Elifelet “Kiké” & Brittany Astorga
Campus Outreach SERVE
If you have any questions about national or international missions trips, or how to get in touch with missionaries, drop us an email.
Reach The World
The Bible says we should share the message of God’s great grace to those in our home town, across our country, and around the world. At Grace, we support dozens of missionaries serving in far off lands as well as others serving here in the United States. In addition to supporting these wonderful servants of God with our prayers and financial resources, we plan a number of overseas missions trips for all ages.
The most important thing to know is that YOU can be a part of this miraculous outreach. Here are just a few ways to connect in world wide missions:
- Be a part of a short-term missions trip yourself!
- Volunteer to help with events like the Global Impact Celebration.
- Support our missionaries by giving above and beyond your tithe with funds earmarked for missions.
- Encourage our missionaries with emails, personal notes, or even a video chat.
- Spend time learning about our missionaries by scrolling through the different missionaries and organizations listed below, or by visiting the hallway near the front entrance.
If you have questions or would like to volunteer or support world missions, please fill out this form.
If you have any questions about national or international missions trips, or how to get in touch with missionaries, drop us an email.
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Contact Elifelet “Kiké” & Brittany
Kiké (Kee-kay) is the Campus Director for Campus Outreach SERVE, working on the ITESO University campus in Guadalajara, Mexico. The team works to build relationships with students with the desire to share the gospel with them and disciple them. They also desire to enfold them into the local church and to develop them as future leaders.
Please pray:
- Praise God for Brittany’s miraculous recovery from surgery last year; pray for continued good health for her.
- For the salvation of students, specifically the students with whom they are meeting.
- That God will raise up more laborers for His glory on their campus.
- For their children Chloe, Clark, Barry, and Bruce.
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Eli & Marcia Beltran
Heart of Illinois Youth for ChristContact Eli & Marcia
Eli is the Ambassador for Youth for Heart of Illinois Youth for Christ. His focus is on pastor and church relations, mentoring and resourcing the local staff, and donor relations. He is also available to partner with YFCI/Americas, representing Heart of Illinois YFC in Latin America whenever needed.
Please pray:
- For continued development and growth of YFC in Central Illinois.
- For YFC/Puerto Rico, which was recently established and is growing.
- For physical strength and health for Eli and Marcia.
- For the local YFC staff in Central Illinois as they reach out to young people with the gospel of Christ.
- For their children Marc (Lauren), Elicia (Landrian), Marielli (Joel), and four grandchildren.
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Abram & Becca Bicksler
ECHOContact Abram & Becca
Abram is the President/CEO of ECHO, a global Christian organization which provides agricultural resources, skills, and seeds to reduce hunger. His responsibilities include managing and empowering the global staff of 100+, overseeing the fundraising and development of ECHO’s four global offices, seed banks, training events and conferences, internship program, research, and networking with their 19,000 global partners.
Please pray:
- That the Lord would bless the global holistic work of ECHO and expand its capacities to be a blessing to the 500 million smallholder farms around the world.
- That the ECHO network would empower Christian workers to bring the gospel and bless the poor spiritually and physically.
- That the work of their hands, hearts, and minds would glorify God and strengthen His church.
- For their children Eliana and Benjamin.
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Mark & Joanna Bodlien
Word of Life FellowshipContact Mark & Joanna
Mark is the Camp Director at the Word of Life Ranch & Ridge Camps in upstate New York. Throughout the year he travels and connects with youth ministry leaders, recruiting summer staff and working with the camp interns in New York.
Please pray:
- Praise God for the 1,976 campers that attend this summer! Pray that He would continue to work in their hearts and for the campers who will attend next summer.
- For the homeschooling of their girls Bekah, Nicole, Abi, and Ellie.
- For personal growth and close friendships.
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Kathy Boerckel
Commission to Every NationContact Kathy
Jim and Kathy have served in western Michigan for many years among refugees, immigrants, and international students from many different nations. Their strategic goal has been to make disciples for Christ and equip and encourage the local Christians for cross-cultural outreach. Through service, outreach, and hospitality opportunities, they have developed personal relationships and shared the love and gospel of Christ in word and action. Kathy will continue in her role with CTEN without Jim as he went home to glory after a battle with cancer on September 7, 2025.
Please pray:
- For Kathy and the rest of the Boerckel family as they grieve Jim’s passing.
- Pray for wisdom and strength for Kathy as she continues to minister to those around her.
- For believers’ involvement in cross-cultural outreach.
- For their children Aaron, Micah (Jessica), Weston (Emily), Samuel (Haley), and five grandchildren.
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Mark & Deb Borland
Wycliffe Ministry CenterContact Mark & Deb
Mark is a Partnership Development Coach and technology consultant. Deb serves as Senior Director of Staff Vitality. This role oversees staff care, global health services, crisis management, and counseling. Together they enjoy training, leading and encouraging Wycliffe colleagues who are working all over the world.
Please pray:
- For the work of Bible translation and the transformation of lives.
- For Mark and Deb as they use their gifts within the organization.
- For wisdom for Deb as she has broader reach with multiple teams in the organization.
- For good connections as their family is spread from Florida to Georgia to Illinois.
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Norman & Gwen Bowman
Global Outreach InternationalContact Norm & Gwen
Norman and Gwen mentor leaders who plant churches, start youth ministries, and lead restoration ministries through prayer initiatives across the Spanish-speaking world. They reach out to the poor of their community and regularly care for immigrants of other faiths. Their gifting, calling, and passion is to communicate the gospel effectively to the multicultural peoples of Spain, Europe, and the world.
Please pray:
- For their online mentoring ministry with key Spanish young adult Christian leaders.
- For their financial support needs.
- For spiritual discernment, physical strength, and good health for the pressing demands of their prayer mentoring ministry.
- For their health. For Gwen, that the cancer medication will be effective and side effects minimal. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in the spring of 2024. For Norman after skin cancer surgery with complications and also a torn hamstring.
- For their children Carl (Patti), Natasha (Roberto), Nathaniel (Jennifer),
Benjamin (Kristin), and fourteen grandchildren.
