Faith Promise

We support missionaries and various organizations all over the world whose purpose is to bring the hope of the gospel to people everywhere. Members are encouraged both to go and to support others by making a prayerful financial commitment. To read more about Faith Promise, click here to go to the Christian Reformed World Mission website.

Missions Emphasis Week – January 29 – February 5, 2012

Missions Emphasis Week allows us become more familiar with our various mission programs. It is also a time when we prayerfully consider how we might offer to God our financial and prayer support for the church’s mission efforts, both at home and abroad.

Current Projects

Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti

Agape Flights is a non-profit Christian aviation ministry transporting continuous and critical supplies to support missionaries, their families, and their unique missions throughout Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas. Agape is committed to sharing the good news of Jesus Christ through the missionaries it serves.  Nearly thirteen million people live in the areas regularly reached by Agape’s flights. Each year, Christian missionaries served by Agape Flights touch the lives of over one million men, women, and children in such areas as education, community health, clean water, medical services, vocational training, orphan care, micro enterprise, and evangelism.  For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many acts of thanksgiving to God.  2 Corinthians 9:12.  Agape Flights is located locally in Venice, Florida.

Dominican Republic

Stephen and Sandra Brauning, Christian Reformed World Missions
(support the Brauning family)

Serving since 1991, Steve is a mission team leader and is involved with ministries including church leadership development and training Christian school development. Sandra teaches 4th grade at the International School of Santo Domingo. They are members of Christian Reformed World Missions Dominican Republic team.

Haiti

Danny and Leann Pye

For more information on the Pye’s current situation, please view their blog.

Honduras

Irene de Murillo, Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)

Irene serves as the Honduras Country Consultant for CRWRC. She grew up in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with her mother where she studied and earned a major in business administration. Before coming to CRWRC in 1995, Irene was employed by Diaconia Nacional (the social branch of the Christian Reformed Church of Honduras) for nine years. While there, she learned much about working in community development. Widowed in 2002, Irene has three children: Freddy, Lidia Irene and Nohemy Chrystibel. Both Lidia Irene and Freddy are married; Chrysti is in college and living at home with Irene.

India

Mission India
Website: www.missionindia.org

India’s 1.2 billion people represent one of the most responsive audiences to the Gospel in recent history. And as India’s people embrace new life in Jesus, they are eager to join with us in obeying God’s call to “go and make disciples.”

Mission India is fulfilling the Great Commission by training and equipping India’s believers to reach their own nation for Christ. Mission India provides these dedicated Christians with 3 core programs that are proven effective in opening doors to the Gospel and planting new churches across India:

• Children’s Bible Clubs
• Bible-based Adult Literacy Classes
• Church Planter Training

Mexico

Mark and Altia Letgers, Nation to Nation International

As a 4th generation missionary, and great grandson of L.L. Legters, co-founder of Wycliffe, Mark is no stranger to missions. He and his wife, Altia serve in Merida, Mexico, in southeastern Mexico, where their ministry includes three main areas. First, they pastor a young, growing church with about 100 members, mostly new Christians. They are also board members and teachers at a new Bible school that trains local pastors and church members with a two-year foundations curriculum, designed for students who have no church background. Finally, they provide services to the community in the form of business training, mentoring, and arts education with local schools. Their goal and heart’s desire is to equip local Christians to impact their own communities with the gospel through the testimony of their lives, their service and their love.

Nigeria

Tim and Wilma Palmer, Christian Reformed World Missions Nigerian Team

Tim and Wilma Palmer have been missionaries with Christian Reformed World Missions (CRWM) for more than 25 years.  Tim teaches theology at the Theological College of Northern Nigeria (TCNN).  TCNN has 350 full-time students and 150 summer students.  Most of the graduates of TCNN become pastors in Nigeria’s growing churches.  A significant number of graduates are Bible teachers in seminaries, Bible schools and even in the Nigerian public schools, where Religious Knowledge (Christian or Muslim) is a required subject.  Tim also writes textbooks.  He just completed A Theology of the Old Testament.  He is currently working on A Theology of the New Testament.  Wilma works with the Mashiah Foundation, training women with AIDS sewing skills to help them sustain their lives.  Their two children live in Iowa.

The CRC Nigerian team is the largest in the whole mission. They are focused on four main areas. First, they work with local churches, including the Church of Christ in the Sudan among the Tiv (NKST), with more than 500,000 regular attendees. The Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria (CRCN) has 70 congregations and 200,000 members. Missionaries also work with various people groups and provide leadership training. Another team works in eastern Kambari among the Avadi people concentrating on literacy, translation, agriculture, health and development, and evangelism.

Peru

José and Lisa Chambilla, Wycliffe—Vision 2025

Support the Chambilla family

José and Lisa work in Lima, Peru, with Wycliffe Bible Translator’s Vision 2025 program. The goal of the program is to see a Bible translation at least begun in every language needing one by 2025. José and Lisa have one daughter, Laura Grace, and one little boy on the way.

Ukraine

George and Sarah de Vuyst, Christian Reformed World Missions
Personal website: www.devuysts.com
Blog: www.devuysts.blogspot.com

Serving with Christian Reformed World Missions www.crwm.org in Ukraine since 1998, George is involved in church planting and leadership development. George’s vision is to see healthy churches develop across the former Soviet Union. Towards achieving this goal, George serves as pastor to a Ukrainian/Russian-speaking Reformed church which he planted in the town of Mukachevo. He is also actively involved in training church leaders in healthy church development through the Timothy Leadership Training. George and his wife, Sarah, have three children – Abigail, Matthew and Elizabeth.

United States

Sarah Rinsema-Sybenga, Community enCompass

Former member of Bradenton CRC, now lives in inner-city Muskegon, Michigan, with her husband Dan and son Micah. She serves as a missionary in Muskegon, as the Executive Director of Community enCompass, a Christian Community Development Organization in McLaughlin Neighborhood.  Community enCompass is a Christian Community Development Organization for McLaughlin Neighborhood, downtown Muskegon. Its mission is to empower people and build community in McLaughlin Neighborhood area by sharing God’s love, walking  alongside neighbors, seeking justice and a better quality of life through long-term, sustainable changes. Their vision is for a restored neighborhood where neighbors identify and use their God-given gifts to build and strengthen their community. They seek to maximize the gifts and assets of their community so that their neighborhood becomes more of a picture—or preview!—of heaven.