BCBC Ministry Hub

Kingdom Servant

Vision: Empowering BCBC members to serve with their gifts and talents to bless this body of believers and share the love of Jesus!  

Servant Roles Outlined

Children's Ministry Teams

Come join our team to be a vital part of making resilient disciples! Walk alongside children to see them: 

  • Belong in God's loving family.
  • Believe in Jesus as their Savior and Lord.
  • Become more like Jesus.
Check this link out to see more about the Children's Ministry:
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Please indicate the area(s) where you are most interested in serving. *

We will get back to you soon with a few next steps such as a background check and policy agreement. You will be asked to serve 1-2 times a month for a 6 month commitment.

Guest Connection: Welcome Center & Follow-Up Teams

Vision:  To extend the welcoming arms of Jesus to new guests for them to want to become a vibrant part of BCBC community, and to encourage them to become regular attendees on Sundays. 

Guest Connection consists of two phases: Welcome Center & Follow-Up Teams:

Phase 1 - Welcome Center Mission: For us to be the “Welcoming Arms of Jesus” to every newcomer to feel completely at ease and take care of from the moment they enter until they leave the building by:  

  • Welcoming each newcomer as an honored guest, we will model Christ’s love and impart value for each person God brings our way.
  • Making their tie with us as easy and comfortable as possible, we will be helping them see that rather than church being a “scary” place, it is a place of genuine warmth and care where they can belong.
  • Making them want to connect more personally with God and His church here at BCBC, we will be partnering with the Holy Spirit to help grow them into the person God would want them to be. 

Your role - Serve on a rotational team basis which equates to once a month.  

Phase 2 - Follow-Up Team: 

  • Receive - Community Life Pastor (CLP) will contact the guest (info received from guest connection card) on a Sunday or Monday.  By Tuesday, CLP will assign a Team Member for follow-up with goodie drop on a Wednesday or Thursday. 
  • Reach Out - Upon receiving information from CLP, Team Member will reach out to the recent visitor.
  • Render Goodie by Friday. 

Your role - Serve on a rotational basis which equates to once a month and engage guest(s) from Sunday visit to drop off small goodies to them based on size of their household on the following Wednesday or Thursday that week.

For serve in this area or any questions, please contact Pastor Jud at   Thank you. 

Hosting & Hospitality Ministry 

The Hosting & Hospitality Ministry involves Greeters, Ushers, Parkers, and Café volunteers. The following are current service opportunities:

Monthly Service Greeters, Ushers, and Parkers

Team Leaders. We need service-oriented couples to serve as Team Leaders for any one of the four teams that rotate during the month. Team Leader responsibilities include coordinating the team members for their particular Sunday, leading team prayer before services start, passing along information, and conducting the count. Training and transition assistance is provided. 

Team members. We have four teams, each team (6-8 people) takes one Sunday a month. There is always a need for additional team members to serve monthly and share the privilege of serving members and visitors to BCBC. 

Quarterly Service. Greeters, Ushers, and Parkers. We have a new team affectionately known as 5th Sunday Servants who serve on the 5th Sunday of the year.  

Café Ministry. There is always a need for volunteers to help with providing morning eats and drinks. This ministry also includes coffee bar layout, hosting, and clean up. Our goal is to have volunteers willing to serve one weekend per month.

Contact: Pastor Jud at for more information.

Music: Praise & Worship, Audio/Visual Teams

Praise & Worship, Media (Media encompasses the sound booth team with sound, audiovisual, lights, and video production)

Praise & Worship: Looking for volunteers with the ability to play an instrument or sing (there are auditions for this part of the ministry).

Media: Any background experience in media including sound, audiovisual, lights, or video production can be helpful but not necessary. If you are willing to learn, the sound booth team will help you.

