First Presbyterian Church supports the following missionaries and missions agencies.  

Action International Ministries at Evangelical Theological Seminary

George and Anne Harper, Cvjetkova 32, P.P. 370, Osijek, Hrvatska, CROATIA HR-31103.  Phone: 385-31-494-812.  www.actionintl.org e-mail: gharper@alum.mit.edu

George and Anne are training Christian leaders in Eastern Europe. George teaches courses at the doctoral, master’s and undergraduate levels at the Evangelical Theological Seminary.  Anne teaches spiritual formation courses and is working on her doctoral degree.  They are also learning the native language.  The Harpers also mentor groups of students with whom they meet every Thursday and individually at least once a month.

George has written a book, A People So Favored of God: Boston’s Congregational Churches and Their Pastors, 1710-1760. for which a new edition was published in 2008.

The Harpers have two adult daughters, Ruth and Meg.  Support payments are sent to Action International Ministries, P.O. Box 398, Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043.

Agua Viva Children’s Home

Guatemala Children’s Mission, Inc., P.O. Box 398, Spicer, MN 56288  www.aguavivahome.org 320-796-0121   E-mail: ccgault@hotmail.com

Following the 1976 earthquake that struck Guatemala City and killed 20,000 people, David Beam, a young missionary from Michigan, went to help.  Upon returning to the U.S. to seek funds, he met Dr. Carl Heinlein of Indiana who began to help financially. In 1977, Dr. Heinlein brought his wife and ten children to Guatemala to establish a children’s home to care for babies suffering from malnutrition.  In 1992, a Florida not-for-profit corporation was formed, called the Guatemala Children’s Mission, to raise funds to support the home, which was named the Agua Viva Children’s Home.

The Agua Viva Children’s Home is for children who have been abused or abandoned by their families.  Currently there are 70 children there.  The home is located in Chimaltenango, Guatemala.  In January 2001 an elementary school was established called Colegio Agua Viva.  They currently have 147 students at the school, of which 87 reside outside of Agua Viva.  In 2007 the school was expanded to include three levels of Junior High.

Cornerstone Ministries

Jamaica/ Doug  and Lorna Kessner, 21-A Connolley Ave. Kingston 4, P.O. Box 1760, Kingston 8, Jamaica, West Indies  876-922-5689.  Payments are sent to The Crossing Church, 31590 Grand River Ave, Farmington, MI 48336.    E-mail – cornerstoneministries@flowja.com

Cornerstone Ministries is a vocational training school in Jamaica that has been providing a unique rehabilitation program within the Correctional Services since 1993. It was founded by Doug and Lorna Kessner, lay missionaries, who came to Jamaica on a church outreach program in 1986.  It has a three year program which provides training to inmates at two different prisons, one day per week, on the day release system.  Then when the inmates are released, they can obtain gainful employment.  They opened the Restoration House in 2006, a half-way home in which 8 former inmates who are students of the program can live for up to 6 months after their release from prison.

The Cornerstone ministry also has a community project in one of the largest parks in Jamaica, called National Heroes Park.  This program trains people in the surrounding communities to challenge their socio-economic condition, and to transform them through skills training.  The areas included are communication, community development, project management, jewelry making, ceramics, and textiles. In every program that Cornerstone Ministry undertakes, there is a component devoted to sharing/teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Since 2003 Doug spends part of his time in Jamaica, and the rest of the time in the United States.  Lorna stays in the U.S. year round because of health issues.  Doug and Lorna have never taken a salary from Cornerstone – all funds go to the ministry.  The Kessner’s home address is 3812 Doral Court, Port St. Lucie, FL 34952 and their phone number is (772) 878-8453.

Cross Cultural Connections

P.O. Box 64144, Virginia Beach, VA 23467-4144 www.crossculturalconnections.org 616-928-1059 e-mail: info@crossculturalconnections.org

Cross Cultural Connections focuses on assisting women and children caught in human trafficking, domestic abuse, and persecution.  Their area of focus is the 10/40 window, where millions suffer this fate.  Cross Cultural Connections offers job training and markets the items these women make at their web site.  By rescuing women from the sex industry, giving them a viable, healthy job option and discipleship, they are seeing transformation in some of the worst slums of Asia.  By offering persecuted Christians a haven of peace and assistance as they seek asylum, they are able to protect them from those who seek to traffick them.  By offering cottage industries to victims of domestic abuse, they see transformation from within the homes.  By training the national church in each of these regions to participate in this work, the projects multiply naturally throughout the region.

