Saved People Serve People--Serving on two continents to develop godly leaders

Bruce & Lisa Triplehorn

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Mission Location: Moundou, Chad

Sending Agency: Encompass World
 
Our Missionary Partner: Bruce & Lisa Triplehorn came to Christ at Grace Church. They took their next steps for baptism and began training for misisonary service.  God called them to develop fully devoted followers of Christ in Brazil as missionary partners from Grace Church. They have served in Brazil for over 20 years.  Most recently, God has placed them in Uberlandia, Brazil.  


Their Mission: The Triplehorn's have made a transition from South America to Africa.  The need to equip African church leaders is great.  Bruce is an excellent Bible teacher.  Lisa excels at building relationships with women.  Together, God has called them to serve in Moundou, Chad.  

They have spent a few months back in Brazil. But as of January 2016, Bruce & Lisa return to serve in Chad.  You can learn more about their ministry in Chad by visiting their Facebook page.

How to Be Involved

PRAY: Pray for Bruce and Lisa as they transition to Africa. May God empower them to get used to their new city, Moundou, Chad.  Ask God to give them strength in the Lord to develop fully devoted followers of Christ in Chad.  Ask the Lord to help them "make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:3)." 
 
ENCOURAGE: Bruce's birthday is November 21.  Lisa's birthday is on October 13. 

CONNECT: Bruce Triplehorn on FaceBook Lisa Triplehorn on Facebook

Saved People Serve People--sharing Christ on university campuses is a challenge

Email mark.johnson@cru.org
Location of Ministry: Bloomington, IN USA @ Indiana University
Sending Agency: Cru

Our Missionary Partner: Wooster Grace partners with Mark and Roxanne Johnson.  The Johnson's serve with Cru on the University of Indiana campus in Bloomington, IN. 

Roxanne grew up in Wayne County, OH, in Apple Creek.  She knew about the Lord but made a commitment to Christ in her freshmen year at Ohio Northern University.  Roxanne wanted to serve God in a significant way.  She served with Student Venture, the high school ministry focus of Cru. She and Mark are now serving college students with Cru.

Mark grew up in North Carolina. He came to Christ while studying music at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN).  God challenged him to join the staff of Cru even taking the Gospel to an unreached city in Asia.  Mark's desire is best captured on his Facebook page under employers, "I get to tell people about Jesus for a living." 

Their Mission: Mark & Roxanne serve with Cru in Bloomington, IN on the campus of Indiana University.  Mark serves as one of the Campus directors.  Cru is an on-campus interdenominational ministry that helps students in their walk with God.  God has called Mark & Roxanne to challenge university students from all around the world to be fully devoted followers of Christ.  

Cru is an inter-denominational ministry on campus that is here to help students grow in their walk with the Lord - See more at: http://iucru.com/about/#sthash.bZg1XKg4.dpuf

Cru is an inter-denominational ministry on campus that is here to help students grow in their walk with the Lord - See more at: http://iucru.com/about/#sthash.bZg1XKg4.dpuf

Cru is an inter-denominational ministry on campus that is here to help students grow in their walk with the Lord - See more at: http://iucru.com/about/#sthash.bZg1XKg4.dpuf

How to Be Involved

PRAY:

• Please pray for consistency & perseverance in their walk with the Lord.
• Please pray that Mark & Roxanne will navigate the new school year challenges as they equip staff and student leaders to impact the campus for Christ.
• Please pray that as the Gospel is presented, not only will it touch people individually to turn to God for salvation, but that it would also influence the city of Bloomington, IN.
• Please pray for an effective, fruitful ministry (John 15:16). May God empower Mark & Roxanne to lead the campus ministries faithfully towards effective, fruitful ministry.
  
• We praise God for His grace in our marriage!  Pray that we continually keep that grace in view so that we keep short accounts with the Lord, and with each other.
  
  

ENCOURAGE: Mark's birthday is April 9.  Roxanne's birthday is August 20.  Anniversary is in August 22, 2009. 

CONNECT--You can read more about the Johnson's from these links:

• Learn more about Cru
• Check out Mark's FB profile
• View the testimonies of life change at IU-Before-And-After on YouTube 
• Send email to Mark Johnson to get their prayer newsletter.

