Missions

The purpose of our outreach is to proclaim the good news. We will be compassionate evangelists who love people by addressing their spiritual, physical, emotional, and socioeconomic needs. If you're looking for a place to serve, please contact (Missions Elder) or one of the missions committee members.

MHPC Missions Committee
(Missions Elder)
Cheryl Woodward, Helga Hubbard, Jim Sholer, Laurel Gephart, Mary Fisher, Penny Bell

 


Missionary Family  

Caruana

Edwin and Sylvia Caruana (Malta)
 


Edwin Caruana's work is based in Malta but mainly focuses on North Africa. Edwin has four main roles:

  • Area Director for Partners International overseeing the work being done by indigenous ministries in North Africa.
  • Pastor of an International Baptist Church in Malta.
  • Director of the Friendship House reaching North Africans that live or travel in Malta.
  • Facilitator for the North Africa Partnership-a partnership of over 200 missionary agencies.

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Nancy Corbridge
South Valley Pregnancy Care Center

 


Nancy Corbridge is the Executive Director for South Valley Pregnancy Care Center. The Center is dedicated to serving women, as well as their families and partners who come seeking help in making decisions about their unplanned pregnancies and related concerns. They are dedicated to providing a warm and safe environment, regardless of age, race, income, nationality, religious affiliation or circumstances.

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Karmelo & Ivon Kresonja
Evangelical Church In Mostar

 

Karmelo Kresonja is pastor of the Evangelical Church in West Mostar. He also works with Camp Emek Beraka - a summer camp that is held in the mountains at Boracko Lake near the city of Konjic.

"If you had asked me beforehand if these peoples could live together, I would have said no," Kresonja says. "What we are witnessing in Bosnia-Herzegovina is a true miracle of divine reconciliation and healing."





Mark & Jane Miller
Advent Group Ministries



Mark Miller is the Executive Director of Advent Group Ministries. Since 1930s, Advent has seen God's hand guide them - currently they provide a residential drug and alcohol program for adolescents, a community-based outpatient drug and alcohol program for adolescents, a foster home program for abused and neglected youth and children, and a low-cost counseling center.

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Ngwiza Mnkandla
Dawn Ministries

 

 

The Purpose of Dawn Ministries is to see saturation church planting become the generally accepted and fervently practiced strategy for completing the task of making disciples of all people in our generation.

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Eric & Josie Oldenburg
SEND

 

Christian leadership training and teaching in a seminary in Kiev, Ukraine. In addition to teaching apologetics, theology and philosophy to undergrad students, Eric is one of the on-site leaders of the Talbot School of Theology—Kyiv Extension. Through this program, Slavic students can earn a master's degree from Talbot (the seminary of Biola University in California) without having to move out of the Russian-speaking world.

Josie focuses on raising our sons, Dietrich and Lev, and on serving KTS and SEND through communications, using newsletters, brochures and other means to recruit students and to share what the Lord is doing in this part of the world.

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Michele M. Rickett
Sisters In Service

 

Tackling the issues of abuse, privation, exploitation and spiritual darkness of women and children in 10 countries least reached with the Gospel.
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You can receive monthly audio updates via email by signing up on the SIS website: www.sistersinservice.org. We want folks to be as informed and prayerful as possible - particularly with our new initiative on the abuse and exploitation of girls. This is likely one of our biggest spiritual battles so far. Please pray with us!





David Robinson
Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy

 

Dave Robinson is the Executive Director and Facility chaplain at Elmwood Correctional Center for men. Every day CIC touches hundred of men, women, boys, and girls in county jails and juvenile facilities. The chaplains are your missionaries to go behind those bars and fences. They go where others fear to go or cannot go, bringing a redemptive message of hope, forgiveness, and Christ's love to angry, frustrated, hurting, rejected people.

Our primary mission is to minister to individual needs and present the "Good News" of the gospel of Jesus Christ to all who will listen. Lives are changed as inmates, young and old, respond to and accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord.

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Louis & Lisa Shanks
Wycliffe - The Seed Company

 

The Seed Company was launched by Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1993 with a mandate to accelerate Bible translation. It started with pilot projects in 10 different languages linked to prayer partners and investors. Four years later, the model was working in 50 people groups and growing.

Today, The Seed Company is working with several hundred local translators who are leading the translation process in more than 350 language translation projects. These translators are responding to the local churches’ and ministries’ need to make Scripture available more quickly for church planting and discipleship.

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Bret & Mindy Taylor
Wycliffe - JAARS

 

Bret serves as the youth pastor to missionaries' children. They are assigned to work with the 100 plus junior and senior high MKs living at the JAARS center in North Carolina.

JAARS is a technical branch of Wycliffe Bible Translators primarily geared towards supporting missionaries through software development, multimedia presentations, and transportation of materials. The JAARS center population is unique as it has a mixture of both short-term (or transient) and long-term (or station) MKs living there.

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Jim & Suzanne Witty
Care Corps International

 

Care Corps was founded by Jim Witty to provide a Christian crisis-care ministry in a response to the victims of war in the former Yugoslavia.

This ministry of supporting and training the church, missionaries and relief work in crisis areas of the world has expanded to 20 countries. By invitation, Care Corps teams train national pastors and mission staff working in areas of disaster and war. This compassion ministry supports and assists the church in their mission to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ and practical ministry tools to show God's love, care, healing and hope to victims of trauma.

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Ron & Donna Zimmerman
Young Life – South Valley

 

The Zimmerman's helped found a Young Life Club in the South Valley area.

Young Life thinks the world of kids. We believe that they deserve to know what life can hold for them. Young Life leaders are caring adults who come sharing that hope as well as fun and lasting friendships with kids. Young Life is also all about fun. From club and camp to Campaigners and other activities, teenagers will have blast laughing, trying new things and being with their friends.


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Retired missionaries

 

Lyn Montgomery
DAWN Ministries

 

Jim & Lyn Montgomery served many years with DAWN and OCI Ministries. Lyn continues to be active since Jim’s passing in 2006.
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Paul & Nancy Neumann
OCI Ministries Sports Ambassadors

 

Paul & Nancy Neumann served in sports ministry and ministry training. Paul has traveled to 55 countries doing sports ministry for more than 30 years.
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Ben & Perla Siaki
OCI Ministries
 

Ben & Perla Siaki served in pastor training and evangelism in the Philippines, Swaziland, and South Africa. They have retired to New Zealand.
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