FPC Shalom

Nicaragua/ Emerson & Martina Wilson    E-mail: wilson96@turbonett.com.ni www.pefministry.org

The Wilsons minister to the Esteli, Nicaraguan people through many outlets. They are involved in the FPC Shalom Church teaching Bible studies and leading women’s seminars, lead the Shalom Children’s worship and Bible studies, head up the Shalom Youth Club, and are part of a prison ministry. They also teach a Bible study in English to local unchurched residents. They are working with the Nicaraguan nationals to deepen their spiritual roots as leaders so the churches can become independent and they can then plant more churches in Nicaragua.

They also fund raise to secure scholarship donations that they administer to Nicaragua’s directors/distributors for the Crossroad Bible Institute program which reaches out to prisoners with the Good News of Jesus Christ.  In the same year, they started a weekly 30 minute radio program which is heard in Nicaragua, Honduras, Alaska, and the rest of the U.S.

Contributions are sent to Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship, 425 State Street, Suite 312, Bristol, VA 24201.

Gethsemene Church – Cuba

Good Samaritan Hospital

Primitive Methodist, c/o Brenham National Bank, P.O. Box 2568, Brenham, TX 77834-2568 The hospital is located in Chichicastenango, Guatemala. It is the only hospital in a poor, remote area. It serves the native population, most of whom are unable to pay for medical services. First Presbyterian has been supporting this hospital and staff for more than a quarter century.

Greater Europe Mission

Greece/ Bob & Maria Hill, Antheon 10 GR153.42 Agia Paraskevi, GREECE. E-mail: hillsingreece@cs.com Support payments are sent to 18950 Base Camp Rd., Monument, CO 80132 www.gemission.org.

Bob and Maria Hill have been serving in Greece since 1970, training Greek-speaking young people for ministry at the Greek Bible Institute. Their graduates serve not only in Greece, but also in Cyprus and other countries. Several of their graduates have organized “Project Solidarity” to provide food and other aid to the victims of the terrible fires in August, 2007. Others of their former students are reaching out to the many homeless and refugees from the former Communist countries. Still others are leading churches in creative ways of outreach. As more and more Greek Bible Institute graduates get out into ministry, the vision of Greater Europe Mission of making sure every European is within reach of a witnessing Christian fellowship, is being fulfilled. Maria has been making sure the school functions well, with supervising the kitchen and cleaning services. Bob teaches Old Testament Survey, Christian Family, Introduction to Counseling and Psychology, and other ministry courses. In 2007 they began Celebrate Recovery in Greece, which is a support group for people dealing with addictions, hangups and hurts from the past, including deliverance from anxiety, pornography, alcohol, and perfectionism.

As they continue to impact the lives of young people, pray for Bob and Maria Hill. Pray for their students to diligently give themselves to the study of God’s Word, and then find places of ministry. Pray for the financial and personnel needs of the Institute. Pray for Christians in Greece, where there is so much darkness and ignorance, to truly be the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

Greater Europe Mission

Croatia/ John and Lynn Lehn, 18950 Base Camp Rd., Monument, CO 80132 www.gemission.org All mail, including care packages should be sent to John and Lynn Lehn, Trnovcica 53, HR- Zagreb, 10040 CROATIA. E-mail: johndlehn@gmail.com

The Lehns have served since 1991 in Zagreb, Croatia, the former Yugoslavia. In 2005 they helped plant a church on the east side of Zagreb. The Lehns and three other couples make up the leadership team of the church, which has now grown to 60 believers. John is active in the development of the church plant small group ministry. Lynn has played a major role in the development of the children’s work in the church plant. Her role in hospitality is important in ministering to groups that meet in their home and individuals that come to their home. Lynn also started a women’s ministry. They are also reaching out to a town 10 miles east of the church they currently serve in with plans to start a church there in the next 3 years. The Lehns have three teenaged sons who have grown up on the mission field; two are in college in the U.S., one is in high school.

Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil

Tim and Marta Carriker, P.O. Box 643678, Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3678   www.carriker.org www.pcusa.org/missionconnections/profiles/carrikert.htm e-mail: tim.carriker@gmail.com.  Tim and his wife Marta are PC(USA) mission coworkers in Brazil. Their address is Servidao Alphaville, 274, Ingleses do Rio Vermelho, 88058-489 Florianopolis, SC, Brazil.

