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Outreach Report
Gary Quinn, Outreach Coordinator
As a church we strive to support various mission groups both within the community and internationally. Here are those that we were able to support throughout 2024 with your faithful giving and prayers:
International Outreach:
Africans Reaching Africa
Northern & Western countries of Africa
Billy & Jen Nelson
Our vision is to evangelize, disciple, and plant churches among unreached people groups in Muslim majority countries in Western and Northern Africa by mobilizing, equipping, and supporting African believers. ARA works together with evangelical leaders in our target countries to identify missionaries who then go through an application process in order to serve with ARA.
Rotolu Children's Home
Igbaja, Nigeria
Julius Lawal
Rotolu Children Home is registered in Nigeria as a Christian non-governmental and non for profit organization. Its main objective is to reach the poor and vulnerable children whose parents are unable to care for them which may be caused by either the death of parents or poverty. The home gives all round quality education which is not devoid of Christian morals.
Construyendo Familias Sana
Dominican Republic
Monte Cristi & La Romana
The Kingdom of God continues to advance through the groups of pastors and leaders who spend two years here in theological training and pastoral practice. Last year 17 graduated in the city of Montecristi and 25 graduated from La Romana. Now these fellow servants are better equipped to exercise their ministry calling.
Home of Love
Chennai, India
Martin Alphonse
Home of Love caters to the holistic needs of 130 girls. Some are completely home-less, others are children of economically disenfranchised single moms or poor parents. We house them, provide parental care, food, the care of their medical needs. We take care of their education from kindergarten thru college levels in a Christian environment. Our mission is to empower them through education and evangelism.
New International
Edinburg, Scottland
Drew & Christine Van Tiem
Our ministry is two-fold. We have a local ministry that is primarily focused on our neighborhood of Leith, in the city of Edinburgh. The people here are those we are trying to reach. The second aspect of our ministry is the care for our fellow New International staff.
Teach Beyond
77 countries around the world
Pete & Pam Sanderlin
Our 1150 members serve in over 130 schools in 77 countries. These are often K-12 schools, some of which are for the children of missionaries, but others are for nationals. We also help educate refugee children and children who have not had the chance to go to school. We want these students to come to know and love God more deeply.
Mission Impact
San Pedro El Alto, Guatemala
Kathy Dostal
Mission Impact Guatemala office is located in San Pedro El Alto, near the city of Antigua, Guatemala. We reach multiple communities in the surrounding area with Christian education, medical care, appropriate technology, community development, discipleship, wheelchair placement for children, and women’s ministry.
Local Outreach:
Deer Ridge Ministries
Freeport, IL
David & Louise Decker
In recent years it has become increasingly evident that the homes of many pastors have been invaded by Satan’s determination to bring strife and destruction to clergy marriages and families. Our ministry is an intervention by licensed Christian counsellors to help clergy couples who are in deep trouble get their marriage and family back to healthy balance.
Faith Acres
Lake & McHenry Counties, IL
Jeff & Jodi Clow
Faith Acres works to meet the basic needs of people struggling financially to make ends meet by distributing free food, emergency clothing and household items through Sharing Center Pantries located in McHenry and Lake County, IL. We also provide volunteer and educational opportunities so our “hand out becomes a hand up”.
Legacy Reentry Foundation
Waukegan, Illinois
George & Regina Moore
Legacy Reentry Foundation is a ministry that reaches out to the formerly incarcerated and those in need of a second chance. We also minister to youth offenders and troubled youth that need direction. We are able to assist our clients with everything from work boots, basic living essentials, clothes, food and transportation passes.
To see how the LGCC community financially supported each of these ministries, please see the Outreach Financial Report.
Please continue to pray for these servants and for all of our outreach recipients.
There were many other ways in which Outreach served the greater cause of Christ around the world and it is a privilege to be a part of the team that makes it happen.
'“O our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name! But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us!'
1 Chronicles 29:13-14 (NIV)