Missionaries We Support
“How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good things!’” (Rom. 10:14-15)
We have the privilege and the responsibility to support missionaries or mission organizations in obedience to God’s command to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. (Matt. 28:19-20)
Local Missions
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Where We Serve: Puget Sound
Life-affirming pregnancy support services to families in need
What We Do: You may be facing an unplanned pregnancy or suspect you may be pregnant. You may think abortion is your only option.
Care Net of Puget Sound provides the compassionate pregnancy care you need during this difficult time. We will listen to your concerns, answer your questions, and provide the accurate, truthful information you need to make life-affirming decisions for yourself and everyone involved.
You are not alone. Visit their website for more information on pregnancy, medical services, abortion recovery, pregnancy and infant loss, sex education, and parenting.
Christ's Church partners with Care Net of Puget Sound to help financially and in other areas.
How To Connect: carenetps.org
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Where We Serve: Puget Sound
Sharing Christ with elderly through services & ministries
What We Do: Community Chaplain Service (CCS) provides Christian chaplaincy services to assisted living facilities, hospice recipients, hospitals and nursing homes. CCS engages career and part-time missionary chaplains (both lay and clergy) whose desire and burden is to minister to the elderly, infirm, and those for whom there is often a minimum of spiritual care. As a CCS Chaplain, Debbe serves in nursing homes and hospitals, bringing the Good News, prayer, spiritual nurturing, and loving Christian fellowship to residents, staff, and families. She also serves as Director of Publications and Outreach for CCS.
How You Can Pray:
For residents to continue to come and to invite others to worship service.
For more volunteers to help with the Sunday services at LifeCare.
For direction as I consider my future with CCS.
Email Debbe Carson or call 253-670-5073.
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Where We Serve: SW Washington
What we do: As Awana missionaries for this region (SW Washington), we are grateful to serve and partner with you to reach kids and train Leaders to continue changing our World for Christ. As missionaries, we train new leadership and churches as they start new Awana clubs. We support churches in a variety of ways. One of our favorite ways is creatively adapting the Awana program to the cultural needs of a church for the most effective child discipleship. We also run events that encourage personal and spiritual development and equip leaders to build Resilient Disciples of the future.
How Can You Pray:
Pray that we can continue to invest in each other as a family during this season.
Pray that our financial support stays healthy so this ministry will remain strong.
Pray for the hearts of the youth and families being impacted daily, that God would continue to draw them to Himself and reveal His true identity to them through His Word and the lives of all our volunteers.
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Where We Serve: Rural Washington
What We Do: RCYM exists to assist and encourage rural churches in making successful youth ministry possible in their local setting. They aim to work with existing youth ministries who are seeking to strengthen their students and to assist local rural churches in building solid, Biblical youth programs and developing student leadership ministry skills for their students by providing ministry camps, volunteer youth ministry training notebooks and placements of full-time youth leaders in rural churches. Rural America and its churches are in the midst of an identity crisis. The rapidly changing rural environment, fueled by economic challenges, rural to urban migration, and technological development, is helping produce an unchurched generation of North American teens and struggling churches. Tom has noted that very few people in youth work are even aware of the needs of rural churches, which while they desire to reach the young people of their communities, are often discouraged by their isolation and limited resources. As a result, young people being trained for youth work in our Christian colleges and seminaries rarely consider rural work as a possible calling. A greater sense of urgency regarding youth ministry is needed in the church today.
Tom’s vision and networking experience were instrumental in the development of Christ’s Church’s “Montana Mission Team”, which continues to impact the lives of our own youth, transforming ministry, and bearing fruit for the Kingdom. Since 1998, youth and adults from Christ’s Church have been involved yearly with short-term mission trips, coordinated with RCYM, in several rural towns in Western Montana. Focus activities include projects to help local individuals, families, and even the town; holding community “pig roasts” in the park; and sharing the gospel to all they come in contact with.
If you would like to keep in contact with their ministry, contact Tom.
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Where We Serve: Tonasket, WA
What We Do: With 5 children in tow (Joshua, Jeremiah, Caleb, Zachariah, and Faith), the Lord led Craig and his wife Sharon to begin a residential, Biblical counseling ministry in Eastern Washington that would serve women and girls struggling with life-dominating problems such as drug and alcohol addictions, eating disorders, and emotional/behavioral problems. The Father’s Ranch Ministries was born in the fall of 2001. In the spring of 2009, Craig opened the Biblical Counseling Center of Okanogan (BCCO), a non-residential Biblical counseling service that offers help and hope for those in their local community. Craig and Sharon, along with a board of directors, continue to provide oversight for the ministries of TFR today. Craig serves his local church (Tonasket Bible Church) as an elder and enjoys preaching and teaching at various churches, conferences and Bible camps around the Pacific Northwest.
