Category: Cooperative Program

Matt Hadden planned to become an international missionary before he visited the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on a short-term mission trip. While there, he saw the tremendous needs around him. Matt saw how his family could be international missionaries without leaving the United States.  Less than 3 percent of the Oglala Lakota people…

The Twin Cities has large Somali, Hmong, and Hispanic populations. Despite the large numbers of different ethnicities in Minneapolis, they live in different places and often don’t interact with one another. The Chois are intentionally planting a church that tries to reach unchurched people from different backgrounds and bring them together.  To help reach new…

The specifics of Tim and Annie’s call to missions changed, but the calling itself never altered. They began their church planting role in East Africa and later moved to the U.S. to lead a church. Now, they spend their time in West Africa resourcing, equipping and supporting missionaries as member care consultants with the International Mission Board. In…

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…