2002 The FIRST SENDING PLACE team went to Petrozavodsk, Russia. This team taught in a public school using Biblical curriculum.
2003 Kisumu, Kenya. This team worked with a local ministry that rescues abandoned boys. They live at this ministry, go to school and are brought up in a Christian environment.
2003 Petrozavodsk, Russia. This team taught in a public school and local college using Biblical Curriculum.
2003 Johannesburg, South Africa. This team went out into the villages holding nightly evangelical services, planting new churches, teaching the children, and praying for the sick.
2004 Guatemala City, Guatemala. This team worked with a local ministry that works with the families who live at the garbage dump. Teaching, preaching, and feeding those who live in the dump and surrounding area.
2004 Petrozavodsk, Russia. This team taught in a public school and local college using Biblical Curriculum.
2004 Johannesburg, South Africa. This team also went out into the villages. Holding Vacation Bible School for the children, ministry to the local people, teaching and preaching and growing the local church.
2004 Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. This team worked with a local ministry that works with handicap children and diabetics who are cast aside by the average person. They taught Biblical lessons, loved those in their ministry, and helped deliver wheelchairs to those who may have needed them for years but had yet to have one.
2004 Johannesburg, South Africa. This team also spent time in the villages, teaching, preaching, working with women and children in ministry. They also spent time in a very poor area known as Soweto working with a local Christian woman and her daycare ministry.
2005 Florianopolis, Brazil. This team worked at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. They lived with the men in the center, worked by them, ministered to them, loved them. Preaching, teaching, and loving the broken. They preached in local churches and had a Vacation Bible School at a local church.
2005 Guatemala City, Guatemala. This team worked with a local ministry that works with the families who live at the garbage dump. Teaching, preaching, and feeding those who live in the dump and surrounding area.
2005 Vishakhapatnam, India. This team worked in a local Christian school. The majority of the students are not Christian, they taught Biblical curriculum to the elementary and seminary students. They also preached in local churches. (in the violence of 2008 these churches were burned down and many were killed)
2005 Chennai, India. This team had a music ministry. They worked with a local ministry singing Christian songs and giving Biblical testimonies and lessons to over 10,000 students in local schools.
2005 Eldoret, Kenya. This team worked with a local church growing it's ministry. They preached, worked with the youth, children, and the people of that area to grow the ministry of the local church. They also led a pastor and wives conference.
2005 Petrozavodsk, Russia. This team taught in a public school and local college using Bibilical Curriculum.
2005 Petrozavodsk, Russia. This team taught in two new schools to this ministry using Biblical Curriculum.
2005 Lipetsk, Russia. This team worked with a local church. Having the churches first Vacation Bible School to the students in the area.
2005 Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. This team worked with a local ministry that works with handicap children and diabetics who are cast aside by the average person. They taught Biblical lessons, loved those in their ministry, and helped deliver wheelchairs to those who may have needed them for years but had yet to have one. Many of these people are trapped in their beds with no way out and no where to go. This opens incredible doors for ministry.
2006 Florianopolis, Brazil. This team worked at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. They lived with the men in the center, worked by them, ministered to them, loved them. Preaching, teaching, and loving the broken. They also preached in local churches.
2006 Chennai, India. This team had a music ministry. They worked with a local ministry singing Christian songs and giving Biblical testimonies and lessons to over 18,000 students in local schools.
2006 Kabimoi, Kenya. This team worked with a local church, having a Vacation Bible School for local village children, having nightly evangelical services, visiting, praying, and spending time with those in the village.
They had ministry to both men and women and led a couples marriage conference.
2006 Lipetsk, Russia. This team worked with a local church. Having Vacation Bible School to the students in the area.
2006 Johannesburg, South Africa. This team worked in a very poor area known as Soweto working with a local Christian woman and her daycare ministry. They had a Vacation Bible School for the children, and ministry to the local women and youth.
2006 Antalya, Turkey. This team worked with local missionaries and their friendship ministry. Teaching English at a local business and opening doors of ministry through relationships for the local missionaries.
2006 Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. This team lead a camp for 25 handicap/diabetic children and one of their parents. This is literally the only time in the year some of these children get out of their home. They have a Vacation Bible School for the children, teaching time with the parents, and spend their time loving those that society has cast aside.
2007 Florianopolis, Brazil. This team worked at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. They lived with the men in the center, worked by them, ministered to them, loved them. Preaching, teaching, and loving the broken. They also preached in local churches.
2007 Vishakhapatnam, India. This team worked with a local Christian ministry teaching in the school Biblical lessons to the elementary and high school age children. They also taught in the seminary and preached in local churches. (these churches have been destroyed by the violence of 2008)
2007 Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. This team lead a camp for 25 handicap/diabetic children and one of their parents. This is literally the only time in the year some of these children get out of their home. They have a Vacation Bible School for the children, teaching time with the parents, and spend their time loving those that society has cast aside.
2007 Petrozavodsk, Russia. This team worked with a local college teaching Biblical curriculum and teaching English.
2007 Antalya, Turkey. This team worked with local missionaries teaching English in a local school and opening doors for ministry through a friendship ministry.
2007 Kabimoi, Kenya. This team worked with a local church, having a Vacation Bible School for two local villages, having nightly evangelical services, visiting, praying, and spending time with those in the village.
They had ministry to both men and women and led a couples marriage conference.
2008 Chennai, India. This team had a music ministry. They worked with a local ministry singing Christian songs and giving Biblical testimonies and lessons to over 18,000 students in local schools.
2008 Florianopolis, Brazil. This team worked at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. They lived with the men in the center, worked by them, ministered to them, loved them. Preaching, teaching, and loving the broken. They also preached in local churches.
