Global Missions Updates
MISSIONARY NEWS
Paul and Becky Nystrom, serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru, will be visitng Orange County from November 8 through December 8, 2011. If you would like to get in touch with them while they are here, please contact the missions office for information.
Blake and Nicole Arensen, serving with Cten in Kenya, will be on home assignment from October 2011 to January 2012. They will be living in the New England area during their stay, and are not expected in Orange County this visit. Please check the newest missionary address listing for their home assignment address.
NEW MISSIONARIES
Erik and Rachel Ness are our newest missionaries serving with Care of Creation in Tanzania, Africa. Rachel is an MK, the daughter of John and Kathy Watters, also Calvary missionaries. She is a third generation Calvary missionary, her grand-parents, Ken and Vivian Watters left for Peru in 1947, being the first generation of Watters supported by our church. Care of Creation is an evangelical mission organization whose mission is to mobilize the church toward a God-centered response to the environmental crisis globally. They pursue 'environmental missions': Expressing God's love for his people in the world by working to respond biblically to a crisis that is not only damaging God's creation, but is also causing enormous human suffering in many countries. Erik and Rachel have served for eight years previously with Food for the Hungry in East Africa. Their primary focus as they establish Care of Creation-Tanzania will be to advocate for the need of Biblical stewardship of the natural resources God has entrusted to us.
Please welcome Patricia Sawo, a Calvary National missionary serving with Hope Span in Kitale, Kenya. Through her ministry, Discover to Recover Centre, Patricia educates her community about the HIV/AIDS virus and supports nearly 100 children who have been impacted by it, either by their parents, their siblings, or themselves. A film about Patricia and the ministry of Discover to Recover has just been released, called "Mama Sweetie". Click to watch a trailer of the film. Patricia was also selected as a CNN Hero for 2012. Read more about her story.
Calvary FILLED THE BUS on August 14, 2011 with backpacks and school supplies, some of which will go to the Discover to Recover Centre for the children in Kitale, Kenya. These supplies will be taken there with our Global Short Term Missions Team heading to Kitale in February 2012. If you are interested in being a part of this team, please pick up an application form in the Worship Center lobby and return it to the Missions Ministry office. The team is limited in size and applications will be considered on a one by one basis, with the team determined by the Missions leadership.
Jessica W, is a third generation Calvary missionary, (daughter of Jim and Juanita W., granddaughter of Ken and Vivian W., and now Lee W.), serving a one year term in East Asia as a doctor filling in for a couple who are on home assignment. She just finished her residency and will be using this year for in-country training and practice. Her plan is to return as a full term missionary following this assignment. Because she will be receiving a stipend, Jessica has been helped with her air fare and does not need a monthly support gift.
Lauren Stuck, is also a third generation Calvary missionary, (daughter of Bob and Janice Stuck, and granddaughter of John and Joyce Stuck (now Mrs. Ed Grable), serving with Adventures in Missions began the end of August 2011 for two years. She will reach out to victims of sex-trafficking in Cambodia on a team with other women, living and ministering together. To find out more about Lauren, click on Missionaries on the right hand column.
For information on how to get in touch with our missionaries, please contact the Missions office at 714-550-2341 or pick up the Missionary Address Listing in the Worship Center lobby on Sundays, updated monthly.
Archived Information and Letters from our Missionaries
Are You Ready? by Moran Rosenblit
Lausanne Congress III report by Liz Gold
Letter from Tom and Janni Nunziato
Larry Dunne's Testimony The Fisherman Who Got Caught