 Contact: Matt Simpson @

Outreach Ministry

The Outreach Ministry seeks to provide opportunities for those new to the New Bern community, for those without a church family, or those who do not know Jesus as their Savior to become connected to the BCBC family and to walk in a vibrant relationship with Jesus. The Outreach Ministry team coordinates several events each year to encourage these connections. There are opportunities to participate in the ministry by helping to plan events, inviting individuals in the New Bern community to the events, volunteering and following up with those visiting the BCBC family at the ministry events. 

The Harvest Festival is held at the end of October at the barn. We provide an evening of family fun with food and games. Open to the community.  We look for volunteers to help set-up, clean-up, decorate, and help with food and games.

Live Nativity happens the second week of December for four evenings for the community to see and hear about the birth of Jesus.  We need volunteers for acting roles, set-up, clean-up, bake cookies, and serve in the kitchen for fellowship afterward.

Contact: Frank Hix at 

Further contact is available to reach out directly via Outreach Team to find out more ways to jump in to serve in this area through the email at  

Mission's Ministry Teams

Missions encompass various ministries BCBC is involved in. The Mission Committee has oversight of 8 local ministries and 15 missionary families serving within the US borders and abroad. The Mission Committee also has oversight for Operation Christmas Child (OCC) and organizes Short-Term Adult Mission trips.

Each of the 8 local ministries and the 15 specific missionaries are described in more detail in the BCBC website link on missions. 

Marty Lebo oversees our missions' reach with teams for each of the following areas: local, foreign, crisis, flex and global missions.

Local Supported Missions: 

Backpack Blessings: RJ Wojtylak, . 

Craven County Disaster Recovery Alliance (CCDRA): 

EPIC: Lora Lebo and Tara Howry. https://www.easternpregnancy.net/

Garden Ministry: Greg Fahy, 

KAIROS: Pam O’Connor,  

Operation Christmas Child: Cookie Davenport, , and Amy Denney,  

RCS: Dave and Cookie Davenport.  https://www.rcsnewbern.com/

True Justice: Tara Howry.

EPIC Ministry

EPIC, Eastern Pregnancy Information Clinic, is a local Christian non-profit that seeks to serve women and families facing unplanned pregnancies. EPIC offers free pregnancy tests, free limited ultrasounds, confidential peer counseling, prenatal and parenting classes, fatherhood classes, information on adoption, and information on abortion. Our goal is to offer Christ-centered support to help build strong families. 

EPIC is located at 1505 S. Glenburnie Rd, Suite O, in New Bern. There are many ways to support EPIC, including volunteering, hosting a “baby shower”, or supporting with financial assistance. Brice’s Creek Bible Church is a supporter of EPIC as one of our local missions.

If you have an interest in learning more about how you can be involved with EPIC,

contact Lora Lebo, 252-671-5727,

Backpack Blessings

Backpack Blessings, Inc. is a Christian organization serving God in eastern North Carolina by feeding children who suffer from food insecurity in their homes. We are a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization, formed in December 2012. We partner with area churches and businesses to provide supplemental food for students in Craven, Jones and Pamlico Counties. Our goal is to stand in the gap between kids and hunger whenever they are away from the safety net of the Child Nutrition Programs in their school.

Backpack Blessings provides a weekend “snack bag” of individually wrapped, kid-friendly foods (mac and cheese, oatmeal, cereal, granola bars, fruit cups, etc.) for at-risk kids to take home with them on the weekends. We currently serve every elementary and middle school in three counties, providing about 850 students with these weekend food bags. Backpack Blessings also provides monthly food boxes for our Backpack Blessings families in the summer, and a holiday meal box when the children are out of school for Christmas break.

How BCBC Serves?

About every 6-8 weeks, Backpack Blessings will send out a call for volunteers to help build the weekend bags.  There will be slots to sign up for over a Monday and Tuesday in 2-hour blocks, though most of the time the work is completed in 45 minutes or less. In addition to our financial support of this organization, we also send about 15-25 volunteers to each of these builds.   It is a great and fun time to both serve and interact with other members of BCBC.

Contact: RJ Wojtylak ( ). 

