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Our local and global missions ministry is a vital part of our overall ministry vision. We are active both at home and abroad. We have a vision to be a resource center to the churches in the Austin metroplex in the area of global missions. We currently support and are involved in four strategic ministry centers:
- Russia- We have been involved in sending and supporting full-time missionaries to Russia; we are currently supporting Russians Reaching Russians which is a U.S. supported indigenous church planting ministry whose efforts are targeted at the St. Petersburg, Russia region and its seven million + residents.
RRR website
- Mexico- We support a Bible College ministry in both Saltillo and Puerto Escondido; spend much time helping churches and pastors reach the local people in Saltillo; help with food programs along the Texas/Mexican border; and visit churches & prisons in Mazatlan.
Eternal Love Ministries website
- Philippines / Indonesia- We support a Ken and Chris Sandberg who are the National Project Coordinators for Calvary International. They oversee a Bible college ministry based in the Philippines, work among various tribal groups, and minister to the Muslims in Indonesia.
The Sandberg's webpage
- Cypress - David and Jayne Ann Harder work for SAT-7, a Christian satellite network broadcasting to the Middle East and North Africa. David is SAT-7's Communications Manager, Jayne Ann serves as the ministry's Audience Research Coordinator.
The Harder's webpage
- India - We support Pastor Roy Jacob who oversees an orphanage as well as several churches.
Pastor Roy's webpage
- Scotland - We support Debbie Bathgate-Matchett with YWAM in Scotland. In the summer of 2000 , Debbie was in Austin interning in a Human Resources department. During that time she became involved at Grace Christian Center and went on a mission trip with us to Mexico. God used that experience to change her perspective about her future. She returned to complete her last year of university, and instead of attending careers fairs and filling in application for jobs she began looking into missions work.
Debbie's website
- Bolivia - Wendy Nelson has been a Grace member for approximately 15 years and has not only been on several mission trips but has also served on the Mission Board for about 5 years. Wendy has always had a heart for missions and God has been preparing her for this time to serve as a Short-term Coordinator for compassion ministries in Bolivia.
Wendy's website
- Short-Term Missions
We believe that short-term missions are the best way for people to gain an understanding of the global need of the Gospel and receive the "Great Commission Missions Vision." To that end we are active in training and sending numerous teams throughout the year to take short-term trips to the centers of ministry we currently support.
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