Our Purpose...

The purpose of Grace Chapel’s involvement in missions is to fulfill the great commission of Christ. We as a church body define missions as any endeavor outside our local congregation to fulfill the Great Commission of Christ by proclaiming the gospel of Christ, making disciples and relating to the whole need of mankind-spiritual and physical.

Missions Statement...

We at Grace Chapel of the Coast believe we are called to fulfill The Great Commission of Jesus (Matt. 28:18-20) through sharing the gospel and praying for the lost, through supporting in our giving and in prayer those who minister to the lost throughout the world and through equipping, training and sending individuals and teams from our church to be Christ's ambassadors. Acts 1:8

 “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”   -Jesus

HOW can

ONE

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in the world?...

give...

Make a monthly faith promise pledge to the Missions Fund at Grace and support outreach missions & organizations around the  world. 

Your gifts are tax deductible.  You can donate now with a credit card by clicking on the donate button.

go...

Volunteer to go on a short-term missions trip sponsored by Grace Chapel or another organization.

pray...

Pray alone & in groups for our workers.

learn...

Read missions biographies, books, missions newsletters, other missions related materials & study  Biblical passages regarding our responsibilities as Christians.

MISSIONS WE SUPPORT

BREATH OF HEAVEN

Ted & Judy Lawler

Zambia AIDS Orphans

Breath of Heaven Children’s Village is a ministry dedicated to help meeting the needs of a growing orphan population in Lusaka, Zambia.

Serving orphans is part of our biblical commission, as stated in James 1:27, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:  to look after orphans… in their distress.”

Their desire is to provide a stable, secure, family like environment that will allow the children to interact with the neighboring community.

Breath of Heaven Children’s Village has an immediate mission to develop a children’s village consisting of a community school, clinic, and twelve homes individually set up as family units of a housemother and twelve children.

SUPPORTING FOR 3 YEARS

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CHRISTIAN SURFING FEDERATION

John Lindsley

Oceanside, California    

Outreach to surfing community

Christian Surfing Federation (CSF) aims to evangelize, support, train, educate and disciple into Christian faith members of the surfing community through activities including, but not limited to Bible studies, leadership training, mentoring, surf contests, surf movies, surf coaching, special events, and international travel.

CSF shall further promote amateur surfing and the Christian lifestyle in the community by encouraging a closer personal relationship with God among its members. John directs and leads this organization. He and his wife Margaret have 4 children.

The Christian Surfing Federation is committed to bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to this nation's surfers. It is our desire to see surfers' lives changed by the power of God through meaningful friendships, surfers' Bible studies, local CSF chapters and outreach events like our California Contest Series.

The California Contest Series is currently the most visible aspect of our ministry, but we are firmly committed to developing mature, Christian leaders to pioneer and lead local chapters.

The CSF currently offers chapters a mature and Biblical leadership team (John Lindsley and Trevor Kendall with forty-five years of surf ministry leadership combined), a national identity and vision, unique and specialized resources, leadership training, mentoring, a high profile contest series, a budding website

(www.ChristianSurfingFederation.com)

an intensive surf coaching program, directors and operator (D&O) insurance for chapters, and accountability within a family of co-laborers dedicated to bringing the good news of Christ to the surf culture.

SUPPORTING FOR 4 YEARS

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GOOD NEWS MINISTRIES

West Africa Church Planting & Education

They are part of a team working in a restricted-access officially 100% Muslim country in West Africa. 

Their ultimate goal is to plant a church in their town that will be run by local men and women who will then reach out to other ethnic groups in the surrounding area There is currently one believer in town. 

Their strategy includes building relationships among people of peace and sharing the Good News with them and through their networks. Their team operates an English Language Center where they teach English to adults, primarily business people.

Through their classes they have opportunities to discuss significant life issues and share their views, as well as building relationships. In addition starting up a job-creation project with handicapped men, which will fabricate barbed wire for sale in the agricultural part of the country. 

