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Stories of Mission

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Norma Teles

Worker profile: Norma Teles

Norma is the director of the Joshua Center, which provides a safe place for Roma children and encourages the participation of the family, helping them to be involved in positive ways with their children’s development. She also connects regularly through a girls club with girls aged 9-19 and with a group of mothers.

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Anna Renfro

Worker Profile: Anna Renfro

Anna’s assignment in Mannheim, Germany, is to support the ministries of Dave and Rebekka Stutzman as well as to serve at a local refugee center called Friedenshaus. Most of her time is spent in the afterschool youth program Kinderreich in nearby Heidelberg.

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Jay and Em (names changed)

Worker profile: Jay and Em

Em is teaching English Language Learning for elementary students and is mentoring a student teacher. Jay is a business developer for transformational educational businesses, mentors leadership teams to develop sustainable witness, and is helping to start a new preschool. (Names changed)

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Tyler and Kendra Yoder

Worker Profile: Tyler and Kendra Yoder

Tyler and Kendra are planting Garden City Church in Southside Richmond, Va., by focusing on reconciliation, maturity, and multiplication. Their primary focus is on house churches, while they still desire to meet as a corporate body.

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Dan and Mary Hess

Worker Profile: Dan and Mary Hess

Dan and Mart serve in the town of Milot, Albania, where they focus on building relationships to lead people to Jesus. They are involved in children’s ministry, discipling new believers, and training emerging leaders.

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Elena Satalaya

Worker Profile: Elena Buckwalter de Satalaya

Elena and her husband Freddy are working with the Iglesia Cristiana Menonita, in Iquitos, Peru, focusing mostly on bringing young people on an island community to a personal relationship with God. They teach basic classes and lead a children’s ministry and youth group.

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Mark and Sarah Schoenhals family, 2020

Worker Profile: Mark and Sarah Schoenhals

We serve with Life Enrichment Church (LEC), a network of house churches in a wide rural area, with the goal of multiplying disciples of Jesus and house churches. We help disciple new believers, train emerging leaders, and advise and help sharpen the vision of existing leaders.

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Peg and Lee Martin

Worker Profile: Lee and Peg Martin

Lee and Peg Martin serve in McDowell County, West Virginia, as Location Coordinators with SWAP (Sharing With Appalachian People), an MCC program that bring volunteers to Appalachia to make homes safe, warm and dry and build relationships with local folks.

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Rafael and Tartari family

Worker Profile: Rafael and Solange Tartari

Rafael pastors the local church in Lezhë, focusing on evangelism, discipleship, and training local people to be future leaders in the church. They regularly make contact with people who have not yet heard the good news of the gospel.

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