Missionaries Partnered with West Side Church

Terry & Nancy Sullivan

The Sullivans work with Wycliffe Bible Translators to translate materials and Bibles into the Aja language of Benin and Togo, Africa.


Terry and Nancy Sullivan, missionaries with Wycliffe, wish to express their gratitude to the West Side community for the many blessings and friendships they have known these past few years living in Richland and continuing their Bible translation ministry work "from afar". After a short stay in Benin for the final time, they have returned to Richland and are settling into their "official" job title of "Remote Assignment living in the U.S.". Their actual work, pretty much full-time, is the same as before, but with a U.S.-based location instead of a Benin-based location. In the Aja language, the words for "thank you very much" are: Akpe keké. However, folks add more 'very much' by adding the word "ke" at the end. So the Sullivans express their gratefulness to you, by saying: "Akpe kekekekekekekekekeke! ".

To support their ministry, please mail gifts to
Wycliffe Bible Translators
P.O. Box 628200
Orlando, FL 32862-8200
www.wycliffe.org

For gifts, add note: With preference for the ministry of Terry & Nancy Sullivan

Tyler & Rochelle Holm

Tyler and Rochelle Holm are serving in Mzuzu, Malawi (Africa), at the invitation of the Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP), the Presbyterian Church (USA) World Mission and Mzuzu University. The CCAP is the largest and oldest Protestant denomination in Malawi. Tyler teaches theology at the University of Livingstonia, one of the CCAP’s institutions training future pastors and church leaders. With the growth of the CCAP there is only one ordained minister per every 7,000 members, training pastors and other Christian leaders in society has been identified as a priority by the CCAP. Rochelle works directly for Mzuzu University, a government university, primarily on issues of water, sanitation, and hygiene, bridging the gap across boundaries of research and innovative practice by working together with communities, government officials, academics and faith based organizations. To support our ministry, please donate to: Presbyterian Church USA, PO Box 643700, Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700. Please designate the funds for “Presbyterian World Mission: Account #E200532” or https://www.presbyterianmission.org/donate/E200532/

Zenon & Amy Thornton

Fellowship of Christian Athletes - Tri-Cities, WA
We are blessed to serve the Tri-Cities, WA and surrounding areas. Zenon & Amy have served together since 2016. Zenon serves as the Area Director providing overall leadership to the team while Amy's primary focus is Women's Ministry & Discipleship. We appreciate your investment in this ministry. We are looking to add one or two additional FCA staff members to our area. Pray for continued access to the public school campus and volunteers to serve alongside us.
To support our ministry, please donate to:
https://my.fca.org/zenonthornton
Or mail a check made out to "FCA" to: 954 Sirron Ave, Richland, WA 99352

Amy Schammart

Wycliffe Bible Translators
Wycliffe serves with the global body of Christ to advance Bible translation and work together so people can encounter God through his Word and be transformed.
My mission is to work in partnership with nationals, organizations, churches, etc. to enable the work of Bible translation. We work to ensure the world’s 7000 languages gain access to Scripture in a language and form that speaks to their heart, and to preserve minority language and cultures. At Wycliffe, we prepare, equip, and support members and their families as they engage in the work of Bible translation.

Scott Johnson

I serve through Main Street Church in Brigham City. Main Street Church is a small church in Northern Utah that has had an emphasis on outreach to Latter-day Saints (and equipping Christians for outreach to LDS) using multimedia (video, web, print, and television). I have been with Main Street Church (originally Living Hope) for 18 years; the last 3 years I have worked remotely in Richland, while simultaneously becoming involved with the local ministry Flourish Mid-Columbia (on an “on loan” basis).
For Main Street Church, I continue to be involved in the production and post-production of our video outreach ministry, although the pandemic has stifled work on any new major projects; I continue to manage the web presence and other communication aspects of Main Street Church and its various ministries. For Flourish Mid-Columbia, I serve on the board of directors and as treasurer, manage the web presence and communication, and also am involved in the leadership of the Flourish Young Adult, and the Faith and Science initiative, and involved in several vocational discussion groups.
Our primary ministry focus with Main Street Church is Latter-day Saints, Fundamentalist Mormons (polygamous groups), and Christians seeking to reach out to them. For Flourish, our “target” audience is not so tightly focused; we seek to be a resource to encourage and enable followers of Jesus to “integrate faith, work, and everyday living” through, among other things, education, relational ministry, and spiritual formation opportunities.
To support my ministry, please mail a donation to
Main Street Church
48 N. Main St.
Brigham City, UT 84302