See more information about Backpack Blessings at www.backpackblessings.com

Kairos Prison Ministry

The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration with 2.3 million people currently in the nation’s prisons or jails — a 500% increase over the past thirty years!  

The Kairos Prison Ministry is an ecumenical worldwide non-profit ministry that brings the love of God and the light of Christ into prisons.  BCBC partners with other local churches within the community in support of the local men's prison, Pamlico Correctional Facility.  We are seeing hope restored and lives transformed in miraculous ways. 

You can help shine that light by participating on both inside and outside teams.  Only men are permitted inside but there are plenty of roles on the outside for men, women and children.  If you are interested in being part of a prayer and share, baking cookies, making posters, or serving during a Kairos weekend, or one of the many other opportunities.

Contact Pam O'Connor 252-670-0358 

 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’” (Matthew 25:40)

https://kairosprisonministry.org/

Religious Community Services

Hi. We are Dave and Cookie Davenport and would love to introduce you to RCS.

Forty-one years ago, RCS was serving soup out of the back of a car. Since then, RCS has not only been home to a community kitchen but a shelter, pantry, medical clinic, and clothing “boutique”. RCS seeks to respect those coming to them for help knowing each was lovingly created in God’s own image. In 2023, Religious Community Service provided over 14000 nights of shelter and served over 33000 bags from their food pantry. 

There are numerous opportunities to serve at this amazing organization. Here is how BCBC in involved. On the second Friday of each month, we help provide a meal. RCS supplies the menu and food. We chop vegetables and fruit, perhaps put together a meatloaf, or season chops, butter bread, and get drinks ready. No, you don’t even have to know how to boil water! Often when we finish with clean-up, we all go out to get a bite to eat and fellowship. This whole process goes from approximately 8 AM until noon.

To see the smiles and gratitude on the faces of those we serve is heartwarming to say the least. It is not unusual to have 85 to 125 guests at a meal.

RCS has a continual need for help, any day, every day. We will warn you…if you come once, your heart will be tugged to return. We would love to have you join us.

“If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noon day” Isaiah 58:10

Contact: Dave and Cookie Davenport, ,

(252) 497-5699 or (757) 371-3459. 

RCS is located at 919 George Street New Bern, (252) 633-7667. https://www.rcsnewbern.com

Garden Ministry

The Garden Ministry is in the foundation phase (phase one). We've been provided roughly a 50'X50' area for the garden itself. The plan for the garden is to fulfill parishioners' needs in grounding ourselves with humility, peace and kindness (phase two). We will be growing vegetables for the community (RCS), outreach opportunities and for parishioners in need. The garden will have both raised beds and ground level gardens. On the exterior of the garden will be fruit trees and various landscape plants for both pollination and Biblical relevance. In the center will be a patio that will include seating for any groups to use for prayer and Biblical studies.

The time currently to meet for foundation work is Friday's 9AM-12PM, laborers are needed for this process. The work needed includes digging, setting of fence posts, dirt work and carpentry skills.

The Landscape Ministry is an ongoing operation (It does not include mowing or maintenance). The responsibility is to help beautify the grounds through a coordinated effort. A current ongoing list of things needed to be done can be found through the church secretary Kathy Rioux 252-636-3378 or directly with Gregory Fahy,   

Planned are two Saturday Landscape Clean Up Days, October 12th, 2024 starting at 8 AM and April 12th, 2025 at 8 AM. Some of the plans for the Landscape Ministry include a walking path around the perimeter of the property and the strategic plantings of trees, landscape shrubs and flower beds. Laborers are needed for this process. Ideas can be submitted to the church secretary Kathy Rioux via phone 252-636-3378 or Gregory Fahy via phone at 252-658-1881 or

Contact Gregory Fahy at   or (252) 658-1881.

