"Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3
Hard Soil - Planting Where The Harvest Seems Impossible
There are areas of the world where sharing the Good News of God’s love seems impossible. The threat of imprisonment, or worse, can keep a believer’s mouth shut when it comes to telling someone about Jesus. But there are those who are willing to tell the story of salvation in these hard places. Our keynote speakers for REACH Global Week 2012 know first-hand about hard spiritual soil. They oversee agencies whose work is in Japan and Iran; two extremely hard places when it comes to growing a Christian harvest.
Check out the full schedule below to consider what your will be involved in their year. Try something new - even someting that may seem hard.
REACH GLOBAL SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 3
AM - Visit a mosque and Middle Eastern lunch - by reservation (sign up in WC)
6:00 pm - REACH Global Missions Dinner - Calvary missionaries sharing - FH
- (Fee: Free, but reservation tickets required, get them in WC starting 2/19)
Sunday, March 4
8:45 am & 10:45 am - REACH Global Week Opening Services - WC
– Guest Speaker: Joe Handley, President of Asian Access - Focus Japan
– Erick & Rachel Ness, new missionaries with Care of Creation Ministries, will be
Commissioned in both services
– Calvary missionaries will be sharing in all LifeGroups both hours
- Children's (8:45 am & 10:45 am) and Student Ministries' (8:45) Conference will
be in their regular classrooms; Calvary missioanries will be sharing in all classes
10:30 am Hispanic Worship Service
– Speakers, Bob & Janice Stuck, Avant Ministries — SC
7:00pm Foundation College Missions Event
– Speaker, Erik Ness, Care of Creation Ministries – FH
Wednesday, March 7
6:30 pm Children & Family Ministries Dinner – Gym (Ticket required - pick them up
in the Children's Minsitries offices during the week or at the table on the patio
Sundays in February.)
7:00 pm Jr. High FEAST - Speakers, Cristina Voskian, ELAM Ministries - FH
7:00 pm High School Missions Event - Speaker, Jacqueline, CRU- SC
Thursday, March 8
7:00pm Young Adult Dinner - Speaker, Bart Maley, Wycliffe Associates - FH
Saturday, March 10
9:30 am REACH Global Missions Breakfast - Speakers, Steve & Tracy Geis,
Wycliffe Bible Translators- Gym (Fee: Free but tickets required. Pick up in WC
lobby beginning 2/12)
9:30 am Children’s Missions Breakfast - FH - Tickets required - Pick up in WC 2/12
5:00 pm Hispanic Ministries REACH Global Missions Conference “Spanish Speakers
Only" Tour of Latin America in culture and food - FH and Patio
Sunday, March 11
9:00 - 10:30 am - Tastes Food from Around the World, Open House breakfast
and meet our missionaries - WC Lobby - Family event
10:30 am - Childrens' Missions Conference (preschool - 6th grade) begins -G213,
C200, preschool and nursery (Prize for children who have met a missionary in
the WC lobby between 9:00 and 10:30 am)
10:45 am REACH Global Week Closing Service**
- Guest Speaker, David Yeghnazar, Elam Ministries — WC Focus Iran
6:00 pm Inspiration Missions Service
-Speakers, Gale and Jean Van Diest, InterAct Ministries - SC
* This special event is for those who speak Spanish, and will include many of our
Spanish speaking missionaries.
** Note that this is Daylight Savings weekend. Set your clocks ahead one hour
on Saturday night. The Hispanic ministry will join the One Service at 10:45 am
in the Worship Center. Headphone interpretation equipment will be available.
FH – Fellowship Hall
FR - Fireside Room
SC - Samsvick Chapel
WC — Worship Center
SPEAKER BIOS
Joseph W. Handley, Jr. – President, Asian Access
Reach Global Week 2012 Guest Speaker - March 4, 2012 | 8:45 & 10:45 am
Joe was born and raised in Southern California. He attended Azusa Pacific University where he earned a B.A. in psychology. Joe spent nine years working at Azusa Pacific University where he founded and directed the Office of World Missions. During his time there, both Joe and his wife, Silk, were able to work on their Masters’ Degrees: Joe in Theology and Silk in Special Education. The Lord called them to Rolling Hills Covenant Church in 1998 where Joe served as the Global (and Lead) Outreach Pastor. In June of 2008, Joe answered the call of God to become the president of Asian Access. Its mission is “to identify, develop and release emerging kingdom leaders to unite the church, multiply leaders and congregations, and extend the transforming power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ”. Joe’s MA in Theology is from Fuller Theological Seminary and he is working towards his Ph.D. at Fuller Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Silk, live in Torrance, CA with their three children: Rebecca, Rachel, and John. Asian Access: Founded forty-four years ago as LIFE Ministries-Japan, to teach English as a means of evangelism, has launched numerous ministries for evangelism one being the Japanese Church Growth Institute (JCGI). Twelve years ago, the leadership of the mission discerned that the fruit of this proven ministry was desperately needed across Asia. Thus began a strategic advancement of leadership development for church multiplication across the continent. The proven model of ministry was exported from Japan to other countries. Now the ministry serves ten countries with a desire to be in twenty over the next five to seven years.