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Ethan & Amanda Brown
Reformed University FellowshipContact Ethan & Amanda
Ethan is a pastor serving the University of Illinois with RUF, the PCA’s denominational campus ministry. Following college graduation, he served as an RUF intern at Duke University. In 2018, the Browns moved to Charlotte, NC, where Ethan attended Reformed Theological Seminary. In 2021, the Browns moved to Champaign-Urbana to start a new chapter of RUF at the University of Illinois. Ethan loves getting to know students and helping them get to know King Jesus.
Please Pray:
- That RUF would increasingly come to be known as “a community that prays.”
- That their outreach efforts would be effective, and that many new students would plug into RUF so that they would be equipped for a lifetime of following Jesus and serving the Church.
- That God would send out RUF students in the future to be faithful workers in God’s harvest (as pastors, missionaries, counselors, teachers, mothers, fathers, and leaders in whatever field God calls them to enter).
- For their children Judah, Ellis, and Ezra.
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Brian & Karen Cordes
Child Evangelism Fellowship — Camp Good NewsContact Brian
Brian is working with CEF Camp Good News as the camp’s Facilities Manager. He is part of the full-time missionary staff that welcomes summer campers and year-round retreat groups to enjoy meeting their Creator in a natural setting. Over the years hundreds of kids have found Jesus as their Savior and grown in Him through the ministry of Camp Good News.
Please pray:
- For the children who attended camp, that their hearts and lives would continue to remember and live out the gospel messages they heard this summer.
- For rest, endurance, and health for the Camp Director and for Brian as they shift to retreats and repairs after the busy, long hours of summer ministry.
- For needed finances as they work to repair and improve the camp facilities.
- For strength, healing, life/family balance, and spiritual growth.
- For their children Zach (Jordan), Janelle (Wes), Brad, and three grandchildren.
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Josh & Alissa Crooks
Teach BeyondContact Josh & Alissa
Josh, Alissa, and their children have moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, over 80 miles from the nearest Burma/Thai border. Josh will be assisting and advising relief teams as they gather information and stories during their field service. With the imagery and stories that are collected, he will help to create video and audio content that tells the story of God's hand in the operations of the Ranger teams. In addition, he will develop and implement reports from the field, interface with journalists and media outlets, and provide a centralized communication avenue for the organization, both inward and outward facing. Alissa plans to pursue ministry opportunities with the FBR team as well.
The Free Burma Rangers is a movement of people driven by compassion who provide help, hope, and love to people of all faiths and ethnicities in conflict areas, to shine a light on the actions of oppressors, to stand with the oppressed and support leaders and organizations committed to liberty, justice, and service, all in the name of Jesus. They train teams of "rangers" to provide humanitarian relief in the form of emergency medical care, shelter, food, clothing, human rights documentation, and outreach programs that include songs, games, crafts, and testimonies of the love and hope found in Jesus. Josh and Alissa will remain with their current mission agency, TeachBeyond.+ 
Mark & Kris Crooks
The Evangelical Alliance MissionContact Mark & Kris
Mark and Kris live in Madrid, Spain, and serve as the Regional Member Care Coordinators for TEAM missionaries serving throughout Europe - about 60 missionaries in all. Their ministry is to ensure that each global worker and their family has the support they need to maintain spiritual and emotional vitality as cross-cultural workers. They work to build and maintain healthy ministry teams, facilitate conflict resolution, help each one adapt and thrive in their host culture and navigate their relationships with TEAM and with their senders back home.
Please pray:
- For their sons, Ben and Sam, who are planning to work together this fall, selling internet service regionally in the Midwest. Pray for the energy and determination to be successful!
- For Mark and Kris this fall as they will be in a heavy season of travel, visiting missionaries all over Europe. Pray for safety, health, and good connections with them.
- For their children Anna (Ben), Josh (Alissa), Beka (Trent), Ben, Sam, and 9 grandchildren.
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Mel & Amy Ellenwood
Josiah VentureContact Mel & Amy
Josiah Venture’s mission is to equip young leaders to fulfill Christ’s commission through the local church in Central and Eastern Europe. Mel serves as Executive Vice President of Josiah Venture. He and Amy work alongside over 300 leaders in 16 Central and Eastern European countries to shepherd, train, and give direction as this movement continues to grow.
Please pray:
- That they endure. This has been a challenging year for their team as they respond to the crisis in Ukraine, along with the increasing impact of the war on youth in Europe.
- For wisdom for Mel as he shepherds the leaders of JV’s ministries.
- For Amy as she leads a ministry to the women of JV.
- Pray that they would embody Romans 15:5, that the God who gives “endurance and encouragement would give them a spirit of unity as they follow Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth they may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
- For their children Hannah (Joseph), Hayley (Austin), Noah (Jill), and four grandchildren.
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Noah & Jill Ellenwood
Josiah VentureContact Noah & Jill
Josiah Venture’s mission is to equip young leaders to fulfill Christ’s commission through the local church in Central and Eastern Europe. Noah and Jill serve in Podgorica, Montenegro, a country with only five registered Protestant or Evangelical Christian churches, and fewer than 150 national believers in Jesus. They engage in full-time contact ministry, street evangelism, language learning, and relationship building with local churches.
Please pray:
- Praise God for young students who are choosing to put their faith in Christ. Noah
and Jill love witnessing His work in these young people’s lives. - For their local church and youth group, that they would be able to see opportunities that God is giving them to reach out to unbelievers in Podgorica.
- That God would continue to open doors for sharing the gospel.
- For their daughter Hazel and son Henri.
- Praise God for young students who are choosing to put their faith in Christ. Noah
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Paul & Nanci Erkert
Wycliffe Bible TranslatorsContact Paul & Nanci
After spending twenty-two years in Cameroon, Central Africa, Paul and Nanci now serve at the Wycliffe-JAARS Center in Waxhaw, NC. Paul works with the International Media dept, producing audio and video Scriptures and dubbing the Jesus Film into indigenous languages from all over the world. Nanci works in Wycliffe’s counseling ministry and also supervises counseling interns who work with Changed Choices, a re-entry program for incarcerated women.
Please pray:
- For Paul and his team to be unified and accurate – “rightly handling the Word of
God” – as they work on the BSP templates. Pray that the app would introduce
many people to the one true God. - For wisdom for Nanci as she counsels fellow missionaries and supervises counseling interns.
- For them to grandparent well, helping Luca and Zeb to know and love Jesus.
