Category: Cooperative Program

Dave and Brie Jacobson planted City on a Hill Church in one of the most diverse areas of Madison, Wisconsin. The church is surrounded by low-income housing and apartment buildings and many of the children live in single-parent homes. City on a Hill is reaching out to their community in multiple ways. During the COVID-19…

After being separated from many of her South Asian villages due to COVID-19, missionary Sidney Dixon* braved the soaring heat and invited women and children on the unfinished roof of someone’s home to join her for a health lesson followed by a Bible story. Each week more joined and at one point the gathering topped…

When he was 24 years old, Sammy Ravelo joined the Navy. Two years later, he began serving as a chaplain’s assistant. He loved the work and eventually realized that chaplaincy was the ministry for which God had been preparing him his whole life. Sammy spends most of his day with the sailors he serves. He…

Airenakhue and Obaidiku Aimievbo planted The Impact Baptist Church to reach the growing population of immigrants in northeast Calgary. Around 70 percent of the community around the church are not Christians, with many practicing as Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs.  The Aimievbos encourage their church to reach out to the community through personal evangelism, visiting houses…

“How do we become a healthy, biblical church?” two Togolese men asked International Mission Board missionary Trevor Yoakum. Each leading groups of believers in Togo, they desired their groups to go to the next level “so that the church is a true church of Jesus Christ.” Yoakum was happy to help, and as a professor…

Long Branch, New Jersey is a diverse community with people from a variety of Hispanic backgrounds, including both European-Portuguese and Brazilian backgrounds. God led Fred and Damaris Castro here, a couple with a passion to reach internationals, to plant Redemption Church among the Hispanic community. Redemption Church is seeing God change the lives of people…