REACH Missionaries
We would love to introduce you to the missionary families that ERCF has adopted as our own! They are working hard to share the love of Jesus with each person they encounter in the missions they work with.
We prayerfully serve to make far-reaching impact in our world, not just in our immediate community of Guelph but beyond the borders of Canada. Please continue to hold up each of these families in your prayers!
JANUARY
To be determined
FEBRUARY
Open Doors Canada
For more than 65 years Open Doors has worked in the world's most oppressive and restrictive countries, strengthening Christians to stand strong in the face of persecution and equipping them to shine Christ's light in these places.
Open Doors empowers persecuted Christians by supplying Bibles and Christian literature, training Christian leaders, facilitating social/economic projects and uniting believers in the West in prayer for Christians, who are the most persecuted religious group in the world and are oppressed in at least 70 countries.
MARCH
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We have a family serving in a restricted country, Please pray for them in all they are doing.
APRIL
JOE & NADINE KLINKENBERG
We are the Klinkenbergs. Joe, Nadine, Josiah and Ella-Rose. Since 2017, we have been serving in the southern Philippines. Our mission here is to equip pastors to effectively train and disciple their churches. We work hand in hand with them through Mission of Hope to reach out into their communities. Also we help pastors to plant churches in mountain and tribal areas. We are praying for God's continued guidance and provision in the year of ministry ahead of us.
MAY
Jeremy & Christine Feser
The Fesers serve at Rift Valley Academy, in Kijabe Kenya. RVA exists to serve missionary families as they reach people for Jesus by educating and discipling their children.
The 300 boarding students and 150 day students hold passports from nearly thirty countries around the world and their parents serve in nearly thirty countries across Africa.
Jeremy is the Food Services manager, overseeing a team of 30 staff who prepare 1000 meals a day. This year he is also teaching Advanced Swahili and mentoring the student run coffee shop team. Christine oversees the Travel & Immigration office, coordinating the travel for all the boarding students plus works to keep all students and staff legal in Kenya.
They love sponsoring the Class of 2023, hosting Caring Community, teaching Sunday School, taking groups on hikes or rock climbing, covering classes, and a multitude of other things that allow them to pour in to the lives of the MKs that call RVA home for nine months every year.
Their four children (Jacob, Natasha, Paul & Benjamin) love life at RVA, especially during term when their friends are around. Jacob earned a spot in this term's drama and on this year's Model United Nations team. Natasha made the soccer team last term and the lady's rugby team this term. Paul found his niche in the Robotics Club and Benjamin plays every and all sports that are offered at the elementary school level (basketball, soccer, American football, volleyball) but his favourite is Taekwando.
JUNE
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We have a couple serving in a restricted country, Please pray for them in all they are doing.
JULY
Bob McNeal
Bob has several programs in operation to meet needs for Bible teaching in East Africa. He and his wife Paulette founded the Bukuria Bible College in Southwestern Kenya in 1993, where they both taught and Bob serves as principal. Paulette passed into the arms of Jesus in July of 2021. The school continues to train leaders and pastors of several denominations and tribes. Several other local teachers have been raised up to help with the work.
Bob also implemented the International School of Ministry (ISOM) course in several area locations and taught at Bible Colleges in Kampala and Uganda while caring for orphans and overseeing water well projects.
AUGUST
The Cizej Family
We serve with YWAM Ships to bring medical care & the gospel to isolated communities all over the Pacific. Thousands of islands with no roads, or airstrips - ships are the only way to reach them. Nick leads the communications team helping to recruit doctors, dentists, volunteers & missionaries to bring the hope of Jesus to some of the most isolated communities in the world.
Follow our journey in missions & connect with us at: Cizej.com
Nick & Naomi, Syrus, Aria, Kai, Koa
SEPTEMBER
Sig & Joy Feser
Our ministry name(s) are Pamoja Ministries in Tanzania, and Kahawa Media in Kenya.
Since being refused residence permits, we have moved to Kenya, leaving our base in Tanzania as an active outreach center. From our new location, we will be distributing books and videos in both Tanzania and Kenya. Our ministry supplies non-denominational books and seminars to thousands of church leaders and video-based Sunday school curriculum for tens of thousands of African children. In 2021, besides media production and distribution, we will also be working to develop a ministry center close to Nairobi, Kenya.
OCTOBER
Denise Deschamps
Co-Founder & Director of Tender Loving Care Children Ministries
MINISTRY UPDATE
After 32 years of full-time ministry, Denise will be retiring, effective December 31, 2022. In prayerful agreement with Pastor Rosa in Tijuana, TLCCM will be closing down. Denise and her late husband, Roger, founded TLCCM back in 1990! What an impact they have had serving the children of Mexico.
We want to wish Denise all the best as she retires and seek’s the Lord for what this new season of rest will look like! We are so grateful for her 32 years of loving, faithful service, and the many lives Denise and TLCCM have impacted for eternity.
If you would like to send a note of encouragement to Denise, you can email her at: tlccm@rogers.com
NOVEMBER
To be determined
DECEMBER
Bruce & Patty Bauman
Founders & Directors of YWAM Wylie Texas
Encountering Jesus, Equipping Disciples and Leaders, Reaching People, Communities and Nations with the Gospel
2022 YEAR-END MINISTRY UPDATE:
Hundreds came to know Jesus in Uganda
Many at risk people impacted in Uganda, India, Thailand, Mexico and Columbia through Hope’s Gate
Women walked through the doors of our Pregnancy Resource Center and experienced the love of God
Teens at our local high school gave their lives to Jesus
Immigrants experienced the loving kindness of the Lord as they settle in a new land through our English Program
Thousands in our community experienced the peace and presence of the Lord through our Hub coffee shop
A new generation of missionaries growing and maturing in their walk with the Lord