Missions

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FBC supported Missionary Highlights of the Month

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March was our
2023 Missions Conference

If you missed a presentation or want to rewatch them
click the link below each missionary banner.

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GIVE to Missionary fund at
Frontline Bible Church

Frontline Bible Church believes that all Christians have a responsibility to be engaged in world missions. We are called to spread the message of God’s grace to all the world. Engagement comes in many different forms; prayer, financial support, mission trips, projects, partnerships, and encouragement of missionaries. The Missions Committee at Frontline Bible Church meets at least once a month to prayerfully consider how we can strategically partner in world missions.

To request MISSIONS FINANCIAL SUPPORT (according to our GUIDELINES) please print and complete this form and return it to a member of the Missions Committee.

Missions Contribution Policy for trips:

Your generous contributions to support mission’s trips will be allocated to the designated person you are supporting.  Any contributions above and beyond the trip costs for the designated person will be allocated to the mission trips general fund for the next Frontline sponsored missions trip. 

Missions Committee: Joe Mattias – Chairman, Paula Lenger – Treasurer; Paul Anderson – IT/Secretary; Anthony Beaulieu; Amy Riemersma – Vice Chairperson; and Wade Rustin

Mission Organizations We Support:

Frontline Sent Missionaries

BOLIVIA

Praises: 

• We are healthy and excited to serve the Lord, keeping ourselves busy with many ministry opportunities.
• We are thankful for the many people we are able to serve with and invest time in developing their leadership.
• PTL for the great number of students we are having every trimester!

Prayer requests:

• Pray for wisdom in counseling, guiding and leading while we serve in the various ministries.

• Pray for Patty energy as she teaches both boys at homeschool.

• Pray for CBG, there are many new students, we have a great number of students and that causes a good number of challenges.

BRAZIL

“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—
the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.” —  Acts 20:24

Please Pray:

• We’re looking to the Lord for wisdom regarding our son Mathias’ schooling. His studies are going well, but he has been expressing himself more about it lately, and we think it’s time to make some changes that will increase how much he benefits from his academic education.
• I also would like to pray for a new student who wants to be trained in the Word for ministry: Yuri. He is very intentional in his studies, but has filled his plate too much and is struggling to find time for our sessions in Scripture.
• For Mathias’s heart to always be willing to do God’s will as he grows.
• For Mariana’s ministry with the ladies all over Brazil, as they dig deeper in the Word together.
• For Mariana’s studies with BBI USA working towards a certificate.
• For our leadership training through BBI Brazil, for the new courses we’re preparing to offer.
• For our new Bible study with young people in the northern side of São Paulo, for growth in Christ.
• For our church meetings in our home to grow and bear fruit.

BURUNDI

“Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves,
others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ.” – 2 Corinthians 9:13a

Please Pray:

• Grace Bible Institute:  We’re praying for four partner sites to host week long Bible school sessions in key geographical locations yet to be identified.

• The renewal of our Residence Visas through Hope Africa University.

• A strong relationship with Hope Africa University and for our part-time teaching assignments. 

• Michelle will begin teaching at Great Lakes School of Theology and Hope Africa University. Pray that class size will be manageable.

• Pray that the street ministry grows and sees participants established in churches.

• One of our goals this term is to shift to a Bible teaching podcast. We need to add Kirundi as a language of outreach.

CAMBODIA

Praise:

• Handing over ceremony of the leadership of City Central Church from Pastor James and Agape (Cambodia Teammates) to Chetra and Julia.
• Chetra will officially be given the title of “Pastor”.

“Many thanks for the wonderful support, it is so important and we are so very grateful to know you are all there praying along with us” – Julia

What has God been Teaching you lately?
– God is always teaching us to trust Him more and that we can do so much more for Him! Even at times I can get a little nervous… I know God desires willing servant hearts and He will do the rest!

ESWATINI

Family Verse:
‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV)

Please Pray:

• Preparing for trainings and starting small groups in new places for GMI.
• We are traveling a lot these days to new places below for ministry and leader development . Bhunya, Vusweni, Mbabane, and Piggs Peak.
• Continue praying for, Bhunya, Vusweni, Mbabane, and Piggs Peak, for God to increase more and more .
• More workers to come along side us in leadership development.
• For a new church plant in the town of Big Bend.