The Carrikers, along with the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil, are involved in church planting in various areas of Brazil.  The three main areas they visit are the Amazon, Northeastern Brazil, and the Rio Grande do Sul.  To visit the Amazon they take a boat and go to river communities, taking doctors, dentists, and nurses, and they also have VBS for children.  In Northeastern Brazil they go to very dry and poor areas to build cisterns and start churches.  When visiting the third area, the Rio Grande do Sul, they travel to the Southern most state in Brazil which is a large state that has only two churches.

Tim is an associate Pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil.  He also travels often to teach a module on holistic missions to pastors in many presbyteries and synods, which is mandatory for pastors of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil.  In addition, he is working on some book projects.

LOGOI Ministries

Les, Carolyn, and Ed Thompson, 14540 SW 136th St., Suite 200, Miami, FL 33186  305-232-5880  www.logoi.org e-mail: ethompson@logoi.org

Rev. Les Thompson, along with his wife, Carolyn, founded LOGOI in 1968.  Their son, Ed, became president of the organization in 2007.  LOGOI helps national pastors in Latin America who desperately want to serve the Lord but lack training, resources, and support to become effective ministers of the Gospel.  The majority of Latin American pastors are self-taught and capable people however they need practical on-the-job Bible training which the individuals who serve within the LOGOI Ministry are equipped to help them do.

God has used LOGOI over the years to touch the lives and ministries of over 300,000 pastors and church leaders throughout 22 countries.  Thousands of churches have been planted, hundreds of dying churches and ministries have been revitalized, and countless lives have been brought to a saving faith in Jesus Christ.

Recently Ed developed an on-line pastoral resource center that is used by thousands of pastors and teaching leaders throughout the Spanish world.

Matanzas Evangelical Theological Seminary

Cuba  Seminario Evangelico de Teologia was established in the city of Matanzas in 1946 as an ecumenical pastoral training center.  It is governed by a board of directors elected from two of the establishing denominations – the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches.  Representatives from the faculty and administration also serve as members of the board.  The Matanzas Evangelical Theological Seminary seeks to provide a high quality, diversified theological education program to prepare young church leaders to meet the challenges of growth in existing local congregations and in pursuing new church developments throughout Cuba.  Students representing more than a dozen Protestant denominations are now engaged in studies at Matanzas Seminary.  An extension program takes the seminary’s ministry to seven different provinces. Salaries for professors and staff are very low.  The largest expenses that the seminary faces are food for the seminary community and transportation for faculty and students, most of whom serve a congregation during the weekends.  The total yearly cost for a student’s study is about $1500 per student.

The Outreach Foundation has a long relationship with the seminary and assists the school in raising funds.  This is a validated mission support group of the PCUSA.  Payments to support the seminary are made to: The Outreach Foundation, 318 Seaboard Lane, Suite 205, Franklin, TN 37067.  www.theoutreachfoundation.org

Matanzas Presbytery – Cuba

Mission: Chad

Scott Hafeman, President , 5904 Newell Drive, Monroe, NC 28112  www.mission-chad.org 978-283-0407  E-mail: shafemann@mission-chad.org.

Mission:Chad is a ministry started in 2003 that works with Pastor Ngadryne Bako, the leader of the Alliance of Evangelical Churches and Missions in Chad to: 1) Provide support to the only degree-granting Bible college in Chad; 2) Support orphans and widows through the first indigenous orphan ministry in the country and 3) Support native missionaries to spread the Gospel to the two-thirds of the country who are Muslim with the gospel.

Chad is one of the three poorest countries in the world, where electricity exists part-time in only two cities, where HIV/AIDS is rampant, and where almost 30 years of civil war have produced 500,000 orphans.  Education is extremely limited.  Mission:Chad currently supports 40 orphans, five missionary families, and has 44 students in the School of Theology where they raise money and materials to support the Bible School.

Missionary Flights International

Ric Halquist , 3170 Airmans Drive, Ft. Pierce, FL 34946    772-462-2395  www.missionaryflights.org E-mail: hallqui@bellsouth.net

Missionary Flights International is an aviation ministry that was originally housed at the Palm Beach Airport, but moved to a much larger facility in Ft. Pierce, Florida.  They have three DC-3’s that they load with people and supplies. MFI is a support ministry that helps Christian missions throughout the Caribbean, especially the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, to more effectively carry out their respective ministries by providing air transport.  These ministries include evangelism/church planting, community development, educational, medical, and orphanages.  At times they also provide disaster relief throughout the Northern Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico.

