Your giving allows us to regularly support the following missional endeavors:
Border Missions – Penitas, TX – Each year our church takes several trips to Penitas, TX to help the marginalized and oppressed! From building houses and clothing drives to spreading the Gospel at sports clinics or VBS we are committed to making a difference in the Colonias. We have partnered with Ricardo Brambila, CTC director of the Buckner Community Transformation center. See the following video for a glimpse of what we are doing down there.
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- James and Dorcas have four children: Maggie, Tina, Iman, and Leasa
- James is the pastor of Jubilee Fellowship church
- Through disciple-making and intentional church ministries, James has answered the call of God to minister to the communities directly surrounding the church.
- Background of Jubilee Fellowship: Jubilee Fellowship Church was started in September 2008, with a church plant in Bukaya West village in Njeru Town Council, Buikwe District. Since the initial activity a number of programs have been started by the church and these include friendship evangelism initiative, a Nursery school and day care, a Primary school, youth ministry, and a community development program. Of recently the church ministry is planning a new direction in which there will be a leadership development training incorporated into the church programs. Currently there are 23 children on education support by the church in the initiated schools in two neighbouring communities of Njeru Town Council. These supported children come from needy household especially in Kiryowa village where the church wants to concentrate a community transformation program.
This church initiative was started as a unique contribution to the national challenge of the Uganda situation where in 2010 there was an estimated 2.5 million HIV AIDS ‘orphans’; a very fast growing population with over 68% below the age of 24; a nation where Primary education is meant to be freely provided by Government but there is inadequate capacity to provide quality education due to poor facilitation and class sizes of over 160 pupils; secondary education very costly that many families cannot afford it; and tertiary/university education even more costly.
The church also set up a benevolent arm known as Supportive Initiative for Development (SID) which is registered as a community Based Organization with the government of Uganda. SID is responsible to coordinate and manage all church related social actions and projects aimed at community development and empowering of beneficiaries.
- The Cokenour Family (Terry, Christina, Grace, Emma, Amelia “Joy”)
- Missionaries to Budapest, Hungary
- Focus: Church planting and leadership development
- Website: http://BudapestAlive.org
- Email: cokenour@WorldVenture.net
- Bio: Terry and Christina have been married since 1999 and since that time have served in two church plants in Ft. Bend County. Along the way they were blessed with three daughters. Terry is a graduate of the College of Biblical Studies and Western Seminary. Christina is the only child of Hungarian parents who fled their home country due to revolution in 1956. Terry is web developer and also teaches Bible and theology at various churches, Bible institutes and colleges in the Houston area. Christina already speaks the extremely difficult Hungarian language. In 2009, during a vision trip to Hungary, God called them give up life as they knew it and serve the Hungarian people in gospel ministry. They plan to return in 2011 as long-term missionaries partnering with WorldVenture, The Sanctuary, and other churches and individuals.
- Missionary to Scotland
- Focus: Hospitality ministry connecting churches and host homes for ministry to athletes
- Follow her journey at her blog: http://amandamcguire.wordpress.com
- Amanda began her 10-month journey in January of 2014 to minister in Scotland with a ministry called More than Gold. As a part of this ministry, Amanda is helping to connect host homes with churches, in a bigger effort to minister to athletes. These athletes are coming from all over the country to compete and train. Because of the fact that most of these athletes are away from home, lonely, and needing that warm family feel, More than Gold places them with host homes that can provide the hospitality these people need. Bigger than a comfortable living environment, these host homes are expressions of the Gospel message that God welcomes us into His family. Our prayer for Amanda is that she would consistently live in the power of the Holy Spirit, represent Christ well, and provide the necessary connections for Christ to be MOST POWERFULLY proclaimed!
- TSF supports Amanda monthly with a financial gift, but more importantly, she needs our prayers! Amanda with us to pray for Cambri as she ministers!
- Missionary to Japan
- Focus: Ministry to victims of human trafficking
- Follow her journey at her blog: http://makinmovements.blogspot.co.nz
- Cambri felt a calling from God that she was supposed to do something BIG, and that it was supposed to happen soon. This all began at Passion 2014 in Houston when she began sensing that the Lord wanted to use her to minister to victims of human trafficking. Very soon after, it became abundantly clear that she was being called to begin training and field work with a ministry called Youth With A Mission. Through their program, she would need to complete Discipleship Training School, and would then do her field work in Japan. There were two options to begin this mission – April of 2014 OR November 2014. With only $550 of her $15,000 goal, she committed to go with only three weeks to raise the remaining $14,450. The Lord provided, and she boarded a plane for New Zealand in mid April 2014.
- TSF supports Cambri monthly with a financial gift, but more importantly, she needs our prayers! Commit with us to pray for Cambri as she ministers!
Get a glimpse of what Cambri is doing: