The Importance of Missions

The Andersons serve with TEAM and have been in France since January 2006. Buan directs camps, trains young camp directors, and is heavily involved in the leadership of the DEFI torchbearers Bible school, a residential program where students take 6 months to study, live, serve, and grow in their Christian faith.  Theresa does some office accounting, help with cooking, and is involved with the Bible school leadership as well.  Theresa is also involved in a women’s ministry called Lifesprings International, and is the president of the French branch, with the vision or connecting, encouraging, and preparing women to impact their communities with the love of God. Buan is the treasurer for TEAM’s French association.

Marilyn is Regional Rep for the Rocky Mountain Region for Jesus Film. She represents the ministry, (a part of Cru in the US and Campus Crusade for Christ, globally) and meets with donors who give to the Jesus Film on a regular basis and is available to get Jesus Film resources to individuals, churches, ministries, and missionaries who use them around the world.

Dr. Ashley Denton is the Sr. Vice President of Nexus International. He is a global leader in indigenous student ministry development through equipping, encouraging, and empowering entrepreneurial mission leaders in over 65 nations. The mission of Nexus International is to address the worldwide drought of youth leadership. His vision is to flood the nations with biblical youth leadership training and outdoor ministry opportunities, so that every young person may know Jesus Christ and grow as his disciple. Ashley is the founder of the Wilderness Ministry Institute and the author of Outdoor Leadership: Theology, Theory and Practice, and The Personality of Jesus: How to Introduce Young People to Jesus Christ and Help them Grow in their Faith.

Russ and Jo Anne’s ministry with the International School Project focus on teachers. ISP is a unique branch of Cru with a thin connection to the parent organization. This allows them to reach into countries that are not open to a global Christian mission organization.

Their goal is to have a group of educators in every city and village changing students’ and colleagues’ lives and influencing their communities for Christ. Jo Anne is Human Resource Director for ISP and Russ is Digital Media and Infrastructure expert and Leadership Coach for ISP team leaders.

John serves with a board in South Asia. There are seven schools with approximately 150-200 students in a nearby country that he helps support. The schools primarily provide academic training, but also offer a once weekly “Sunday school” for spiritual training. He also provides leadership and supervision to the in-country superintendent of these schools. Currently John has been in a new nation, where he is involved in informal outreach to “plant seeds” in his community. He leads two local children’s group and provides a part of the monthly training for house fellowship leaders in his district. He also has the opportunity to teach men at the weekly house fellowship gatherings. Informally, he seeks resources or info for people with health or financial issues. He does research through a university on an oppressed people group in the nation that he lives in.

PDN is a ministry that equips pastors and strengthens the African church in order to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ through healthy churches. During the past nine years, PDN has successfully trained and equipped over 4800 pastors in East Africa, providing quality theological education by gifted facilitators, and delivering high quality ministry resources to African church leaders.

You can be involved in this ministry by searching: https://www.pdnafrica.org/

• 1,681 UGANDAN PASTORS TRAINED
• 336,200 UGANDANS WORSHIPING IN TRUTH under a trained pastor
• 141 PASTORS’ WIVES and women leaders TRAINED
• 19 PDN-Uganda faculty (trainers of trainers) educated by Lancaster
  Bible College GRADUATED WITH MASTERS DEGREE
• 7,072 bible Resources distributed PDN Video:  YouTube

Alabaster Jars is a sewing center ministry led by Rick and Colleen Borkovec in India and soon in Nepal among the Rohingya refugees. The Rohingya people are considered illegal immigrants in Nepal and are not allowed to work. There are two refugee camps in Kathmandu. Through the sewing center, women will learn a trade and hear about the Lord Jesus. A redeemed Muslim couple will oversee the sewing center and plant a church for fellowship and outreach. The Orchard has contributed towards sewing machines, rent and salaries to help further this exciting outreach among the Rohingya. Will you join us? Watch the video and click this link to contribute. Join us in what God is doing in Nepal!!  https://alabasterjarsinc.org/

Alabaster Jars Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/116yanWMTa6kvMH0PDk8U0yfBlfVEbxt5/view

 Center for Child & Community Development [Quirogas – El Centro de Amistad y Apoyo].
The most recent gift we sent was to the directors of  El Centro who were injured in a car accident