Vintage 242 Missionaries
Kurt and Eva
Kurt and Eva have lived in the Middle East for 10 years. They serve to establish a resting place for the most high in one of the hardest and darkest places and make disciples that do the same. With their work, they host a 6 month internship for students and weekly meet with muslim background believers for discipleship and prayer. To learn more or partner with them, please visit www.dwell-global.com.
Story International
Story International is committed to changing the orphan care narrative on a global scale. Through education and advocacy in not only the regions where they work but in Latin America as a whole, Story seeks to empower NGOs and the LOCAL church to be change agents in the family-based care movement. On the front end, we work to preserve family structures and prevent unnecessary family separation. That means coming alongside at-risk families and walking with them in their journey towards stability, wholeness and independence. When a child does have to be separated from their biological family (either temporarily or permanently), the solution is still family. As a safer care alternative to institutionalization, Story recruits and trains Guatemalan foster families and places children in their care. Even still, reunification with biological family remains our ultimate goal when possible.
For more information about supporting Story International go to https://www.storyintl.org
Geoff and Sherry
Geoff and Sherry live and work in the inner city of Melbourne, Australia. Surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the city’s four million residents the Maddock’s seek to love and serve those left behind and cultivate a sense of place for all city dwellers (www.urbanseed.org). They started in this new context in late 2016. See this article for more information about their work with Urban Seed.
Between 1999 and 2016, Geoff and Sherry lived in the inner city of Lexington, Kentucky. With their son, Isaac (born 2003), they worked as missionaries with a focus on neighborhood outreach and service. Their wider involvement in transformation committed them to service in neighborhood associations, non-profit boards, city government committees, and local food economy initiatives. For many years they operated an urban farm on the lot next to their home —the 4th St Farm. This 1/10 of an acre property raised beds for vegetables, chickens, bees, and more than 20 fruit trees.
The support for their vocation in mission comes from friends, family, and several churches in Georgia.
They are authors of “Sowing Seeds of Shalom in the Neighborhood” (available on Amazon for Kindle) It is the first briefing paper from the Summit of the International Society for Urban Mission (ISUM) and offers theological frameworks, principles, disciplines and practical suggestions for Christians who long to be involved in neighborhood transformation.
Lance
Lance has been serving in Scotland with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) since 2000. For the last 10 years, Lance has been hosting short term outreach teams that he takes up to small rural communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. These outreaches include youth outreach, community outreach, intercession trips, sailing trips, and encounter trips.
Lance is also currently heading up a ministry in their village called The Filling Station. This is a national ministry that seeks to run monthly gatherings for Christians living in rural communities where people don’t have access to Spirit-Filled worship, preaching, and prayer ministry. They started running a Filling Station in their village of West Kilbride in May 2016 and have already seen a tremendous response as spiritually hungry Christians are coming from far and wide to attend these meetings! They have also started a Home Church that has been instrumental in getting the Filling Station up and running.
Apart from these things, Lance is also involved in a strategic intercession group that specifically targets their village of West Kilbride, does preaching and teaching for YWAM and various other churches and ministries, and is part of a YWAM ministry that ministers to long term missionaries working in difficult frontier missions situations. He has recently been asked to be on the Board of Directors for YWAM Scotland which he will step into this Autumn.
For more information about supporting Lance go to https://tnpartners.org.
Jacob and Tatum
Jacob and Tatum have been serving with Youth With a Mission (YWAM) for most of their adult lives. In 2015, they met through YWAM and got married a few months later. Since then, they served together at YWAM Denver and YWAM Redding before moving to Georgia in 2020 to join YWAM Atlanta. That same year they welcomed their miracle son, Sam, into the world. The Greens aspire to live by this vision: to see Jesus get his full reward in us, in our city, and in the nations.
YWAM’s calling is “to know God and make Him known” through evangelism, training and mercy ministries. As one of the largest missions organizations, YWAM has about 20,000 workers in over 180 countries who are all working toward the same goal of fulfilling the Great Commission. With 42% of the world’s population having little or no access to the gospel of Jesus, there is still so much work to do.
As part of the leadership team of YWAM Atlanta, Jacob and Tatum are directing the Discipleship Training Schools and are planning to establish more specialized YWAM training in the future. With worship and prayer as the foundation, their goal is for YWAM Atlanta training schools to thrive in equipping believers to share the Gospel with those who don’t know Jesus, to disciple new believers, and to continually serve those around them. All with the end goal of seeing every tribe, tongue, and nation worshipping Jesus!
For more information about supporting the Greens go to https://tnpartners.org/jacob-and-tatum/
Scott and Rebecca
The Crawfords are working to build a community of people in Jacksonville, FL who gather together regularly to study God’s word, build up, and encourage one another in their faith. Together with those in the community, they desire to reach others on the local bases and create a community of faith among the military in Jacksonville.
Scott and Rebecca are members of Cadence International, an “evangelical mission agency dedicated to reaching the military communities of the United States and of the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Since 1954, Cadence has grown from a small, fledgling mission to an organization with over 200 staff who work in over 60 locations worldwide.”
“Cadence serves all branches of the military in stateside and overseas locations. Comprised of 1.4 million active-duty personnel, the U.S. military community has proven to be one of the largest, most responsive sub-cultures today. Cadence ministers not only to military personnel, but to their spouses and dependents as well.”
“Additionally, over the years, partnerships have been created that have given Cadence a unique role in evangelizing and training people in the armed forces of foreign countries.” Click on their image for more information about their ministry and Cadence International!
Tammy
Tammy moved to South Asia in 1998 and joined with two local believers there to start a ministry for children in extreme risk situations. In that season of prayer and preparation, K-Family was born. Through trials, challenges, losses, miracles, victories and joy this ministry has become a true family for 46 children. What started out as a model family-style children’s home has grown into much more.
Many single moms and widows tried to seek admission for their children into K-Homes after the death of their husbands. God led the K-Homes team in a different direction as they made the decision to only take in the most extremely desperate cases of children without families. A new creative solution was offered to the mothers in need, and the K-Family Support Initiative was founded. Presently, K-ministries is supporting over 250 children from single parent homes. These children can stay with their biological family. K-Family Support Initiative was formed to ensure that these moms would be equipped and empowered to raise their own children. This includes good schools, healthcare, job training, life skills and community support and encouragement. K-ministries has seen many single moms and their children come to Christ through this effort. Over 400 children and 250 single mothers have been directly helped through this exciting K-Family Support Initiative.
Along with this, K-Ministries has been able to pioneer several after school centers for at-risk children, throughout the city as well as a tailoring training center to equip vulnerable young women with marketable skills.
K-ministry also launched a sending agency for the young people in the community who feel called into full time ministry. This work is called Sons & Daughters, with 17 full time missionaries/cross-cultural workers spread out over South Asia.
Out of this unique community, several other amazing works have been started, with some of the grown children of K-Homes in charge, including a dynamic popular cafe/coffeehouse, a virtual services business, and a school!
Tammy was forced to relocate to USA with her youngest adopted daughter recently. She is actively working to get back to that side of the world to be accessible to the community there. She also is working towards setting up a missionary/cross cultural worker respite center in South Asia.
For more information on how you can support Tammy and K-Ministries, go to https://www.k-ministries.org