Ivan and Felicita are making plans to start working among the Unreached People Groups in the Garhwal region. They are working with area pastors to have a week-long training in Chronological Bible Storying. This training will equip them to use stories and share the gosel with people of these unreached groups.
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Full Time Missionaries

SAMS - South American Missionary Society - USA


SAMS serves the Anglican Church by sending people. SAMS missionaries share the good news of Jesus Christ through words and actions in partnership with the Anglican Church primarily in the Americas.

SAMS sends adults to serve from a month to a career ( long-term missions ). SAMS also sends teams from churches for one to two weeks ( short-term missions ) for assignments such as building homes for the poor or running a VBS.

SAMS supports individuals and churches who are called to go, give, or pray. Individuals who sense a call to serve as missionaries are assisted through a careful discernment, training and placement process. Short-term mission teams are given support through comprehensive training, logistical coordination and debriefing.



James Palmer, SAMS
Santiago, Chile

Ministry
James is working to train leadership in the diocese of Chile by teaching theology at the Centro de Estudios Pastorales in Santiago de Chile. The CEP was started in March 2003 at the request of Bishop Tito Zavala, and has a Chilean principle, César Guzmán. There are 100 Anglican congregations in Chile, but only 33 ordained clergy.

Call
James has been interested in serving the church through theological education since he was an undergraduate at Durham University, UK, where his vicar encouraged him to consider taking his theological training beyond an undergraduate degree. He has an MPhil and a PhD from Cambridge University, UK and was the Scholar in Residence at RTS Orlando, FL in 2005. He was considering working in France, Spain or Portugal when SAMS-UK suggested that he think of Chile.

Prayer Challenges
James is currently raising support for his time in Chile, and is about to live in his fourth country in under 2 years (UK, Spain, USA, Chile). He needs not only to sort out the logistics of a new country, language and culture, but also to prepare his course outlines and lectures.

Global Teams

Kevin Higgins, Executive Director


Our Vision
To see the heart of Christ in the skin of every culture.

Our Mission
To catalyze movements among the unreached that reflect the character of Christ, transform people and cultures, and reproduce more movements.

We accomplish this as we work within the worldwide Body of Christ to mobilize and empower multicultural teams of missionaries who will pioneer among the unreached, mobilize other missionaries, and care for each other.


Pioneer Church Planting
Global Teams sends Pioneer Teams to start church multiplication movements in areas with little or no exposure to the gospel. One way to think of these teams, is that they reproduce the book of Acts in a new culture.

Mobilization
A key piece of the Global Teams Vision and Mission is expressed in our motto: From the Nations, To the Nations! Global Teams is committed to working within the world wide Body of Christ to recruit and empower missionaries from many nations. This is mobilization; recruiting and empowering Gods' people for mission.

Member Care
Global Teams recognizes that our most important God-given resource is our people. In St. Paul's words, the goal of our Member Care ministry is "...to prepare God's people for the works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up" (Ephesians 4:12).

Global Teams members serve in unique roles in sometimes isolated and often difficult or dangerous situations around the world. The goal of member care is to develop strategies, personnel, and structures that support our members in their ministries.

The Mission Fields to Mission Forces Circle
A way to picture our mission statement is to draw a circle that includes these core steps:

  1. Start new mission sending movements that raise up missionaries from many nations...
  2. Send those missionaries on multi-cultural teams to work among unreached peoples wherever they may be...
  3. Start people movements(*) among those unreached people groups...
  4. Raise up new missionaries from newly reached people groups, and...
  5. Start new mission sending movements...

About Kevin Higgins, Executive Director

Over the years Kevin has served God in a number of different areas, including, but not limited to, youth pastor, Episcopal Priest, small business owner, church planter, overseas missionary, and even as a hamburger flipper.

Involved with Global Teams as a missionary since 1990, Kevin developed a work in a majority Muslim country that has resulted in creative evangelism among eight language groups and emerging people movements in four of those. Kevin now serves as Executive Director responsible to the board for leading Global Teams, recruiting missionaries, training, and raising funds for both his own ministry and for the organization.

Kevin serves Global Teams with his wife and ministry partner, Susan. They have three daughters, Rachel, Sarah, and Emma. The Higgins family is based in Bakersfield, California.

 

Rev. Orlando Otárola Rojas

Director of Global Teams Latin America


Married to Ligia Ramírez for 34 years – 4 children and 7 grandchildren.

  • Third generation of a Christian home.
  • Has been working in different areas of the ministry for around 27 years – teacher, deacon, youth pastor, co-pastor, and senior pastor.
  • Has planted 2 churches.
  • Worked as an Agronomist for about 20 years.
  • Current Senior Pastor of The Father’s Love House church and GT Latin American Mobilization Director.
Brief Description of Ministry
  • Full-time pastor – preaching, teaching, and counselling.
  • Developing projects to establish a fund to support missionaries.  Currently working on bell pepper plantations.
  • Training and sending missionaries to the field.  Currently working with 40 missionaries.
 

Campus Crusade for Christ

 

When Bill and Vonette Bright first launched Campus Crusade for Christ as a campus ministry in 1951, the underlying concept was to "win the campus today and change the world tomorrow." More than 50 years later, the mission remains the same.

Today, the campus ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ is a network of vibrant, growing movements on 1,029 campuses in the United States and beyond. Proven and diverse outreach strategies expose millions of students to the gospel each year. Over the past five years, more than 37,900 students made a decision to become a Christian.

Our Mission and Goals

The mission of Campus Crusade for Christ is to turn lost students into Christ-centered laborers. Our spiritual mandate is found in Matthew 28:18-20:

For the future, we are believing God …

  • That we can help reach the 60 million college students of the world with the gospel.
  • For an active Campus Crusade for Christ ministry to be established on 3,000 campuses in the United States and around the world.
  • For at least 100,000 students to be involved in reaching their peers, being equipped to grow in their faith, and sent to help spread the gospel elsewhere.
  • That 50,000 lost students will make decisions to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior each year.
  • That 2,000 students a year would choose to go into full-time ministry with Campus Crusade for Christ

Valarie Hirae, Campus Crusade

Orlando  Headquarters


Valerie has returned to the Campus Crusade Headquarters in Orlando, Florida. She joins 40 other missionaries that have arrived from various overseas assignments to help fill vacant positions at the heardquarters and to receive additional training. Valerie is working in the area of financial management where her first priority is to consolidate fiscal year end statements from over 175 countries where Campus Crusade has a ministry presence.

Opportunites to make connections with new friends and old are being provided with meaningful times of sharing victories and hardships they have faced upon returning to the United States.

 

Your prayers , emails and letters of encouragement are greatly appreciated.

His glory covered the heavens and His praise filled the earth. Habakkuk 3:3

Ivan & Felicita Sikha, Campus Crusade
Orlando/India

My wife and I worked with India Campus Crusade for Christ for 22 years before moving to Southeast Asia where we gave leadership to 10 countries including Pakistan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines & East Timor. After working for 8 years in Southeast Asia we moved to Orlando to work at the headquarters of Campus Crusade for Christ. Our challenge is to help develop training resources to equip millions of leaders around the world. We work with the International Leadership University (ILU), which is part of CCC.

Ivan and Felicita are currently  serving in India where they have trained 35 people to plant House Churches.  These men are former Muslims who have accepted Christ and have been trained to tell stories from the Bible in order to help fellow Muslims understand that God can change lives and give purpose and meaning.

Thank you for your prayers for the teams starting their work, translation and recording of Oral Bibles in languages without Bible translations and for more workers to be recruited for the next training session.