For the fourth straight year, several Globalscope campus ministries from Latin America have teamed up to travel to a different location to serve together. Claudia Ossa, campus minister with the team in Montevideo, Uruguay, shares how Proyecto La Paz continues to be an amazing experience.
With heavy hearts, we remember and celebrate the life of Alan Ahlgrim, a cherished friend of CMF, who passed away last week after a brief illness. Alan was a passionate champion of our mission, a dedicated member of our Board, and a beloved figure among our missionaries, staff, partners, and fellow board members.
Juli Duvall-Jones, our Director of Missionary Care and Development, shares how focusing on the care of missionary kids (also known at Third Culture Kids, or TCKs) has been instrumental in increasing wellness among our missionaries and their families.
We are so thankful for the supporters and partners that make our ministries possible! This giving empowers CMF’s diverse ministry teams to share the love of Jesus in places where the gospel is needed most. Funds received at the end of 2024 had even more impact.
Providing medical care has always been an essential part of our mission to share Christ’s love with those we serve.
At the end of December, we welcomed a group of new recruits into our Indianapolis office for a week of CMF orientation and training on how to begin their time of raising support. While they each come from different backgrounds and feel called to different fields and ministries, they are now at the point in their mission journeys where they begin the challenging and rewarding task of raising up partners to make their work possible.
Juli Duvall-Jones served as a missionary with us for over a decade in Ivory Coast, so when she later became our Director of Missionary Care and Development, she understood the unique challenges of life and ministry on the mission field. Here, she shares how she and her team help better equip our missionaries for the ministries in which they serve.
Aaron and Diane Lincoln live in the city of Gloucester, England where they serve with a young church plant and demonstrate the gospel through various community-based outreaches. One practical way they care for their neighbors is through their local Street Pastors ministry. Street Pastors are Christian volunteers who, late at night, help vulnerable people in their community who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or homeless, or disoriented by mental illness, or young or lost or lonely.
We did the math and realized that 2024 marked 50 years ago that John and Marilyn Mulkey went on an internship to see if ministry in Indonesia might be for them. We asked John if he was willing to share some reflections on their time serving there and all that was accomplished.
Becca Schafer serves people with disabilities and their families in the Chiang Mai, Thailand, area. She works with Hope Home, a foster home for children with disabilities, providing daily care, love and guidance in a family setting. Here she shares a glimpse of how she integrates spiritual principles into the lives of the children she serves.
