Category: Cooperative Program

A couple of years ago, Jacob and Julie Stanley, missionaries in an island nation in the Asia Pacific Rim, partnered with local believers to stage a dramatic presentation of Jesus’ miracles, death, burial, and resurrection in public spaces around town. Local believers filled all 24 roles in the cast, portraying Jesus, Pilate, narrators, and others,…

Jacob and Jessica led a team to the city in 2021 to specifically engage the community around the University of Washington. They believe that college campuses are one of the least-reached and most-strategic mission fields in the world. Resonate Church of Seattle is reaching an area that is largely affluent, young, diverse, and unchurched. Recent…

Two thousand years ago, Jesus met a woman at a well in Samaria, offering her the good news of His love and grace. Today, in a South Asian village, a woman, unable to read or write, shared that same message with six other women at the well using an Ek Rasta SD card, meaning “The…

Originally from Alabama, Joseph and Kristen moved to the greater Las Vegas Valley area to plant Favor City Church in 2020.  The Gibbons’ journey began when they led a youth weekend in Las Vegas in 2019 and discovered the city’s alarming rates of teenage homelessness. The issue became personal on that trip when they met…

In 2019, David and Sara Gaskins planted Mosaic Church in what might be the most statistically unchurched city in all North America . . . Provo, Utah. “This is a beautiful community. Our nickname is Happy Valley. Every lawn is perfect. Every home is immaculate. But that’s the wild thing—Happy Valley is a sarcastic nickname…

Several years ago, with the help of Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s church planting arm, Leo and Miosha Robinson started Good Church, a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural congregation in the same neighborhood where Leo’s father once pastored in Flint, Michigan. Leo and Miosha began by walking their neighborhood and asking people, “What do you need?”…