- For their children Alexis (Ben), Karen (Abe), and two grandsons.
- For Paul and his team to be unified and accurate – “rightly handling the Word of
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Katrina Forseth
Child Evangelism Fellowship of IllinoisContact Katrina
Dr. Katrina is the State Director of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Illinois. Her responsibilities include the supervision of all CEF staff, six local chapter committees, Camp Good News, and the volunteers who make the ministry to children possible. She is also involved in pioneering new areas in Illinois and helping to establish additional CEF local chapters.
Please pray:
- For Katrina and the CEF of Illinois State Board as they work on a master strategic plan to grow the ministry of CEF.
- For the “3 B’s”: Build our Boards, Build our Staff, and Build Church Partnerships.
- For Katrina’s weekly radio program on WPEO, Telling Future Generations.
- For her husband, Kermit, and their two children. Caleb is a junior at Taylor University and Samuel is a junior at Peoria Christian School.
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Nate & Roxy Frantz
Campus Outreach SERVEContact Nate & Roxy!
After doing college ministry with Campus Outreach for twelve years, the Frantzes moved to Athens, Greece, with Campus Outreach SERVE in 2023. Their vision is to see God transform Athens from heartless religious practices into a people who deeply love Jesus and walk with Christ in every area of their lives and relationships. They hope the next generation of young people will rise to bring about this change and that one day, people in Greece will not look to better economic times for their hope, but rather to Christ. The impact of one life in a culture with such deep generational relationships can have a dramatic effect in all of Greece.
Please Pray:- After 2 years of language school, the Frantzes will transition to ministry with university students at the University of Athens. Please pray for favor, friendships, spiritual interest, and changed hearts.
- For their kids’ continual adjustment, friendships, and challenges they face being in the public schools in Athens: Darcy, Daxon, Declin, and Dawson.
- For more full-time gospel workers for university students.
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Pablo & Rosa Gallego
Partners in Evangelism InternationalContact Pablo & Rosa
Since 2015, the Gallegos have dedicated themselves to the ministry of planting a new church in the north central part of Malaga, Spain, where there are no evangelical churches. In September 2021, they opened a church and for the moment, they meet in the hall of a hostel. The Word, prayer, and fellowship are priorities in their church life, showing God’s love and trying to be salt and light in their community.
Please Pray:
- That more friends and contacts receive the gospel and Christ personally.
- That more people join the church.
- That they can find a suitable place to meet and that the church continues to grow and serve the community.
- For their children, Yoel and Lidia.
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Jamie & Jackie Gildard
Mission to the World (PCA)Contact Jamie & Jacki
The Gildards are part of a church-planting team in the growing aerospace technology corridor west of Toulouse, France. They are building relationships, sharing the good news of Christ, and encouraging evangelism and leadership among French Christians. There is searching among the French, and a void in their hearts that only Christ can fill.
Please pray:
- For Jamie’s work in helping to train future leaders in their church.
- For Jamie and Jacki’s evangelism work with friends, neighbors, and contacts.
- Very few people in France have any idea of what the Gospel is.
- For their children Rebecca, Jimmy (Paxton), Owen (Karen), and Angelle.
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Avery Gutwein
ReachGlobalContact Avery
Avery is passionate about sharing Jesus with others and ending sexual exploitation. She joined the ReachGlobal Berlin, Germany, City Team in the fall of 2022. While in Berlin, Avery is learning the beautiful German language and supporting local anti-forced prostitution ministries. She is also part of a German-led church plant in her cute neighborhood of Berlin. Avery is engaged to Silas.
Please pray:
- For wisdom, favor, and unity for her church planting team.
- For women in forced prostitution and specifically the ones they are reaching out to in their online outreach. Please pray for hope, healing, and freedom (spiritual and physical) for them.
- For blessing, wisdom, and needed resources (monetary, staff, etc.) for the anti-forced prostitution ministries in Berlin.
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Mark & Karen Heintzman
The NavigatorsContact Mark & Karen
Mark and Karen train, coach, and mentor Regional Directors and Campus Directors who are ministering with The Navigators on college campuses across the United States. Mark and Karen’s central focus is to help these key leaders sharpen their skills to raise up men and women who love Jesus – Christ-followers who are living out their faith on campus, in the workplace, in the church, and on the mission field.
Please pray:
- For wisdom and discernment to coach and shepherd the staff well.
- For strong teams of interns at key campuses across the country.
- For fruitful collaboration with their partners in Hungary, Mexico, and England.
- For Mark, Karen, and their family to be filled with all hope, peace, and joy as
they serve God. - For their children Benjamin, Maggie, Callie, and Luke.
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Luke & Jenny Herrin
Africa Inland MissionContact Luke & Jenny
Luke is the International Director of AIM. Important aspects of his job include vision casting, leading the leaders, and coordination of the mobilizing (recruiting) and receiving (field) offices. Jenny posts the daily updates for AIM’s unreached people groups to the PrayAfrica website and does admin. You are invited to subscribe and pray for Africa’s UPGs at www.prayafrica.org.
Please pray:
- For strength and grace as they travel to visit their missionaries and offices. They are on the road and in the air a lot.
- For wisdom for Luke as he speaks at meetings and conferences, responds to emails, deals with issues, and that he would be led by the Spirit.
- That they would walk in step with the Spirit & discern what He wants them, as a mission, to do.
- Praise that their daughters Laurel (Shawn) and their twins and Bethany (Michael) and their four sons all live close by. Pray the Lord would continue to work in and through them. Pray for strength for Laurel and Shawn and work for Michael.
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Tom & Lisa Horn
The NavigatorsContact Tom & Lisa
Tom and Lisa serve with Navigators World Missions based in Denver, Colorado. Together they serve as Regional Representatives (pastoral care function) for 40 staff and their children that serve in 8 countries: Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cambodia, S. Korea and two closed countries in S. Asia. They connect with their staff via the internet or at times travel to the region. They have had the privilege of serving as coach/mentors with younger leaders with two other mission agencies. They especially are thankful for and enjoy their three adult children, their spouses, and nine grandchildren.
Please pray:
- For Tom and Lisa as they travel: good health, stamina, safety, ability to sleep, focus, and that they’d be an encouragement and practical help to all the staff.
- For guidance from the Lord regarding future ministry.