GIVE--Give a gift online here

Saved People Serve People--Reaching Cambodians for Christ

Kevin and Jill Kane

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Mission Location: Battambang, Cambodia  
Sending Agency: Encompass World
Our Missionary Partner: Kevin and Jill embody the Grace church value--saved people serve people.  They have stoked a passion to be involved in God’s work in Cambodia serving the Khmer people. They came to Christ and got baptized in August 1990.  They explored ministry opportunities through short term trips and ministry skills assessment, even taking a special assignment in January 2002.  Then in 2006, God sent Kevin & Jill to develop fully devoted followers of Christ in Cambodia as missionary partners from Grace Church.  

Their Mission: The Kane's live in Northwestern Cambodia in a city known for its rice, Battambang.  The Khmer language is a challenge to learn, but the Kane's have learned the language and use it to develop Khmer leadership.  They worked together with Kent and Becky Good. Kent and Becky returned to the US in December 2014.  Now, Kevin & Jill will help with the transition of the ministry in Cambodia to Khmer leadership. Ever sharing the Gospel and equipping church leadership, Kevin & Jill intend to delegate more ministry responsibilities to the Cambodian Ministry Partners.  The end goal is to raise up indigenous pastors and leaders who will lead their own churches.

How to Be Involved 

PRAY: 

•  Ask God to give them strength in the Lord to develop fully devoted followers of Christ in Cambodia.  
• Health and safety for the Kane's and for the Cambodian believers 
• Continued growth in all the Cambodian Ministry Partners as well as in the Kane's as they serve God in Cambodia
• Teams that are coming this summer! praise God! Many people interested in helping , praying and serving in Cambodia.
• Wisdom for the future for Girls Dorm at the GRACE Center, vision of Cambodian Leadership here as Chhay leads the team of Cambodians.
• Praise The Boys Dorm is doing well at the GRACE Center, and they are growing in the LORD!!!

ENCOURAGE: Kevin's birthday is March 8. Jill's birthday is on September 1. Their anniversary is July 9, 1978. 

CONNECT: Kevin and Jill on FaceBook 

Saved People Serve People--Pine Ridge Missions Team

My how things can change.

The Pine Ridge team departed with temps in the 60s, sunny, and nice. They arrived in the midst of a snowstorm--temps in the teens, windchill, and cold. 

Despite the challenges, the team has served well. Pictures chronicle highlights from their trip. 

Please pray for their return trip to Wooster, Ohio.  They start traveling back today. They intend to be home late Sunday night.   

Saved People Serve People--Serving Lakota People

This year Grace Church is sending a team to the Lakota reservation in Pine Ridge, SD. We are partnering with the Oyate Concern ministries to serve the people in Pine Ridge, SD.  

Lapman and Ching Ching Lun will lead the team of nine traveling by van from Wooster, Ohio to Pine Ridge, SD.  The team includes the Lun family: Jonathan, Jeremy, and Abby along with Roger and Jenifer Miller and David Fairhurst and Sarah Miller. 

Together they will travel two days to arrive in Pine Ridge. On Sunday, they will begin preparing for the Sunday Night services where the team will share God's love with children, teens, and adults.  

Each day they will work on service projects to help Oyate Concern with their Christian school and church ministries.  The team will work in pairs to complete some projects for the ministry.  

On Monday evening, the team focuses on teens. Students will gather to play basketball and hang out. Then a message from our team will challenge them to give their life to Christ or to remain strong in the Lord.  

On Tuesday evening, the team will direct their encouragement to the lay leaders in the Oyate Concern ministries.  Everyone will share pizza, testimonies, and prayer time for the challenges facing the Lakota believers.  

On Wednesday, the team will finish up projects and clean up for the start of their journey home.  The team will visit the Black Hills, Custer State Park, and Mount Rushmore on their return trip. 

Please pray for the team:  

• travel safety
• good health
• deeper connections with missionaries and Lakota people
• catalyzing of new friendships, and 
• having a servant's heart

 

Using Cinco de May to pray for Mexico

Today is Cinco de Mayo, May 5th.  You will see this date on social media and on commercials all day.

When you hear Cinco de May referenced or when you see it, please pause. Say a pray for Mexico.

Grace Church is part of a fellowship of churches who partner with Encompass World Partners to develop fully devoted followers of Christ in neighborhoods and in the nations of the world. Mexico is a place where nationals are developing church leaders and catalyzing the start of new churches to share God's love with the people of Mexico.

So, pray for Mexico today:

• Ask God to develop strong leaders who have Christ-like character and love for people. 
• Pray for more churches to start to show God's love to the millions in Mexico who need Christ.

You can also find more info to direct your prayers for the whole country by visiting Operation World, Mexico.

First report from Tim and Jim in Sierra Leone

Tim Harley and Jim Hocking (Water for Good) arrived in Sierra Leone. Read Tim's first post reporting what they got to do. Then please leave a comment on the Harley blog to encourage them. 

You can read my earlier post to pray more specifically. 

Saved People Serve People--Taking a risk to serve others in Sierra Leone

Jeana & Tim

Saying prayers today for Tim Harley from Grace Church. Tim works in the family business in Burbank, OH at Harley Drilling.  He is in Sierra Leone with Jim Hocking of Water for Good to help an NGO, Let Them LOL (Laugh Out Loud).  Tim and Jim intends to help this NGO drill water wells for villages in Sierra Leone. They arrived on April 19 and will spend several days consulting with the Let Them LOL organization.

From WorldAtlas.com

Providing clean drinking water to villages that face extreme hardship is one way to show God's love.  We praise God for Tim and Jim and Let Them LOL.  

Take a moment to pray for this two-man team:

• Ask God to give them wisdom as they try to grasp the complete picture of what God is doing and where they could provide the best help for success.
• Pray for the Lord to keep them healthy. May they get adequate rest, stay hydrated, and discover lively energy for the tasks in front of them everyday.
• Ask the Lord to provide synergy to offer godly counsel from their experience to advance the cause of Christ in the villages of Sierra Leone.  

Jim Hocking, Founder
Water for Good

Saved People Serve People--Brazilians can do more than play soccer

"Though I am not a great evangelist, I dedicate a lot of my time to leadership development," says Edson Silva. Edson Silva and his wife, Ivanise took their children from their home to go to another country.  

Ivanise and Edson

Just like Abraham, God called them to leave their homeland and venture to another place to share God's love with other people. God called Edson from Brazil to Chile.  Edson describes his ministry in the Encompass video (the video was used to get donations for the Encompass' Day of Generosity this past November).  

Edson equips Chilean nationals to reach their people so that the Chilean churches will one day also ask their people to leave their homeland to venture far to share God's love with other people. Brazilians can do more than play soccer. They can follow God's call and do great things for His glory!

Grace Church envisions Chilean families taking their next step of faith towards developing into fully devoted followers of Christ. We pray for ways for everyone to reach the world for Christ because "Saved People Serve People." 

Celebrating 24th Anniversary this month

Edson has a dream to help in other places of the world. His dear friend, Bruce Triplehorn is developing leaders in the Chad in Africa.  Edson hopes to go to help support believers to grow in Christ even in Africa.  Edson is like a modern day Barnabas. He is an encourager.

Grace Church is honored to partner with Edson and Ivanise to develop fully devoted followers of Christ in Chile with Encompass World Partners.

How to support the Silva's:

• Pray.  Please pray for the family as they live in Chile, equip the saints to do the work of service, establish faithful church leaders, and do consistent outreach. Send a note of encouragement to them by contacting them via email that you prayed for them. 
• Give.  Grace Church has an ABF that partners with the Silvas. So, give to Encompass World Partners to help support Edson and Ivanise. Follow the link. Select Edson & Ivanise Silva on drop-down menu.  Give. 
• Connect.  Please follow what God is doing by liking Edson's facebook page. He writes in Portuguese or in Spanish. But you can get the gist of his posts and pray for God's work to grow. You can see how they are developing everyone into fully devoted followers of Christ. 
• Share.  When you read Edson's posts, please "like" and comment and share their posts, prayer requests, and pictures to testify what amazing things God is doing through their ministry.

Video: You can watch his testimony on this link from the Encompass Vimeo Channel. Encompass translated his words from Portuguese into English. 

A night market in Curico

Saved people Serve People--Kevin & Jill Kane

Kevin & Jill Kane

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Mission Location: Battambang, Cambodia Sending Agency: Encompass World
 
Our Missionary Partner: Kevin & Jill embody the Grace church value--saved people serve people.  They have stoked a passion to be involved in God’s work in Cambodia serving the Khmer people. They came to Christ and got baptized in August 1990.  They explored ministry opportunities through short term trips and ministry skills assessment, even taking a special assignment in January 2002.  Then in 2006, God sent Kevin & Jill to develop fully devoted followers of Christ in Cambodia as missionary partners from Grace Church.  