David Pierson

Alongside Ministry - Europe & North America
We partner with European churches and ministries to serve the increasingly secularized and non-religious populations of Europe. AMI is active in both Estonia and The Czech Republic. These are two of only five countries in the world with a non-religious majority. We also serve in Albania, which is still emerging from decades of an officially atheist dictatorship layered on top of 600 years of Ottoman rule. Before the Ottomans more or less imposed Islam Albania was a mix of Christian faith and traditional religions. AMI also serves in secularized France.
Our goals for the next 3 years inclue:
1. Develop at least one short term mission trip this calendar year to bring American and European believers into shared relationship and ministry. An English camp in France this June is the leading possibility. (Would any West Side folks be interested?) 2. Take the next steps of relationship and partnership with The Estonian Baptist Union and also 4D Ministries in Central Europe (Romania and surrounding countries) 3. Revise/restart our recruiting effort 4. Discern/invite/nominate new board members. 5. Strengthen financial support for our U.S. staff, particularly myself as I am the only full-time U.S. employee of AMI. 6. Our board is seeking to reduce our Administrative Fee from the current 15% level to 12.5%.
Let us thank God for the faithfulness and fruitfulness of his people in Estonia, France, Czech Republic and Albania, often under difficult circumstances. Jesus said, “This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” - John 15:8
To support our ministry, please mail checks to:
Alongside Ministries International, PO Box 610, Langley, WA 98260.
Online gifts can be made at our website: https://www.alongside.org/donate

Trevor & Joanna Woods

International Students, Inc. exists to share Christ’s love with international students and to equip them for effective service in cooperation with the local church and others. Our plan is to focus on making disciples who make disciples. This means sowing the Gospel broadly, and investing deeply in the few who exhibit the most spiritual hunger and interest, equipping them to become disciple makers. We also are mulling over whether it makes sense to stay in Forest Grove, or to move to a larger college or university, where there is a greater number of international students. We are likely to at least finish out the school year here at Pacific University as we have a couple of students that we are pouring deeply into right now. We also are in talks with some people locally about some other ways that we can get the local church involved in God’s global purposes. How these talks go, and the level of engagement more broadly from the church may have an impact on where we stay or land. To support our ministry, donate to: https://www.isiportland.org/donate.html

Dan Wodrich

Flourish Mid-Columbia serves Columbia Basin residents by providing Christian education and formative practices aimed at integrating faith, work, and everyday living. In partnership with individuals, churches, organizations, and institutions, Flourish Mid-Columbia helps people live integrated and flourishing lives of faith and service as followers of Jesus by encouraging, equipping, and accompanying them into thoughtful and wholehearted participation in His Life – in all of life – in their homes, workplaces, and community. To learn more about our mission, visit flourishmidcolumbia.org

Steven & Mayan

We work alongside ministries internationally to create culturally effective media tools to communicate the gospel to unreached people groups. We pray that we will continue to be able to build relationships in our community and for boldness while speaking about Jesus and the Gospel.
To learn more about our mission, visit our website.

Sword Productions – Their stories. Their language. Their culture.

To Donate to our cause, click below:

Donate - Sword Productions (churchcenter.com)

Andrew & Amy Funka

Alongside Ministries International strives to advance the Gospel in Europe and North America through a network of prayer, partnerships, and practical help. We have been serving in the Czech Republic for 19 years with AMI, 10 years in our current location. Our goal is to strengthen the Church and advance the Gospel by partnering with local churches and Christian organizations. Andrew serves alongside the national office of the Czech Evangelical Alliance and Amy serves alongside The Wholehearted School, a Czech Christian elementary school. Through these partnerships we are involved in a variety of organizations and projects that serve to strengthen the Church through parish renewal and Christian education, and to advance the Gospel through evangelism and church planting. To help The Wholehearted School grow and expand its Christian influence, including adding grades 7 – 9. Help launch and expand the M4Ready program into the M4 church planting process. To work with the national youth ministry of Církev Bratrská to re-launch and expand Draft Camps. To support our missionary work, go to: https://www.alongside.org/donate or Alongside Ministries International, PO Box 610 Langley, WA 98260

Kathy

Lift-off/Ripe for Harvest (linguistics support)
The mission of Lift off is to promote healthy demographics, culture/beliefs, and structures in the global work context for those who come in, specifically single men and women. Through Ripe for Harvest, I offer linguistic consulting & training upon request, to further minority language development (particularly translation). I specifically support minority communities especially of Asia, via providing consulting/training for global workers upon request.
In the next three years, I would like to:
(1) Present and publish, especially via Missio Nexus
(2) Establish Lift Off officially
(3) Move ahead on establishing a fund (and funding) for offering research grants.
(4) Move ahead on establishing structures for an online presence to promote research, interaction, and creative problem-solving.
Please pray for the Lord’s creative ideas, team of people, and prayer power that can break through some status quo rock with His light and life.
To support my ministry, please visit:
https://ripeforharvest.org/kathy

Daniel & Marie Adams

We have served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Boston, Massachusetts for the last 13 years. Our vision is to see students and faculty transformed, campuses renewed, and world changers developed. We hope to give every college student the opportunity to encounter Jesus, helping Christians grow in their faith and witness. To support our ministry, visit: givetoIV.org/MarieAdams

Christeena Alaichamy

ORBIT and ASHA After completing the translation of the New Testament in Kukna language of South Gujarat, we have been training the other translators, guiding them in their works of Bible translation, Literacy primer preparation and conducting Literacy Programs, Dictionary preparation, and doing consultant checking of their Translations and Literacy Primers. As the President of ORBIT, and the Executive Director of ASHA I am taking care of the administration of both the organizations. Right now I am mainly doing Consultant checking of the translations and Literacy Primers, guiding the field work, and administration. Donation to support my missionary work can be sent to West Side church office from where it will be sent to SLIM (Sight and Light India Ministries) which is our fund forwarding organization. Or it can be sent directly to SLIM. The check should be written to Sight and Light India Ministries and sent to: Sight and Light India Ministries 2937 Cimmaron Lane Fullerton CA 92835

