Hope Fellowship Church

Missions are a very important part of Hope Fellowship Church. As a church body we strive to allocate at least 10% of our annual budget towards some form of mission support activities. Members of the church have been involved in missions trips to several countries, including Cameroon, Honduras, Mexico, and Romania. Recently the church also coordinated the shipping of a container of computer equipment to Cameroon to be used in the Cameroonian church's secondary schools and offices.

Most of the church's mission activities are coordinated through the International Missions Office of the North American Baptist Conference (NAB).

Read about each of our sponsored missionaries supported by the Hope Fellowship Church and other missionary relationships below.

SPONSORED MISSIONARIES

Doctors Dennis & Nancy Palmer (read more about the Palmer's at their NAB post to include their current newsletter)

Dennis and Nancy Palmer are members of Hope Fellowship Church who left for Cameroon in July 2004 to serve as missionaries. The Palmers have already served in Cameroon. This time the Palmers are involved in medical ministries, administration and teaching. One of Dr. Dennis Palmer's special interests is HIV treatment, as well as humanitarian missions. Dr. Nancy Palmer will spend time teaching at the local Baptist seminary in Cameroon as well as encouraging the missionary wives. Dennis and Nancy have begun to keep a blog of their work, that you can read by clicking here.

Pat Lenz is an NAB missionary who has been working in Cameroon as a physiotherapist for close to thirty years. Pat works at Mbingo Baptist Hospital fitting patients with prosthetics, and training a new set of Cameroonians to continue the work that has been done in rehabilitating patients.

Kristi TenClay (read more about Kristi at her NAB post to include her current newsletter)

Kristi has accepted her appointment as a Defined Term Missionary to Cameroon. In the fall of 2010, she plans to teach at Rainforest International School (RFIS) located in Yaounde, Cameroon. Our Church will provide support to Kristi through our Children's mission fund with a small enhancement.

Austin & Beverly McCaskill

Austin and Beverly McCaskill have been serving in Albania since 2005 with Mission to Unreached People (MUPS). Their primary work involves teaching and training Albanian nationals and mentoring church planters through the Center for Christian Leadership in Tirana, Albania. Austin also is the director of the Albanian Encouragement Project, an umbrella organization of 65 mission organizations, representing them to the government, helping with visas, tax issues etc. He also has sponsored several conferences on integrity for businesses and government. Beverly serves on the Board of "Eagles Wings", a transition home for at-risk teenage girls. Please continue to pray for them as they do God's work in Albania.

Royce & Sue Baron

The Barons are NAB missionaries who are stationed in Mexico City, and helping to plant a church. As the church grows and is strengthened, they seek to have a national pastor to lead the church.

International Students, Inc. (ISI)

The church donates some money to the local ISI office. ISI exists to help provide services to international students studying in the United States. Some of those services "include teaching them about American culture, helping them with problems needing a native speaker, finding an American Christian mentor in their academic discipline, and (if interested) teaching them about our Creator God and the Bible." The team leader for ISI in Kansas City is Carol Douglas, who has been to church a few times to talk about ISI's ministry.

EXTENDED RELATIONSHIPS

Other Serving NAB Missionaries

There are many other serving NAB missionaries throughout the world in countires like Brazil, Cameroon, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines and Russia. You can read about these servants of God by going to the NAB Missionary Listing on the NAB website.

Marek and Ania Marcinowicz (read about Marek and Ania's work on their website)

Marek and Ania have been friends of Hope Fellowship for several years. They have visited and been our guests when they are in the Kansas City area several times. They work as Campus Crusade for Christ staff members in Campus Ministry in Poland. Campus Crusade for Christ International is an interdenominational ministry committed to helping take the gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations. Marek and Ania rely on the support and cooperation with millions of Christians from churches of many denominations and hundreds of other Christian organizations around the world to help Christians grow in their faith and share the Gospel message with their fellow countrymen. Please pray for them and keep them in your hearts and minds as they continue God's work.