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Area Served |
Mission/Missionaries |
Donations Through |
National and International
Sustaining
General Budget |
Missionary Support Services |
Mission Society for United Methodists
P. O. Box 922637
Norcross, GA 30010
770-446-1381
http://www.msum.org/ |
“Doing what people say cannot be
done”. The Mission Society missionaries understand
the meaning of that statement. They are often told
that they cannot make a difference in another
country, another language, another culture; yet, in
every country where there are missionaries from the
Mission Society, they are in fact making a
difference. They are reflecting Christ’s life and
presence by caring, teaching, evangelizing,
providing food or binding wounds to all they meet.
The Beise's and the Jackson's are a part of the
Mission Society team.
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France
5 year commitment
Faith Promise
Ending July 31, 2005 |
Jim and Angela Beise |
Mission Society for United Methodists
P. O. Box 922637
Norcross, GA 30010
770-446-1381
http://www.msum.org/ |
 Jim and Angela are serving on a
Mission Society for United Methodists team that is
building a cell church ministry in the suburbs of
Paris. In addition to discipleship and leadership
development, they are involved in music ministry and
outreach to the unchurched. Jim earned his master of
divinity degree in missions and served 12 years in
youth and pastoral ministry in Mississippi and
Missouri.The Beises'
Newsletter for December 2006 |
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Kenya, India, Brazil
General Budget
Faith Promise |
Charles and Becky Jackson
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Mission Society for United Methodists
P. O. Box 922637
Norcross, GA 30010
770-446-1381
http://www.msum.org/ |
The Jackson's are currently working
as the international field directors of Each One
Feed One, an overseas organization that has ministry
stations in Kenya, India and Brazil. The Jackson's
are supervising the mission outreach in each of
E.O.F.O.'s locations. The emphasis in each of these
areas is evangelism coupled with ministry to the
physical needs of desperate people. They will be
dividing their time between the three foreign fields
(India, Kenya and Brazil) as well as visiting
churches throughout the United States. Charles is an
elder in the Virginia Annual Conference of the
United Methodist Church and has 17 years of pastoral
experience.
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Arab World
General Budget
Commitment ending Dec. 31, 2005 |
Skip and Amy Bayles |
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| The Arab world lies in the heart of
the 10/40 window. The 10/40 window describes the
area of the world between latitudes 10 and 40
degrees north of the equator covering North Africa,
the Middle East, and Asia. The window looks toward
most of the areas of the world with the greatest
physical and spiritual needs. The window also
includes most of the world’s least-reached peoples
and most of the governments that oppose
Christianity. Evangelism in the Arab world is seldom
easy.
Muslims are forbidden by law to convert from
Islam and those who do may suffer persecution or
imprisonment for their belief in Christ. Most Arab
World countries are closed to traditional mission
work, and with few exceptions, it is not possible
for a person to gain residence as a missionary. In
Europe and North America, there is greater freedom
to share Christ openly with more opportunities for
direct outreach. The Bayles are currently living in
Barcelona, Spain and working with the Muslim
immigrant community there.
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Director
of Missions
Northwestern College
General Budget
Faith Promise
Direct Gift |
Tommy, Sue and Catie Moon
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Northwestern College
Department of Spiritual Formations and Vocation
101 7th St SW
Orange City, Iowa 51041
1-712-707-7336 |
| As director of missions, Tommy Moon
oversees Northwestern’s Spring Service Project (SSP) and
Summer of Service (SOS) programs, which together send
around 250 students across the U.S. and around the world
annually to serve and learn in intercultural settings.
Moon and his staff provide training, resources and
post-trip debriefing for the students. They also guide
the students’ fund raising efforts.
A preacher, teacher, trainer and mentor, Tommy has a
grace-oriented approach to ministry and enjoys
encouraging discipleship within the context of
friendships.
Tommie and his wife served as missionaries in Puebla,
Mexico, for 17 years, where they were involved in church
planting, youth ministry and leadership development.
