Global Mission Partners

Ashraf and Naomi Abdou serve with Youth With A Mission in Spain for the North Africa region. Naomi (Bickford) grew up at St. Andrew’s. They are involved in discipleship of new believers from the region, as well as training leaders who are more mature in the faith.

Contact: Ashraf and Naomi Abdou
ashabdou@gmail.com
naomi.bickford@gmail.com
St. Andrew’s Contact: Rebecca Taber,
rrtabergmail.com

TEAM

Missionaries Adam and Amy spent more than ten years in a Central Asian country as members of TEAM, The Evangelical Alliance Mission. Both are highly trained in linguistics and work with others in developing small reproducing church groups within their local communities. Adam is a former member and volunteer of St.Andrew’s youth groups and its Mission Committee has been one of their financial sponsors from the beginning of their ministry. Adam and Amy are carrying their work out remotely from a different country in the region with hopes to return to their original country of service after a couple of years.

teamworld.org
St. Andrew’s Contact: Sandy Seymour
jsey@comcast.net

SIU is an international training organization headquartered in Green Valley, AZ and highly focused on church planting for Oral Cultures. St. Andrew’s Mission Committee supports Susie Brown who is part of SIU’S international training staff out of Green Valley. Her mission is to equip and train indigenous, local and regional partner organizations worldwide to communicate the Scriptures using oral Bible strategies to evangelize and plant churches among the lost, unreached, and unengaged people groups. There are nearly 3.5 billion people in the world who live in oral cultures in which they cannot, or choose not to read. Susie, who works with her husband, Tim Brown, have been associated with St. Andrew’s Mission Committee for many years on a number of other local mission projects.

Scriptures in Use
101 S. La Cañada Suite 49D
Green Valley, AZ 85614
susie@siutraining.org
St. Andrew’s Contact: Jim Seymour
jsey@comcast.net

Albert and Anita Bickford’s responsibilities with Wycliffe Bible translators involve two main areas: 1) training young people who are planning careers in Bible translation and other language-related ministries, and 2) working among the 200+ sign languages used by deaf people around the world. They are assigned to work under SIL International, an international faith-based organization that cooperates very closely with Wycliffe. They teach each summer at SIL’s training school on the campus of the University of North Dakota, where Albert has been the school director since 2004 and Anita heads a course about the sounds in the world’s spoken languages. Albert also serves as part of SIL’s Global Sign Languages Team, where his responsibilities include tracking Bible translation needs in sign languages worldwide, coordinating and training sign language consultants, and developing software for creating sign language dictionaries. Albert and Anita are St. Andrew’s members and active in the choir and orchestra.

Contacts: Albert and Anita Bickford
albert_bickford@sil.org;
anita_bickford@sil.org
silund.org; www.sil.org/sign-languages
St. Andrew’s Contact: Don Parce
donparce@gmail.com

ISAAC AND KIRSTIE BICKFORD: CAMA: GUINEA, WEST AFRICA

We serve God with CAMA Services and are currently in Quebec, Canada, learning French.In the summer of 2023.We plan to move to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa to join the Guinea Agropastoral Project, which was started by a local pastor.The purpose of the project is to show people the love of God through agricultural development work.We have worked in agriculture for the past 10 years.Isaac grew up in St Andrews.We have three children: Daniel (6 year old boy), Cedar (5 year old girl), and Robin (2 year old boy).Our family mission statement is “helping Guineans experience the Good News by being good news with them.

St. Andrew‘s Contact: Jim Seymour

jsey@comcast.net

YWAM – GREECE – HANNAH SMITH

Six years ago I did a six month discipleship training school with YWAM.This was the year ISIS obliterated Syria and millions fled to Europe.Part of my practical outreach took place in Lesvos, Greece.I served a refugee camp there providing tents and food for people from all over the Middle East and Africa.During this time, God opened my eyes to the needs of refugees as well as the incredible open door we have into the unreached Muslim world.Over the last six years I have been between Greece and the Middle East serving refugees and training others to reach these nations.More recently I have been living in Thessaloniki, Greece, as part of the leadership team for YWAM Thessaloniki focusing on equipping the Greek church here to reach their own nation and the refugees here.I am training and taking teams frequently into the Middle East to share and serve there as well.Jesus loves the Muslims, He pursues them miraculously and radically.I do my best to do the same!

Contact: Hannah Smith
St. Andrew’s Contact: Sandy Seymour
jsey@comcast.net

Jesus to the Needy leaders, Joe and Averyl Morris, minister to the poor and needy in an impoverished area near Durban, South Africa.

