Providence supports ministries who serve as Christ’s witnesses in Haiti, Nicaragua, the Middle East, Africa, India and Europe; among speakers of many languages and beliefs, in interpreting, teaching and living out God’s word; in church-planting and literacy training; in mercy and medical ministry to the poor, orphans and widows; through agricultural and professional ministry; and evangelizing students and training church leaders.
* Ministry of Hope (in coordination with the Churches of Central Africa Presbyterian) in Malawi (Africa)
* Mission India- New Church Development, Children’s Bible Clubs, &Adult Literacy
Ambassadors for Christ International - Fred & Mabel Amoah-Darko in Ghana (Africa)
Chosen People Ministries - Worldwide
Faith in Action International - Tom Braak in Haiti
Operation Mobilization - John & Marie C Skiotis in England
Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship – Donald Marsden - Worldwide
Presbyterian Outreach Foundation - Frank & Nancy Dimmock in Lesotho (Africa)
Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Ministry - Worldwide
Young Life Student Ministries – Pratt & Ashley Butler in Nicaragua
We also support three missionaries, not to be identified, who serve in sensitive areas in The Middle East. * Strategic-Priority Missions supported by Providence.
The Ministry of Hope (MoH) in Malawi exists to glorify God by reaching out to orphans, widows and vulnerable children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ while ministering to their basic needs. The mission of MoH is to care for vulnerable babies in two Crisis Nurseries, provide food and elementary school uniforms for orphans at six village community centers, provide food and scholarships to secondary school students and promote good health by having Mobile Medical Clinics at the community centers. In addition, we encourage evangelism and discipleship for all MOH participants.
Providence has a strategic priority mission partnership with the Ministry of Hope in Malawi. This includes financial resources for two CrisisNurseries, one in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, and six Community Ministry Centers in village areas in central Malawi.
9 out of 10 Malawians live below the United Nations extreme poverty line with an annual per person income of $150 per year. Half the population is under 17 and the average life expectancy is 43. There are over three million orphans in Malawi, largely as a result of AIDS, pneumonia, dysentery, starvation, and unattended births. Orphaned children are usually taken in by a relative, often an elderly grandmother, or left to fend for themselves.
The Ministry of Hope is one of Providence’s strategic-priority missions. Providence began sending mission teams to Malawi in 2009. Ministry projects sponsored by Providence have included mobile medical clinics; aid for the Crisis Nursery; Christian Education and equipping for adults and children; secondary education scholarships and support for poor students; and the provision of sustainable food sources including cows, chickens, and a piggery to help with the food needs for the community ministry centers. Learn more at http://www.ministryofhope.org/
Mission India ministers in the country with the largest number of Muslims. India’s 1.2 billion people represent one of the most responsive audiences to the Gospel in recent history. As India's people embrace new life in Jesus, they are eager to join in obeying God's call to "go and make disciples."
Mission India is fulfilling the Great Commission by training and equipping India’s believers to reach their own nation for Christ. Mission India provides these dedicated Christians with 3 core programs that prove to be effective in opening doors to the Gospel and planting new churches across India:
Children’s Bible Clubs
Bible-based Adult Literacy Classes
Church Planter Training
Church planters commit to starting two new churches in five years. Over 5,000 Indians who wanted to serve as church planters in 2010 had to be turned away due to lack of funds.
Discover more at www.missionindia.org.
Ambassadors for Christ International (AFCI) – As AFCI’s Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East, Fred Amoah-Darko leads ministry training seminars and conferences for pastors and lay church leaders in Ghana (his home) as well as in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nigeria. He works closely with the AFCI national directors in these countries to help fulfill their vision, and help them resource their ministries.
The central mission of AFCI is revival in the church, evangelism through the church leading to church planting, and training for the church. Each country has its own strategy for ministry, but the common thread is the passion that each has to reach their homeland for Jesus Christ, primarily through preaching and teaching ministries.
Fred’s wife Ruby also works to train and equip women church leaders and the wives of church leaders to learn effective means of studying the Bible and to lead others in studying the Bible. She also has a counseling ministry for those women who are working through difficult personal life experiences.