Moon is bilingual and since 1998 has been a professor
and dean of students at Puebla Bible Seminary. Prior to
living in Mexico, he was involved with church and urban
ministry in various Dallas communities.
Moon has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stephen
F. Austin State University in Texas and a Masters in
Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary. He is
completing a doctorate in leadership and spiritual
formation through George Fox University in Oregon. He
was ordained by Fellowship Bible Church, Dallas, in
1986.
There current mailing address is above.
Tommy can be reached at the college
tmoon@nwciowa.edu
Tommy can also be reached at
moon.tommy@gmail.com
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| Supporting the Lord's Ministries at Maua Methodist Hospital, Maua, Kenya |
Jerri and Bill Savuto
GBGM Missionary Interpreters
jbsavuto@yahoo.com
972-618-3664 |
United Methodist Church
Advance Special Program |
 Aids Orphans, Palliative Care and
Service Fund Donation Information
Jesus has called us to help those who are less
fortunate and to share in His love as our call to
mission. To support the ministries of Jesus Christ,
the United Methodist Church has the
Advance Special Program.
Any gift to support the
Maua Methodist Hospital Palliative care, Service
Fund, or AIDS Orphan Programs should be given
through your church by using their Advance Special
number. It is then sent to the General Board of
Global Ministries (GBGM), the UMC Mission Board, and
then on to Kenya.
Every dollar you send goes to the hospital to
support these ministries. There is no administrative
costs!
 The Palliative Care Program provides
antiretroviral drugs to mothers with AIDS to keep
them alive for many years so they can raise their
children in good health. Twenty six dollars per
month will provide these antiretroviral drugs for a
mother with AIDS. Your support check can be written
to your local UMC church with a note that reads:
"For Advance Special #09613A - Maua Hospital Service
Fund, Kenya - NOTE: For Palliative Care".
The Service Fund pays for the medical
bills for our poorest patients and orphans in our
service to the Lord. We serve a very poor area and
we are the only hospital available to care for them.
Your support check can be written to your local UMC
church with a not that reads: "For Advance Special
#09613A - Maua Hospital Service Fund, Kenya"
The AIDS Orphan Program provides three nutritious
meals pre day to the orphans by giving food to their
caretakers, usually their grandmothers, who prepare
the meals at home. The ministry also provides
uniforms, shoes, and fees to send the AIDS Orphans
to primary school and provide for their medical
care. Fifteen dollars per month feeds and educates a
young AIDS Orphan. Your support check can be written
to your local UMC church with a note that reads:
"For Advance Special #140161 - AIDS Orphans'
Project, Maua Hospital, Kenya".
Please pray to the Lord for these ministries and
let the Holy Spirit guide you in your generous
giving.
"When did we ever see you hungry and feed you, or
see you sick and care for you ...", and God will
reply; "When you have done this for the least of my
children, you did it for me." MATT 25:31-40
May God bless you as you share to bring God's
Kingdom of Love to the world.
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Dallas County
Sustaining support
General Budget |
Golden Cross
P.O. Box 655999
Dallas TX. 75265-5999
214-947-2470 |
North Texas Conference
P. O. Box 56069
Dallas TX. 75251-6069
972-490-5505 |
Golden Cross is to the
United Methodist Church in North Texas what the Red
Cross is to the nation. It is a ministry of the
North Texas Conference with an annual contribution
goal of $1 per church member. Its purpose is to
provide healthcare to those in need on behalf of the
church. The person must be in need of medical
assistance, without funds to pay for medical care,
and have a condition that can be treated through a
Methodist Hospitals of Dallas facility. It offers a
range of services from childbirth, to cardiac
surgery, to physical rehabilitation. Local Methodist
clergy refer persons in need to the pastoral care
office at Methodist Hospital.
