Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. & STEP OUT Church GLOBAL MISSIONS Pastor Robin Schara, Director 8445 Greiner Road Williamsville, NY 14221 p:: 716.688-7165 w:: ehwc.org e:: globalmissions@ehwc.org GLOBAL MISSIONS 2017 CELEBRATION
HERE BUFFALO witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:8 We Gave $27K $13K $1,800 Support 19 Local Mission Organizations Buffalo City Mission Homeless Shelter P.A.T.H. People Against Trafficking Humans (approx. 200 survivors a month) Family Justice Center Domestic Violence Prevention $1,575 Grace Community Church Playground We Served Enough donations were given to completely furnish two apartments for refugees coming to Buffalo 24 people are mentoring a refugee family of six from Somalia. Our family is completely overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of the church. We have never experienced this kindness in our life before. Sabina & Abdul 218 dozen homemade Christmas cookies were donated for the Christmas concert, dinner for those in need in Niagara Falls, and the Buffalo City Mission. 75 people packaged and served Christmas dinners in the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls. We packed 3828 shoe boxes for the OCC November drive. This is an increase of about 600 over last year. Four women mentoring refugee ladies having their first child in the U.S. 24 people attended a 15-week Perspectives course on God s mission for the world Church has participated in OCC for 16 years, with this year's total pushing us up to helping to reach just shy of 216,000 children as a collection center. If we extend our influence to consider the children's families, this means we have helped to love on' about 1.5M people in those 16 years. It's an amazing thing to think about...praise God for allowing us to be a small part in that wonderful story. Eric Stellrecht
We Gave $2K $1K Five missionaries in North America Holly Hill Food Distibution Center in need of repair Interface: Bibles translated for foreign students We Supported NEAR NORTH AMERICA witnesses in and in all Judea Jerusalem Samaria and and to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:8 Shunem House, Nobleville, IN. We always enjoy having work teams come! We are grateful for your willing hearts and love for the missionaries that we serve. Jim & Jeanette Vermilya Hephzibah Children s Home. Macon, GA: Residential home caring for children and young adults ages 12-21 Habitat for Missions: Flip homes to put missionaries on the field NORTH AMERICAN MISSION TRIPS 36/11 36 team members 11 first time on a mission trip 1 2 1 2 3 4 New York City, NYSUM: Ministered to the poor and homeless Noblesville, Indiana: Maintenance project on mission home 3 4 Lafayette, Louisiana, Eight Days of Hope: Hurricane Disaster Relief Lewisburg, W. Virginia Samaritan s Purse: Home rebuilding after hurricane For many of the children at Hephzibah Children s Home, the concept of God s grace is foreign to them. Your consistent prayer and financial support encourages us as we seek to help them realize how much they are loved by God. Having ministry partners means everything as we seek to be the hands and feet of Jesus to these dear children. C. K. Chitty, General Director
FAR THE WORLD witnesses and in all Judea in Jerusalem Samaria and and to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:8 We Gave $33K $28K $29K Seven International missionaries World Hope Intl. for building a school and supplying desks World Hope Intl. for drilling six new wells World Hope Intl. Haiti Disaster Relief for emergency food and shelter Samaritan s Purse for a Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti We Supported 7 Seven people traveled to Cuba to teach English and ministered to special needs youth and senior citizens Two barefoot pastors with India Gospel League and donated two motorcycles Sponsoring 193 children with Compassion International (mostly in Haiti) Funded six classrooms in Mozambique, Africa where 2,000 students can now attend school instead of under a tree. We are now free from wind, rain and sand that we used to suffer with before having these classrooms. Noemia Jeremias, teacher 10K 10,000 meals were prepared to feed orphans in Sierra Leone We are deeply grateful for your support. We hope you will join with us in thanking Christ for turning your donations into changed lives. We cannot wait for another year of growth and transformation. John Lyon, President of World Hope Intl.