- For their children and grandchildren to be drawn closer to Christ through His love.
- For their time (via Zoom) ministering to a younger couple serving as leaders with SIM International. Tom & Lisa are involved with their Leader Development project.
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Josh & Lisa Inman
Global Hope Network InternationalContact Josh & Lisa
Josh is the Regional Field Leader for GHNI in Southeast Asia, helping give leadership to the organization’s Transformational Community Development projects. TCD workers seek to help villagers reach sustainability in the areas of water, food, income, wellness, and education through three-to-five-year projects among unreached people groups. Lisa teaches American Literature and British Literature (Grade 11 & 12 English) at Grace International School, a school in which about 80% of the students are missionary kids.
Please pray:
- Thank God that Josh has made an excellent recovery from his injuries.
- For protection for them as they work to bring help and hope to unreached
people groups in impoverished villages in Southeast Asia. - For their children Colby, Hailey, and Noah.
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Mike & Stacey Jackson
Your JerusalemContact Mike & Stacey
Mike is the director of Your Jerusalem, an organization to help churches spark a sustained movement of evangelism by equipping Christians to evangelize their friends. His thirty years of experience as a campus minister and his training as an ICF-certified coach help individuals address the lack of evangelism in their lives and mature through the process. Mike believes the gospel changes lives, families, churches, cities, and nations.
Please pray:
- For many churches to request the training that Mike offers, and for many to address the barriers that keep them from sharing their faith.
- For fruit from this ministry: overcoming barriers, Christians maturing in their faith, churches fostering a culture of evangelism, and non-believers hearing the gospel and placing their trust in Christ.
- For his wife Stacey and their children Knox and Katie-Beth.
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Chase & Alisha Johnson
SERGEContact Chase & Ailisha
Chase and Ailisha (Sha) lead a small team that works alongside several primarily indigenous ministries/projects based in the university town of Cluj, Romania. The team also assists local believers working among students and professionals within the Cluj artistic community.
Please pray:
- That Roma youth would be touched by the gospel in a way that transforms their lives and their entire community.
- For new conversions and for spiritual growth among the already converted, especially among university and seminary students.
- For a deeper devotional life that overflows into hospitality and relationships.
- That God would add much needed people with complementary gifts to the team.
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Ben & Sheri Johnston
Spero MinistriesContact Ben & Sheri
Ben and Sheri have been serving in local church ministry for over 35 years, most recently as the Senior Pastor at Subiaco Church in Perth, Australia. Ben’s new position is Executive Director of Spero Ministries based in Perth. Spero Ministries (Latin for “I hope”) exists to address the needs of pastors and Christian leaders for spiritual care and personalized ministry training. The core ministry of Spero is shepherding the shepherds of God’s people. The goal is not simply to help ministers of the gospel survive in ministry but to thrive.
Please pray:
- Praise God for the wonderful reception Spero Ministries has received by pastors and Christian leaders in Australia.
- That Spero Ministries will be able to grow their network and build on the ministries and relationships that were established this year.
- For their children Taylor (Celeste), Katherine (David), Christine (Sam), and six
grandchildren.
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Jason & Abbie Keel
Bridges International & Cru CityContact Jason & Abbie
The Keels are on staff with Cru in the Atlanta area. Abbie serves as the Director of Training for the US National MPD (Ministry Partner Development) Team. In her role, she oversees all of Cru’s national trainings related to support raising and finances in order for all staff and interns to be fully funded, Christ-centered laborers, focused on their mission. Jason is on staff with Cru Church Movements. Jason trains church leaders and lay people how to be multiplying disciples. The goal is transformative, multiplying churches in every segment of the city that communicate and demonstrate the gospel to every person, so that every man, woman and child would know the gospel and experience the love of Jesus Christ.
Please pray:
- For Jason to have open doors to serve more pastors and churches who want a new discipleship pathway.
- For Abbie and her team to have wisdom and clarity.
- For Jason and Abbie as they parent their young adult children Hannah, Owen, and Bennett.
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Zach & Citlali Kempf
Campus Outreach SERVEContact Zack & Citlali
Zack and Citlali work with CO Serve and the local church in Guadalajara, Mexico, where less than 1% of the population know Jesus. They are laboring to reach college students with the Gospel and to disciple them and get them connected to the local church.
Please pray:
- For God to transform Guadalajara and the whole "Circle of Silence" region through the Gospel.
- That God would save many people in Mexico and raise them up as laborers for the kingdom.
- For their children Zami and James to know the Lord.
- For continued financial and prayer support.
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Jay & Nancy Klopfenstein
T-Net InternationalContact Jay & Nancy
Jay serves as president of T-Net International, which seeks to train and equip pastors and leaders around the world to finish the Great Commission. Currently T-Net is in 50 countries and has about 50 staff in North America, Africa, and SE Asia, with nearly 17,000 pastors in training and hundreds of training centers globally.
Please pray:
- For new work starting in Latin America. They recently hired a director for this work.
- For the translation work to continue expediently and accurately
- For them as they work on a 2nd accreditation credential for Teleo University which will open up doors in North America.
- For work in closed countries. Pray for their director, Wesley, in India, as he pursues the new “Equip Himalaya” initiative.
- For their children Kaleb (Lizzy), Jared, Alexa (John), and two granddaughters.
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Scott & Rachel Kramer
Hands of Love MinistryContact Scott & Rachel
Scott and Rachel minister through Hands of Love Ministry, based in Central Illinois, whose outreach includes music and speaking ministry throughout the United States and internationally. Rachel also leads a local women’s community Bible study.
Please pray:
- Praise for spiritual growth, ministry growth, and a time of refreshing.
- Praise for Weston’s continued progress in his journey recovering from autism.
- For God’s hand to continue to guide them as they move forward in faith.
- For His rich presence to go with them everywhere they have the privilege of serving Him.
- For their children Maria (Ben), Weston, and three grandchildren.
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Dan & Carol Learned
Heart of Illinois Youth for ChristContact Dan & Carol
Dan is Executive Director of “Heart of Illinois Youth for Christ.” Their team is taking the Great News of Jesus Christ all around Central Illinois. They work to facilitate hundreds (someday thousands) of “Authentic Christ-Sharing Relationships,” with teens who do not know Jesus.
