Missions - Christ in you, the Hope of Glory!

2011-2012 Missions

There is no doubt about it, we are a missions minded Church! Father God has been divinely connecting us with many great and precious brothers and sisters all around the world. In obedience to the mandate God has given us, we are in the planning process of scheduling mission trips to: Uganda-Emmanuel Pius Ssentongo, Kenya-Charles Mwanda, Suriname-Sieuwpersad Goedljar, and Peru-Bud Lenz.

Confirmed dates:

October 3-11, 2011 Uganda

MISSIONS SUNDAY is the 1st Sunday of each month. All monies will go to support missionary work around the world. Not all can go, but all can support and pray for those who do!

Pastor Don ministers in Romania

Pastor Don Schluter recently went to Medias, Romania, to minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Schluter was sent as a missionary with Christian Emergency Relief Team.

As the only minister on the team, Schluter had the unique privilege of ministering the Word in nine different churches on 11 separate occasions. He personally led nine people to the Lord, led one in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and was blessed to water baptize an 83-year-old woman who had received Christ. Don and woman

“This trip was a real stretch for me as I crossed over national, cultural, and denominational boundaries,” Schluter said. “Most of the time I was flying solo, with only my Romanian interpreter and the local pastor.”

CERT is a Christian organization that provides for spiritual, medical and physical needs of people around the world.

Pastor Don with Gypsie family

Young mother receives Jesus as Savior

Schluters minister in Peru

In August of 2006, Pastor Don Schluter and son Dustin, spent two awesome weeks ministering in the Andes Mountains of Peru. The Schluters went as part of a medical missionary team with CERT International, a medical mission ministry out of Crossville, Tennessee. After flying out of the Nashville, Tennessee, to Atlanta, they arrived in Lima Peru at midnight. After a short nap of two hours at a local hotel, the team then boarded another flight from Lima to Cusco, and landed in the Andes Mountain range at an altitude of 11,000 feet above sea level.

Over the next 14 days, local Pastor and Missionaries Bud and Laura Lenz, led the medical mission team into some of the most remote villages of Peru, reaching altitudes of over 14,000 feet in the Andes. Traveling by bus and van, the teams set up medical and dental clinics in areas where medical care is non-existent. The Gospel was preached to the native Indians while waiting their turn to receive medical and dental care. Several hundred people gave their lives to Christ, and many received healing in their bodies as a result of prayer and medicine.

This was the best father-son time Dustin and I have ever had together, said Pastor Peruvian women

Don. I was so proud of my son, for the servant I saw him become, and for the way he so effortlessly adapted to the culture there. I think he is a natural at this missions stuff, and I am sure this was just the first of many trips for Dustin. By the second day, Dustin was running around with the local kids, playing basketball, soccer, and tops. He picked up on the language very quickly, and by the time we left Peru, Dustin was carrying on lengthy conversations in Spanish with the locals. The most amazing part to me was that Dustin had no fear of the unknown or the unfamiliar. He was right at home from day one, said Pastor Don.

We fell in love with the Peruvian people and especially with the Lenz family. It was amazing, and I can't wait to go back, said Dustin.