Other Supported Missions: 

Use the link below to see our list of missionary families within the US borders and abroad.

https://www.bricescreekbiblechurch.org/ministries/missions/

Women's Ministry Teams

The BCBC Women’s Ministry Team is made up of biblically focused and prayerful ladies who have a passion for fellowship and encourage all women in the congregation and in the community. Our efforts lift up others in godly ways specifically through supporting local women’s shelters and Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) as well as planning and hosting special events such as baby showers, bridal showers, an annual Christmas Tea, and other fellowship opportunities throughout the year. Please consider joining our team and help us win, build, and send in the name of Jesus Christ. See the Women’s Ministry Team in the Groups app on Church Center.

Contact: Kathy Rioux at 410-971-1829 or email 

Men's Ministry 

Men's Ministry: Men's breakfast, discipleship groups, other special events (e.g., Goliath's Spear, Make it for Mom, oyster roast, movie night), churchwide lunches, Mother’s Day gift distribution, political or community leader invitation/luncheons.

Mission statement: The Men's Ministry of BCBC is an instrument of God for reaching men and building them into a community of Christian disciples who, through the Holy Spirit, allow the attitude of Christ to be reflected in all areas of their lives.

Men interested in serving (overseeing and volunteering at events, taking part with the kitchen team), leading (table leaders, discipleship groups, and overall long-range planning), and communicating with the larger church body (Church Center, sign-ups, general advertising).

Contact: Robert Fudala at 252-571-5586 or email

Community Life Ministry Teams 

Meal Ministry

We are looking for more volunteers.  As we grow, we want to minister God's love to those God sends our way.  The purpose of this meal ministry is to bless an individual/family who has had a life event (a birth, hospital stay, recovery, a death in the family) by delivering a meal. Volunteers are notified, you go to the Meal Train website (this provides all information on why and who you are blessing), pick a date on the calendar, deliver your meal - it's that easy!

Contact: Christine Elliot,   or 360-632-3073. 

Bereavement Team Ministry

Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” 

The BCBC Bereavement Team surrounds grieving families with tangible acts of love. We host a luncheon at the church to bring family & friends together in an atmosphere of calm, peace, and respect. Creating a safe, comforting space around a shared meal that reminds mourners they’re not alone. The Bereavement Team has four fundamental areas of work, set-up/tear down, decorating, greeting/ushers, and food organization.

If you feel led to provide comfort to those navigating periods of loss, please reach out to Christine Elliot, email  , (360-632-3073).

S.W.A.T. (Sisters Working As A Team)

“To aid women who, due to life circumstances, find themselves needing assistance with everyday chores. Whether it is cleaning, packing, unpacking, shopping, transportation, doctors’ visits, or just visitation and prayer. As sisters in Christ, we are ready to share God’s love through service.”

Contact: Pastor Jud,

 

Pastoral Ministry

Prayer Chain Ministry / Coordinator

Vision: Prayer support to the BCBC Community

  • All those on the prayer chain should be BCBC members, regular attendees of BCBC, or former BCBC members who share both the vision of ministry and vital passion for the spiritual burdens unique to the BCBC family. 
  • All members and regular attendees can sign up for and be placed on the prayer chain team only after agreeing to the policy of the prayer chain.

Prayer Chain 

Our prayer chain is designed for the BCBC body to support people and ministries connected with BCBC by lifting them up for immediate prayer.

If you would like to be added to the prayer chain, contact Pastor Jud at: 

You can submit your prayer requests to 

Brittnay Shiminski at   or  Kathy Rioux at

Prayer Response Team

Vision: Being ready to assist people responding to the Lord’s leading in one’s life and facilitate BCBC followup.

   Some Role Responsibilities:  During the response invitations of the service, the assigned response member will come to the front to be available for pastor direction in ministering to the responding person. 

Prayer Team

This team led by the Community Life Pastor organizes strategic prayer element to support the prayer life of the BCBC body; for example recent prayer initiatives for Christmas and Easter with Prayer Guides..