Their Mission: The Kane's live in Northwestern Cambodia in a city known for its rice, Battambang.  The Khmer language is a challenge to learn, but the Kane's have learned the language and use it to develop Khmer leadership.  They worked together with Kent & Becky Good. Kent & Becky returned to the US in Dec 2014.  Now, Kevin & Jill will help with the transition to Khmer leadership. Ever sharing the Gospel and equipping church leadership, Kevin & Jill intend to delegate more ministry responsibilities to the Cambodian Ministry Partners.  The end goal is to raise up indigenous pastors and leaders who will lead their own churches.

How to Be Involved
PRAY: Pray for Kevin & Jill as they settle into their new roles without teammates.  Ask God to give them strength in the Lord to develop fully devoted followers of Christ in Cambodia.  Ask the Lord to raise up great leaders for the Khmer church!
 
ENCOURAGE: Kevin's birthday is March 8. Jill's birthday is on September 1. Their anniversary is July 9, 1978. 

CONNECT: Kevin and Jill on FaceBook  

Kevin & Jill attending wedding of Khmer couple

 

Kevin & Jill with Cambodian Ministry Partner

Sharing life change around the world, pray for missionaries today

Kevin & Jill Kane (Cambodia)

All around the world, Grace Church values people.  We believe that a relationship with Jesus is life's most important relationship. Therefore, we are committed to sharing the Good News about Jesus in this community and around the world. 

People matter to God. People matter to us.  

As Jesus said of the lost sheep and applied it to all people, "In the same way your Father in Heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost (Matthew 18:14)."   

Lisa, Jonathan, & Bruce Triplehorn (Brazil/Chad)

The Bible challenges us to pray. Join us today to pray for our missionary partners around the world as they prepare for reaching out this Christmas season in North America, South America, Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa.  I am highlighting our missionary partners who have come from Grace Church. Grace Church partners with over 75 different organizations, families and individuals.

Dave & Susie Hobert (France)

Pastor Tom Peters (Central Africa)

Andy & Sara Royer (Brazil)

Ben & Sandie Dyke

Mark & Roxanne Johnson

I am thankful for these people who are also my heroes

Grace Church partners with a group of people who serve on the university and college campuses. We praise God for our team--Ben & Sandie Dyke, Mark & Roxanne Johnson, & Michael Greer. Please pray for them as they develop fully devoted followers of Christ on the university campuses.  Read more below.

Ben & Sandie Dyke with Cru

Mark & Roxanne Johnson with Cru

 Mike Greer with InterVarsity

 

Ben & Sandie Dyke with Cru

Ben & Sandie serve with Cru. Ben is the Director of Operations, Great Lakes Region.   Their family lives in Fishers, IN.

Please pray fervently for Ben & Sandie. Sandie is a cancer survivor!  You can follow her journey on the CaringBridge website: SandieDyke. You will need to log in. So, please add the family to your prayers.

You can read more about the ministry of Ben & Sandie from these links:

• Send a friend request more about them by visiting their ministry webpage.
• Learn more about Cru
• Check out Ben's FB profile

Mark & Roxanne Johnson with Cru

Grace Church partners with Mark & Roxanne Johnson.  The Johnson's serve with Cru at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. 

Roxanne grew up in Wayne County, OH, in Apple Creek.  She knew about the Lord but made a commitment to Christ in her freshmen year at Ohio Northern University.  Roxanne wanted to serve God in a significant way.  She served with Student Venture, the high school ministry focus of Cru. She and Mark are now serving college students with Cru.

Mark grew up in North Carolina. He came to Christ while studying music at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN).  God challenged him to join the staff of Cru even taking the Gospel to an unreached city in Asia.  Mark's desire is best captured on his Facebook page under employers, "I get to tell people about Jesus for a living."
You can read more about the Johnson's from these links:

• Learn more about Cru
• Check out Mark's FB profile 
• Send email to Mark Johnson to get their prayer newsletter.

Mike Greer with InterVarsity

Grace Church partners with InterVarsity at the College of Wooster.  Michael Greer serves the College of Wooster campus. Mike serves with Julie Longacre (Jon). 

Mike Greer helps to mobilize the Wooster chapter to share Christ in different venues all school year. He loves building friendships and establishing relationships with students.  Thus, Grace Church praises God that we partner with those who are equipping students to be on-mission. We pray for fully devoted followers of Christ who are willing to take risks to challenge their friends to come to know Jesus.  

You can get more information from these links:

• Send Mike Greer an email to receive updates and prayer requests at mgreer@wooster.edu. 
• Learn more about Intervarsity at their website.