Missions & Outreach Staff:
Noe Palacios, Pastor Bruce,
Sharon Kaiser, Chris DeHaan
Missions
& Outreach
Calvary’s commitment to missions and outreach is more than a
program; it reflects the heart of God to see His glory declared among all
people – here in our community and around the world.
Our mission is threefold:
1) To identify, encourage, send and support workers to serve in our city
and cross-culturally around the world.
2) To disciple and equip Calvary congregants to serve, evangelize and
disciple in the public square here in our community and throughout the
world.
3) To give priority to Church Planting, Leadership Development, and
caring for the Poor and Oppressed.
Traditional mission strategies are changing – but the proclamation
of the truth of the full Gospel is the same. We continue to be engaged in
church planting, evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, support
ministries, and caring for the poor and oppressed. More and more we realize
the importance of listening, building relationships and partnerships, and
coaching and mentoring our global and local brothers and sisters, so they can
minister to and reach their own people in their communities.
Calvary currently supports 49 missionaries whose purpose is the
proclamation of the unchanging truth of the full gospel of Jesus Christ in
our community and across the world through both word and deed. A major
focus this year has been the intentional care and encouragement of our
workers by Pastor Bruce.
One partnership on which we have particularly focused for the last 20
years has been reaching people groups in Central Asia, a region classified
as one of the least reached and least evangelized areas in the world. Since
the fall of the former Soviet Union and the opening of the five Central
Asian countries to the west, Calvary has had the privilege of intentionally
partnering with missionaries, nationals and organizations to proclaim the
gospel where darkness reigned for over 70 years under the communists. In
spite of continued heavy persecution, we are overjoyed to see approximately
550 churches in just one of those countries that did not have a single
evangelical church 20 years ago. In other areas of Central Asia, we are seeing
the fruit of our labor in the training of leaders engaged in youth ministries.
In addition, national believers are being trained in trades, enabling them to
support themselves and be accepted by their own people.
For the past six years, we have also partnered with an organization in
Mozambique to provide holistic support to a village of 250 families. This
past summer one of our short-term teams had the privilege of seeing the fruit
of our labor: the tomato project is providing income for many of the families,
and thirteen young women have come to know the L