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Missions Update
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 Luke and Lindsay Greer
We have been missionaries to Latin America since 2002 and joined Impacto
Latino’s Pachuca Project in 2008. Currently, we serve in the Jubilee church
plant — one of several plants in the Metro Pachuca area, where we are part of
the family cell (small group) ministry. Also, we serve with developing
outreaches in a new area of Pachuca called “Providencia" and with the
development and training for the Cell Pastors in the Jubilee church
plant.
We recently had the chance to visit family and churches in for a couple of
weeks in the US. During our stay, we visited the Men's Bible Study class at New
Hope where we got to share a little about the ministry in Pachuca -- a city of
about 1.5 million people. We also talked about the possibility of the Men's
group coming down and doing some much-needed work projects. We hope they're able
to make it!
Our family visit went great too. It's always good to spend time at
"Grammy's House" even if Scott lives there (just kidding). We got to see Luke's
brother and sister-in-law, and we were able to spend time with Luke's sister
Rachel and her family, who are also missionaries supported by New Hope. It was a
terrific visit, and as always, too short.
We know that we're relatively new to the New Hope family of missionaries,
so we want to invite you to get to know us a little better. Check out our
mission's website to find out more about Pachuca and the ministry there. You can
even sign-up for our e-updates. We send one out about once a month. Most of all,
please keep us in your prayers. God's doing some incredible work in Pachuca!
impactolatino.org
Family Website
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G2G
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Generation to generation started to evolve about 14 years ago. Our journey has been one of saying “yes” and seeing what amazing doors would open to us! We never planned or dreamed of starting a ministry, but we simply said Yes to requests as they came in.
Since then we have traveled to North and South America, Asia,
Africa, Australia and Europe, staying true to our mission statement:
“Reconnecting the generations and equipping them to have an uncompromising passion for Jesus with a heart for mission and evangelism.”
Our heart is for unreached and persecuted nations encouraging, inspiring, training and resourcing their leaders as they raise the next generation in conditions that we never imagined. We are an empowering ministry that seeks to equip others in their own nation rather than “doing it ourselves.” To this end, we work with astors and leaders wherever possible. Much of this is through conferences, preaching, teaching and consulting.
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Cross Roads
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CrossRoads Missions combines the biblical principles of worship, service and discipleship by being a doorway for churches and individuals seeking ministry opportunities in places they may otherwise have difficulty serving. This goal is accomplished by bringing people of all ages into missions in the United States and foreign fields. These experiences greatly challenge those who participate to consider deeper involvement in ministry in their own communities and throughout the world.
Our family’s involvement in missions was a bit unusual and unexpected. I was very involved with the youth ministry at Raleigh/New Hope Christian Church serving as a deacon from about 1995-2002. I was pursuing a career in advertising, and Cindy was a teacher with Memphis schools. In 2000 Scott Sutherland (the youth minister at the time) was unable to lead the youth on a mission trip to Mexico with CrossRoads Missions. He asked Cindy and me to lead the trip. After returning I expected life to continue as usual. God had another plan. I found myself unsettled in my normal routine and felt that God was calling me to make a career change. I thought it was into youth ministry. I was half right; I was being led into missions.
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Johnson Bible College
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Johnson Bible College is associated with the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ whose heritage is rooted in the Restoration Movement. While the majority of students come from these churches, followers of Christ from many denominations are represented.
Founded in 1893 by Ashley S. Johnson, Johnson Bible College is the second oldest continuing Bible College in the United States and is the oldest Bible College in the United States affiliated with the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ.
The purpose of JBC is to educate students for specialized Christian ministries with emphasis on the preaching ministry. A secondary purpose is to provide programs in Christian leadership and community service.
Johnson’s beautiful 175 acre campus is located in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains overlooking the French Broad River. The natural beauty combined with the colonial architecture of the college’s modern facilities make for a wonderful setting in which to live and study.
Two of New Hope’s ministers are alumni. Several students from New Hope attend there each year. During the summer our senior adults attend Seniors in the Smokies, a week of worship, study, and fun.