Please pray:
- For more Volunteer Ministry leaders.
- That the gospel be shared and embraced often.
- For their children Amy (Josh), Wes (Janelle), Jess (Grant), Ben (Natalie), and nine grandchildren.
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Wes & Janelle Learned
Heart of Illinois Youth for ChristContact Wes & Janelle
Wes and Janelle direct Campus Life at Normal West High School. They lead a team of adults, committed to coming alongside young people and meeting them where they are. They seek to help young people navigate the pivotal years of high school, uncovering God’s story of hope in their lives.
Please pray:
- That the team would grow! That God would call committed adults into authentic Christ-sharing relationships with teens.
- That students would be receptive to and transformed by the truth of the gospel.
- For their family to keep receiving God’s grace as they love each other.
- For their children Jack, Ransom, and Eva.
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Jon & Cassie Mahan
Campus Outreach SERVEContact Jon & Cassie
Jon and Cassie serve with Campus Outreach in Guadalajara, Mexico. They are seeking to evangelize and disciple college students from various places in Mexico who come to Guadalajara to study. They also desire to enfold them into the local church called Cristo Redentor and to develop them as future leaders for the next generation.
Please pray:
- That they love God above all things.
- That they homeschool and disciple their kids well.
- That their students become laborers.
- That God saves many students and neighbors.
- For their children Ellie, Annagrace, Josiah, Jaxon, Silas, Selah, and Caleb.
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Bob & Disha Moreau
Crescent ProjectContact Bob & Disha
The Moreaus live in Chicago and are teaching English to refugees and immigrants, helping them adjust to American culture and developing organic relationships. Together they also disciple Christians from a Muslim background. Bob also supervises the AV team at a church in downtown Chicago, and Disha is on staff with Crescent Project, an organization that focuses on reaching Muslims here and internationally.
Please pray:
- For Bob's health: He is recovering well and has consistent follow-ups. Pray for continued healing and wisdom for the doctors.
- For their neighborhood as they minister to a huge influx of refugees from several nations through Devon Oasis and Sabka Sahaara church plant.
- For their family: They updated their adoption paperwork. Please pray for the right child placement for them and for endurance.
- For wisdom for Disha as she coaches new interns through Crescent Project.
- For protection and provision for Afghan neighborhood children they care for.
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Ron & Pam Morton
Word of Life FellowshipContact Ron & Pam
Ron and Pam have been with Word of Life International Ministries since 1982. After 11 years in Chile, Ron started serving with International Ministries as a Project Coordinator. He provides strategic assistance by helping mobilize short-term work teams, some project fundraising, and procuring much-needed equipment and resources. He is part of a design team for the international camp properties. He also travels with many of these teams to work on camp construction projects.
Please pray:
- For Pam: She is the “Mimi” to the grandkids and wants to see each of them know and walk with the Lord.
- For Pam’s ongoing ministry with students, both her Spanish class at a local Christian school, as well as her many past students. Pam has earned their respect and they keep in contact, coming to her for counsel.
- For the many short-term mission trips to fill the needs of many of their international fields. Visit www.GO.wol.org.
- For their monthly support.
- For their children Caleb, Joanna (Mark), Joshua, and twelve grandchildren.
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Ben & Lindsey Newton
Novo/InnerChangeContact Ben & Lindsey
Ben and Lindsey live out the gospel in holistic ways in communities of poverty. They have lived in Muslim communities (in South Asia and the UK) and are presently in Pennsylvania to launch their oldest children off to college. Here they continue to forge Gospel-centered relationships with refugees and other marginalized people. And through training and mentoring, they empower local Christians to engage in mission. Their kids range from 1st grade to college, and they love good coffee and “proper” tea.
Please pray:
- For the Holy Spirit to open the hearts of their friends who are just starting to know Jesus.
- For the Christians that the Newtons mentor.
- For discernment when choosing how to spend their time.
- For their son Samuel to thrive at Wheaton College, where he is a freshman.
- For deep healing that leads to resilient, compassionate lives.
- For their children Samuel, Caroline, Elisabeth, William, and Gabriel.
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Wachira & Glenda Ngamau
Pan African Christian ExchangeContact Wachira & Glenda
The Ngamaus’ main ministry outreach is education. Pan African schools provide education from pre-school to high school, with a student population of over 250. Over 150 are residential students. They also provide Bible training to pastors and church leaders in Kenya and the East African community.
Please pray:
- Praise Him for salvation decisions for students and staff.
- For additional friends to partner with them.
- For them to be in step with God for the ministry direction and purpose.
- For their children Ngamau (Ciera), Wangari, and Kihika (Nancy), and four grandchildren.
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Jeremy & Christy Otten
World VentureContact Jeremy & Christy
Jeremy and Christy serve with WorldVenture to provide theological education and counseling in Europe. Jeremy teaches full-time in the New Testament department at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF). He enjoys the opportunity to work with and mentor students from across Europe and all over the world as they prepare for lives of ministry and discipleship. Christy is busy providing counseling support for WorldVenture missionaries.
Please pray:
- For their transition and adjustment to living in Kandern, Germany, and for safe travel each week as Jeremy commutes by train to Belgium.
- For friendships for each of them in their new location and for the boys to adjust well to their new school.
- For the students at EFT, that they would be the Christian leaders, the “theological voices” that the Church in Europe needs.
- For their children Kai, Caleb, and Sam.
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Josh & Julie Parr
Fellowship of Christian AthletesContact Josh & Julie
The Parrs serve with the Illini Land Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) at the University of Illinois. In 2023 Josh joined staff with Illini Land FCA to continue to labor at the U of I after almost a decade serving there with The Navigators Collegiate. The mission of FCA is to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus and His Church. Josh and Julie long to see Illini athletes and coaches come to know Jesus through God’s Word and equip them to labor for the Kingdom on their teams, in the community, and for the rest of their lives wherever God takes them. They are excited to see what God will do in and through the diverse group of student-athletes and coaches at the U of I.
Please pray:
- That they would stay Christ-centered as a family and a staff team.
- That God would open doors for the gospel on all the sports teams at the U of I.
- That coaches and athletes at the U of I would trust Jesus and seek to help others do the same.
- For their daughters Hannah and Joanna to know Jesus as their Savior.
