Missions

Missions

Support of Church Plant in Rantoul, IL

In our budget for this year, we proposed $35,000 to give to missions. Some of those funds will go to familiar mission partners such as Jumpah Ministries (Cambodia), Mission Church in Montgomery, Wayside Cross, World Relief DuPage/Aurora, and the Acts 29 Catalyst Fund. Recently, because of your faithful giving, we were also able to give a gift of $4,000 to complete the…

Praying for the Persecuted Church: Libya

  Today we will lift up the country of Libya. For a quick reference, here are some ways you can pray (taken from https://www.prayercast.com/libya.html): • Pray for a unified government that will rebuild the nation with justice and peace. • Pray for the tiny Libyan Church to be united and established despite intense persecution. • Pray for Jesus to reveal Himself to…

Praying Together for Iran

A few weeks ago, Luke Bray led us in thinking about the heart of Psalm 67: “Let the nations be glad” (Ps. 67:3). While we are learning more about global missions (it’s not too late to join the Missions Discipleship Course!), and exploring how we as a church can be more involved in God’s global plans (especially in our partnership in Cambodia),…

Cambodia Letter and Trip Details

Dear Redeemer Family,      As you know, our great God of the nations has opened for us a door to play a meaningful role in the planting of a church in rural Cambodia in partnership with our friends at Jumpah.  Last September, we sent a team to Sobhan village to do an exploratory trip with the aim of learning what the pressing needs are that we might be able to help…

Cambodia Trip Itinerary

Greeting, RCC! Here’s a rough schedule of how we will spend our time in Cambodia. FYI: Cambodia is 12 hours ahead of Chicago; Seoul is 14 hrs ahead. For the Kids Camp, we have been told to expect 200-250 kids, who speak Khmer. There will be 15 of us, who don’t speak Khmer! Haha. Prayers appreciated and needed! Monday, Sept 9 12:25 p.m. Depart Chicago.   Korean Air…

Cambodia Prayer Points

As we get ready to embark on our Cambodian adventure, we covet your prayers for the following: – That God would speak and shine through our teachings We will be teaching 200+ kids along with the staff of teachers at the school. – Seeds planted among the youth and teachers – Smooth and effective translation We will have translators but we need God’s…

Learn More about Cambodia and Jumpah

Redeemer Community, To learn more about Cambodia and Jumpah specifically, please see the links below! Main website   jumpah.org Facebook page   facebook.com/adventurecambodia Videos from Jumpah Welcome to the Jumpah School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gvij9oQ100 VBS video — More Kids in School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rozw5tvrLzU&t=7s School video with…

The Need for a Church

Written by Travis Pyykkonen Gathered together in the Poel’s living room, we had just finished planning all the activities for the Cambodia kids camp and I was filled with excitement. I was starting to imagine the joy of creating real relationships with these kids through fun songs, games, and storytelling. Confident in the good news of Jesus, I anticipated the…

Why Cambodia?

Written by Tim Tatum Dear Redeemer Community, Why are we sending a team to Cambodia? Chai lived in and was saved at the Jumpah orphanage/school. He is now crying out to God for a church! Redeemer Community, we might be God’s answer! Jodi and I met Chai more than 10 years ago (see picture) on our visit to Jumpah. Chai came to live at the Jumpah orphanage when he was…

Acts 29 Global Gathering 2019

Two weeks ago, Katie and I were at the Acts 29 Global Gathering in Orlando, along with Josh & Kimberly Anderson and Kyle & Coleen Gennicks. We came home much more excited to be involved in this church-planting network. Here are a few of the things I found energizing: 1) We saw more clearly than ever that Acts 29 truly is a diverse and global church-planting…

21 Days of Praying

As a church, we want to re-enroll in the school of prayer, and join the disciples in asking, “Lord, teach us to pray,” (Luke 11:1). We want to challenge you as a disciple to join us in 21 days of praying for 21 minutes a day. For some, that’s a stretch. But we’re absolutely certain that it will be worth it. Is there any situation in which praying…

Why Plant Churches? Five Reasons

Two weeks ago, we had a “send out Sunday” for Mission Church and Kyle & Colleen Gennicks, and the commission team.  This past week, they began their Sunday meetings! This is a good opportunity to remember why we plan to be a church-planting church. Here are a few reasons: 1) A BIBLICAL reason: Great Commission + the book of Acts = Jesus’ mandate for church…

Mission Church Baby Shower

3 quick notes: 1) To give by check on Sunday morning, you can make a check payable to Mission Church and drop it off in the back of the room at the baby shower table. 2) To give online, you can go to the Mission Church website to make an online donation today. 3) To view the “registry list” to think about how much to give, follow this link. Background: God has…