Cross Cultural Missions Ministry
We are involved in missions because Christ called us to be. The Missions Ministry here at Fairview exists to fulfill Jesus’ command found in both Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8. Monthly budgeted funds are sent to all of our missions. Support is also given to people wanting to go on short-term mission trips.
Many of the missions we support have a major connection to Fairview.
LIFE OF HOPE is a ministry to the street children of Guatemala City, Guatemala. Rick Grove, executive director, and Devin Chance, director of development, are members of Fairview.
NICK & STEPHANIE are sharing Jesus and leading a church planting team in Southeast Asia since January 2007. Nick is from Fairview and interned in our youth ministry.
YANCEY & SHEILA YARICK are raising support to go to Tanzania, Africa, as a part of a team doing linguistic and translation work. They worked with the youth of Fairview prior to their training at Pioneer Bible Translators.
MAX & MARILYN GOINS began WE-GO Mission Coalition in 1992 when they moved to Moscow. There they have planted churches and established a Bible college to train Russian workers. When in the United States, they teach and serve at Fairview.
ANDREW & JOHANA STRINGER serve in Medellin, Colombia, South America. While attending Ozark Christian College, Andrew attended Fairview and helped begin a Hispanic ministry here. He and Johana are native Colombians.
Other missions that we support are:
GIL CONTRERAS, SOUTHERN MEXICO MISSIONS, has been involved in the work of Christ both in and out of the Mexico City area for over 50 years. More than 140 churches have been established.
COLEGIO BIBLICO prepares Christian workers for the Spanish speaking world. One of their graduates, JUAN ELVIRA, under the tutelage of Gil Contreras, has begun a new work in Guatemala.
GOOD NEWS PRODUCTIONS, INTERNATIONAL, works with Christians around the world to design culturally relevant tools of evangelism. For almost 20 years, -MIKE & KAROLYN SCHRAGE were missionaries in Kenya, Africa. They are now serving in Joplin, MO, Mike with Good News Productions and Karolyn with LifeChoices.
LITERATURE & TEACHING MINISTRIES partners with missionaries and national church leaders to write, translate, edit and print books needed in the languages of the mission fields of the world.
NINOS de MEXICO has been sharing Christ with the abused, abandoned or orphaned children of Mexico City through their children’s homes, Christian school, medical outreach and church planting since 1967.