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Susan Perlman
Jews for JesusContact Susan
Jews for Jesus has centers in 12 countries and 16 cities around the globe—their largest work is in Israel. Susan is the Chief Partnership Officer (CPO) and is forging partnerships with other missions, churches, and theological institutions who share a commitment to evangelism. Her greatest love is to personally share the gospel with Jewish people one-on-one and with anyone else who needs to know Jesus.
Please pray:
- For Susan, in her role as CPO (Chief Partnership Officer). She is currently working on possible partnerships with four other mission agencies operating in Europe, the Middle East, and North America, two training institutions, and a digital ministry.
- For the Jewish seekers on her caseload including the Rosners, Nathan, and Steve.
- For Susan’s younger sister, Pauline’s salvation. Having lost their mother during the height of the pandemic, they have had more spiritual discussions than ever before.
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Ted & Ann Powers
Mission to North America (PCA)Contact Ted & Ann
Ted is the director of the Midwest Alliance (PCA), which exists to see PCA churches and presbyteries in the Midwest move forward in church planting as an intentional and functional partnership, committed to working together to plant churches and renew existing congregations by strategic coordination, contributing resources to one another, increasing communication and collaboration.
Please pray:
- For Ted as he seeks effective leadership and to resource the churches and
presbyteries of the Midwest Region for church planting. - That by God’s grace, they will grow from 251 PCA churches in the Midwest
region to 500 over the next ten years totaling 100,000 people. - For their current church plants and planters.
- For Ted as he seeks effective leadership and to resource the churches and
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Michael & Leslie Rebholz
CruContact Mike & Leslie
Mike and Leslie serve in roles caring for the missionaries of Cru, Mike as Associate National Director of US Staff Care and Leslie as the MPD (Ministry Partner Development) Coordinator of Capacity Ministries. Mike engages in coaching staff who are engaging in employee crisis situations. Leslie helps ensure the missionary staff in the capacity ministries of the headquarters (Finance, HR, Tech, and Legal) are able to be fully funded and engaged in the ministry.
Please pray:
- For Leslie as she changes her role to a new scope in the ministry that she will be able to understand the unique needs of each department she serves and help the missionary staff balance their own personal needs for financial support with carrying out the critical infrastructure duties they each have.
- For Mike as he leads in caring for all 9,000 people who serve in Cru.
- For margin as Mike and Leslie lead full lives (ministry, kids with special needs, strong marriage) as they seek to honor the Lord.
- For their children Benjamin, Maddox, and Zachary.
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Geordon and Marilyn Rendle
Youth For Christ CanadaContact Geordon & Marilyn
Geordon and Marilyn continue to serve in their global roles with Youth for Christ Canada. Marilyn is overseeing diaspora teen ministries both globally and locally while Geordon continues speaking, travelling to many different nations these past two years. The highlight has been seeing young people surrender their lives to the Lord and dedicate themselves to His service! In the past year, their three youngest children were engaged and two were married.
Please pray:
- For ministry with cross-cultural communities in both global and local locations.
- For meaningful reconnections with partners this coming season.
- For the newlywed, engaged and Rendle families!
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Jim & Linda Rinella
Oaks InternationalContact Jim & Linda
Jim and Linda Rinella lead the campus ministry for Oaks International at Colorado State University. Their passion is to see college students come to Christ, to make disciples, and to send students and alumni out across the world into missions. They want to develop students to become leaders and laborers that will go on to serve God in their families, their churches, their jobs, and their communities. Jim is on the leadership team for the nationwide college ministry of Oaks International. He also serves as the Director of Staff Training to help develop Staff in Oaks International especially focused on helping brand new staff as they start in full-time ministry.
Please pray:
- Praise God for 45 student leaders to help them outreach on campus!
- That God would help them reach college students that don't know Jesus.
- For full healing for their son Matthew's brain and body following his traumatic brain injury nine years ago.
- That God would send Christians into their son Michael's life, and that he would come back to Christ.
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Steve and Katie Ringelspaugh
Beautiful RedemptionContact Steve & Katie!
Steve and Katie work with Beautiful Redemption to connect kids and families in crisis with a community that cares through a technology called CarePortal. Since 2016 they have been building an ecosystem of churches, businesses, and individuals who know the needs in the community and have a simple way to serve a vulnerable family in the name of Jesus. Beautiful Redemption has partnerships with over 240 churches and has served over 33,000 kids in the past nine years.
Please Pray:
- For support for their church network through adding churches and strengthening existing ones.
- For continued connections with donors with a heart to see their work expand to new territories.
- For their children, Judah and Zoey.
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Jeff & Jean Ringenberg
Heart of Illinoise Youth for ChristContact Jeff and Jean!
Jeff and Jean are active in development and legacy giving ministry. Jeff has the privilege of inviting God's people to partner with YFC financially and to help them find great joy in extraordinary generosity available to most believers in their estate planning--ALL to bring the gospel to lost teens. Jeff also provides senior leadership to the growing Heart of Illinois YFC outreach.
Please Pray:
- For God’s people to find joy in their stewardship through generous and tax-wise giving to Church and Kingdom causes. For continued favor from those in positions that permit access to youth in detention centers, facilities, and schools.
- For continued favor from those in positions that permit access to youth in detention centers, facilities, and schools.
- For new, young believers in the detention centers to make significant life changes.
- For teens. Many are discouraged, lonely, and depressed.
- That many will say “yes” to Jesus.
- For YFC leaders to pursue authentic, Christ-sharing relationships with lost teens.
- For their children Amy (Marcus), Laura (Tom), Katie (Bill), and eleven grandchildren.
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Sadey & Jonny Rose
Heart of Illinois Youth for ChristContact Gary & Judy
Sadey is the Chillicothe Campus Life Director at Illinois Valley Central High School. Sadey, alongside a team of volunteer leaders, aim to care for students emotionally with authentic relationships, physically with meals, and spiritually by sharing the Good News about Jesus.
Please pray:
- That more students in Chillicothe would get into authentic, Christ-sharing relationships with safe adults.
- For more STUDENT leaders to have a heart for their lost friends to meet Jesus.
- For more partners that are able to help with meals, hosting, and cheering on Campus Life in the community.
- For Jonny and Sadey’s marriage as they grow closer to Christ and each other.
