MISSIONS

Ken is an area representative for Awana. His role is to encourage, equip and inspire church leadership to passionately minister to young people - primarily with the use of Awana curriculum and resources. 

Weekly youth group for JH and High School
College-aged leadership team
Summer day camp
Mission trips
Camps and retreats
Church softball leagues
Competitive home-school sports
Outreach events
 
Doug & Val Pierson have been the directors at Crossroads CYC for over 27 years.  Doug runs all the above ministries with help from a lot of volunteers.  Over the years, we have seen hundreds of people receive Christ as Savior, a tremendous amount of spiritual growth in the lives of our teens, and many of our students go on to full-time ministry!
For more info, go to: https://www.crossroadscyc.com

Pregnancy Aid Illinois as served the Aurora community since 1985.  PAI's mission is to protect the life of the unborn and their vision is that ALL people make life-affirming choices.  Services are free, confidential and available in English and Spanish. For more information go to: https://passpregnancycarecenters.org

Located in Wisconsin, Shepherds College is the country’s leading three-year, post-secondary, educational program for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Shepherds College exists to educate and train students with intellectual and developmental disabilities by equipping them to reach Appropriate Independence™ through the development of vocational, social, and life skills while inspiring a lasting awareness of God’s plan for their lives.
For more information, visit: www.shepherdscollege.edu

For over 90 years, Wayside Cross Ministries has provided restoration and recovery for the impoverished, addicted, and abused. Men, women, and children are discovering new life and new hope.

Jim and Carol serve as missionaries Church Planting among Asian ethnic in California. Sharing HOPE to hospitals, the Frontliners, Staff and Families with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Eric is the Global Operations Leader Development: Operations makes a difference by providing the supporting infrastructure and systems needed to resource tens, hundreds, and even thousands of spiritual movements.

Nerry is in Church Movements. Instead of treating the local church like a store waiting for customers, Cru Church Movements is flipping the model. We are helping to foster church cultures where the believers leave the pews and go OUT into the community to meet people where they are. As it was on the day of Pentecost, people are being introduced to Christ right where they are and helped to grow in their relationship with him… and invited into a local church body. The same messages are being shared, just in a different place and in a different order.

For more info go to: https://graefenmissions.org

At Baptist Children's Home we bring hope to hurting and troubled children and families, striving to teach them how to live godly in spite of painful or seemingly unfair circumstances.
 
We provide this hope through group home and foster home care for children, Christian family and/or personal counseling, adoptive services, and care for pre-born children. In short, if it affects the family, BCH is there to help. 
Baptist Children's Home was called into existence in 1955 by churches seeking assistance in caring for families and children. BCH, according to the biblical mandate in James 1:27 to "Care for the Fatherless", answered this call and today cares for more than 800 children in the United States, India, Southeast Asia and Liberia.

For more info go to: https://baptistchildrenshome.org

The GARBC is a voluntary fellowship of churches that share common doctrine and values. When churches connect, their voices for God’s Truth become stronger.  Bernie Augsburger is the IL/MO Representative.

For more information, go to:  https://www.garbc.org

Every Jewish person has the right to make up their own mind about Jesus. Many Jewish people have never heard that following Jesus is a viable and thriving expression of Jewish life. We want other Jewish people to have the opportunity to experience the spiritual richness we’ve found in being Jewish and following Jesus.
 
Stephen Katz is the North American Director located in Washington DC for Jews for Jesus.
 
For more info, go to: https://jewsforjesus.org

Josh and Lauren serve as church planting missionaries in France. Their goal is to train up leaders within the church who can take over as we move on to the next community.

George serves as the Executive Director of Global Access Partnerships (GAP Ministries). Continuing to stand in the GAP between churches in North America and Asian ministry partners seeking to network for the Kingdom. We desire to link Christians together in order to help advance the cause of Christ cross-culturally in a way that makes efficient use of resources and personnel.

Jim and Susan serve as missionaries in an international Children's Ministry.  They are driven to see children love Jesus and work to provide ways for kids to be discipled and encouraged in their daily walk with God.

Kent serves as the Executive Director over Asia Pacific and East Asia for ABWE.  Kent and Kelly's passion in ministry is to engage in the Great Commission in collaboration with Asian partners, by multiplying leaders, churches, and mission movements among these nations.

Chris and Maylin serve as missionaries at Harmony Baptist Church in Hong Kong.  

Tim teaches theology for Asia Biblical Theological Seminary in Thailand.

Allen and Jill serve with Live Global, a division of ABWE.

Live Global builds long-term relationships with national believers who already do impactful ministry in their cultural context.  From there, Live Global connects these national partners to like-minded North Americans who labor alongside their partner to see the ends of the Earth reached with the Good News of Jesus Christ.  Allen's specific role as the lead software engineer on Live Global's growing technology team is to equip our partners and the entire ABWE missions agency with quality technology tools for greater effectiveness in directly proclaiming the Gospel and managing the organization.

Randy and Cindy serve as missionaries in Southern Brazil.

Andrew and Taylor seek to advance the Gospel globally by building strategic partnerships with national believers, and engaging all believers in those relationships to multiply gospel impact. You can learn more about their ministry and how you can get involved at liveglobal.org/learn.

Junior and Bree Souza were born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Junior is a pastor's kid and Bree's parents were missionaries to Brazil with ABWE for 30 years. Junior has a master degree from Faith LaFayette. They have currently been interns with their sending church, Eastside Baptist in Crawfordsville, IN. Their goal, once they are fully supported, will be to train Brazilian missionaries, pastors and ministry workers in biblical counseling and theology at Logos Seminary in Sao Paulo. They are fluent and plan to jump right into ministry.

Clare is a missionary with ABWE and the primary goal is to mobilize the church by multiplying disciples, leaders and churches, reach every people group in North America and to send missionaries into the global field.  He is involved in church planting, leadership development, forming micro networks to develop leaders and plant churches, church revitalization, equipping pastors and lay people to fully engage the Great Commission.

Jason and Johana serve as missionaries in Peru.
For more information, visit: www.heart4peru.com

The European Leadership Forum is a movement that God is using to renew the Biblical church and evangelize Europe. The heart of the Forum movement is about developing leaders as Jesus did. Pastor Scott Poling has been a speaker and mentor and an integral part of ELF.