 Inglesia Palmar Arriba
Dominican Republic
This is a growing church. All the services are full, and they have had to buy more chairs to have places for all the people to sit. They have a good community connection and acceptance. They already need more room for Sunday School, which is large and growing. The community is very young with lots of drugs and gangs, so they are working to attract youth. There are not a lot of jobs in the area. They have an inverter, and it has helped a lot. They have a team that is doing door-to-door evangelism and is working all over the area. They want us to know that they are thankful for the gift of their new church building and that they are working hard at evangelism.
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 New Mission Systems International
Craig and Rachel both returned stateside in June 2008 to visit family, friends and churches. They are strengthening relationships with partnering churches and studying Portuguese in Brazil before a return to Mozambique to continue the work God puts before them. They will be based in the northern province of Nampula, Mozambique, working for a business that provides inputs and a market for small scale farmers. They will be joining a team of Mozambicans, Zimbabweans, South Africans, and other nationalities to raise the farming standards of Southern Africa with the knowledge of the Gospel.
www.nmsi.org
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 Methodiste Libre
Dominican Republic
Junior Ramirez is the pastor and, like his congregation, he is young and vibrant. They hope to gain the tools to do the ministry they desire, which is to evangelize within their very poor neighborhood, focusing on the children and teenagers in the community. They typically have 40 children at their service and more teenagers.
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 Inglesia Maizal
Dominican Republic
Pastor Jorge is a very humble man, who has given up a lot to work in this extremely impoverished community. The church alone cannot support him, so he works odd jobs to help take care of the needs of his family. Pastor Jorge said “we do what we can with what we have,” which is very little indeed. Illiteracy is a huge problem here. Jorge is one of the few in the whole community of 8,000 people who can read. There are also very few jobs. The church is working to bring hope to the community, and has started cell groups in the community. People want to learn how to read, but there is no one to teach them, and Jorge doesn’t have the time to teach people to read. Every morning from 6-7am they have a prayer service to pray for jobs and food for the families in the area. When asked how we could help, Pastor Jorge was dumbfounded; he actually cried, as no one has ever asked him this before.
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 La Delgada - Vino Nuevo
Dominican Republic
Pastor Mary and her Husband Andres are the main leaders of this well organized church which is full of youth and kids. There are leaders working with every age group leading small groups (cell groups) and working to disciple and lead people to Christ. They are also working with young couples, training musicians, working to develop a youth choir for ages eight to twelve. They have a tiny portable sound system on site and a generator, as this area is often without power. They have a great intercessory prayer ministry on Monday nights. Thursday night is their largest church service. They often show Christian movies outside for the community. They also use videos of worship music to lead worship as their only “musical instruments” are drums. Currently they have 70 families at church, with each family having 5-7 kids. Their parents both must work and most cannot afford to send their children to school (they can’t afford the supplies, and other school costs). Drugs, alcohol, and prostitution face the youth in this community.
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New Mission Systems International
Angela is based at NMSI’s Center for Global Outreach (CGO) in Fort Myers, FL, and she normally heads overseas at least once each year. NMSI’s home office is critical to assisting the missionaries overseas. She is passionate about introducing and helping train others to be involved in God’s heartbeat for the nations. This plays out in a variety of ways.
Angela’s primary role is as the Publications Director and the Editor for the NMSI Newslink. She creates visual communication both for the mission as a whole and for individual missionaries on the field by producing print media such as newsletters and brochures for NMSI missionaries. Newslink is a mini-magazine that highlights what God is doing around the world
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Lance & Elizabeth Edwards |
 New Mission Systems International
Zimbabwe
Lance & Elizabeth moved from Mozambique to Zimbabwe with their children, Ashton and Katie. Their purpose was to start and direct a Christian agricultural school whose primary purpose is to make disciples for Christ and whose secondary purpose is to teach students to run their own small agricultural business. Ebeneezer was started last August with 16 students, and when Lance and Elizabeth arrived in January there were many problems to be solved. Zimbabwe’s political and economic conditions make their work difficult, but with God’s grace and lots of hard work, the school is growing.