You can learn more about JBC on their website at www.jbc.edu.
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Memphis Union Mission
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 Memphis Union Mission
Steve Carpenter
Director of Development
Memphis Union Mission ministers to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men, women, and children who are homeless, hungry, and destitute. We provide nutritious food, clean clothing, safe shelter, personal hygiene, and counseling and recovery programs.
The Mission’s ultimate objective is for clients to: become mature followers of Jesus Christ; achieve freedom from substance abuse; reunite with family and loved ones; and reemerge as self-sufficient members of the community.
Emergency Services – Providing homeless, needy individuals with food, clothing, shelter, hygiene and spiritual care, as well as hosting a free medical clinic once a week.
Long-Term Recovery Program/The Wright Transitional House – Preparing men for self-sufficiency through a graduated substance abuse recovery program.
Moriah House – Providing a safe- house and recovery program for women in crisis and their children.
Intact Family Ministry – Providing assistance for families experiencing financial setbacks.
Grace Church of Memphis – Providing worship, fellowship and teaching for all people.
MUM receives no government funding and is not a United Way agency. It is supported by private donations from individuals, corporations, churches, and foundations.
Call 901-526-8403 or visit us at
www.MemphisUnionMission.org .
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Salvation Army
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 The Salvation Army
Elizabeth Duncan
Director of Development
Established in 1865 in London, operating in the United States since 1880, and in Memphis since 1900, The Salvation Army’s mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
At the center of our work in Memphis is a common belief that all people have a resilient capacity to make positive change. We believe in the healing power of compassion, love, dignity and respect and these principles guide our actions and words. We value the transforming power of God and the salvation that comes from knowing Christ as our personal Savior. And we believe that enduring change comes from holistic ministry – to mind, body and spirit. Our purpose, simply put, is to share God’s love by serving others.
On any given night in Memphis, over 200 men, women and children live in a Salvation Army facility. Other programs include a food pantry and utility assistance, a 3-star licensed childcare center, disaster services, Angel Tree, the community intake/assessment program and a housing hotline program coordinating homeless services throughout the city. A self-supporting drug and alcohol program and two worship and activity centers complete their ministry.
For more information about our programs and how you can be involved, call 901-260-9130 or go to
www.salvationarmymemphis.org .
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MICO
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Memphis Inner City Outreach
Don Todd, Director & Founder
“He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
and He will reward him for what he has done.” Proverbs 19:17
MICO is now into its 19th year of kindness to the poor and reaching out to those in need – both spiritually and physically.
Don Todd, MICO’s Founder and Director, has followed God’s leading from holding VBS under the trees at Lauderdale Courts, a Memphis housing development, in 1989 all the way to the other side of the globe to the physically poor and spiritually hungry in Cambodia, Thailand, Haiti, and India. A world apart, yet all hunger for the Word of God and to praise Him for His love for us all.
God’s working in the inner city through MICO over the years has had an impact on numerous lives. Updates on several of the children from the initial VBS sessions are praise reports from the Memphis housing development – an opera singer, a carpenter, and several ministers and church leaders.
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Mustard Seed
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Mustard Seed Global Fellowship
I grew up in a Christian family being taught and seeing modeled passionate love for and faith in God. I remember as a young child being mesmerized as the “Missionary of the Week” spoke at a summer church camp. I can clearly recall my heart racing as I thought, “I hope I get to do that someday!” This little spark in my child heart grew as I became an adult.
Nick and I met and married during our years at Bible College. We became fully convinced of God’s love for the whole world and our part in being obedient to share that love. Jesus told his disciples in the Bible that it doesn’t take a huge amount of faith to obey God and see Him do great things. Faith as small as a mustard seed in our great God is enough that “nothing is impossible!” We are believing that now as we are living with our two little ones, Coco, age 4, and Owen, age 2, here in Okazaki, Japan. We are asking God to take our lives and our mustard seeds of faith and work powerfully.
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Missions 
CrossRoads Missions