SUPPORTING FOR 3 YEARS

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THIRD DAY CHURCH

José & Fiona Salsido

Fuzhou, China

Training & Support

José and Fiona Salsido first felt called to the Chinese mission field over 15 years ago. They have served on short-term ministry trips to China for over 10 years and have been full time workers in Hong Kong for the past 7 years.

Since 2006 the Salsidos have been ministering in the town of (Fooz-ow) Fuzhou in Mainland China. They are ministering in the local church to equip the saints, and serving in an orphanage and drug
rehabilitation center as well. They have established an international school of ministry where they are training Chinese leaders to become pastors and Bible teachers who will be sent out to establish churches in other parts of China.

The Salsidos have 2 children.

SUPPORTING FOR 4 YEARS

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Mountain Movers International

Ron & Rachel

California

Central Asia

Ron & Rachel Johnson help to represent Grace Chapel to the Central Asia World through various partners.   

The Johnson’s have been workers to the unreached peoples of Central Asia for more than twenty years, initially through The JESUS Film Project and Sammy Tippit Ministries and now through Mountain Movers International. 

Evangelism, discipleship and church planting in Central Asia is at the heart of their ministry.  They accomplish this through:

� Training and equipping of national leaders in leadership conferences

� Providing resource ministry tools such as the JESUS film and Bibles

� Helping to translate, print and distribute books for Central Asia Christians

� Taking short-term teams into Central Asia for prayer walks

�· Facilitating and hosting U.S. and international consultations for Central Asia

� Reaching out to Central Asia women in our surrounding communities through one-on-one appointments, small groups and holiday luncheons

Their ministry activities also include Rachel reaching out to Central Asia women, who live in North San Diego County, California.

SUPPORTING FOR 3 YEARS

MUSLIM MINISTRIES

Joseph & Michele

Mauritania & Connecticut

Muslims, relief work

Joseph and Michele have worked for over 20 years in North Africa ministering to Muslims through evangelism and training and humanitarian aid. When Joseph first came to North Africa he was told that this country was "impossible" to reach for Christ. This country had no known native believers in Christ and no resident evangelical witness. It is a nation with the death penalty for any citizen who considers any religion other than Islam. But now there are hundreds of believers meeting in house fellowships. Joseph and Michele oversee a large staff who minister to the people of this country.
 

Joseph and Michele now reside part time in New Haven, CT while their two children attend high school for the first time. Joseph is now part-time Director of the Reconciliation Program at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, at Yale University Divinity School and continues to serve part-time as International Director of “Muslim Ministries”. Michele continues to serve as Team Leader Overseer, overseeing the “Muslim Ministries” program in North Africa, and they spend substantial time in North Africa. Joseph also travels often to meet with top Muslim educational and political leaders. His knowledge of the Koran is extensive and he is invited to speak about his relationship with God at exclusive Muslim conferences and high-level government meetings.

Joseph and Michele have 2 children

SUPPORTING FOR 4 YEARS

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WORD OF GRACE CHURCH

Martin & Olive Kajubu

Kampala, Uganda

Indigenous, evangelism

Martin and Olive pastor Word of Grace Outreach Church. One aspect of the vision of Word of Grace Outreach Church (WOGOC) is to use its human resources to participate in the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ to reach the world with the Good News of The Finished Work of Christ.

WOGOC believes that there are effective ways it can help to reach the world for Christ: that is, training (Bible College), youth outreaches (camps), mobile clinics (reaching the sick), schools for children, etc,
where men and women of God who have a heart and calling to be His ministers and who will go unto all the world prepared with a knowledge of the Finished Work, a foundation of the Word of God and doctrine,
and love for the lost.

Their future plans are to establish the JAJA Life ministry to the aged, acquire land for the church base and all of its ministerial activities like the Bible College, Word Of Grace Academy, Youth Center Sunday School Bible Classes and Education Purse which supports children with school fees.

Martin and Olive have 2 children.

SUPPORTING FOR 4 YEARS

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GOSPEL FOR ASIA

Kanika Thapa

Haryana, India

Indigenous work with women

Gospel for Asia trains and sends native workers because they have proven to be extremely effective. Native workers are already familiar with the language and culture, and live at the level of the people they serve, thus removing many social barriers.

