We want to build a church where we can serve and make a real difference in our world. Our definitive push is stop GOING to church… and start BEING the Church. We want to help  motivate you to serve the Atlanta area and around the world.We are taking the church to the streets.

Africa

In 2007 we sent our first exploratory team to Kenya to find a place to serve. We went to Kiserian, a town just outside of Nairobi, because the pastor of Enyorita Community Church is the father of a member of our church. This personal link was our first step of discovery. Their dreams became our dreams! Pastor Herbert Ngunyi and his wife Ruth have become close friends and partners.

They are in the process of building a new church building to better serve the needs of Kiserian through evangelistic outreach, a vocational training center, and humanitarian service.

The heart of Enyorita (the Masai word for LOVE) is the people of the community. Many of the children do not eat regularly, so the church has a ministry called “Tea and Bread.” Each week the church provides tea and bread to the children of the area, and once a month they get a full, hot meal. These meals take place after church on Sundays. If it were not for this kindness, these children would have little food.

We also have partnered with Glory Outreach Assemblies (GOA) http://www.goaweb.org Please visit their website to see all they are doing. We will be involved in the care of orphans and widows and those infected and affected with HIV/AIDS. We support children at Tumaini and Beat the Drum Children’s Homes. There are also two HIV/AIDS widows’ colonies which we supply with cows so they can become self supporting.

In researching different ways to help people get a foot on the bottom rung of the ladder out of poverty, we ran across Jamii Bora, a microfinance nonprofit organization located in Nairobi. We had the opportunity to visit with them and look forward to working with them in the future. Please look at their website and be encouraged. http://www.jamiibora.org

Below is a Testimony about Jamii Bora by John McKay, a Member of Parliament in Canada (February 2007):

“At the time, it was pretty hard to look those people in the eye and say that we want accountability and we want this and we want that. It was pretty darned hard because we were meeting some people from an organization called the Jami Bora Trust. These people are street prostitutes. These people are petty thieves. Many of them, probably in the order of 50% of them, have AIDS. They are the poorest of the poor. They simply have no money, nothing that we would constitute as an asset. Yet Jami Bora Trust was willing to lend them money based upon any savings that they had. If they had what we would call $10 in their bank account, Jami Bora Trust would actually lend them $20 more. With that $30, they would open small businesses.

It was just remarkable the transformation that those small businesses would make to the lives of those people. They could cease to be prostitutes. They could cease to be petty criminals. They could actually earn enough to buy enough food and to get medications that might be made available to them for TB, malaria or AIDS. It was a remarkable transformation. It was remarkable to see people who, for ridiculously small amounts of money, were able to purchase malaria nets. In some instances, they were given to them free.”

Greece

In 2007 we sent out our first full-time missionaries from Cumberland. Stephen and Mary Calhoun and their family joined up with Hellenic Ministries and headed for Athens, Greece, where they serve by feeding refugees and by their involvement in Operation Joshua, which has the goal of providing a bible to every household on the mainland and on every Greek island. Stephen also works in Hellenic Ministries’ national headquarters.

Turkey

Ephesus was at one time a great and vibrant city for Christianity, but today it is illegal to try to convert anyone to Christianity. In spite of many obstacles, Yuksel and Dijle Kurada serve God faithfully through much persecution.

Cafe 10/40

We are so happy to have Michael and Michelle (last name left off for security) in our church. With Cafe 10/40, Mike coordinates all staff on the US team and screens potential applicants that are interested in going through the program. This ministry seeks to mobilize college students and recent graduates to reach the unreached world for Christ. By helping them identify and remove barriers that are keeping them from going, and training and equipping them for life among the unreached, Café 1040 is helping them to realize their calling. This semester-long program takes place in two locations; Muslim North Africa and Southeast Asia.

For more information, visit their website.

And Much More…

We also support other missionaries in the USA, Hungary, Islamic Regions, Israel and China; and ministries such as Campus Crusade for Christ (USA and Eastern Europe), Haiti Cheri (http://www.haiticheri.org/), Reason Why(Scotland) (www.reasonwhy.org), FCA, Operation Christmas Child, Restore Ministries and Prevision Partnership(http://www.previsionpartnership.com/).