David Yeghnazar - Elam Ministries, US Base Director
Reach Global Week 2012 Guest Speaker - March 11, 2012 | 10:45 am
David Yeghnazar was born in Iran in 1974 into a family parented by Christian ministers. When he was three years old, as part of the Lord’s work, his family moved to Lebanon where they lived for six years during a time of civil war. While there, David experienced the Lord’s faithfulness and protection in a way that impacts him to this day. As a child, David gave his life to the Lord in 1983 - just before his family moved to the United Kingdom. Hailing from the Middle East, David has a deep understanding of the region, and has a great passion and burden is to see the Gospel reach the over 1 billion Muslims in the world. After graduating from the City University in London where he studied Management Science, David spent one year with the UK based Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCC F) training Christian students to reach out to the Muslim community. Subsequently, David worked for a London law firm for two years. In 1998 David joined Elam Ministries, a leading Christian mission to the Iran region. His addition to the leadership team has been invaluable in increasing the scope and effectiveness of the entire ministry.
Elam specializes in training Christians from the Iran region for ministry; producing and distributing key Christian resources in the region; and taking the Gospel to the people in the region through various mission and relief efforts. Elam has played a significant role in the recent unprecedented growth of the Iranian church. For over 20 years David was an active member of the Iranian Christian Fellowship (ICF) in London, filling various lay leadership roles in the church since 1991. In 2004 David moved to the United States and now serves as Elam’s US Director based in Atlanta, GA where he resides with his wife, Louise and their three children, Grace, Theo and Hope.
EVENTS
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Visit a Mosque/middle eastern lunch – Morning
Sign up is required to participate in this great opportunity on the morning of Saturday, March 3. Join Pastor Matt Doan as he leads this group to experience a tour through a local mosque followed by lunch at a Middle Eastern restaurant. Watch the current for times and to reserve your spot.
Reach Global Week Missions Dinner – 6:00 pm
This dinner will include special highlights and talks from Calvary missionaries as well as wonderful meal and fellowship with the church leadership and missionaries. Reservation tickets are required as space is limited. You will not want to miss this special kickoff event to our 2012 Missions Conference. No childcare; this event is geared towards adults. Tickets are available February 19 & 26 in the Worship Center lobby. For more information, contact the Reach Global Missions at 714.550.2341.
Saturday, March 11, 2012
Combined Men’s and Women’s MISSIONS Breakfast
(Children’s Breakfast in FH)
Missionary Guest Speakers: Steve and Tracy Geis
Steve and Tracy have served in Asia with Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT ) for 20 years. They have supported the work of Bible translation in the Philippines and now in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Steve is a pilot under the JAARS wing of WBT and Tracy has served as a teacher in the schools as well as member care for other missionaries.
Steve grew up at Calvary Church and as a young child his interest grew in missions as Calvary missionaries shared their stories while visiting his home. He met Tracy while they attended the high school ministry at Calvary Church. Through missions conferences here, Steve and Tracy became excited about the possibility of serving God overseas. It was during Steve’s training at Moody Aviation in Chicago, that they decided to pursue missionary service with WBT, knowing the importance of the Scripture in one’s own language.
God has seen them through some very hard places since they arrived in PN G. Now on the other side of two accidents that left them both with serious injuries, they will tell you that they would do it all again to be where they spiritually are today. Come hear how God is working in the lives of these two missionaries and how through the hard and good times they have seen God’s blessings, and how they felt closer to Him at the hardest times than any other time in their lives.
Wednesday, March 8, 2012
Reach Global Week Jr. High FEAST – 7:00 pm
Guest Speaker: Cristina Voskian, Elam Ministries
Cristina Voskian was born in Brazil to an Armenian couple who came to South America from Cairo Egypt. They raised Cristina in a Christian environment, but it wasn’t until she was 20 that she made a decision to follow Christ. From that time forward, God began His work in her life.
Cristina was educated as an Economist at the University of Santana, SaoPaulo, Brazil. She worked for 10 years in the family business in Brazil. In 1998 herfamily moved to Pasadena, California, where they attended an Armenian BrotherhoodBible Church. Cristina worked for the accounting department of a California engineering firm for several years. In 2005, when she learned of the work of Elam and the miracles God was performing in Iran, she left her job to join the Elam team.
As a ministry advocate for Elam, Cristina travels several times a year to the Iran region where she helps organize ministry conferences and meets with Iranian pastors attending Elam’s leadership training. She builds relationships and prays with the Iranian men and women who are preparing to evangelize, disciple new believers, plant house churches, and distribute Bibles throughout the region.
