Christ for the City International offers ‘Open’ missions trips that are filled with individuals from different churches and led by CFCI staff members. They have offered 5 different opportunities to us this summer.
- Location: Costa Rica
Dates: August 16-23
Purpose: Build relationships and lead activities with children in the slums.
Cost: $600 plus airfare- Location: El Salvador
Dates: July 26-August 3
Purpose: Help in our new medical clinics or do sports ministry with youth.
Cost: $600 plus airfare- Location Panama
Dates: July 1 – 9
Purpose Help plan and lead a children’s evangelism festival.
Cost: $600 plus airfare- Location: Tijuana
Dates: August 10-16, October 3-10
Purpose: Minister to children in our orphanages
Cost: $400 plus airfare (to San Diego)
These are great opportunities to do International/Cross Cultural mission work. If you are a first time missionary it is recommended that you try Costa Rica or Tijuana. Contact Steve Jacobsen at 520-2640 for more information.
We have scheduled two Urban Plunges (September 12-14 and November 14-16) to give you a couple of chances to go this fall. The plan is to keep these trips down to about 15 people. We encourage people of all ages to go. Contact Jan Fisher for more information at (712) 527-3277.
Rev. Arlyn and Janice Abrams
Arlyn and Janice Abrams have served as a Church Planting Missionary Team for the Evangelical Free Church in the Western part of the Central District since 1990.
Steve and Kelly Baughn
TEAM - Japan
Don and Paula Cabeen
TEAM - Spain
Don and Paula Cabeen have been serving with TEAM in Spain since 1982. Their primary focus has been church planting. They are currently teamed up with two other missionary families working in several towns in the eastern end of the province of Seville in southern Spain. They are involved in evangelism and discipleship. The small church produces a weekly fifteen minute TV program which is aired on the local TV station. Involvement in community needs, such as drug rehabilitation and other such social needs has opened numerous doors in evangelism.
The Cabeens have two grown children, both of whom are married. Their son, Adam, and his wife are missionaries in Medellin, Columbia. Their daughter, Janna, and her husband live and work in Las Vegas.
Ron and Claudine Glynn
AWANA
The Glynns presently minister to over 195 churches in Iowa that are registered to use the Awana ministry.
They learned about Awana when the first of their three daughters became involved in Cubbies. Later, they became leaders. Ron was a leader for a short time previously to his being a Commander for 10 years. Claudine was a Sparks leader than director for years prior to 1994. Since 1994 Claudine has stayed busy assisting Ron and has still found time over the years to be a JV and than a Varsity director.
December 12, 1995 was the date Ron and Claudine Glynn were told they would be AWANA missionaries in the Iowa Territory. “Reaching boys and girls with the Gospel of Grace is a mission we will never outgrow,” say the Glynns. Currently they are seeking other families to join them as AWANA missionaries in Iowa. With thirteen new churches added this club year, they are in need of help.
Ron and Claudine have three grown married daughters and each of them became mothers this past year. Three grandbabies have added much joy to the Glynn’s lives. Another grandchild is expected this year.
Ron works parttime at HyVee and Claudine is an RN at the hospital where she has been for thirty years.
Doug and Jan Hamm
(and children Katie, Ryan, Johanna and Nicholas)Child Evangelism Fellowship
Returning to Vienna in 2008 was a great “homecoming” for the Hamms as they returned to Montenegro to continue their ministry. Doug and Jan work in children’s ministries and evangelism training of adults. They have Bible clubs to minister to the international children. Having a real burden for the lost, the Hamm’s reach out to the refugees and others in poor conditions. They are friends and encouragers to both believers and non-believers. Doug travels in his ministry work and Jan and the children live in Vienna for appropriate schooling for their children.
Doug and Jan met at Grace University in Omaha and have been married almost 30 years. They have four children: Ryan, a graphic designer in Chicago; Johanna, a junior at Grace University in Omaha; Katie, a sophomore, and Nicholas, an eighth grader, who are in Serbia/Montenegro with their parents.
Martin and Judy Kolczyk
The Kolczyks joined the Evangelical Mission, SEND International, as Midwest representatives in 1996. They now work in a nine-state area of the Midwest. Martin also trains short-term leaders and teams, speaks in churches about missions, does career assessment interviews with potential future missionaries, helps churches develop missions programs and a vision to serve the Lord, sends pastors to teach in Bible colleges of Russia and Ukraine and serves as student mobilizer in eleven Bible Colleges and Seminaries in the Midwest.
Washira and Glenda Ngamau
PACE USA - Kenya, East Africa
Adam and Renae Sperling
Navigators - Colorado Springs, CO
Marc and Evangeline Vergo
Campus Crusade for Christ - Orlando, FL
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