Missions
Missions are a very important part of Hope Fellowship
Church. Hope Fellowship strives to allocate at least 10% of its annual budget
towards some form of missions. 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).
Brief summaries of the missionaries and missionary
activities supported by the church are below. Doctors Dennis &
Nancy Palmer
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
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. 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.
Austin & Beverly McCaskill
The McCaskills have been accepted as missionary candidates with Mission to Unreached People,
and they hope to leave for Albania in the spring or early summer of 2005. Austin and Beverly will
be working at the Center for Christian Leadership in Tirana, Albania.
Austin will serve as a teacher of Bible and practical pastoral subjects, while Beverly will serve as a
mentor for female students.
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. |