VALLEY RANCH BAPTIST CHURCH MISSIONARIES
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Claudia Adame, e3 Partners Since 1997 Claudia has led multiple church planting campaigns to several countries through e3 Partners. Claudia now serves as the Managing Director of e3 Field Ministries which includes oversight of the Regional (Continent) Directors, the Director of Mission Trips and the Director of e3 University – missions training program. She also helps lead direct mission teams of volunteers to Sudan and Peru for medical church planting outreach, a well as I Am Second Expeditions to Peru. Claudia says, "From day one, when God called me to serve full-time through e3 Partners, this has been an amazing journey fueled by the partnership of our home church, Valley Ranch Baptist. It is a privilege to represent Christ and all of you as we expand the Kingdom of God throughout the nations." Claudia asks that her VRBC family would pray that God would give her wisdom and discernment to accomplish God's will. |
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Juvenal and Katty Bejar, Missionaries in Peru The Bejars host North American churches on mission trips in order that they might experience the transforming power of evangelism and discipleship alongside national church members, with the goal of staring new churches and training new leaders. They are currently focusing on equipping Peruvian pastors and leaders with training for church planters, then encouraging these pastors to send members on church planting campaigns. They are also now training young people for missions thru a three year training program. The Bejars ask that we would pray for their health, strength, and finances for mission trips. Also, please pray for their upcoming trip to the Amazon with their daughter. |
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Clay and Erin Hughey, Family Legacy Clay Hughey directs Zambian Operations for Family Legacy, a ministry that reaches out to Zambian children and families through Camp Life, child sponsorship and development, and a Tree of Life Children's Village that provides a safe haven and hope for children rescued from the most severe cases of poverty and abuse. Called out of the promotional products industry, Clay and his family are living in Zambia and coordinating all of the ministry on a daily basis. |
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Javier and Patrizia Ibañez
We are the founding pastors of a church serving the Lord on a full-time basis, sharing the Gospel with middle/upper class people in a very Catholic area of Lima. We lead three services a week, a Bible school class and meet with the Youth twice a month and with the Marriage couples and the Women once a month. We also focus on a personalized pastoral care through counseling and visitations. We pray and work to become a missionary sending church to all the nations by making disciples that will go out to make more disciples. We are thankful that our church is growing and now paying her rent, but she is still unable to support us totally. We end up short every month, which is a hindrance to the effectiveness of our ministry. Please pray that God would provide the needed funding for the ministry of the Ibañez family. |
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Kelly and Jenni Jessen, e3 Sportreach Our family has moved to Thailand where God has expanded our ministry beyond what we ever could have imagined. Our goal is training and disciplining nationals to reach the lost and transform lives through the power of Jesus Christ. Kelly teaches at a Back to Jerusalem training center were we train Chinese who want to join God on the mission field outside of China. He is also working with Thai pastors and leaders to train, equip and strategize in church planting, church strengthening and community transformation. Jenni is leading our family in a ministry to help restore women who have become mothers through their sexual exploitation. Finally, we are partnering with others to develop a storying approach in order to educate targets and hopefully reduce the supply of victims to the human trafficking epidemic in S. Asia. Living in an “unreached” country, the spiritual assaults of the enemy consistently hit us on all fronts including physical health, finances, and relationships; consistent prayer covering is our most pressing need. |
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Chris Simmons, Pastor, Cornerstone Baptist Church Cornerstone Baptist Church is located near downtown Dallas in the inner-city community of South Dallas/Fair Park. The church's mission is to impact this neighborhood by meeting "felt needs" as a avenue to share with residents their "real need" -- a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. They believe that the most effective ministry is outside the walls of the local church, and so they work to engage other churches across the metroplex, state, country, and even world to partner to help fulfill the Great Commission of Matt 28:16-20. Because of Cornerstone's involvement with several churches throughout the metroplex, the church is able to offer a variety of ministries to "the least of these". Included in the outreach are ministries to touch youth, children, the medically underserved, the under- and un-employed, ex-offenders, and the homeless. |
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Tom and Kerry Stickney, African Christian Outreach tomandkerryinkenya.blogspot.com Formerly VRBC's Minister to Students, Tom and his wife Kerry serve as the Executive Directors of African Christian Outreach. ACO is a ministry that was started by Tom's parents in the early 1970's in Kenya, and it is focused on equipping the next generation of students through evangelism and discipleship on campuses across Kenya. Fourteen national staff on eight campuses spend time knocking on doors sharing the Gospel, leading Bible studies and one-on-one time with students. Students involved in the ministry are also plugged into the local community around them through partnerships with orphanages, high schools, slums and argicultural ministries. Our prayer as a ministry is to equip and empower the next generation of leaders to change their own country and East Africa. |
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Todd Szalkowski, e3 Partners I serve e3 Partners Ministry in the field as well as in a few administrative roles. I am the Director of Leadership Development. My primary responsibility in this role is to elevate e3 staff in the area of Leadership ability. I am the director of Tactical Initiatives responsible for a series of e3 church planting ministries including Orality, Deaf, Training Centers for Church Planters, and Community Transformation. I am the Director of Latin America, responsible for managing the field ministry operations for all ministry in the region. Then, my field ministry is currently focused on the Border between the US and Mexico. I am aggressively training leaders to start house churches on both sides of the border. I am traveling several times each month to conduct half day training sessions in cities from Matamoros to Tijuana. I need abundant prayer to serve faithfully in an area experiencing such violence. |
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Moises and Talsy Vega, e3 Partners web.mac.com/talsidiavega Moises and Talsy are the National Directors for e3 Panama. They are serving in partnership with e3 Partners Dallas to equip pastors with their Timothy Team, mobilize short term mission teams, to pray, evangelize, make disciples, congregate, develop leaders to plant new churches located at a walking distance in every village or city in Panama. The Vegas serve the Ngobe Bugle, Nasso and the Kuna tribal groups of Panama. This year their work has included four extreme expeditions to remote villages (among the tribal group), two expeditions to the city, one Leadership Development Conference (workshop), one Thompson Bible workshop and one workshop on Orality (story telling) among the Ngobe Bugle. Please pray for Moises’ physical and spiritual health. He has been undergoing cancer treatment for five months. Due to Moises illness the work has being postponed until this November, when they expect to re-start the work as the Lord allows it. |
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Charlotte Wootton, e3 Partners As a church planting coordinator with e3 Partners Ministry, Charlotte has the awesome privilege of taking North Americans on short-term missions trips and seeing their lives transformed as God uses their testimonies to tell a lost world about His love. As the coordinator for Ministry to Children with e3 Partners, she is helping to develop materials and training for nationals to effectively minister to children and establish a children’s ministry as each new church is planted. This often involves being a part of an e3 expedition in a country where children’s ministry has not been introduced; modeling for the team as well as the nationals how children’s ministry can be implemented and the rich benefits to be reaped when children are led to accept Christ at an early age. As new churches are planted, nationals are also encouraged to start a program for children as well. I continue to co-lead teams on expeditions as a church planting coordinator and incorporate the children’s ministry as part of the new church plant. If you are interested in traveling with Charlotte on a mission trip, please contact her at charlotte.wootton@e3partners.org or 214 803 0463. |