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Dallas County
Sustaining support
General Budget |
C.C. Young Home
4829 Lawther Dr.
Dallas TX. 75214
214-827-8080 |
North Texas Conference
P. O. Box 56069
Dallas TX. 75251-6069
972-490-5505 |
| The C. C. Young Home is a
multi-service retirement community founded in 1922
with a covenant relationship with the North Texas
Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. C.
C. Young offers services to all seniors through its
non-sectarian, equal admittance policy. It is a
non-profit faith-based organization dedicated to the
elderly, and reflects the Christian traditions of
love, benevolence and service. It seeks to enhance
the physical, mental, social and spiritual well
being of the persons served.
Accommodations include
independent living, assisted living, a health
center, and an adult day care center. Their Mission
Statement: We pledge ourselves to respond to the
needs of the aging, ever mindful of our respect for
the worth and dignity of the individual. Our
services shall be offered and delivered without
regard to race, religion, color, national origin,
creed, sex, age, marital status, handicap or source
of payment.
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San Antonio
Sustaining support
General Budget
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Methodist Mission Home |
North Texas Conference
6487 Whitby Rd.
San Antonio TX 78240
800-284-0410 |
 Building families, giving every child a loving
home, and educating about adoption.
Methodist Mission Home offers hope to adoptive
families, birth mothers, and adopted children through
domestic, older child, and international adoption
services. Maternity Center / Maternity Home and post
adoption services are available. Methodist Mission Home
relies on the monetary, spiritual, and volunteer support
of individuals, churches, businesses, and foundations to
help us continue our mission.
Methodist Mission Home has numerous
volunteer opportunities to
meet a variety of schedules. Volunteerism is a blessing
to our ministry and enables us to continue Giving God's
Children a Faith, a Family, a Future. Students with
disabilities in our SCHI (Southwest Center for Higher
Independence) participate in structured activities to
develop social and life skills.
Birth mothers in our Maternity Center enjoy being
pampered with shoulder massages, manicures, pedicures,
and hairstyling.
Volunteer group/individual projects include:
transporting students to local churches, helping with
our "Signs of the Times" choir, developing a
reading/book club, playing games with students,
spiritual, Bible study/spiritual development, teaching
life skills (cooking, cleaning, grooming), maintaining
and landscaping our 25 acre campus, and administrative
assistance in all departments. We offer internships for
American Sign Language, marketing/public relations, and
Social Work.
Volunteers must attend an orientation session and
must agree to submit to a background check if working on
the campus or directly with our clients.
Keep our ministry, clients and staff in your prayers.
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Dallas
Sustaining Support
General Budget |
Bethlehem Center Dallas
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North Texas Conference
4410 Leland Ave.
Dallas TX 75215
214-428-5171 |
 Bethlehem Center was founded March
1, 1946, as an inter-racial project by Mrs. Paul
Bard, District President of Women’s Society of
Christian Service. It is a ministry of the United
Methodist Church, filling the needs for quality
childcare, youth activities, recreation and
development. The Center offers a wide range of
services in the South Dallas Community it has served
for 58 years. It is governed by an ecumenical Board
of Directors, and supported by volunteer services of
the Auxiliary and other friends of the Center,
including church groups, United Methodist Women,
Sunday School classes and individuals.
In 1946, the
program brought together programs in several
churches and the current facility was established.
Services include a fully accredited day care
program, 5-K program, and extended half-day classes
before or after classes at the Charles Rice School.
Volunteer attorneys provide legal advice. The center
sponsors a Boy Scout troop, and youth activities
such as sports, music, and arts. Other volunteers
provide a library, help with homework, computer
education and a literacy lab. The summer program for
school age children and youth offers field trips,
Vacation Bible School, summer camp for youth,
swimming and reading.
This year 430 neighborhood
residents received Thanksgiving Dinner and benefited
from a Christmas gift program for children. Crisis
intervention programs include Food Voucher Programs
and referrals to other agencies as needed.
