Category: Cooperative Program

Jared never expected to become a church planter. In fact, he had never even thought about it before a conversation with his pastor in 2020. But, as he prayed about the possibility, God made it clear that he wanted Jared and Desiraye to start a new church near Cincinnati. God led the couple to an…

The summer before Leslie Montgomery started 8th grade, her church hired a youth pastor whose parents served as missionaries in Tanzania. Hearing them share what they had experienced “literally changed my life,” she said. “I knew that summer, as a 12-year-old, that God was calling me to serve as an overseas missionary, specifically in Africa.…

Alex and Corrine Bouffard started Saints Church out of South Shore Church, where Alex served as a lay elder. Alex had been leading the church’s young adult ministry, which grew exponentially. Eventually, it became clear to Alex that God was turning that young adult ministry into a church of its own. So, Saints Church was…

As a 22-year-old Journeyman, Jeri Whitfield saw long-term missionaries commit their lives to God and the people they served. That was her model for missions – a missionary presence that creates gospel access and transforms lives. It’s still her desire today, 40 years later. The first time she left Thailand, she’d finished a two-year Journeyman term. She…

In 2022, Life Community Church sent the Maddens to Weymouth, Massachusetts, to start a church just 16 miles south of Boston. Noah says Greater Boston faces a significant amount of hopelessness and drug addiction. God is using the Maddens to bring hope and healing to the community. When the couple first came to Weymouth, they…

Only a few decades ago, the Bugkalot people were one of the fiercest tribes in the Philippines. Then, in the 1950s, the gospel slowly took root after some of the leaders met believers and came to faith. Jen Hagen’s family was among the missionaries who moved to the Philippines to disciple and train Bugkalot believers.…