Category: Cooperative Program

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.…

A few years ago, Stephen and Lisa Shaw arrived in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, to replant Sequoyah Creek Church. In just a small amount of time, the Shaws have led the church to be involved in giving back to their community and around the world. For example, the church participates in regular mission trips to Peru,…

Jefferson Hernandez had not given a moment’s thought to what he and his wife Carol would call their new church plant in Sterling, Virginia. “I’d just read in John 4 where it says the fields are white unto harvest, and the phrase ‘Campo Blanco’ crossed my mind. That was the name given to the church—Campo…

Four years ago, God told Josh and Beth Glymph to simultaneously do the two hardest things they’d ever done: “Foster care and church planting,” says Beth. And yet, everything began to make sense after the Glymphs adopted three children, two out of foster care, while starting Refuge Church in the Jacksonville community of Ortega.  “People…