ALASKA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE
WASILLA, ALASKA
Organization: Alaska Adult and Teen Challenge
Mission: We help people to become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well, and spiritually alive.
Recovery: Recovery describes the journey we make between being lost and being found, from darkness to light, from broken to in-repair.
Reconciliation: By focusing first on their relationship with Christ, students have a model for forgiveness and repair. Relationships are restored, and hope for the future is restored.
Transformation: Rebuilding our students’ identities on the foundation of Jesus Christ allows for ongoing transformation and lifelong growth.
COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Organization: Community Pregnancy Center (CPC)
Mission: CPC provides pregnancy and infant care support services for women and couples by providing pregnancy tests, promoting Pro-Life Choices, administering Ultra-Sound imaging, providing health and baby care education, offering parenting mentors to guide men and women in raising a baby, increasing awareness of adoption choices, offering STD testing, promoting discipleship, and more.
PAMELA CHEVALIER
SAN PEDRO LA LAGUNA | GUATEMALA
Organization: Proyecto Fe: Project Faith International
Mission: To serve the poor through the education of children and their families, assisting in the construction of schools and churches, supporting the administration of schools, orphanages and local economy through work related earning opportunities. Currently, they primarily serve the poor by providing support with education, local job opportunities, medical needs and basic services to serve the children, families and people of San Pedro, Guatemala.
ALAN & GINA BROWN
ISABEL, LEYTE | PHILIPPINES
Organization: Lantaw Ugma Missions
Mission: To proclaim the excellencies of God, and to bring the Hope of Salvation through Jesus Christ to those who are in need. The focus is to serve children who are from very poor families, primarily through mentorship and care, teaching children with life skills, developing their gifts, providing medical and dental aid assistance while showing them that there is hope in Christ Jesus and that God has a great purpose in their lives.
CORNERSTONE MALAWI
NSANJE, MALAWI | AFRICA
Organization: 2007 Church plant from Cornerstone Church. Lead Pastor, Paffett Chomanika.
Mission: The Headquarters Church is located in Nsanje, Malawi and there are 12 other congregations of Cornerstone Malawi that meet throughout the Nsanje District. Cornerstone Church (AK) has participated in multiple short-term missions trips. We currently support 34 orphans, training courses for the lead and assistant pastors, and famine relief efforts; we also have supported the construction of a youth facility, the construction of a grain mill, and the finishing materials for a brick wall to enclose 4.5 acres of famine relief farmland. We are currently considering the construction of an irrigation system for the famine relief farmland.
JESSE & BECKY GLOSSER
SOLDOTNA, ALASKA
Organization: Missionary Aviation Repair Center (MARC)
Mission: In the spring of 2019 Jesse started as full-time IT Manager with MARC. He is responsible for designing and maintaining their computer network, software and website. MARC’s mission is to provide reduced-cost repair and maintenance to aircraft owned by missionaries, pastors and missions organizations in Alaska. MARC also has a fleet of it’s own ministry aircraft to provide reduced-cost passenger and cargo flights throughout Alaska for missionaries, pastors, missions teams and kids to Bible camps.
HIEU AND CAROL LE
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Organization: Word of Life International Ministries
Mission: To evangelize and disciple the youth, and future development of land
for Christian youth camp.
Currently we present Bible teaching to youth in multiple locations 3 times a week. We meet with and establishing relationships with National Pastors to promote training and information about WOL. In addition to the main focus of WOL evangelism, we also fund water wells and storage/filter tanks for remote churches, providing fresh drinking water. Another need is Pastor training. For remote locations, we fund transportation and lodging for the pastors to a common location for periodic training. For National Seminary training, we fund when the pledged support fails. For young people with a passion for Christ, scholarships for Bible Institute are available.
Watch the video to the left where we celebratedwith our visiting missionaries May 2023 all that God is doing in Vietnam .
HOPE CENTER
ANCHORAGE, AK
Mission: Inspired by the love of Jesus, we offer those in need support, shelter, sustenance, and skills to transform their lives; to provide a hand up and out of homelessness.
Feed Me Hope Bakery, Culinary School, and future Food Truck help our guests gain the skills they need to transform their lives.
Feed Me Hope Bakery opened its doors in March 2016 to women staying in our emergency cold weather shelter. In Fall 2016, we launched Feed Me Hope Culinary School - a vocational training program for homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals. Our future plans include barista training, a bakery store front, and a food truck to provide students an opportunity to work while completing Feed Me Hope Training Programs. All proceeds benefit the DSK. Already, we have seen remarkable transformations take place as hope has been restored to our Bakery and Culinary students.
Rooftop Garden supplies the DSK's culinary programs with healthy ingredients to meet the nutritional needs of our guests. The garden is abundant with kale, chard, parsley, herbs, and much more!
MISSIONS TEAM
TURKEY
Organization: Crossover Communications
Mission: Crossover partners with Jesus, as He is “building His church” (Matthew 16:18). They believe the most affective (making disciples) and effective (self-sustained and self-led) way to provide Gospel-access to unreached people groups is through planting multiplying churches. Their strategy in fulfilling their vision to plant multiplying churches is through “projects,” which become larger campaigns called “initiatives.” They currently have several projects and eleven initiatives throughout the world at this time including Turkey.
Jackson & Ailea Gibson
Johannesburg, South Africa
Organization: YWAM (Youth With A Mission)
Our YWAM “Fire and Fragrance” South Africa team is made up of 120 full-time staff, students, interns, and children (as of August 2022) who range from ages 5 months old to 47 years old. We represent 11 nations across 5 different continents. God has placed before us six lanes or areas of focus as a community:
Prayer & Worship
Evangelism
Training
Media
End Bible Poverty Now
Mercy
In each of these areas of focus, we are trusting God for more than we have seen before. Together, as a community, we are leaning forward and trusting God to see a missions movement from South Africa, sweep across all of Africa and continue from Africa to see all the nations of the earth impacted by the good news of Jesus Christ.
Michele Logan
Anchorage, AK
Organization: Wycliffe Bible Translators USA
Mission: The mission and vision of Wycliffe Bible Translators is to serve and work together with the global body of Christ to advance Bible translation so people can encounter God through His Word and for people from every language to understand the Bible and be transformed.
In May 2021, after over 35 years working in public service and accounting, Michele retired from the marketplace with a desire to serve God and live out her life for the glory of Christ. In 2023, through a series of circumstances only God could have engineered, she became a volunteer missionary with Wycliffe serving remotely from Alaska to provide dedicated accounting and administrative support to a multi-agency team of Bible translators.
The missionary team Michele serves is currently working to complete two Bible translation projects while also operating a network of mobile primary schools for unreached nomad children in the Himalayan region of Asia.
As CFO for the team, Michele manages all areas of team finance including bank accounts, payroll, budgeting, reporting, and donor relations. She also provides logistical support so the team members, who reside on several different continents, can collaborate, and work together despite significant access challenges into the countries where the various ministries are located. Nonetheless, to His praise and His glory, God is on the move!
“Look among the nations and see; wonder and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.” ~ Habakkuk 1:5