If you would like to keep in contact with their ministry, please contact Craig.
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Where We Serve: Puget Sound
What We Do: Reality Sports is a locally-run youth sports program with the aim of sharing the life-changing message of the gospel with athletes and families and to make disciple-makers of Jesus Christ within the context of sports. They aim to do this through coaching excellence, intentional messages, competing upside-down, and “discipleRShip.” They have several programs including baseball, strength and conditioning, tennis and volleyball. They also host training events and summer camps.
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Where We Serve: Joint Base Lewis McChord
What We Do: We have joined Cadence International, a ministry to the military. We will be serving at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington State. In short, we will preach the gospel and make disciples on and off base. We will do this by establishing a home-away-from-home hospitality house that reaches, encourages, and equips military personnel in their understanding of the gospel. We will support the local chaplains in ministry and life. By doing these things we will send military personnel ready to live out the gospel in their homes, communities, work, and local church.
What this will look like is in addition to attending chapel on base and serving the military chaplain in whatever capacity we can (leading Bible studies, small groups, discipleship, etc.) we will run a hospitality house where we will welcome military personnel to come and join us every week as we study God’s Word and build a community of believers who desire to grow their relationship with God while in the military.
National & International Missions
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Where We Serve:
What We Do: At Base Ministry, we strive to live out our mission of helping young people live God’s Word, share the gospel, and serve His church. Our hope is to work alongside churches to develop and empower the next generation of disciple-makers from their local congregations. Our empowerment model below depicts four ways we work alongside churches to empower their ministry.
Email Amanda Boudon.
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Where We Serve: North America, Africa, & Asia
What We Do: In 1989, Greg Von Tobel began Prisoners for Christ Outreach Ministries (PFC) in the offices of Overlake Christian Church with a vision to bring the redeeming message of the gospel into the jails, prisons, and juvenile centers here in the Northwest, giving inmates the opportunity to know our Savior Jesus Christ. Today, with the motto of “One Cell at a Time”, PFC is in 32 correctional centers in Washington state, 2 in Florida, and multiple international locations (Africa & Asia).
A study conducted by the Billy Graham organization showed that the rate in which individuals return to prison drops 32% if an inmate, while in prison, becomes involved with a Bible study or church service at the prison chapel. If an inmate is connected with an outside church within the first year of their release, their rate of returning to prison (this is called recidivism) decreases by another 10%.
Those incarcerated in third world prisons are an “unreached people group” not yet identified and sanctioned by modern mission planners. These forgotten inmates are truly the least of the least. Inmates in the African prisons listen intently to PFC missionaries, taking notes on the palms of their hands with ink pens as a means of studying the Bible. We should pray that God’s word would forever be written in their hearts! Doors for international prison work are wide open and there are pockets of revival breaking out in third world prisons. The banquet table in heaven will be lined with the throwaways of the world.
International Missions
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Where We Serve: Sierra Leone, Africa
What We Do: The Bridge of Hope’s mission is to partner with the people of Sierra Leone to restore their communities knowing that Christ will transform the lives of everyone involved. They envision Sierra Leone as a place where its people have access to the basic needs of life, where they are healthy, equipped and empowered to support themselves and find purpose in serving others. Their goal in ministry is to be Christ-centered, community-based, committed to integrity, volunteer-operated, put people first, and see lives changed
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Where We Serve:
What We Do: In 1989, Greg Von Tobel began Prisoners for Christ Outreach Ministries (PFC) in the offices of Overlake Christian Church with a vision to bring the redeeming message of the gospel into the jails, prisons, and juvenile centers here in the Northwest, giving inmates the opportunity to know our Savior Jesus Christ. Today, with the motto of “One Cell at a Time”, PFC is in 32 correctional centers in Washington state, 2 in Florida, and multiple international locations (Africa & Asia).
A study conducted by the Billy Graham organization showed that the rate in which individuals return to prison drops 32% if an inmate, while in prison, becomes involved with a Bible study or church service at the prison chapel. If an inmate is connected with an outside church within the first year of their release, their rate of returning to prison (this is called recidivism) decreases by another 10%.
Those incarcerated in third world prisons are an “unreached people group” not yet identified and sanctioned by modern mission planners. These forgotten inmates are truly the least of the least. Inmates in the African prisons listen intently to PFC missionaries, taking notes on the palms of their hands with ink pens as a means of studying the Bible. We should pray that God’s word would forever be written in their hearts! Doors for international prison work are wide open and there are pockets of revival breaking out in third world prisons. The banquet table in heaven will be lined with the throwaways of the world.