Interested in serving or for more details with any of these teams, please contact Pastors Barry or Jud, 252-636-3378 or by email at

Join the teams by filling out the form below and directed to the Ministry Area Servant Leaders.  Questions? Call the church at 252-636-3378, or contact Pastor Jud at 252-675-3937 or Pastor Phil at 252-626-6555.

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Bill and Theresa Hampton: Wycliffe Bible Translators
Serving in: Levittown, PA

Bill and Theresa continue to serve the organization through networking, resourcing, and leadership, and strategy mentoring. From their home in Levittown PA, Bill has begun to build organizational networks that will help strengthen organizational resourcing for the work worldwide.

He also serves as a leadership and strategy consultant for teams in some of the world's most difficult places. Theresa serves locally through her teaching ministry. She teaches English as a second language (ESL) to recent immigrants. Over the years, our organization has served speakers of many languages in many ways.

Our organization's work has positively impacted people in well over one hundred countries! Both Bill and Theresa feel uniquely placed to help build our organization globally, and serve as salt and light locally. They continue to use the years of experiences that the Lord has given them, all to His glory.

Brad and Robin Harbaugh: Capitol Commission
Serving in: Raleigh, North Carolina

Brad and Robin met at college and have served Christ together for the past forty years. Brad is an Ordained Pastor and has served as Pastor in Ohio, Michigan, and most recently for over 13 years at Colonial Baptist Church in Cary, North Carolina. Dr. Brad Harbaugh currently serves as Capitol Commission’s President. The National Ministry headquarters is in Raleigh, NC.

The National Ministry: a: strengthens and sustains the State Ministers on the field, providing pastoral care to them, training, encouragement, accountability, and b: The National Ministry ministers across the Nation to our leaders in meetings, in Washington, D.C., in small groups, and in church pulpits. The National ministry carries out the development of new territory work and seeks to restore/ replace State Ministers as they retire or leave the field.

Capitol Commission has 22 State Ministers and is currently ministering this unique strategy in 24 states. Capitol Commission is committed to making disciples of Jesus Christ in the Capitol communities of the world as well as following the Biblical mandate of praying for our elected officials nationwide.

Doug and Lori McCary: His Light Ministries
Serving in: Florida 

In November 1999, Doug started HisLight International Ministries to come alongside churches in the U.S. and overseas as a men’s leadership consultant, missionary evangelist focused on frontier evangelism, evangelism and discipleship training, and a ministry resource serving alongside global mission partners to help fulfill the Great Commission. HisLight is currently focused on partnering with ministries in Southeast and Northeast India, Nepal, and the Himalayan Mountain region to help build these new bases of operations!

Greg and Kathleen Parson: Frontier Ventures
Serving in: California

The Frontier Ventures is the combination of the U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM) and the Frontier Mission Fellowship. The Pasadena based campus became known as The Venture Center. Greg and Kathleen Parsons have been on the staff of Frontier Ventures since 1982. Greg was raised in Silicon Valley but came to Pasadena via Dallas—where he met Kathleen while attending Dallas Seminary. They were married in 1981 and raised their children in Pasadena. They now have two grandchildren.

Kathleen has had a number of roles, beginning with being an Administrative Assistant to Dr. Winter. She has helped through the years with several departments, including financial accounts. She currently processes the electronic donations for Frontier Ventures. Greg worked for 27 years with Ralph Winter. He served from 1990-2010 as the General Director. He now serves as Director of Global Connections and takes great joy in learning from, sharing with, and connecting with missions and church leaders globally. Currently, he is working to produce a new podcast to share mission insights and ideas from mission leaders globally. He is interviewing leaders as he travels around the U.S. and the globe.

Greg also serves as the Chancellor and Ralph D. Winter Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at William Carey International University. He writes a regular column in Mission Frontiers magazine, the bulletin of Frontier Ventures, and has published two books—both related to Ralph D. Winter. He serves on several boards including WCIU, Christar, and Missio Nexus, and the Center for Mission Mobilization. Greg and Kathleen both serve on the board of Frontier Ventures.