Jesus to the Needy feeds, clothes, and teaches hundreds of students, orphans, abandoned children and adults each week. They provide medical services and minister to AIDS affected families, including a Smart Choices program for youth which promotes abstinence until marriage. They provide school uniforms and sponsor an annual Christmas party for orphans, helping to restore the smiles to little children’s faces. They read Bible stories in Zulu and teach and preach Jesus to the needy, reaching people for Christ, making converts, and discipling people to follow Jesus.

jesustotheneedy.com
missionaryjoe@icloud.com
St. Andrew’s Contact: Don Parce
donparce@gmail.com

CHRISTIAN HEALTH SERVICES CORPS – THE KOLESKIS

Christian Health Service Corps is a ministry of Christian doctors, health professionals, and health educators serving the poor in places that have little or no access to healthcare.Each year, they bring compassionate, life-saving health services to hundreds of thousands of families around the world.Their doctors and health professionals are often the only access to care for young families in poor communities.

The Christian Health Service Corps (CHSC) is dedicated to transforming the health of children and families in their communities.CHSC health professionals save many lives while imparting knowledge that builds community capacity for sustainable change.With respect for human dignity, they work to build community capacity to:

• Promote a worldview that nurtures and supports spiritual and physical wholeness in families
• Ensure child survival and normal growth of children
• Improve health infrastructure and access to functional healthcare services

Dr. Jerry Koleski, a family practice physician, and Elizabeth Koleski, a public health nurse, are

serving at a Mission Hospital in Kapsowar, Kenya, where Jerry is teaching family practice residents and Elizabeth is working in community health.They have served in mission hospitals in Ecuador and Malawi in previous years and a group from St.Andrew’s participated in a short mission trip to Ecuador when they were there in 2005.

healthservicecorps.org

Contact: Jerry and Elizabeth Koleski

jkoleski@healthservicecorps.org

St. Andrew’s Contact: Marianne Hadden

mariannehadden@gmail.com

Since 2006 St. Andrew’s has sent small teams that have joined with others from Pantano Christian Church to build homes in Rocky Point. This ministry has been building homes for impoverished families along the Mexican border for over 30 years. Over 16,000 homes have been built by 300,000 volunteers on mission trips from 7,000 churches.

St. Andrew’s Contact: Kevin Oxnam
kevinoxnam@gmail.com

The Agape Village Foundation started building an orphanage in Zambia, Africa in 2010, and has grown to accommodate almost 70 children. The Agape Orphanage has a staff that works each day to care for the children, tutor them with their studies and help work the garden, orchard and farm. Seventy-five percent of all food consumed by the children is grown at the orphanage.

In 2018 Agape School located next to the orphanage was planned, built and paid for in order to offer the children a better education. Agape School opened in January 2019 with eight classrooms that will accommodate 160 students. There are new student and teacher desks in every classroom, projectors, whiteboards, bulletin boards and security cameras in the halls, AND God’s miracle is eight miles from the closest city.

Mickey and Jackie Bailey
Agape Village Foundation
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
252-903-1004
agapevillagefoundation.org
St. Andrew’s Contact: Elva Wilson
ebar4209@comcast.net

ACE supports and enriches orphans and vulnerable children in Lusaka, Zambia, through the crisis nursery (House of Moses), the toddler home (Bill and Betty Bryant Nursery), the Faith Works Elementary Schools (grades 1-6), and the Helen De Vos Christian High School (grades 7-12). The annual spring fundraiser at St. Andrew’s, “Change for Children,” features handmade baskets by Zambian women which are given to each family to collect donations for a specific project. Recently, we’ve provided a heavy-duty washer (2015), school desks (2016), a ramada for the Bill and Betty Bryant Nursery (2017), and running water with flushing toilets (2018). ACE Board members from St. Andrew’s have included Claud Smith, Dave and Ellen Vellenga, and Carmen Morris.

Tax Exempt 501(c)(3)
ChildrenEverywhere.org
Contact: Christa Woodard
christa@childreneverywhere.org
St. Andrew’s Contact: Carmen Morris
azcmorris@q.com

Farmer-owned cooperative that seeks to faithfully respond to the current Mexico to U.S. labor migration crisis by selling their organic, shade-grown, Fair Trade Certified coffee directly to customers. This business practice allows farmers to stay on their land and keep families together. St. Andrew’s supports Just Coffee by serving only Café Justo at all events and by selling the coffee each Sunday at the coffee cart.

justcoffee.org
Contact: Adrian Gonzalez
St. Andrew’s Contact: Sandy Kreamer
sandrakreamer@gmail.com

FRONTERA DE CRISTO

One of six border ministries of the Presbyterian Church(USA), Frontera de Cristo is centered in Aqua Prieta, Sonora Mexico and Douglas. It partners with Presbyterian Churches along these border communities to achieve goals of providing witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and ways to also improve individual economic status while grappling with the issues of illegal immigration. This year their efforts were also focused on reducing drug traffic among the young people in Aqua Prieta by completing the construction and opening of Cafe Justo y Mas. This provides a gathering place for young people to go in the evening versus bars where drug traffic is wide open. In addition they financially support a Street Pastor in the evenings to help guide their youth to their new Cafe Justo y mas. They also became a financial sponsor of expanding their Local Drug intervention program.