Matt & Lea Edminster

We have been serving with Alongside Ministries International to encourage and empower Christian leaders and churches in Europe through an international network of prayer, partnership and practical help. We have been stationed in Estonia since 1998. Our main functions are pastoral ministry in the Rapla Evangelical Church, equipping ministry and lecturing in cooperation with the seminary, Church consultation, pulpit supply and seminar speaking, Mentoring of youth, young couples, Bible school and seminary students, and Academic research and writing. Some time in 2023 (Lord willing) I will take on a more active role in theological education through our seminary system in Estonia and continue to conduct research on congregational life and theology in Estonia’s churches. In line with both of these goals, we have been constructing a guesthouse on our property since 2020 with the aim of offering hospitality to small church pastors and their families, international ministry visitors and – if necessary – immigrants or refugees in need of a first home and a path to inclusion in Estonian society. Construction of the hospitality house continues incrementally on my free evenings. You can follow our progress on the Hospitality House at http://www.edminsters.com/portfolio/hospitality-house/. To support our ministry, please send gifts to Alongside Ministries International 610 Langley Loop, Langley, WA 98260

Suzanne Emery

I work with United World Missions on the Created to be Free project. I am currently stationed in Tigard, Oregon. Based on Isaiah 61:1, Created to be Free hopes to contribute to the prevention and understanding of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and other Neurobehavioral Conditions as invisible brain based physical disabilities and thus help the Church and greater community love people with difficult behaviors better, like Jesus does. Suzanne does this through the following: 1. Education and training at Universities, Seminaries, churches, hospitals, schools, etc. 2. Individual consultation with professionals and family members. 3. Family support groups where the real transformation takes place. God is opening exciting new doors for this ministry on a global level. Suzanne also serves on the Member Care Team of UWM, creating “sacred space” for spiritual formation/transformation to occur as she walks alongside UWM missionaries all over the world. One day a week I serve as Nurse Practitioner at the Good News Community Health Center in one of Portland’s roughest neighborhoods. We are a non-profit faith- and community-based health center serving our neighbors in Rockwood and East Multnomah County. You can support my ministry here: https://uwm.org/missionaries/27381/

Carol Danner

World Vision is a global Christian relief, development, and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families, and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We work in nearly 100 countries around the world. World Vision’s core mission is to focus intentionally on the well-being of children. By partnering closely with local community groups, churches, families, and children themselves, we address the root causes of poverty that directly impact children, especially the most vulnerable. We believe that boys and girls should enjoy good health, be educated for life, experience the love of God and their neighbors, and be cared for, protected, and participating in their own development. Our vision: “For every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.” We believe that the best way to fulfill this vision is with rigor and integrity that honors the communities we serve and our donors. We’re not only focused on individual children, but on all of the surrounding conditions that impact children’s lives.

To support my ministry, please mail a check to:
World Vision
P.O. Box 78481
Tacoma, WA 98481-8481
On the notes section of your check write: West Side Church WASH

Ettie Blankingship

Fields of Grace - Eastern Washington Ettie is the director of Fields of Grace. Fields of Grace was established in April 2006 as a ministry at West Side Church in Richland, WA. The program began when Second Harvest voiced a need for fresh produce for area food banks and area farmers wanted to donate a portion of their crops, but lacked the resources to pick the additional produce. Fields of Grace was created to provide the hands of service that pick the fruits and vegetables for residents in need. After reading a newspaper article about the effort, a local farmer, Gary Middleton, agreed to be the liaison between Fields of Grace and the area’s farming community. A training program was developed to teach volunteers proper gleaning etiquette. Gary Middleton was instrumental in providing gleaning “do’s and don’ts”. All volunteers must go through a training program and sign a liability waiver before they can participate in a gleaning activity. Since its inception, the ministry has trained over 1,000 volunteers who have logged over 14,000 hours of service to harvest over 1.7 million pounds of produce. This produce has included apples, sweet corn, carrots, sweet cherries, apricots, plums, grapes, tomatoes, potatoes, and more.

Doug Waltar

We envision building a network of people who embrace the life-shaping goodness, rhythms, power, and calling of God. At Ingalls Creek, people gain clarity about their faith, their calling, and their contribution to the world. Ingalls Creek Enrichment Center gathers people who seek to connect their faith, life, and work in the richness of community, sending them into our changing society with a renewed sense of Christian calling. Northwest American culture has moved on a steady trajectory away from previous views of life and faith, and today only a small fraction of young adults report any relevance of “church” to their day to day experience. Churches, denominations and Christians in all walks of life are looking for ways to connect in positive ways with this emerging post-Christian context. We seek to equip God’s people—the church—to engage this changing world, demonstrating God’s love in every aspect of their lives.

Melanie Saint James

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