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Gary & Judy Roseboom
Rural Home Missionary AssociationContact Gary & Judy
As associate director, Gary works at the Morton, Illinois, home office to help oversee and coordinate various ministries. He is also involved in the day-to-day care of the missionary family. RHMA missionaries go into small towns and rural areas across America to plant new churches and restart dying ones.
Please pray:
- For Adam Kipp, their new Executive Director, as he takes the reigns of leadership.
- For a renewed emphasis on church planting in rural America. Much of their work in recent years has been in strengthening existing churches.
- For wisdom in how to best encourage, equip, and care for the missionary family across rural America–some in very discouraging and isolated places.
- For their children Laura (Ian), Elizabeth (Dave), Adam (Allison), and eleven grandchildren (ages 16-26).
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Sheridan
Arabian PeninsulaSheridan is currently raising support for her first long-term stint in the Middle East and hopes to leave in the summer of 2026. She plans to focus on language and building relationships in her first few years. She is joining a team with whom she interned in 2022, so she’s excited to return. The team’s goal is to plant a church among an unreached people group.
Please pray:
- For the Holy Spirit to fall like rain in the desert, that God would build a strong church there.
- That the Lord would provide for all of Sheridan’s financial needs so she can depart for the field on time.
- For Sheridan’s relationship with her current company, as they have agreed to be her government-facing identity while she is overseas.
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Chase & Jess Smith
Campus OutreachContact Chase & Jess.
Chase and Jess work on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They have been on staff with CO for just over eight years and are entering their 5th year at WMU. This semester their focus is first to share the gospel broadly with many students. Secondly, they are focusing on reaching Greek life (fraternities and sororities) with the gospel. These organizations tend to be places where most ministries won’t go and are often left untouched by the gospel.
Please pray:
- That their team would have favor on the campus and form many friendships that would lead to gospel conversations.
- That many fraternity guys would put their faith in Christ for the first time this fall!
- That the students in discipleship groups would grow in their love of God and desire to labor in his harvest this year
- That students on the football, baseball, soccer, and volleyball team would mature in their faith this year
- For their children Bennet, Jaclyn, and Jordyn
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Martin & Dana Smith
InterVarsity Christian FellowshipContact Martin & Dana
Martin is the director of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in central, western, and northern Illinois, where he oversees thirteen schools. His supervision also includes two staff and over fifteen volunteers. Martin casts vision, recruits staff and volunteers, initiates chapter planting, and leads some of the chapters. He particularly helps lead the Bradley chapter. InterVarsity’s goal is to develop witnessing communities at the existing chapters on secular campuses and to plant new chapters at schools without a Christian group.
Please pray:
- Please pray for more paid staff. Most of the current ministry is being done by volunteers with only a few hours a week.
- Please pray for deep discipleship of students, despite the limited hours of the volunteers.
- Please pray for students to love, pray for, and witness to the lost on the campus.
- For their children William, Dawn, and CJ.
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Bill & Sue Tell
The NavigatorsContact Bill & Sue
Bill and Sue continue to live out their hearts for college ministry. They spend time on campuses across the country ministering to the Nav staff and students as cross-generational friends...speaking, listening, praying, and mentoring.
Please pray:
- For a revival on America’s campuses.
- For a new army of laborers radically committed to the Great Commission.
- For a new generation of leaders who have a magnificent obsession with the Word of God.
- That Bill and Sue would continue to be seeds that fall into the ground and die and bear much fruit.
- For their children Dave (Hannah), a professor at KU, and Jeff (Aubrey), a pastor in SC, and six grandchildren.
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Mike & Kathy Uno
Cru CityContact Mike & Kathy
Mike and Kathy are working with Cru City, specifically with the IIR (International, Immigrant, and Refugee) ministry. Their desire is to develop strategies to reach, disciple, mobilize, and send IIRs to reach others with the gospel. They are the founders of Grace Presbyterian Church’s ESL ministry and are helping with it.
Please pray:
- That God would provide a team of individuals from each cultural group to help give leadership to this ministry.
- That God will give creative ideas as they seek to provide opportunities to
interact with individuals concerning their needs and spiritual interest. - That God would multiply church-based ESL ministries in other states.
- For their children Nathan (Larissa), Tim (Traci), Abbie (Jason), and nine
grandchildren.
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Lisa Velpel
Child Evangelism Fellowship of IllinoisContact Lisa.
Lisa helps coordinate volunteers for the office special projects as well as doing some behind the scenes work so that field ministry and events can happen. When she is not doing behind the scenes work, she helps teach Good News Clubs during the school year and 5-Day Clubs during the summer. She also passionately leads a Moms in Prayer group for the moms of Glen Oak Learning Center and other local elementary school students.
Please Pray:
- That more moms would join the prayer group at the State Office location.
- For opportunities to build relationships with families in the neighborhood of the CEF office.
- For the successful building of more gospel partnerships.
- For her husband Gary and their daughter Kristina.
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Tomas & Melody (Walker) Vidal
MultiplyContact Tomas & Melody
Tomas and Melody serve as the directors of the Matthew Training Center in Guadalajara, Mexico, whose vision is to see well-trained disciples serving among the nations. Along with five teammates who are also passionate to make disciples like Jesus did, they lead discipleship programs where the participants live in a multi-cultural community whose focus is to grow in intimacy with the Lord and make disciples who make disciples.
Please pray:
- For their team relationships and dynamics.
- For Jocelyn, a student from 2021, who is pursuing further training in missions.
- For those who passed through their programs this year to continue to follow Jesus and make disciples.
- For more volunteers (those they have had have served so well, been an example to their students, and been blessed in return!).
- For complete financial support.
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Nelly Vos
Mission to the World (PCA)Contact Nelly
For the last seven years, Nelly’s ministry has been to support and help develop an artistic initiative in the context of evangelism within UNEPREF (French denomination of churches). The means of creativity and art (pluridisciplinary music, painting, photography, etc.), used for the purpose of outreach is non- threatening to French society and provides an opportunity for broader evangelistic impact.
Please pray:
- For wisdom and a deep dependence on the Holy Spirit as she dedicates her time, energy, and gifts and collaborates with leaders and a handful of artists in churches, to reach the people of France for Christ.
- That Nelly will be able to encourage and continue motivating the artists within the denomination, especially the one who attended the residency last May.
