North American MissionsDesert Springs Community Church supports the following missionaries in North America:
Ben & Aleyamma Joseph – Missions Door – Tempe, Arizona
The Josephs have been with Missions Door/Campus Ambassadors at ASU in Tempe since 1984. They seek to reach the more than 5,000 international students who have come from over 140 different countries at Arizona State University. They orchestrate their ministry by a variety of activities for the students, including: airport pickup, hospitality ministry, host-family programs, one-to-one and group Bible studies.
David & Nicole Evans – Gospel 4 Kids, Inc. – Arizona
Gospel 4 Kids was founded in 2002. G4K is a Bible-centered, nondenominational ministry whose purpose is delivering God’s Good News to children in neighborhoods, homes, churches, schools or anywhere they gather together. G4K ministries are free and include: Gospel Parties, GospelFests/VBS, open-air evangelism. Thousands of boys and girls have heard the Gospel and many received Jesus through this ministry. G4K partners with other children’s ministries & organizations, churches, Christian schools & daycares, and individuals to reach boys and girls for Jesus. G4K is God’s ministry, and it has been awesome to see how He provides for G4K and for us personally!
Devon Linton – Evangelism Explosion – Jamaica
Network Leader at Evangelism Explosion International, Caribbean Regional Director at Evangelism Explosion International
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Gary & Phyllis Smith – Southwest Ministry Partnership - Arizona
South West Ministry Partnership exists to facilitate ministry across organizations. Gary and Phyllis have been working with Native pastors on the reservation providing pastor support and encouraging lay leaders. Gary also does a weekly Bible study at Arizona State Prison Lewis in which he has been able to welcome several men into the family of God. Additionally Gary works with community organizations that focus on reaching the homeless. This year DSCC was host to Project Homeless Connect in which organizations from around the Valley came together to provide assistance for the homeless in the West Valley. In addition to working with Gary, Phyllis works as the bookkeeper at the church office.
Jim & Teri Baugh – Global Training Network
Global Training Network, which is an interdenominational ministry uniting evangelical Christian churches & leaders around the mission of equipping indigenous church planters, pastors and Christian leaders throughout the world, so that the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20) can be fulfilled. In 2008, Jim was blessed to train over 900 pastors, church planters and Christian leaders in 3 countries.
John & Shirley Corley – Steppin-Out Missions
In 1998 John & Shirley left Open Door and began attending Trinity Evangelical Free in Amherst, Ohio in 1999. It was there that John felt called into Missions full-time. He had been contacted by Friends in Action Intl. to join their staff and serve as management and Short Term Teams Director. This path of Obedience now brings us to the next step in their ministry…that of developing “Steppin-Out” Missions. Their goal is to challenge and mobilize believers within the Local Church to the call of Missions and the opportunities that lie before them. We read and observe in the New Testament of how God commissioned and used the early church to reach out to the World and that is what they want to bring back to life in the local church today.
Anonymous – Missions Door – Muslims near ASU, Tempe, Arizona
Please pray for the people who are not Believers, but who have come on Sunday nights to my house for dinner and a spiritual discussion. Most attend regularly. We have a mix of Muslims, Hindu, atheist and some from cults. Pray for my safety as I travel, and that I will be a blessing to a group of women who are interested in learning about my ministry and how Islam affects the Muslim women whom I serve. Thank you so much for praying!
Ken & Diane Silva - Evangelism Explosion -International Workshops
Director of Share Your Faith Workshops, The workshop Share Your Faith Ministries has developed is intended to provide an opportunity for a local church or Christian organization to equip every member with a simple, easy to remember tool for sharing his or her faith with others. Those who attend will have their passion for the lost renewed, they will be equipped with a tool to share their faith in a clear and understandable manner and they will be motivated to prayerfully seek opportunities to do so.
Marv & Chris Crockett – New Tribes – Missouri
In 1971, they entered missionary training in Durham, Ontario, Canada and completed the training at the NTM Language Institute in December of 1974. After a year of deputation, they arrived in Goroka, Papua New Guinea February 2,1975. For the first year and a half, Marvin worked with the builders constructing the print shop and their house. They both served in various capacities but their main ministry was managing the field print shop until the shop was downsized and decentralized in 2005. In September of 2005, they joined the Missionary Training Center Staff in Camdenton, Missouri, working with the Campus Bookstore team.
Shawn & Cindy Bandy – Campus Crusade for Christ
The Bandy’s are working with the JESUS Film Project of Campus Crusade for Christ, in Orlando, Florida. Shawn will be working in post-production editing and Cindy will use her print and French background to assist with communication and printing needs. Most recently Shawn traveled to Kenya where he filmed several episodes for the project “Waling with Jesus.” He had the opportunity to meet with villagers and chiefs who have given their lives over to the Lord.
Southwest Conservative Baptist Association - Phoenix, Arizona
SWCBA is a voluntary association of Conservative Baptist regional churches who relate for the purpose of mutual fellowship, encouragement, development, mission and accountability. Through healthy, reproducing local churches and their leadership and through partnership with groups of like conviction, to see the Body of Christ in our communities grow biblically and impact their respective locales through effective, life-changing evangelism, discipleship and community ministries; and through those same healthy churches, to carry that vision out regionally and globally as the Lord Jesus Christ leads us.
Steve & Patty Robenalt - Compassion in Action- Missions Door - Tempe, Arizona
They founded a ministry, which would extend the love, hope, and strength of Christ to people touched by HIV. They called this ministry Compassion in Action. “Our mission is to help people touched by HIV to live a fuller life through Christ and overcome the fears and obstacles that a life-threatening illness has put in their way. Jesus said, ‘I came that they may have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10).’ Our driving passion is to lead people to taste this life —Jesus himself.” Through the ministry of Compassion in Action the Robenalts and their volunteers share the person and love of Jesus with food boxes, a monthly community dinner and meeting, practical and emotional support, discipleship opportunities and networking with other AIDS organizations.
The Neighborhood Christian Clinic - Phoenix, Arizona
There are well over half a million people in Phoenix neighborhoods who do not have the means to obtain for themselves primary or specialty medical and dental care. Each year the Clinic performs thousands of medical and dental visits, dispenses medications, provides on-site, comprehensive laboratory testing and ultrasound examinations, offers free referrals to radiology centers for basic x-ray and barium studies as well as to our volunteer network of over forty specialists, provides comprehensive diabetic care, and maintains on-site Clinics in dermatology, gynecology, and chiropractic care. Since 1999, the Clinic has provided primary and acute care to patients without medical insurance. In addition, interested patients have the opportunity to pray and discuss spiritual issues with staff and volunteers.
Will Rodriguez – Evangelism Explosion – Caribbean
NA Regional Director Hispanic Ministries