenya and surrounding countries.
Ministry: Christian Missionary Fellowship
John Martinez
Dominican Republic and Haiti
GO Ministries partners with local pastors across the island who desire to redeem people, renew community and restore creation.
John Martinez is in executive leadership in the Dominican Republic for GO ministries. He formerly attended WRCC until he answered the call to the mission field.
Ministry: GO Ministries
Peter & Cynthia
Middle East
Pioneers is a ministry that empowers Gospel-driven Christians to go to the ends of the earth together in relentless pursuit of the unreached. They use innovative and creative means to build relationships and make disciples. They introduce people to the Bible and share the gospel in culturally understandable ways.
Ministry: Pioneers Missionaries
Robbie and Stephanie Watson
Calacalí, Ecuador
Robbie is currently the Coordinator of Community Development Training at Youth World/Mundo Juvenil in Quito, Ecuador. In addition to maintaining relationships with a number of partner ministries around the country, he assists directors and staff at Youth World in their own community efforts, as well as teaching study abroad students in community development and inter-cultural communications. Robbie is currently working toward a Master of Theology in missiology online through Edinburgh Theological Seminary.
Ministry: One Collective
Rodger and Dixie Shewmaker
Digos City, Philippines
Mathetes disciples students through music, games, caring, and food at the youth center. The ministry offers free music lessons and a place to “hang out” for students as well as offer Bible studies. They host a worship services led by student bands. The Shewmakers have been missionaries to the Philippines since 1988 and started more than 5 churches as well edited Sunday school material for the Filipino churches. Their mission has included overseeing a medical ministry and a children’s home that placed more than 18 children in adoptive homes. They have also participated in a leadership training program, and church planting program.
Ministry: Mathetes Philippine Youth Ministry
Sergio & Shelbie Sotomayor
Mexico
As a part of Campus Outreach, we partner with the local church to share the gospel on the ITESO University campus in Guadalajara. As we get to know students and build relationships, sharing our faith with them comes naturally. They see how our lives look different from what they’ve seen, so they want to know why, and they begin to ask questions. Our purpose is to share the gospel with them over time and invite them to church to connect them to more Christians so that they can see what walking with Christ looks like in the Christian faith. When they become a Christian, we aim to disciple them, equip them, and send them out to live in the world for the glory of God in whatever they do in the future.
Ministry: Campus Outreach SERVE