Kris and Rebecca Hodges: CRU
Serving at: Kennesaw University in Georgia

Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. KSU offers more than 150 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to its nearly 38,000 students. With 13 colleges on two metro Atlanta campuses, Kennesaw State is a member of the University System of Georgia and the third-largest university in the state.

Kris and Rebecca have been on staff with Cru since 2004. Kris and Rebecca have a daughter named Piper and two sets of twin boys, Colt and Case, and Jasper and Jaxson.

Perry and Brenda Jansen: SIM - Sudan Interior Missions
Serving in: Idaho

Dr. Perry Jansen is a board-certified family physician who served with SIM in Malawi from 2000-2016 where he played an integral role in supporting the government’s strategy to bring life-saving antiretroviral therapy to this very poor country.

He founded the Malawi non-profit hospital Partners in Hope (PIH), which has grown to be one of the largest providers of HIV treatment in the region and is a key training partner with the Ministry of Health and USAID. In 2016, Perry realized his goal of handing over the hospital and training grants to national leadership. He served as Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at MedSend.

He completed a master’s in public health at George Washington University. Dr. Jansen continues as a SIM missionary and is also Vice President at Mission Hospital Teaching Network at African Mission Healthcare. Dr. Jansen lives in Meridian, Idaho with his wife, Brenda, their three kids, daughter-in-law, and grandchild.

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Al and Billie Nucciarone: Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA)
Serving in: Israel

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is touching millions of lives... one heart at a time. Since 1954, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes has been challenging coaches and athletes on the professional, college, high school, junior high, and youth levels to use the powerful medium of athletics to impact the world for Jesus Christ. FCA is the largest Christian sports organization in America. FCA focuses on serving local communities by equipping, empowering, and encouraging people to make a difference for Christ.

Creig and Sherry Marlowe: European Christian Mission (ECM)
Serving in: Holland

The mission of ECM is to plant churches across Europe that share and show the love of Jesus. Creig offers theological and pastoral training to the international student body at the Evangelical Theological Faculty (ETF Leuven). Sherry hosts a bi-weekly craft connect group for ladies from our local church and serves on the family ministry team. Since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, they have both been involved in a church plant work close to their home, the International Church of Leiden. Creig preaches occasionally and regularly serves on the worship team. They also participate in a small group Bible study that meets in their neighborhood. Since the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, they have been involved in helps ministries with Ukrainian refugees. Additionally, Creig has committed, as time and finances allow, to be available for an annual short- term assignment with the organization Theologians Without Borders.

Damien and Renee Daspit: Wycliffe Bible Translators
Serving in: Thailand

About 350 million people do not have any Scripture in their language. Wycliffe’s vision is to see the Bible accessible to all people in the language they understand best. To make this vision a reality, Wycliffe also focuses on community development, literacy development, and church partnerships.

The Daspit family is actively involved in translation work. They provide computer support and software that is an answer to prayers used to reduce the time it takes to translate languages. The Daspit family works with SIL International.

Matt and Annette Cummings: World Wide Evangelism for Christ (WEC) Japan
Serving in: Japan

WEC Japan is a branch of WEC International, which was founded in 1913. WEC International is committed to reach the unreached, to plant churches and to mobilize for missions. WEC International has 1,800 workers across the world. It is an interdenominational and multicultural organization.

WEC Japan started its work in Japan in 1950 and has been working in church planting, training for missions, and mobilization around Shiga, Kyoto, and Nara but now is expanding to other areas in the Kinki region.

Matt and Annette have been involved in evangelism and church planting in Japan. Their fluency in languages and previous ministry experience have helped them greatly. Their base is in Sendai. Annette does outreach in teaching English and leads ladies' Bible study.

Pastor Guillermo Lee Huerta: La Puente Ministries
Serving in: The Mexico – Texas Border Region

La Puente Ministries is an outreach to the Mexican villages across the border from Texas. Pastor Lee is reaching people in dangerous and troubled areas in Mexico helping and preaching to them for the glory of God.

