Sweet Valley Church of Christ

Mission Support

Sweet Valley Church of Christ supports the following missions financially. As a congregation please lift these groups and individuals up in prayer as they spread the Word of the Lord through out the world.  The Missions Ministry Team Dan Rood chairperson, Bob Womer, Lora Womer, Sharyn Chase, Cindy Rood, Carol Smith, Wayne and Mo Moss will be glad to answer any questions about the team or the missions SVCC supports.

Also there are links to the missions we support on our church web site

Educational Missions

Johnson Bible College

7900 Johnson Drive

Knoxville TN 37998

jbc@jbc.edu or www.jbc.edu

The college has been growing over the past several years with new building to house students and classrooms. We have had many students attend the college. Those that have graduated are in the Lords service all over the United States and the world.

This year’s enrollment is around 1200 people. The theme for this year is “ As God’s Workman, Do Your Best”. Everyone at Johnson will be trying to do his or her best as workmen for God.

Ashley Johnson founder of the college wrote this in 1909

“I assure you that Ashley S. Johnson, a sinner saved by the grace of God, and kept by a love which no man has told or can tell, and Johnson Bible College, are a living protest against doubt, a living monument to the faithfulness of Jehovah who hears and answers those who in faith and self-forgetfulness call upon him. “

NEOBC Northeast Ohio Bible College

51049 Calcutta-Smith Ferry Rd.

East Liverpool OH 43920

www.neobc.org.

NEBOC was founded in 1995 answering the need for a Bible college in northeast Ohio. The first class was offered in January of 1995. Seeing the good response, the college was established and the work began. In 1997, land was purchased to build a campus in Alliance, Ohio. In January 2003 the Calcutta Christian Church in Liverpool, Ohio. Offered the college their building and land. This was a move of Kingdom mindedness for which they are to be commended.  With an existing facility in place, the development of the college was moved ahead several years.  The objective of NEBOC is ministry and church leadership development with low tuition cost through local church support.

Roanoke Christian College

715 N. Poindexter St.

Elizabeth City North Carolina 27909-4052

www.roanokebible.edu.

 RBC is 59 years old has graduated 1077 students 48 in the year 2007. RBC is the only Christian College on the east coast since Lincoln Christian formerly Eastern Christian closed its door.

The mission of RBC is to bring students from the east coast to attend college at Roanoke and spread God’s word on the east coast. RBC educates men and women for career and volunteer service

Home Missions

Camp Epachesica Manager

Mike Lyons, helping with support for the manager keeps a person at the camp daily caring for the facility and scheduling events. This is in addition to the regular support of the camp.

Camp Epachesica

23 Zehners Bridge Road

Stillwater, Pa 17878

Camp Epachesica has summer programs for children 2^nd to 12^th grades with retreats for men and ladies and family camp. The programs provide time for participants to begin and or grow in their walk with Christ. The continued support by us along with the other supporting churches helps the directors and trustees to improve and create new programs. Children and adults attending the programs have an opportunity to make new friends with other Christians. They experience Gods love through others that help God mold them into the likeness of Christ.

St Vincent De Paul Kitchen

39 East Jackson Street

Wilkes-Barre Pa. 18702

St. Vincent de Paul mission statement is to tend to the needs of the less fortunate, especially the need for food and clothing regardless of race of creed and will work to insure that no one need go hungry or without adequate clothing in the Wyoming Valley.

God has commanded us to care for the poor.

Tom Morris

Discovery, A Christian Church

PO Box 1088

Broomfield, Colorado80038-1088

www.discovery-church.org

The discovery Church in Denver is a church plants by the former CEA here in the eastern US. As a member of the plant team we have supported Tom and his family.

Josh Firor

Crossroads Christian Church

6921 4^th Avenue

Brooklyn New York

www.2crossroads.com or   info@2crossroads.com

 Brooklyn has very few Christian Churches Crossroads was a church plant a few years ago Josh Firor is the youth pastor there. We have been supporting Josh and his family.

Crossroads met in the Zion Lutheran church in September they moved to the High School of telecommunications. The office of the church is two blocks away from the school so everything needed for worship must be portable and have people to set up and tear down. Pray for effectiveness in these areas.

CARE NET

109 Carpenter Drive Suite 100

Sterling VA20164

www.CARE-NET.org

Care Net is a national organization that helps with unplanned pregnancies. There are now 1,100 centers nation wide caring for 343,000 women. 1 million abstinence presentations were made in schools last year and have had 13,000 new decisions for Christ.

