SERVE FAR

Serve Far

God’s glory is revealed through relationships and opportunities to share the Gospel among unreached people groups around the World. We support S2 Workers living, serving, and sharing Jesus across 5 continents. Check out how God is working and meet our S2 Workers! 

Contact

Ministry Pastor:
Nick Jones

Ministry Asst:
Kathy Rinta, Ext. 243

Dominican Republic – Compassion International

Hearts are opening up to Christ, and several people have embraced Him as their Savior. The construction of both the church and the compassion center is complete. Because of your generosity, 80% of the community’s homes are being blessed by the new church.  The staff eagerly share God’s word and engage with the families. Pastor Johansy reports, “The lives of the children have changed significantly, and they feel very happy when attending the center. They are eager and hungry to know God.”

Pray for more hearts to accept God’s call and welcome Jesus into their lives, and for increased community integration, fostering unity and love. 

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East Africa - Avant

This ministry is focused on training up church leaders and reaching unreached people groups living in remote areas with the Gospel.  This S2 Worker Family teaches foundations of faith and evangelism through acts of love and service to the community. Their core focus is on the Word of God and equipping believers to read, understand, and share the Word within their communities. They also strive to improve the quality of physical life through Farming God’s Way, natural medicine, and basic health education.

 

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Navajo Nation - Joei Charley

Joei reaches out to her people, young and old, with the Gospel and builds relationships with Navajo families in her community.  Meeting one-on-one she encourages them, shares the Gospel, and prays with them.  Every other week, she meets with the Navajo Elderlies in the Chinle Nursing Home for a hour long service time of singing Navajo hymns, prayer, and a message.  She leads weekly kid and teen nights playing outdoor games and teaching the Word and offers monthly Bible study to the parents. 

 

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Colorado – Brad & Debbie Ellgen

Brad & Debbie provided a hospitality ministry to soldiers and their families with Cadence International. Their ministry included serving meals to the Airmen, leading Bible Studies, and counseling young men and women who are away from home for the first time. They recently transitioned to a new role in Cadence developing and implementing strategies to tell others about the mission of Cadence and invite them to participate.

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Uganda – GJ & Kate Flikweert
Hope Alive

The Flikweerts live and serve in Uganda and work with a child sponsorship organization called Hope Alive discipling young men and women and providing micro-loans and business training.  GJ’s heart is to come alongside the people to help provide resources and training in order to generate income so that they can provide for themselves and their families.  Kate is passionate about education and uses her gifts to train teachers in improved teaching methods in order to improve the quality of education.

 

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Global – Geoff & Fiona

They are focused on guiding and advising a vast array of missions, churches, and Christian ministries globally. Geoff will continue to develop partnerships with like-minded entities around the world to open the doors for mission leaders from the non-Western regions of the world.

In addition, he just founded a missional initiative, Grace Era, to serve the global church.  This ministry focuses on environmental restoration, poverty alleviation, and spiritual transformation, with its impact resulting in restored environments, restored livelihoods, and restored lives.

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Global – Karen Hardin
Via Families

Karen serves with Via with a vision to ignite mission movements to the unreached by targeting areas of the global south that have a huge Christian presence, but where believers have little ownership of their own role in God’s mission. In her retirement, Karen serves part-time with the family mobilization team to cast vision through international training events for the role that family units can play in God’s mission, creating resources to help parents disciple their children into God’s mission at home, and partnering with and coaching local leaders who can multiply the vision across their region.

 

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Ireland – Russ & Denise Kerstetter
World Venture

Russ and Denise are part of a WorldVenture church planting team in Ireland working in youth ministry and with young adults in their church. Of all English speaking countries in the world, Ireland has the fewest evangelical Christians. Russ and Denise were called to Ireland to reach the lost, disciple the saved, and help establish a sustainable youth ministry.

 

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Global – Mark & Ruth Lans
SIM

Based here in the U.S., Mark supports the global work of SIM in the role of Engaging Universities – TEFL Coordinator. He leads, encourages, equips, and resources workers on the ground who are engaging university students through teaching English as a second language. They also work at Rio Grande Bible Ministries, in South Texas, training and mobilizing those called to overseas missions in Bible and Ministry Education.

 

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Ecuador – David & Rocio Martinez
SIM

David and Rocio are planting and strengthening rural churches in southern Ecuador. They carry out different activities with children and women, but the main task is to disciple and train people from the community to establish leaders in their own churches. Over the last few years, problems within families have increased including domestic abuse, economic problems, and depression.  This has opened the doors for them and been a good opportunity to counsel and share God’s love with these families. David continues as legal representative of the SIM mission and missionaries in Ecuador.  

 

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Global – David & Kathy North
TEAM

David and Kathy provide equipping options for workers heading into various contexts around the world to start churches and make disciples.  They meet with different individuals and teams to coach and enable them to discover and use best practices in reaching the lost, making disciples, and establishing new churches.   They also lead an Evangelistic Bible study group with Internationals in South Carolina.

 

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Sierra Leone - Don & Joyce Osman
LEAD Africa

LEAD Africa is reaching and transforming communities in Sierra Leone through schools and educational programs for disadvantaged children, women’s outreach programs, mentoring and coaching initiatives, and leadership development programs for church and community leaders. The American Montessori Leadership Academy and Excellence in Christian Leadership training programs are two of their flagship programs. The American Montessori Leadership Academy is an elementary school in Sierra Leone and has provided multiple opportunities to share the Gospel and disciple people. All of this has lead to church planting. In February 2023, the Osmans launched Kingdom Connections Center to share the hope of Jesus with Muslims and internationals in Freetown.

 

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Utah – Daniel & Kimberly Shugert

Daniel and Kimberly’s ministry primarily focuses on assisting those who are leaving the LDS Church in their transition. They help navigate them to the Biblical Jesus through mentoring, transition groups, conferences, and online media resources. As they live on mission, Daniel and Kimberly engage with the lost in their neighborhood, on the local University campus, and through relational connections.

Poland – Dawid & Aleksandra Werner

Josiah Venture

Dawid is a member of the leadership team for Josiah Venture in Poland. Ola is now serving God as a full-time mom as well as discipling young women in their local church community. Dawid and Ola support and equip current and future church leaders in discipling people and leading healthy ministries within the local churches. They do this through mentoring, coaching, and evangelism trainings. They also train and teach youth leaders on discipleship, leadership, and counseling.

 

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Middle East

Our Workers returned to the Middle East in 2023 to help launch a new center serving marginalized people through adult education, a medical program, and entrepreneurship trainings and opportunities. They labor to see disciple making movements.

Africa

God has provided this family the opportunity to combine their passions in sports, Jesus, and the nations by serving in Africa. Through leading a sports program, they have a natural means of both relationship building and disciple making in a context that is otherwise closed off to the Gospel.