GCR’S GLOBAL MISSION IMPACT

MISSION LAZARUS - honduras

GCR has partnered with Mission Lazarus since 2014, when a group from our congregation traveled to southern Honduras to help construct a church building. Since that time, we have sent groups of various sizes and ages almost every year to build, lay roads and water lines, volunteer at the medical clinic, and even dig latrines. Mission Lazarus adopts a comprehensive approach to ministry, focusing on education, health, economic development, orphan care, and spiritual formation. They are headquartered on a 2,000-acre ranch near San Marcos de Colon, where they operate a private school, a vocational school, the Christian Leadership Training School, a children’s home, a medical/dental clinic, and a coffee farm. GCR financially supports two Honduran employees at Mission Lazarus and the two-year program at the Christian Leadership Training School that equips men and women from the surrounding towns and villages to better serve in their home congregations.

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Kenya Widows and Orphans

What began 20 years ago as a grassroots ministry by a handful of motivated GCR members has blossomed into one of the most successful Gospel missions in all of Africa. Today, KWO Ministries manages sixteen orphanages in Kenya and provides food, housing, education, and medical care for 1,519. An additional 1,206 receive food support daily. KWO also operates a Vocational Training Center for orphans who age out of their program, a government certified one-year education in fields such as automotive repair, welding, and hospitality that’s helping to break the cycle of poverty for these families. The money offered on Missions Sunday will help fund expenses related to secondary schooling for their students.

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SerCris Training School - Brazil

GCR’s church-planting efforts in Brazil in the 1980s led to the creation of SerCris Training School in 2002, a two-year Bible degree program for evangelists and church leaders in Western Brazil. Today, there are 20 students in the full-time program, many of whom are achieving a secular college degree in parallel with their Bible and ministry training. The students participate in six local churches, five of which were planted primarily by past SerCris graduates. The school also offers evangelistic classes to members of the Campo Grande community and night classes for members of the local congregations, completely tuition free. GCR financially supports three full-time instructors and the maintenance of their building, as well as some of the student housing and campaigns. We’re planning to take a GCR group for a ten-day trip to Campo Grande in the spring.

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Namwianga Mission – Zambia

Shepherd and Rhutt Mbumwae and Jason and Cintia Kumalo are our missionaries in Zambia, planting, growing, and multiplying churches in the Southern Province and overseeing The Haven, an intake orphanage for at-risk infants. Namwianga Mission provides seed and goats to their congregations to help with food and to create income opportunities, and their network of churches also organize and oversee several Christian schools in Zambia. The Mbumwaes circuit through the churches every year, hosting leadership and marriage seminars and Gospel meetings, while the Kumalos have started a new production company to better spread the Good News through radio and film. GCR’s Wil and Jeny Pippin lead a medical missions trip to Zambia every July, partnering with Namwianga to reach people in remote villages with needed medical care.

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Batam Bible College – Indonesia

Dr. Winston Bolt formalized his preacher training and church planting program in 1998 to expand the Gospel impact on the island of Batam and throughout Indonesia. The first graduates of Batam Bible College began planting churches in 2000, eventually baptizing more than 8,500 people and starting 55 new congregations. GCR has been the organizing partner for Batam Bible College for 20 years, funding approximately half of the school’s operating budget annually. Under the direction now of Herbin Simanjuntak and an entirely Indonesian leadership team, the school is looking to expand their reach and move toward longer-term sustainability. They just graduated another 23 students in 2025 and currently oversee 19 Christian congregations.

India

Despite the fact that less than two percent of India’s population of 1.5 billion people is Christian and that Hindu extremists there are intensifying their efforts to imprison Christian leaders and halt evangelism, the Gospel continues to spread throughout that country and neighboring Nepal. Since 2015, GCR has financially and spiritually supported a network of church plants and preachers in India who are teaching and baptizing at least 2,000 new Christians every year. The work is challenging but, by God’s grace, our partners there remain resolute in their commitments.