Ric Hallquist is a pilot for MFI.  His wife, Beth, teaches at PBAU.  They live at 4911 Norh Kay Street, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418.  Email: hallqui@bellsouth.net 561-622-7393.

Mission for S.E. Europe/Austria

Mark & Becky Bryan   marknbecky@aon.at Address: Schilfweg1, 9065 Ebenthal, Austria, Europe.

Mark and Becky live and serve in the southernmost province of Austria in Europe. The people speak an Austrian version of German. Most Austrians are not well informed about evangelical churches and consider anything other than the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches as sects. The liberal press groups “fundamental” Christians with “fundamental” Muslims. This hinders growth in Austrian evangelical churches. These churches are usually small and it is difficult for them to have full-time workers. People are needed to help in the development of their ministries. Church members need encouragement and training.

Becky and Mark have been led to help meet this need. They serve evangelical churches in support ministries in Austria. They are also developing materials and programs for their own use in their church and for other children’s workers. They have ministry related activities often seven days a week. For that reason, their schedule is often varied. They are especially involved in their church in Klagenfurt. Mark leads the music team; Becky helps lead and teach Sunday school for the children. They also prepare and lead special evangelistic programs for their church. As a community service, to help him stay in shape and out of love of the game, Mark coaches and plays on the only baseball team in their province.  They have 4 adult children.

Support payments are sent to D.M.Stearns Missionary Fund, Inc., P.O. Box 1578, N. Wales, PA 19454

Missions Frontier

Matt & Leslie Capehart,  P.O. Box 14638, North Palm Beach, FL 33408   e-mail: lmcapehart@aol.com www.missionsfrontier.org

Matt & Leslie Capehart (Dr. Duke, our former pastor’s, granddaughter) are missionaries living in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, with their three children, Ashton, Bentley, and Aynsley.  In addition to being head of the school board for the Upthegrove Hays y Duke Christian School, Matt manages the Casa del Rey Christian Conference Center.  There is a preschool, a clinic, a clothing bank, and other mission programs in which the Capeharts are involved. Their address is c/o Casa Del Rey, KM144 Canton Pachoj, Chichicastenango, GUA.

The purpose of Missions Frontier is to equip the local Christian church, support them in their ongoing ministry efforts, and develop the gifts God has given each believer by providing appropriate opportunities to utilize these gifts and skills.  Through short term mission team projects, Missions Frontier is able to assist the local church through home construction, medical clinics, prison ministries, and other community projects.   In 2008, 50 homes were built for families in need, 25 stoves were built, water lines were installed in a community housing project, and over 500 people were hosted who came to Chichi to do short term mission projects.

Monte de los Olivos Church

Merida, Mexico Antonio Reyes, wife Ruth, and son Jonathan live at C-52A, #698 Entre 103 y 105, Dolores Otero, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico CP97270.  E-mail: jreyes_may@yahoo.com.mx

The church that Antonio pastors is part of the Presbyterio Peninsular, AR.  He serves the church as pastor and holds various community outreaches.  He also serves as a leader of the Presbytery and is in charge of communications with people in the U.S.  He also teaches at San Pablo Seminary.  Ruth works at a Christian bookstore to supplement their income.

Namumu Orphange Center – Zambia

The Namumu Orphanage Center is located in Siavonga, Zambia, and has 80 children in residence.  Most of the children placed at the center are from the Zambian Social Welfare Department.  The program at Namumu emphasizes self-reliance in the children, who are mostly orphans.  They are taught practical skills, such as fishing, gardening and tending pigs, as well as class work.  There is also a Namumu community school which has now become a regional magnet.  All 27 of the students who wrote their grade 7 examination passed in 2009.  The success rate of 100% is unheard of outside of the elite private academies.  The morale is very high and so is the community support.

Our support for the orphanage is sent to the Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church (USA).  Gifts given to the Outreach Foundation have enabled the orphange to start income generating activities including fishing, gardening, a hammer mill, and carpentry.  These activities will generate a supplement of income for program operations and feeding of the children at Namumu.  This is a dream come true for Namumu’s director, Elder Munjongo, and the staff at Namumu.  Funds for operations of the orphanage and school, and to support HIV/AIDS community programs are immediate needs for the work of Namumu.

Peninsular Presbytery

Yucatan / Presbiterio Peninsular AR, Attn: Antonio Reyes, C-52 A # 698 Entre 103 Y 105 Dolores Otero, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, C.P. 97270.  E-mail: jreyes_may@yahoo.com.mx

The Peninsular Presbytery helps to support all of the Presbyterian Churches in the Yucatan and Nicaragua and the pastors in their retirement program.

Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship

Rev. Daniel and Sharon McNerney   7132 Portland Ave. South, Ste. 136, Richfield, MN 55423-3264 www.pff.net www.newsfromthefrontier.com e-mail: pffdmcn@aol.com 847-446-1019.

Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship was started in 1981 and works to challenge, mobilize, and empower Presbyterian congregations into global partnerships that establish indigenous churches among unreached people groups.  There are 24,000 people groups in the world, of which 8000 are still unreached.  In the past 10 years, 3000 people groups have been reached by Christians cooperating with each other.  PFF has 13 staff people with 100 projects around the world.

The staff representative whom we help support is Dan McNerney, Associate Director, who joined the PFF in 1996. He and his wife, Sharon, have 5 children, and live at 958 Pine Street, Winnetka, IL 60093.   His area of responsibility is Latin America (Mexico and Guatemala), the Middle East (Egypt and Jordan), and part of Europe.  In the spring of each year Dan travels to Egypt to work with the Presbyterian Church of Egypt.  Christian leaders in Egypt have reported that in Egypt the fastest growing church in the Arab world is the Muslim-background church.  It is estimated that there are nearly one million Muslims who have become followers in Egypt, 60,000 in Algeria, and 50,000 in Saudi Arabia.  The reason few people in the world know these statistics is because of the need for these Muslim-background people to keep hidden underground for fear of being discovered by the secret police.

Dan organizes “Perspectives” classes for Presbyterian leaders in Mexico and Egypt.  Perspectives is an academic text and a dynamic course where people discover what God is doing around the world and how they can be a part in God’s purposes.  He has also worked with Dr. Swailem Hennein of the Cairo Theological Seminary in Cairo, helping with the translation of the 800 page Perspectives manual into Arabic.

Servant Group International

Wally & Ann Quillen, 506 Tanksley Ave., Nashville, TN 37211 615-832-2282, Ext 21 www.servantgroup.org e-mail: quillen@servantgroup.org

Servant Group International serves among Middle Eastern communities, seeking to take the truth of the Gospel to the Muslim World.   It works to strengthen the development of all aspects of traditional Middle Eastern society, particularly the institutions of education and family.  It maintains fields of operation in several Middle-Eastern countries and among the refugee population of Nashville, TN.  From its headquarters in  Nashville, SGI coordinates all international field and project work.  Activities range from curriculum research and development for overseas schools to translation and media production projects for cross-cultural education.

Wally Quillen serves as International Development Director for SGI.  He works to recruit new staff and raise funds for ministry initiatives such as the Classical School of the Medes, a Christian school system in the Kurdish region of Iraq that now enrolls over 1000 students. Much of Wally’s time is spent educating about the need to reach the Muslim world.  He also is an advocate for Christian missions to regain leadership in educating children – especially in the Muslim world.  He manages the development projects and programs of SGI which include grant writing, major donor relations, church relations, partnerships, and special events. Wally and Ann have two sons, Andrew, and Jason. They live at 1407 Clairemonte Circle, Franklin, TN 37064.  Their phone number is 615-794-7373

South America Mission - Javier Velasquez

1021 Maxwell Mill Rd. Ste. B, Fort Mill, SC 29708  www.samlink.orgjaviergvelasquez@gmail.com 803-802-8580.

Javier and Ani Velasquez work in Paraguay.  They have been missionaries with the South America Mission since 1988.  After serving for almost three years in Bolivia on a temporary basis, they moved to Paraguay in 1991.  Currently they serve primarily as the pastoral family of a growing church in Luque, and equipping pastors all across the nation of Paraguay, under the umbrella of the only Association of pastors in Paraguay.  Besides leading the school for pastors in the country, Javier also serves as Academic Dean of a Masters Program in Paraguay focused on providing the necessary teachers and leaders for the training programs in the nation.  Ani, besides being a pastor’s wife and a mother, is the president of a ladies’ ministry nationwide, that focuses on evangelizing and counseling women coming from different backgrounds and needs.  She has written a book for teenage girls and has co-authored with Javier a Daily Systematic Devotional through the New Testament.  Javier and Ani have three children – Daniel, Jessica, and Marissa.  Their address is Paraguay is Casilla de Correo 13012, Shopping del Sol, Asuncion, Paraguay

South America Mission – Peru / Julio Chiang

1021 Maxwell Mill Rd., Ste. B, Fort Mill, SC 29708.  www.samlink.org E-mail: chiang4christ@hotmail.com

Julio and his wife, Olga, have 3 daughters.  They travel throughout Peru, reaching people for Christ.  Julio is a moto-cross champion.  He competes in national moto-cross races, and he and his team provide free mechanical services, free medical services, and tents to present the Gospel to race fans.  In one recent month 89 people made decisions for Christ.  They have also just started the Heartbeats of Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center.  Julio’s address is Apartado 22, Pucallpa, Peru, South America.