We Gave $28K $8K $3,500 1,679 To seven missionaries in high risk areas to share the Gospel 5,000 Bibles were purchased and translated into numerous native languages To two India Gospel League pastors Shoeboxes for Samaritan s Purse were given to hard-to-reach places in the world We Supported HARD PERSECUTED AREAS in Jerusalemand Samaria ends of the earth. Acts 1:8 witnesses Judea in all and and to the Seven missionaries and their families in locations where it is a high risk to share the Gospel in the 10/40 window Funded three church buildings built in Nepal where brick and mortar churches did not exist. We ve been praying for 12 years for a church bulding. Thank you! A Nepali Pastor At one baptism, 52 new believers were baptized in a Nepal river during a recent mission s trip Support Indonesian pastors to plant churches in Muslim areas Infographic supplied by opendoor.org Thank you so much for your incredible support towards the ministry and the work we do in the 10/40 window. You are such a blessing to so many precious lives and we thank you for your committment. May the Lord richly bless and keep you in His care. Neil Anderson, The Sowers Ministry
MISSIONARIES WE SUPPORT PROTECTED 10 11 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 19 13 14 12 PROTECTED 10/40 WINDOW 40 o 69 NATIONS LIE BETWEEN 10 DEGREES AND 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR THIS WINDOW STRETCHES FROM NORTH AFRICA TO EAST ASIA TWO-THIRDS OF THE WORLD S POPULATION LIVE HERE EQUALLING MORE THAN 4.4 BILLION PEOPLE 90% OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD THE GOSPEL MESSAGE EVEN ONCE 5 20 18 17 10 o 16 15 1 2 3 Rod & Ellen CASALI Wycliffe Bible Translators VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA 604-852-0508 Gary & Judylynn MACPHEE Engineering Ministries Intl. COLORADO gmacphee@emisua.org Bill & Daphne FOSTER Habitat for Missions Bill.Foster@indwes.edu 4 5 6 Dr. Gary & Elaine ALLEN Mission for the UN Community garyallen@christianmission-un.com Tom & Lydia HINES ECUADOR hines@wesleyana.org Paul & Sandy ROG Child Evangelism SOUTHERN CARRIBBEAN paulsandy.rog@cefonline.com 7 8 9 Rev. Steve & Ruth STRAND Urban Advocacy BUFFALO, NY urbanadvocacy@gmail.com Matthew BLAKE Global Partners CZECH REPUBLIC/EUROPE mblake@majak-brno.cz Matt & Caryl AUKERMAN Global Partners ALBANIA Matt.Aukerman@gponline.org Caryl.Aukerman@gponline.org 10 11 12 James & Alicia CENTRAL ASIA Dr. Neil ANDERSON ASIA The Sowers Ministry sowers@aol.com Romy & Linda ASIA 13 14 15 Steve & Marge DOTY Wycliffe Bible Translators THAILAND steve-margie_doty@sil.org Mike & Elizabeth JOCHUM Pioneers S.E. ASIA ISLAND www.pioneers.org Stephenie & Josh COUCH NEW ZEALAND Stephenie.couch@gmail.com 16 17 18 Chris & Melissa GEORGE AUSTRALIA georgefamilyinaustralia@hotmail.com Cedric & Sharlini RODRIGO SRI LANKA Cedric.a.rodrigo@gmail.com Dr. Samuel & Prati STEPHENS India Gospel League INDIA Samuel@pobox.com 19 20 Steven KHOURY Holy Land Missions ISRAEL cbcsk@p-ol.com Keith & Patty NORRIS World Hope International AFRICA keithnorris@worldhope.net
Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. & STEP OUT Church GLOBAL MISSIONS Pastor Robin Schara, Director 8445 Greiner Road Williamsville, NY 14221 p:: 716.688-7165 w:: ehwc.org e:: globalmissions@ehwc.org GLOBAL MISSIONS 2017 CELEBRATION