fronteradecristo.org
Contact: Mark Adams
St. Andrew’s Contact: Dick Grisham
meowbark4@msn.com

Their purpose is to be led by the Holy Spirit to preach the gospel of Christ and to be servants of His ministry dedicated to serving the poor, hungry, sick, naked, and oppressed children of Guatemala This ministry provides food, clothing, clinic services, regular worship, and Bible studies for children and their parents.

Contact: Tom Allan
heartsforthechildren.org
St. Andrew’s Contact: Sharon Lee
sharonlamlee@yahoo.com

CHRISTIAN CHURCH MINISTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

For over ten years, St.Andrew’s has supported this witness starting by working with the Middle East Council of Churches and then with the Good Samaritan Ministry (GSM) of the Presbyterian Church of Yazedia Syria.The GSM was established in 1993 to look after the needs of the elderly, those who need urgent medications as well as other basic needs, refugees and displaced people and children; all demonstrating the love and care of God shown in Jesus Christ.

St.Andrew’s provided funds to encourage Christians to stay in their homeland and share Christ through their life and action by caring for all people (John 3: 16) who are suffering persecution and daily threat.

The funds that St.Andrew’s provided helped with their daily living needs such as food basket, needed medicine, and health care.It also helped people develop themselves, providing a small fund for children in preschool as they prepare for their basic education, empowering women, especially widows and single women, and sometimes temporary rent for the displaced and refugees.The ministry was not limited to the local village but reached out to many people in need, e.g.during the 2011 war in Syria it reached out to many displaced families in neighboring Lebanon.

St.Andrew’s link to this ministry started through Rev.Nuhad Tomeh, a Presbyterian Mission coworker with the PCUSA, for Syria , Lebanon, and Iraq.Since 1995 he has attends St.Andrew’s when he is in Tucson.Although Nuhad is officially retired from the PCUSA, he still works with GSM, traveling back to Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq several times a year, spending about two months each visit.He is also a mission consultant for The Outreach Foundation of the PCUSA.

Contact: Rev.Dr.Nuhad Tomeh
ntomeh@gmail.com

St. Andrew’s Contact: Don Parce
donparce@gmail.com

TRINITY BIBLICAL INSTITUTE

Trinity Biblical Institute (TBI) trains pastors in English speaking East and Central Africa through accredited Bible Colleges serving poor rural communities. From the main campus in Eastern Uganda, teaching occurs at other locations in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. The church in Africa is growing very rapidly, having over 600 million members. However, there is a theological famine wherein there is only one trained pastor for every 450,000 Christians in Africa (as compared to 1:600 in America). TBI is the main work of Trinity Center for World Mission, TCWM, which planted dozens of churches along with schools, and an orphanage, but had to turn to Bible training to provide pastors. Now TBI trains students to be pastors and our students plant churches, literally every month.

We create seminaries > Which create pastors > Which create churches > Which create disciples

Most of our students are poor so they attend on scholarships which provide the majority of their expenses although not all. In all our one, two and four year programs pastors and future church leaders are mentored so they can teach the reformed faith accurately, i.e. full of grace. A few top students are sponsored to get advanced degrees and become future leaders. During crises, TCWM provides food to our students and faculty which is 100% African. TCWM supports a clinic with free medical service for all who come and three radio stations which broadcast the Gospel around East Africa. A second seminary has been completed in Rwanda and is seeking accreditation. A third seminary is under construction in Tanzania.

trinitycwm.org
St. Andrew’s Contact: Don Parce
donparce@gmail.com

WORLD VISION

World Vision is an international Christian humanitarian aid, development and advocacy organization.It is currently active in more than 90 countries.Founded in 1950, in the pacific northwest, World Vision provides emergency relief, education, heath care, economic development, and promotion of justice.It works along side organizations like the United Nations, the World Health Organization and UNICEF.St.Andrew’s has partnered with World Vision in many ways.Our Youth Ministry participates in the program 30 Hour Famine which while gaining knowledge of global hunger issues, our students fast and participate in service projects around the city.Annually we partner with Team World Vision, where we train to run a half or full marathon while raising money to provide clean water to individuals around the world.Our church was the second church in the world to participate in the Chosen program where we sponsored over 300 children in a village in Guatemala.Our children’s ministry has also raised money for mosquito nets in developing countries to help prevent malaria infections.

St. Andrew’s Contact: Pastor Mat Grover
mgrover@sapctucson.org