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Dallas |
The Bachman Foundry
3418 Park Lane
Dallas, Texas75220 |
North Texas Conference
3100 Crossman Ave.
Dallas TX 75212
214-742-6674 |
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The Bachman Foundry is a tiny Methodist Church-group
(no permanent building yet) located in the Bachman
Lake Hispanic section. Led by young Pastor Owen
Ross, the Foundry seeks to provide holistic ministry
to the Bachman community and to the North Texas
Conference. As part of the North Texas Conference
's Vision 20/20 campaign, the initiative was taken
to plant a Spanish-speaking church in the
Burnet/North Bachman neighborhood. The name
"Foundry" was chosen in the tradition of John
Wesley's old canon foundry that he converted into a
church/social center for the urban London poor. In
that tradition, the Bachman Foundry has sought to
minister to the spiritual and temporal needs of the
residents of this neighborhood. On February 22nd of
this year, the Foundry celebrated its one-year
anniversary. The Church has embarked on an ambitious
agenda of after-school programs, ESL classes,
community organizing and much more.
Northaven UMC is a Covenant (supporting) Church
for the Bachman Foundry. Several members volunteer
in their after-school tutoring program.
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Dallas |
The Wilkinson Center
Munger Place UMC, Education Bldg.
5200 Bryan Street
Dallas, TX 75206 |
North Texas Conference
3100 Crossman Ave.
Dallas TX 75212
214-742-6674 |
Located in historic, Old East Dallas. the Wilkinson
Center sits at the human crossroads offering hope to
one of the most diverse areas of North Texas.
Whether homeless, new to the city or simply a
working poor family scraping to get by, The
Wilkinson Center stands ready to offer much needed
encouragement, guidance and support.
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State of Texas |
Society of St. Andrew
P.O. Box 59348
Dallas, TX 75229
(972) 253-4559
FAX: (972) 273-3866
E-mail our Texas office |
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The Society of St. Andrew is an ecumenical Christian
ministry dedicated to meeting both spiritual and
physical hungers. We feed the hungry all year long
by saving fresh produce that would otherwise go to
waste and giving it to the needy. We accomplish this
through our three operating programs, the Potato
Project, The Gleaning Network and Harvest of Hope.
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| Dallas |
Wesley Rankin Community Center |
North Texas Conference
3100 Crossman Ave.
Dallas TX 75212
214-742-6674 |
Wesley Rankin is a community center
located in west Dallas; it is the counterpart to
Bethlehem Center. The children it serves are
primarily Hispanic.
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Univ. of Texas Austin
Sustaining Support
Texas A & M University
Texas State
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Morgan and Carrie Stephens
717 Stansted Manor Dr.
Pflugerville, TX. 78660
512-252-8944 |
Every Nation Ministries
P.O. Box 1787
Brentwood, TN 37024-1787 |
| Morgan and Carrie Stephens minister
to college students at the University of Texas,
Texas A&M, and Texas State. The ministry started at
the Univ. of Texas and has grown substantially in
the last year. Their goal is to minister to college
students and teach them to be teachers, spreading
the Love of Christ to everyone. Mission
- Winning the next generation for Christ on
the college campus
- Establishing young people in Christian
fellowship and the local church
- Training today's students for victorious
Christian living and influential leadership in
tomorrow's world
- Sending vibrant young men and women to
impact their campus and ultimately the world for
Jesus Christ
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Faith Promise
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C.W. and Emily Faulkner |
Global Service Network (GSN)
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CW and Emily Change Ministries
 C.W. and Emily Faulkner have faithfully ministered to
cadets and midshipmen at the Citadel for six years. Their goal
was to reach
young military students before they become leaders
in the military. They would like to see these
leaders spread their faith around the world as they
tour the world. The Lord has led them to a new ministry
which they believe supports the type of church the young
cadets officers would eventually join. They will be
leaving the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ this
summer and moving to Louisville, Kentucky to begin a
3-year seminary education.