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Where We Serve: Albania
What We Do: Illyricum Movement is a Christian Church Planting organization with the vision of planting and establishing local, healthy churches in Albania, enabling every person to experience a new life in Christ by helping them grow in their healthy, personal relationship with the living God. Their purpose is to then prepare them to go out and make disciples of all nations by planting and establishing other churches (Matthew 28:18-20). IM believes that the healthiest churches are the churches where the leaders are indigenous to the country where the church resides and seek church-planters who are native to their mission field with the ultimate desire to raise up a plurality of indigenous leadership.
They strive to find other healthy churches, like Christ’s Church Federal Way, that will fully adopt a church they have planted, and assist by training their leaders to have the same passion for spreading the gospel, thereby creating godly leadership accountability. When the adoption process is complete, IM will then move away, and the local church and the parent church will continue together in all aspects.
Christ’s Church is coming alongside the Demo family, adopting their church of Emanuel Fresko Church.
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Where We Serve: Glasgow, Scotland
What We Do: In 2007, the Luse family began their official journey into the world of being “full time missionaries.” They arrived in Glasgow, Scotland in January 2008 serving with other individuals from their sending organization, Novo (formerly Church Resource Ministries {CRM}), to help establish a church plant known as Re:Hope (pronounced “Regarding Hope”). This church, begun by Brian and Kellie Ingraham, another Christ’s Church supported missionary family, began in 2003-04. However, within six months of arriving, God moved in an amazing way with the Luse family, giving Brian the pastoral opportunity to revitalize (re-plant) an established 106 year old church called Renfrew Baptist Church. This church is about a 15 minute drive from Re:Hope (near the Glasgow airport). At present, they average around 63 adults in attendance; 12-18 elementary age kids; 6-10 toddlers and nursery kids. In their home, Shauna has a weekly Bible study with 18-24 women. Along with his role as pastor, Brian is also mentoring another young Scottish man who will one day plant or re-plant a church of his own.
Brian and Shauna have eight children, Charlotte, Raiden, Connie, Caileen, Taren, Dylan, Greyson, and Celia. They write, “We are so incredibly thankful that Christ’s Church has joined us in this missionary journey. With your support in prayer, we are among those mentioned in Hebrews 10:39, ‘But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.’ Thank you for standing with us and with the families of Glasgow.”
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Where We Serve: South Africa
What We Do: Prevention Time was formed in 2009 in Federal Way, Washington, and is directed by Lorna Packard, with Pastor Ed Kelley IV serving as the pastoral advisor to the board. funds a Christian AIDS prevention and youth development program (Reach4Life) in South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, and Lesotho, where collectively over 10 million are infected with HIV and over 6.5 million have been orphaned. The goal is to reach young people before they get infected, educating them on how they can know God through the gospel, avoid the virus, and make wise life choices that will allow them to achieve their full potential. The program also embraces those who are already HIV positive, assuring them that God loves them and will use them effectively for His purposes.
The program is led by Thandeka (Thandy) Mavundla-Nzama of Phakama Africa Community Projects, a South African nonprofit, using Biblica's Reach4Life© New Testament with lessons included as a curriculum. Peer Educators, often young adult Christians, from local churches take the program into schools, prisons, drug rehabs, churches, universities, community groups, and radio programs utilizing their knowledge in language, culture, and their own local communities often in very poor townships and squatter camps. Public schools provide classroom time for the Peer Educators to teach and have seen such a positive impact that more schools are asking for the program. The youth are not only educated on abstinence, but invited to commit their lives to Christ and to attend local, Bible-based churches in the community where they can be discipled. In 2019, there were 257,039 participants in the program and inmate attendance in detention centers totaled 22,252.
Prevention Time has no paid staff, so all funds help pay expenses in Africa for transportation, training, printing, t-shirts and caps, and supplies for the Peer Educators; support for area coordinators and the program director; and contributions to Biblica for Reach4Life New Testaments.
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Where We Serve: Phillipines
What We Do: We both grew up in Gig Harbor, WA. Our families took us to church where we were taught God’s Word and believed the gospel. As we grew in our understanding of God and His great plan of redemption, we also became aware of the many people around the world who have yet to hear of Jesus. We heard of a missions organization that focuses on these unreached people groups and prayed about joining this work. A year after getting married, we started our Bible and missionary training with Ethnos360. We completed our four years of training in 2020 and then partnered with like-minded churches and believers. We have four boys: Silas, Wyatt, Ryland, and Griffin.
We moved to the Philippines in 2022 to begin ministry among one of the 40 unreached people groups there. We have joined Ethnos360’s team of missionaries here and are currently learning the regional language. After we have learned the Filipino language and culture, we will form a team of missionaries and decide which people group will be best for us as a team to move in with and work among. Our ministry goals within that remote people group will include: learning their heart language and culture, building relationships, and presenting God’s Word to them in worldview-challenging, chronological Bible lessons. We are praying to be a part of planting a mature church that is reproducing disciples and passing on God’s message to their neighboring villages.