www.nmsi.org
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 Wycliff Bible Translators
United States & Brazil
B.J. & Kris Diggins are missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators/JAARS and have two boys, Nate (12) and Levi (10). They served in Brazil for 9 years as a missionary pilot/nurse team in support of Wycliffe’s work. Currently they are on a stateside assignment. B.J. is working in the Aviation Training Department, providing initial and recurrent flight training for JAARS and other organizations such as AIM AIR (Africa Inland Mission), SAM AIR (South America Mission), Flying Mission Botswana, YAJASI (Indonesian Mission Organization). Kris is currently earning her Doctorate in Nursing Practice through the University of South Alabama. She is leaving the end of September for a two-week trip to Brazil to teach a health class for Brazilian and indigenous missionaries who are working with a project for autistic children in that area.
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 Good Samaritan Orphanage
Dominican Republic
Elsie and Junior Gomez are a married couple in their late 20’s who run the orphanage for 47 children. They are full of energy, well organized and totally dedicated to the children. Until recently, Elsie and Junior have been struggling to run the orphanage with the support of one small church in New Jersey. In the past two trips New Hope has made, we’ve noticed that one of their biggest challenges is the kitchen, which currently consists of an outside wash area and one hot plate. A team from New Hope plans to travel late spring or early summer to install a new kitchen and work in the children’s dormitory to repair bed frames, wardrobes, and install new mattresses and mosquito netting.
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 Habitat for Hope
Memphis, TN
Mark and Mylissa Horrocks joined NMSI in the fall of 2005. They have been called to minister full time through their non-profit organization, Habitat for Hope (HFH). Habitat for Hope is dedicated to support, serve and care for families enduring childhood cancer and life threatening illness. The Horrocks share God’s love by filling practical, emotional, financial and spiritual needs. Mark and Mylissa understand the effects childhood cancer has on a family, because their own daughter was diagnosed with cancer in 2003. By the grace of God she has been cancer free over two and a half years. Their ministry is based in Memphis, TN, where the ministry can serve as many as 350 families every night and families from over 70 countries worldwide every year.
www.habitatforhope.org
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 Mercy Works
Worldwide
Debbie directs MercyWorks, a branch of Youth With a Mission, which is a ministry whose aim is to share the love of Jesus with hurting people – usually in the aftermath of a disaster, war or famine. They also help people get out of poverty. Chris assists the Director of YWAM in Tyler, Texas and is currently directing a project called the Ear Bible (see earbible.com) to help people learn scripture in their busy lives. They both serve on the executive leadership team of YWAM Tyler.
www.ywamtyler.org
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 New Mission Systems International
As one of two Vice Presidents, David is involved with policy development, office and corporate operations, general care and oversight of those serving around the world. Before NMSI, David’s ministry was primarily with high school students in East Africa while with the Mennonite Central Committee, and Young Life while in the States. David is a Whitworth College graduate and has an MDiv from Fuller seminary.
Susan is a Pediatrician who after a decade of private practice now focuses on medical consulting with NMSI missionaries worldwide and the procurement of adequate medical insurance for them. Susan has participated in short term medical teams internationally, is a long time member of the Christian Medical and Dental Society, and a women’s group leader here at New Hope.
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Irving and Donna Jennings-Garcia |
 MTW´s Streetchild Outreach
Irving and Donna are returning to Mexico to serve with Mission to the World´s Streetchild Ministry in Acapulco. Irving is a native of Acapulco and started working with MTW´s streetchild outreach in 2001. Donna is a physician assistant in pediatrics and worked 3 years previously with the ministry in Acapulco. They feel God´s call on their family to continue working to see God´s Kingdom extended in Acapulco. Their family will focus on reaching children living and working on the streets. They will also disciple children living in Casa Hogar del Niño de Acapulco, an orphanage supported by the local Presbyterian church. There is a need for long-term workers to provide consistent role models for the children, and they desire to continue the relationships God blessed them with during their first term in Mexico. Their first child, Micah, is 15 months old. They are expecting twins in June, and they hope to transition back to Mexico shortly after the twins´ birth. They plan to work in a local Presbyterian church as well as in the streetchild outreach and orphanage.
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