2008 Hong Kong, China. This team worked with a local school teaching English using Biblical curriculum. They had a friendship ministry to the students. They also went into China and worked with a local ministry there. Because of the sensitivity of this ministry details of ministry have been kept vague.
2008 Thailand. This team worked with a local missionary in a village. Teaching Biblical curriculum to the children of the area.
2008 Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. This team lead a camp for 25 handicap/diabetic children and one of their parents. This is literally the only time in the year some of these children get out of their home. They have a Vacation Bible School for the children, teaching time with the parents, and spend their time loving those that society has cast aside.
2008 Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. This team worked with a handicap and diabetic children's home. They had a Vacation Bible School for the children. They also assisted in delivering wheelchairs to those in need.
2008 Kisumu, Kenya. This team worked with local missionaries having a pastor's conference, having a Vacation Bible School for the local children, and working with children and families whom the ministry is
trying to re-unite.
2008 Johannesburg, South Africa. This team worked with missionaries having Vacation Bible School for children in a Soweto daycare and children from the area. They also helped to set up, and train 5 women and help them to open up a sewing business in an area where jobs are few and poverty is the norm this is a HUGE need in the area.
2008 Indonesia. This team worked with a local ministry teaching English. Because of the sensitivity of this ministry details have been kept vague.
2009 Thailand. The three women on our team wonderful with the children and teenagers. They were energetic, inspiring, and well-loved as they led games, crafts, Bible stories and devotions. They will be long-remembered there, as the children at the Center were sad to see them go. The two pastors on our team led a seminar for parents, preached sermons at 3 different churches, and taught church leadership to 35 pastors and church leaders who came to the local Bible School one day for the seminar.
All of us also travelled to two different villages that were very remote, where our host mastered the very "interesting" roads. One of the villages was mostly Christian, and we took over the local school for a few hours the day we were there. The other village was completely Buddhist, but they also let us speak to the children after school. The children said they had never heard about God before--never! To drive down such roads to a village where they had never heard of God truly is travelling "to the ends of the earth"!
2009 Hong Kong. The two women on this team have both worked on short-term teams before. They both taught English using a Biblical curriculum. This host ministry is great at making sure the short-term team has plenty of time to create great friendships with the students there. Each day they are blessed to spend meals, free time, and class time with many students. Great friendship bonds are formed and the word of Christ is shared.
2009 Turkey. This team of 4 worked in various ways in a land that is less then 1% Christian. In a land where the apostle Paul once walked there are almost no Christians to be found or churches to be seen. This team worked in schools teaching English, helped with a women's conference and helped with the friendship ministry that is currently being done.
2009 Kenya. This team of seven went out into the village in Kenya. This was the third time our teams have been to this location, and it was like going home to visit family. This team had a children's program during the week for about 200 children. You learn kids are kids in all nations. Some may have more than others but they all fight over crayons and they all need love and Jesus Christ. They lead a marriage conference and a youth conference, and had nightly evangelical meetings. We were blessed to be a part of 10 baptisms, and celebrate the host churches 10th anniversary in the village. For the first time ever a brass band, the church and our team had the first parade ever seen there. If the brass band wasn't enough of a sight, the 7 white Americans walking through the middle of a village very far off the beaten path will have people talking for years to come. Of course what we want them to remember the most is we came to share JESUS. This host ministry does an incredible work in the village. Our team was able to teach, preach, love and be loved.
2009 Ukraine. This team heald a camp for 25 parents and 25 disabled or diabetic kids. This is a wonderful ministry. Often these families are in their homes most of the time, unable to get out if their kids are in wheelchairs. This is a week of fun, love, and of course Jesus is the key to the entire ministry. This is one week where the parents get to have fun, fellowship, and relax a bit. It may be hard for us to understand how much this is needed for what they go through daily. These are wonderful kids, and incredible parents. It is a joy for our team to share love, fun, fellowship and Jesus with them.
2009 Ghana. This team went and did a variety of things. They taught in local schools, gave a marriage conference, a youth conference, led a large Vacation Bible School, and much more. They had a wonderful ministry working with Pastor James and his wife Margaret.
2010 Brazil. This team went and stayed at a men's drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. This is an incredible ministry where we spend night and day with the men. We form strong relationships, openly talk about Christ, teach each day and work next to the men in their recovery program. The staff we worked with was just wonderful, and the ministry God put before us was great.
2010 Thailand. This team went and taught in local schools, led a pastor's conference, led a vacation bible school, and went to local villages to teach about Christ. This was a wonderful ministry, they went to villages that had only heard of Christ the year before when our team went in 2009. The foundation was set, the local ministry worked with this village, and again our team had the chance to go and teach about Christ.
2010 Kenya. Our team went and worked with a local ministry that helps reunited street boys with their families. We often hear that this is impossible. But that is not the case. Capstone Ministries, does an incredible job working with families and the boys on the street. Our team had a vacation bible school at their center for the boys that are in the process of being re-united with families, as well as the kids in that local village. We had another large vacation bible school for another village in the area, and a marriage conference.
2010 Ukraine. This heald a camp for 25 parents and 25 handicap or diabetic kids. Our teams have led this camp for many years now. It is always a fantastic time for fun, fellowship, and teaching about Christ. The handicap in Ukraine are not able to get out of their homes as we can here in the United States. They don't have the access out of their apartments, into stores, etc. So this is sometimes one of the few times out of the year they get out of their homes. Our team also goes to visit the wheel chair ministry that is a part of this host ministry. Delivering wheel chairs to those in need.