Care net this year has opened two new centers in Philadelphia and Atlanta.

Gifts to College Students

Once a year a gift is sent to each student of our congregation that is enrolled as a full time student to help with expenses and let them know we support them and are praying for them.

Abroad Missions

African Mission Evangelism, Inc.

% Nancy Hodge

1401 Tanglewood Lane

Garland Texas 75042

www.ameghana.org.

AME is our contact with Ghana Christian University, which was established in 1966 the college along with Dorothy Eunson who started at the college in 1968 has received our support since 1968. Dorothy has retired but still continues to serve the college here in the states. GCU trains teacher, evangelist’s preachers and church leaders for many parts of Africa.

With Dorothy’s retirement we now receive newsletters from David and Barbara Kalb

At the college the second wing of the Men’s dorm, which is 3 stories high, has finished the ground floor in time for 52 new first year students 30 students will be in the School of Community Development.  Also a new program to train middle management people for development projects in rural areas has begun. 

Gasoline in Ghana in July was $4.09/gal.

 FAME

Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism

PO Box 688

Columbus IN 47202

www.FAMEworld.org

FAME has been in the ministry for nearly 40years reaching people for the cause of Christ through medical evangelism providing medical care for their bodies and spiritual care for their souls. Our support gets the resources needed to care for sick people all over the world. Some of the things our support helps with funding new medical facilities shipping medical supplies to FAME partner missionaries in developing countries. Scheduling short-term mission trips to help those missionary partners. Developing community Health evangelism strategy with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention and education. Expanding the warehouse in Indianapolis to accept and ship even more donated medicines and medical supplies in the future.

Cup of Cold Water Ministries

Mary Patterson

PO Box 318

Newark Il 60541

www.ccwm.org or aunti mgl@yahoo.com.

SVCC began support of Mary Patterson after Shelby Wandel Zook went on a mission trip while attending Johnson Bible College to Mongolia. Mary has worked with homeless children and girls providing shelter and schooling. She is trying to open a shelter for homeless girls, Mongolian laws have slowed the process, but girls can still come to their “office” to shower and eat.

Prayer concerns fro the House of Refuge are to find a girl named Ganaa who Mary had befriended before the House of Refuge had an office.

YWAM Youth with a Mission would like to combine efforts with them as they are working with prostitutes.

Registering the organization has been long and difficult as they are sent different offices that all need to register them, one says it needs to be furnished and ready to go before they will approve, another government ministry they must have 3-5 years guarantee of financial support before they will register them.

Praise thanks to the support given Mary has been able to rent two rooms in a basement and buy a car. These are tools that will be used to serve the girls, Mary’s family and others in the capital city of UlaanBaatar.

The Star Fish Foundation

PO Box 68

Denver, Pa. 17517-0068

Emile & Karole Boselll, Directors

ul. Yanka Luchina 56-52

Minsk Belarus 220112

Email: ehb3kab@yahoo.com

The Starfish foundation was established in2002 in order to strengthen and assist children and families in the countries of the former Soviet Union, with a particular emphasis upon children who have been orphaned, abandoned or impoverished.

To that end, we seek to extend to the children of the nation of Belarus the divine promise of hope and a future, through demonstration in concrete ways that they are loved; that they have value, and that God has a purpose for their lives. Above all we seek to exhibit by our own love and care for them that there is One who longs to be a Father to the fatherless.

Our humanitarian and sponsorship programs are designed to minister to the full range of Spiritual, emotional and physical needs of God’s children in Belarus. We welcome your participation in these efforts to communicate God’s continuing love and provision amidst the uncertainties of life.

One of the programs The Starfish Foundation has is to provide children with fresh fruit each day. For a dollar a day the foundation can provide fresh fruits and vegetables to these children.

Jamaica Christian Missions

Box 10 Kingston 10

Jamaica West Indies

www.jamaicachristianmission.com

Jamaica Christian Mission promotes New Testament Christianity in Jamaica. Winston Scott is the director of the mission and in the fall newsletter told of the damage hurricane dean had left. But even with the damage they were still praising God. “  Yes, we can still praise Him”. ‘When things are going well we find it easier to give thanks but the true measure of a persons is that when things are bad we can still praise God.’ Using Mark 4:35-41 to show how we need our faith in times of storms. It was exciting to talk to Winston at the national missionary convention learning more about Jamaica and Christ’s church is growing there.