- For the continuing work of books of a collection Unexpected Layovers of evangelistic/pre-evangelistic books.
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Dean & Kim Waldenmaier
Cru – Bridges InternationalContact Dean & Kim
Dean serves with Cru’s international student ministry, Bridges International, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. As the team leader, he coaches a team of students and volunteers who seek to win international students to Christ, disciple them, and train them to reach others. Kim works in the human resource world of Cru. Her team seeks to develop individuals and teams so they can be healthy and effective missionaries.
Please pray:
- That every international student on the UW-Madison campus and throughout
Wisconsin would have the chance to hear about Jesus. - That they would walk closely with the Lord, depending on Him for wisdom, strength, and energy.
- For their children Christa (Sam), Michael, Katie, and their two granddaughters to love the Lord and to make wise life decisions.
- That every international student on the UW-Madison campus and throughout
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Gordon & Linda Warriner
Black Buffalo Global Missions, Inc.Contact Gordon & Linda
Gordon is responsible for carrying out the vision of the organization, primarily in Uganda, Africa. The Village of Joy has 12 classrooms, a library, a medical clinic, a cookhouse, a teacher residence, a children’s home, and new washrooms. They provide meals, an education for 400 children from pre-school to high school, medical care, a children’s home that now has 240 orphans, and daily chapel services.
Please Pray:
- For finances to be able to complete the high school, meet monthly budget, and for them to make yearly trips to Uganda.
- For Linda and Gordon as Senior Pastors, (ministering to “senior” members of their congregation) in Kelowna, B.C.
- For new monthly partners.
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Megan Weeks
TEAMContact Megan
Megan is serving with TEAM to provide special education services at Faith Academy in the Philippines. She is serving in the elementary school division to teach, disciple, and care for students of missionaries. By partnering with missionary families, she hopes to serve God’s Kingdom work in Southeast Asia.
Please Pray:
- For joyful dependence on the Holy Spirit in learning how to live in a new culture, work in a new environment, and be away from family and friends.
- For wisdom and flexibility in collaborating with parents, other teachers, students, and staff to meet students’ various needs.
- For the community of Faith Academy to continue to empower God’s Kingdom and create disciples.
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Jonathan & Katie Welch
Camp of Champions U.S.A.Contact Jonathan & Katie
Jonathan, the Executive Director of Camp of Champions USA, is driven by a deep passion for guiding campers, families, and staff into transformative, gospel-centered experiences. He finds his greatest joy in crafting moments that not only deepen their connection to Christ but also inspire a profound love for His creation within the fun and safety of a Jesus-centered day camp.
Please Pray:
- That families in need are drawn to camp, where the relationships they build will powerfully connect campers, staff, and families to God’s love and grace.
- For the 2025 summer staff, that they fully embrace the divine calling on their lives, stepping into the incredible opportunity to make disciples who make disciples.
- For the camp and its church partners, that their partnership will impact eternity, by transforming the communities they serve for Christ.
- For their children, David (15) and Addison (12).
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Randy & Sandy Weyeneth
The NavigatorsContact Randy & Sandy
The Weyeneths serve with The Navigators’ Encore Mission. They are involved with a personal discipling and counseling ministry helping people apply the gospel to daily life challenges. Sandy continues a long, very difficult health recovery journey from a host of major physical problems, plus severe burnout and related issues.
Please pray:
- For complete healing of Sandy’s health.
- For creative ways resulting in fruitful evangelism.
- That God would transform lives through biblical marital counseling.
- That hundreds of quality discipleship resources shipped overseas would change lives.
- For their children Alicia, Mirachelle (Noah), Merrilee (Jason), and six
grandchildren.
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John & Karen Winkelman
CRU — FamilyLife and Cru City GlobalContact John & Karen
John serves on the Leadership Development/Human Resources team at FamilyLife guiding new and current staff as they learn Cru's core distinctives and translates those into winning, building and sending people for Christ in the marriage and family sphere wherever they live. Karen is transitioning to Cru City Global where she will help in the sending and care of US staff going to unreached places around the world. She facilitates prayer for Cru's private conference, caring for staff parents dealing with challenges.
Please pray:
- That each family member would seek God first and bring glory to Him in all that they do (school, ministry, relationships, etc.).
- For new relationships to grow; to find friends and ways to serve at their church and in their community.
- For wisdom as they honor, stay connected with, and care for Karen’s mom.
- Praise for a great first year living in Texas closer to some of their family.
- For their children Hannah (Andy), Mary, Grace (Josh), Kara (Justin) and 7 grandchildren.
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Bill & Jackie Wright
PowerQuest WorldWideContact Bill & Jackie
Bill and Jackie serve the Lord assisting missionary hospitals around the world. Using his engineering background and experience, Bill formulates designs, sources equipment, and then installs appropriate technology and cost-effective systems such as medical gas, radiology, and alternative energy for the GLORY of God. Jackie is involved in Women’s Bible studies, mentoring a college student, and gardening.
Please pray:
- For wisdom on how PowerQuest WorldWide can serve the missionary hospital community around the world.
- For wisdom to know when international travel will be appropriate with scheduling projects once equipment is on site.
- As they walk through these uncertain and unpredictable times, please pray they will walk in His peace as they trust Him for the future.
- For provision for volunteers to assist in the installation of equipment.
- For their children Brent (Meredith), Kari, and Janell, and three grandchildren.
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Siddhant & Beulah Yogi
World TeamContact Siddhant & Beulah
Originally from India, the Yogis have been church planters in Trinidad among unreached people groups of south Asian origin since 1980, having been instrumental in starting several churches. Siddhant also trains, mentors, counsels, and disciples nationals. Beulah continues to facilitate women’s Bible studies, children’s, and youth ministries.
Please pray:
- Mentoring potential leaders Jared Joshua and Jaheim in Corinth hills.
- The Bible study in Proverbs will challenge the ladies to walk in truth of God’s word.
- Salvation of a staunch Hindu lady Ramraji Ramsewak 105 years old as we have friendship and spiritual conversation with her.
- Housing close to the ministry site and to the children in the US.
- Wisdom as we navigate ministry between Trinidad and the immigrants in the US
- Protection as Trinidad government has declared a state of Emergency due to escalating crime.