Kanika Thapa is a student at their Bible College. It's a 2 year study program with an additional 1-year practical program. On weekends during her time at the college she does evangelistic outreaches. The third year focuses on church planting and determining the focus of her ministry once she graduates.

SUPPORTING FOR 2 YEARS

SPECTRUM MINISTRIES

Aaron Passmore

Tijuana, Mexico

Evangelism

Ministry to Poor

Spectrum Ministries is a small mission organization located in San Diego, California, dedicated to working with the very poor of Tijuana, Mexico. The currentdirector Aaron Passmore has taken over the ministry from founding director Von Trutzchler who started Spectrum in 1982.

As the name "Spectrum" implies, they have several focuses. Their main focus is across the border, where they work with hundreds of poor families and thousands of children located in seven ofthe poorer neighborhoods in and around the city of Tijuana, Mexico. They have programs in each of these barrios where they feed and provide medical help for the families and schooling for their children.

They work with the city street children and young people on drugs. Spectrum also works actively in the Tijuana Juvenile Facility sometimes called the children's jail.

In several neighborhoods, they hold Children's Bible Clubs on a regular bases and are actively involved discipling young Mexican teens.

Aaron is married and has a son.

SUPPORTING FOR 4 YEARS

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AFRICA INLAND MISSION (AIM)

Africa Inland Mission

Rich and Stacy Davis

Kenya

Medical Missions

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WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS

David & Heidi Coombs   

Abancay, Peru

Bible translation

David and Heidi joined Wycliffe in 1971 and began work in 1973 in Peru. After learning Spanish and doing language survey work, their first major assignment was Bible translation in Cajamarca Quechua in Northern Peru. Along with Quechua co-workers, they produced over 70 publications to help the people learn to read and understand the Scriptures. They dedicated the Cajamarca Quechua New Testament in January, 2005.

They now work in the city of Abancay in Southern Peru with a team of six pastors who are bilingual in a different Quechua language and Spanish, translating the Bible into East Apurimac Quechua. The team completed the translation of the New Testament in late December of 2011, and are eagerly awaiting its layout and publication. They then began the translation of the Old Testament. A local Peruvian ministry called AIDIA oversees the translation and six other strategic ministries, all of which depend on the translated Word of God to reach and serve the Quechua-speaking people.

David and Heidi have 4 children and 4 grandchildren. Rebecca, Jonathan and Daniel are married and serve in missions in Ecuador, the southern Philippines, and a restricted-access country in Southeast Asia. Stephen is majoring in inter-cultural studies at Biola University.

SUPPORTING FOR 6 YEARS

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GOSPEL FOR ASIA'S

BRIDGE OF HOPE Children's Outreach Ministry

Our vision is to give thousands of children the best education possible, and at the same time to tell them about the love of Christ and their worth to Him. Most children come from the lowest and poorest levels of society on the Indian subcontinent, such as the 300 million Dalits ("Untouchables") who have been living in slavery for nearly 3,000 years.

The education they receive and the understanding of their value in the eyes of their Creator will enable them to walk away from hopelessness and despair and change their world. Sponsorship can transform not only a child, but also an entire family, a community and the future of a people.

"Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me" (Matthew 18:5, NKJV).

Introducing our sponsored children:

Hi my name is Shipali Thakur. I was born on March 28, 2002. I live with my father, mother and grandfather in Madhya, India. I help at home by buying milk and folding clothes. I enjoy playing with my ball and reading. My grades are good in school, where I am in second grade. My favorite subject is English. Please pray for my family.

Hi my name is Joseph Ephrin Francise. I was born on November 20, 1997. I live with my father, mother, grandmother and two sisters in Kerala, India. I help at home by gathering firewood and watering plants. For fun, I enjoy playing cricket and drawing. In school, I am in third grade and my grades are good. My favorite subject is Malayalam. Please pray for me and my family.

For more information about sponsorship online go to:  www.gfa.org/bridgeofhope