They are no longer a part of Campus Crusade for
Christ but a belong to a new missions group named Global
Service network (GSN). GSN is a network of missionaries,
ministers and like-minded laypeople who work to spread
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, especially in cross-culture
contexts. Very much like Campus Crusade, GSN funds its
ministries through the giving of individuals and
organizations. So as we make this transition, we pray
that you all will make it with us. We are grateful for
your faithful partnership with us as we have served with
Campus Crusade's Military Ministry. Will you ask the
Lord if would He have you continue to partner with us as
we seek to reach international students at the
University of Louisville with the Gospel?
We are so grateful for the six years we have served
on staff with Campus Crusade; grateful for how the Lord
has grown us and used us, and for your partnership with
us. We are also excited about how He will continue our
growth as he uses us in ministry at the University of
Louisville.
C.W. and Emily Faulkner, 245 King George St.,
Annapolis, MD 21401
cw.faulkner@milmin.org,
emily.faulkner@milmin.org
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Dallas
Faith Promise
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S.M.U. Wesley Foundation |
Creighton Alexander
P.O. Box 750282
Dallas, Texas 75275
214-768-4506
calex@mail.smu.edu |
The SMU Wesley Foundation has grown
into the largest and most active religious group on
the SMU campus. The group draws hundreds of students
to weekly worship services, small group Bible
studies and special events. The Wesley Foundation
acquired a building on the north side of the campus
last year and has renovated it to provide a
permanent home for the ministry. The group also
sponsors a number of community service projects and
mission trips within the United States and in
Central America.
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| Faith Promise |
Czech Republic
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Rev. Zdenek Eberle
zeberle@volny.cz |
| The first Methodist Churches in what
was then Czechoslovakia, were started by
missionaries from Texas in the 1920's. Methodism
flourished until 1938, when the Germans occupied the
country. Following the war, all the Christian
churches endured forty years of Soviet domination.
For the last fifteen years, the United Methodist
Church in the Czech Republic has struggled to
rebuild its facilities and ministry. First United
Methodist Church in Irving is in partnership with a
small United Methodist congregation in Tachov, a
small town in the western part of the Czech
Republic. Zdenek Eberle is the pastor. Our financial
support and prayers help underwrite Zdenek's salary
and the ministry of that church. We also hope to
provide support for Judy and Danny Elms who are
planning to go to the Czech Republic as part of a
mission team this summer.
Czech Republic - InfoPlease
Official Czech
Republic Web Site
The Pilsen Region
Map to Tachov
Map of Tachov
Our
Sister Church's Locale
(Note: both of the above interactive maps have Czech text.
Some of the map links and information on these web pages, such as finding specific items or
places, will be used by most of us by trial and error.)
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Faith Promise
Teen Challenge |
Czech Republic Teen Challenge |
Rev. Gustav Cerny
cerny@umc.cz |
First United Methodist Church in
Irving supports a drug and alcohol rehabilitation
program in the Czech Republic called Teen Challenge.
Teen Challenge operates facilities in Pilzen and
Prague that reach out to young men and women who are
struggling with either drug or alcohol addiction.
Teen Challenge volunteers go out nightly into clubs
and to the city parks frequented by drug users with
an invitation to accept Christ and begin turning
their lives in another direction. They operate
coffeehouses where people from the street can come
to talk as well as a rural rehabilitation center.
They also provide a halfway house for those who have
completed the rehabilitation program and are trying
to re-enter the community.
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Wesley International School |
Marilyn Wykes
Mjwykes@indo.net.id |
Marilyn Wykes ministers
in a Christian school in Malang, East Java,
Indonesia. The school includes grades 1 - 12 and a
seminary. Her primary responsibilities include
teaching, leading cell groups, and working with
English and Indonesian churches in the area. Her
brother Dennis is a member of First United
Methodist, Irving.
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