Pastor Huerta passion is to equip the national pastors in Spanish-speaking countries with Bibles, tracts, VBS materials, Sunday School Material in Spanish. We want to hold seminars for pastors (as we already have done in the past) who cannot afford to go to a seminary or Bible school.

We teach them how to conduct funerals, marriage seminars for their folks, why baptism is needed as well as what is the correct mode to follow? We also teach doctrine, conduct video presentations for young people, visit folks in the villages.

Rachel Stanley: Operation Mobilization (OM) Ships International

OM Ships International is the organization behind Logos Hope. The Ships Ministry began in 1970 as part of the global Christian training and outreach movement, OM International. Since then OM's ships have visited over 500 different ports in 151 countries and territories and welcomed over 45 million visitors on board. As of January 2020, the ship Logos Hope is visiting Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

OM goal is to bring knowledge, help, and hope to the people of the world. We do this by supplying vital literature resources, encouraging cross-cultural understanding, training young people for more effective life and service, providing needed relief, and sharing a message of hope in God wherever there is an opportunity.

Roger and Laura Dye: CRU/FamilyLife Global
Serving in: Central and South America

CRU purpose is helping to fulfill the Great Commission in the power of the Holy Spirit by winning people to faith in Jesus Christ, building them in their faith and sending them to win and build others, and helping the body of Christ to do evangelism and discipleship through a variety of creative ways.

CRU offers spiritual guidance, resources, and programs tailored for people from all cultures in every walk of life through many diverse outreaches, including:

  1. 2,300 campus ministries engaging more than 101,000 students and faculty in ministry on U.S. college campuses;
  2. CRU’s city ministry serving in over 50 cities and partners with over 2,000 churches and organizations in mobilizing Christ-followers to share God's love throughout the city;
  3. Weekend to Remember marriage getaway or an event sponsored by FamilyLife, a CRU ministry;
  4. The athletic ministry has outreaches in 64 countries, 225 college campuses, and 46 professional sports teams in the U.S.;
  5. Ministry to military installations and communities in all 50 states;
  6. The JESUS film has been shown in more than 1,500 languages.

The Dye family serves with FamilyLife Global an extension of CRU. Church planting, leadership development, and marriage and family ministry: these are the ministries in which God has called and equipped the Dye family to serve Christ. They help strengthen couples and families through various ministries. They serve the Latino population. As well as other ministry assignments, Roger is in charge of the Spanish language radio programs for Family Life.

The Dye family stated that “Out of the thousands of ministries we could be involved in, these are the ones that God has laid on our hearts, prepared us for with spiritual gifts and training, and led us to through His guidance.”

Tori McKinney: ELIC (English Language Institute/China)
Serving in: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Tori will be teaching English as a second language in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia through ELIC (English Language Institute/China). ELIC is a non-profit Christian organization that trains instructors to teach with excellence by loving their students well. The organization has professional teachers in 13 countries throughout the 10/40 window, including the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. We strongly believe in becoming cross cultural servants who demonstrate grace, concern, and long-term investment in our students and co-workers. Through this reflection of the Father, Tori is seeking to be a living example of the Gospel to those in Mongolia, especially her students!

Samuel and Sarka Hust: Josiah Venture
Serving in: Czech Republic

Sam and Sarka, along with their two children Eliska and Barbora, have been serving with Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic since April 2005.

After finishing the KAM (JV’s partner organization in Czech) internship program in June 2002, Samuel took a step of faith into full-time ministry as an instructor and mentor for those who are church planting in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He has a vision for building a new generation of devoted servants in these countries. His wife Sarka works with senior citizens, has a gift for hospitality, leads a children's club, and cares for their children. They live in Zlin, not far from Josiah Venture headquarters, where they are involved in building up their local church.

Joy Ruffner:  Women of Hope in Christ
Serving in: Honduras

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