Cristina has brought the testimonies of these courageous believers to hundreds of congregations, and men and women’s Bible study groups in California and throughout the U.S. She has a passion to serve God, especially among Muslims. Her desire is to share the miracle of God’s work in Iran with all the churches in America and to encourage all Christians to pray for the transformation of the Muslim world. Iranians are frequently said to be the most open Muslims to the Gospel. In fact, more Iranians are known to have become Christians in the last 25 years than during the previous 1,300 years of Islamic rule.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Tastes of Foods from Around the World - 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Love to stroll through Costco and check out the samples? Well, stroll through the Woship Center lobby on the morning of March 11. Sample tastes of foods at our missionaries' tables and spend some time meeting and talking with them. This takes place prior to our single morning worship service that will start at 10:45. This "open house" type event allows for you to come any time between 9:00 and 10:30. Families are encouraged to bring their children as there will be a special prize given out at the 10:45 am Children's REACH Global Missions Conference to those that have "proof" that tey have tasted the foods and visited a missionary that morning.
For more information on REACH Global Week 2012, pick up the new REACH publication in the WC lobby on Sunday, February 12!
Last year REACH Global Week 2011 follows:
Following the resurrection, almost 2000 years ago, Jesus told the apostles to go and make disciples. God has continued throughout the years to build His Church (i.e. the body of believers in Christ). Missions Conference, Reach Global 2011, invited you to be a part of this mission to Build His Church. How you do that and what you do with what you learn is up to you! The following were some of our great events:
- Global Breakfast with Eric & Ginger Mayer | Saturday, March 5 at 9:30 am
- Paul Eshleman | Sunday, March 6 at 9:30 am
- Global Family Movie Night | Sunday, March 6 at 7 pm
- Children & Family Global Dinner | Wednesday, March 9 at 6 pm
- Meals for Haiti | Saturday March 12 from 11:30 am - 2:30 pm
- Global Gourmet Buffet with David Yeghnazar | Saturday, March 12 at 6 pm
- Josh McDowell | Sunday, March 13 at 8:45 and 10:45 am
There were also over 60 Calvary missionaries in attendance from Saturday, March 5 to Sunday March 13.
Messages from Reach Global Week 2011
Reach Global Opening Message | One Service March 6, 2011
Paul Eshleman shared about "The Urgency of the Hour" from Matthew 24:14 and his experiences as the director of The Jesus Film Project for 25 years. This 2-hour film on the life of Christ has been translated into over 1,000 languages. It has been shown in 236 countries and viewed or heard over 6 billion times worldwide. As VP of Coverage Evangelism, Paul consults on all of the major evangelism strategies of CCC.
Reach Global Closing Message | Celebration - March 13, 2011
Guest speaker Josh McDowell shared on "Truth and Mission in the 21st Century" at Calvary's closing services for Reach Global Week 2011.
"To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus
to all generations forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:21
Missions Emphasis October 8 & 9, 2011 Recap
Adrian and Ophelia DeVisser (Sri Lanka) with Sarita and Sundar Thapa (Nepal)
Grace opens the door to truth. This was Andrian Devisser's challenge as he spoke with us on Sunday morning, October 9, 2011. If you were unable to attend the service, the message was video and audio taped and can be purchased at The Corner Calvary Bookstore. You will want to hear this great message from our Missions Emphasis weekend as he talked about Building God's Church.
At the Saturday evening, Missions Dinner on October 8, we were privledged to not only hear from our main speaker of the evening, Carole Sherman, but also from Adrian as he whetted our appetites for Sunday morning's message. In addition, ministry co-workers of Adrians from Nepal, Sundar and Sarita Thapa were in attendance and Sarita shared a bit on their live and work in Nepal with the ministry of Asian Access. This evening's messages were audio taped and are also available for purchase at the bookstore.
In addition, there were missionaries sharing in all the morning LifeGroups and several were taken to lunch following the service by their classes. The Elders and pastoral staff were invited to a special Speaker's luncheon following the services which took place at Don Jose's Restuarant in Tustin. Our Hispanic ministry is very involved with the Global Missions program and had missionary speakers in their class and worship services as well.
The Faith Promise addtional challenge brought in a little over $50,000 in additional commitments as well as many new first time commitments to Faith Promise. Continue to pray for God to bring new and addional supporters to give towards the REACH Global Missions funding, so that we can continue to reach out to a lost world through our missionaries, national partners, and mission projects.
Pictures left to right/down: Mission dinner with Pastor David Mitchell, Craig & Betty Bryson; Carole Sherman with David & Joy Mitchell; Dan Gonzaga and Sarita Thapa in Challengers LifeGroup; Todd Yates, Pastor Mitchell, Dan & Tammy Gonzaga at speaker's luncheon; Elders, pastors, Missions Team members and spouses at speaker's luncheon; Pastor Armando & Rocio Reyes with Renate Schnurr; Pastor Reyes with Adrian DeVisser; The DeVissers with Liz & Roger Gold.