South America Mission – Leadership Development

1021 Maxwell Mill Rd. Ste. B, Fort Mill, SC 29708     The South America Mission  began in New York in 1921, moving to Florida in 1939.  It was formed by a group of Christians concerned about the spiritual needs of the Indians of South America.  Later this purpose was broadened to include the Latinos and other residents of the South American countries in which their missionaries minister.  With this purpose in mind, South America Mission is committed to establish the church of Jesus Christ in South America by planting and nurturing churches, training church leaders, and developing church associations. They believe that South America must be won to Christ by South Americans and that the only way there will be enough witnessing believers to fulfill the vision is through the discipling and training of local Christians that God is placing in leadership in the churches.

United Servants Abroad

Eleuthra, Bahamas / Don and Sue Ellmore  14530 Rolling Rock Place, West Palm Beach, FL 33414  www.usateams.org 561-795-1665  e-mail don@usateams.org   The purpose of United Servants Abroad is to expand the church of Jesus Christ by encouraging love and obedience to God and participation in the Great Commission through short term missions.  They do this by working with national workers and providing resources to them to assist in the building of the kingdom of God.  Their focus is discipleship and training of church leaders.

The Ellmores focus is in Eleuthra, Bahamas, and the other Bahamian islands

UNTO International

Dominican Republic/ Cristian Santiago, (formerly called Careforce International) 2462 Oakview St. SW, Wyoming, MI 49544   www.untoinc.org 616-365-0838. E-mail: cristian@careforceinternational.ca

Upthegrove Duke School

Youth with a Mission

Steve & Barbara Johnson, Bajuszfu utca 33/A, 2030 Erd, HUNGARY.  Support payments are sent to P.O. Box 3000, Garden Valley, TX 75771.  E-mail  steviejohnson@axelero.hu www.ywam.org www.hungarymissionaries.org 713-429-1153 (a Houston number that rings in Budapest)

Steve and Barbara serve with YWAM in Hungary, and have done so since 1994. They have five children whom attend the International Christian School of Budapest.  Steve is the Base Director of YWAM-Budapest.  There are 16 full time staff members and 25 Hungarian part time volunteers.  They are involved in various outreaches to support the local pastors in reaching their communities, and they lead outreach teams to countries like Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Greece, and Turkey. They train and invest in young leaders from the Eastern European region through the Discipleship Training School. One very effective outreach is their summer music outreach to small Hungarian towns.

The Johnsons are also involved in the expansion of the YWAM Budapest Ministry Center.  YWAM purchased this 9000 sq. ft., three level facility in 2000, expanding their ministry capacity as each section is completed as funds come in.  When it is completed, it will be a multi-purpose venue for evangelism, discipleship, and training in the heart of Budapest’s prime cafe and arts district.

Youth with a Mission

Haiti/ Freeman and Shelly Nettles  P.O. Box 236, Akron, PA 17501   www.ywam.org e-mail: snettles_5@hotmail.com Youth With a Mission is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world.  Their calling is to know God and to make Him known.  When it began in 1960, their main focus was to get youth into short term mission work and to given them opportunities to reach out in Jesus’ name.   Today, they still focus on youth, and also involve people of almost every age.  Their ministries fit into three main categories: evangelism, training, and mercy ministry.  They currently operate in more than 1000 locations in 149 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000.

The Nettles, including their three children, serve with Youth with a Mission in Haiti.  They are trying to establish relationships with the Haitians so they can then reach them with the gospel.  One of the projects they are doing is working with a local meat market, teaching the butchers how to safely handle the meat.  They are also teaching people English and learning Creole themselves.  In January, 2007, they began a discipleship school.

Freeman disciples and mentors staff members and guides various work teams to where they need to be throughout Haiti.  Shelly homeschools the children and leads kids’ church which has over 50 children attending.  Their address is JEM, Rue Maurepa, St. Mare, Haiti.