Learn more at: http://www.afciworld.org/
Chosen People Ministries exists to pray for, evangelize, disciple, and serve Jewish people everywhere and to help fellow believers do the same. The mission was founded in Brooklyn, New York in 1894 by Rabbi Leopold Cohn, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant with a zeal to share the knowledge of Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah with God's chosen people. Today, Chosen People Ministries serves in thirteen countries across the globe. Outreach programs include evangelism and discipleship, Messianic Centers and congregations, equipping the local church for Jewish evangelism, print and web publications, and benevolence work to proclaim the Good News through Jesus the Messiah to Jewish people around the world. Providence supports this effort through a special Thanksgiving offering. For more information go to http://www.chosenpeople.com/main/
Faith in Action International (FIAI) was started by Michigan native Tom Braak to minister to people in central Haiti through evangelism, church support and ministry, clean water, soil conservation, tree planting, farm production, animal husbandry, road construction, literacy and education. Before the earthquake, Haiti was one of the poorest countries in the world with the third-highest rate of hunger, 80% poverty level, and less access to clean water and sanitation than residents of Ethiopia. After the January 2010 earthquake, FIAI extended its ministry to refugees from Port-au-Prince who moved to their area and expanded their ministries to include training for area pastors. Learn more on the web at : www.FaithinActionInt.org
Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship associate director Donald Marsden works to advance the gospel among all ethnic groups in Ethiopia, Eastern Europe and the United States. Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship encourages congregations to become involved in frontier mission, helping to spread the gospel among people groups who have no church. The vision of Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship is: "For every people group - an indigenous church, for every church - a mission vision."
From 1997-2008, Donald and his family served as missionaries of the Presbyterian Church USA in Russia. Part of Donald's work in Russia was to assist in the spread of the gospel among the Nenets, reindeer herding people and other non-Russian peoples of Siberia. While in Russia, Donald founded the Narnia Center in Moscow, a center for publishing children's fiction books which mirror the kingdom of God to children and for training Russian church leaders for ministry with children and youth. Donald’s wife Laurie is the daughter of Providence members Cliff and Judy Allen.
Operation Mobilization - John & Marie-C Skiotis live in London, England with their four children serving with outreach to Muslims.
Presbyterian Outreach Foundation - Frank and Nancy Dimmock were the first missionaries supported by Providence, beginning in 1990. Frank and Nancy have worked in Africa since 1985 to tackle some of the most challenging problems on the continent. Together they have provided care for orphaned children, improved public health, expanded educational opportunities and helped communities create income-generating activities. The Dimmocks served first in the Congo and then in Malawi for 15 years. In 2007, the family moved to Lesotho, a small country surrounded by the country of South Africa. They are affiliated with the PCUSA, Christian Health Associations across Africa, and Ministry of Hope-Lesotho, which they helped establish in December 2009.
Frank is a regional health consultant with a master’s degree in epidemiology and tropical medicine and an honorary doctorate of divinity. He assists health associations and partner churches in eight countries where the PC(USA) has partnerships: Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Congo, Madagascar, and Cameroon. Nancy, the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, grew up in the Congo, and holds a bachelor’s degree in animal science and a master’s in international agricultural development. The Crisis Nursery began in Malawi when Nancy and Frank encountered a severely malnourished infant and received permission to take her into their home. They eventually adopted this baby and began caring for other abandoned infants in their home. After several years, a separate building was constructed, and the crisis nursery was added to Ministry of Hope-Malawi’s efforts to care for orphaned and vulnerable children.
The Dimmocks have eight children, two biological and six adopted, five of whom are still in school.
Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child is an annual international outreach led by Reverend Franklin Graham, son of the Reverend Billy Graham. Individuals in the United States wrap and pack shoe boxes for children all over the world to receive as Christmas gifts. Samaritan’s Purse coordinates the shipping and delivery of the shoeboxes, which include information about Jesus Christ, the first Christmas gift. Learn more at http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC
Young Life International Nicaragua - North Carolina natives Pratt and Ashley Butler live in Managua, Nicaragua, and there, alongside a growing team of national leadership, focus on high school and college ministry to Nicaraguan youth. Their vision is to introduce high school and college students to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith.