Praise:

• A church was planted through a sports outreach in the town of Big Bend.

KENYA

“Sing to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim his salvation day after day.
 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.”
1 Chronicles 16:23-24

MALAWI

“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.  So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.” — 1 Corinthians 3:6-8

Please Pray:

• Good development of the baby and great health for Adela.
• For enough energy to be able to do well his work in the ministry.
• To do well as a husband and now as a father.
• They have enough resources to give their daughter everything she needs to be well.
• For their residences to be approved.

PANAMA

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” — Romans 8:38-39

Please Pray:

• For our church, Comunidad Bíblica de la Gracia, that as it continues growing that the people feel the call to serve  alongside us and the Barrantes.

• For our kids’ ministries, that they can be reamplified and that we can also have more people helping us with the kids’ ministry

• For more missionaries to come and help us here in Panama.

• We have a small teenage group of guys (3), they are kind of going through a tough phase of not feeling like they belong to any of the church groups that we have. They are older than most of the other little kids yet younger than the college aged kids. We are praying that we can start a high school youth group next year 2024. We are also praying that we can send them this year to a teenage youth camp in Panama city this November so that they can be spiritually built up with other teenage Christian kids that are their age. This is something we are hoping and praying that some people may feel called to partner financially with us to help send these young men to the camp this November. The cost for each teenager to go to the youth camp is $100.00. If you know anyone that would be interested in partnering with us please put them in contact with me. Thank you.
  
• We will be traveling to the US this July. We hope to stay for 6 months. Please pray that we are able to enter the US easily, that we are able to get some rest and that we have a good time of fellowship with family and with brothers and sisters in Christ while we visit churches.

PARAGUAY

Please Pray:

• For Paraguay church plant – Iglesia Bíblica Bereana (Berean Bible church) in the city of Presidente Franco. The church is in the process of membership and organizing its ministries. We have good number of local people willing to serve.

“But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts 20:24 (NKJV)

Please Pray:

• That we can buy land to put up our national headquarters. We want to build a multi-purpose facility for our conferences, camps, Bible school, and national offices. It will be our biggest project so far, but we believe it is time to step up in faith and see what GOD will do.
• For Grace Outreach Ministries South Africa (GOMSA) leadership.
• Their LOVE for the Lord, KNOWLEDGE of His Word, and PASSION for His Word will continue to grow more and more. South Africa and the Grace work need them.
• For our health. A lot of sicknesses are going around in South Africa. Covid and other virus infections are increasing again. Many of our people are sick and unable to come to church.
• For the economic situation in South Africa. The cost of living and gas and food prices are increasing. Many companies are closing due to long daily power outages.
• On August 8-22, we will be traveling to Kenya (Africa). We are scheduled to teach at Kenya Grace Bible School from the 10th-17th and speak at their national conference from the 17th (afternoon)-the 20th. Things to Come Mission will pay for my (Dean) airfare, but we have to raise funds for Sheba, Shedea, and Shedesh’s airfares. We must get visas for the four of us and get yellow fever vaccines, as well. We want to raise at least $2000 for the trip to cover everything. Please pray for our health (Kenya is in the Malaria zone), safety (it is supposed to be a 5-hour flight, but direct flights are expensive. So, we want to get a 1-stop or multiple stops flight), and that we will be mutually blessed as we fellowship in the Word and with the believers there. Your gift for this trip will surely lighten our financial burden and make this trip possible. Please know that we appreciate your prayers and financial support. If you are interested in helping us raise this amount, you can send your gift to: THINGS TO COME MISSION PO Box 127 Beech Grove, IN 46107 Just put-Dean and Sheba-Kenya trip

COMMUNITY MINISTRIES

Links to Missionary Blog Posts

• Costa Rica Weeks 3-6!
• My Story of Impact
• Costa Rica Weeks 1&2!
• Panama Month 3!
• Panama Month 2!