Advent Giving Global

Global Giving Goal: $100,000

Justin and Angela Montgomery

Justin and Angela have gone through our sending pipeline, are ready to be sent to their location in Thailand, and need this last push to launch them out! Financial support will cover a month-long, cross-cultural training for their family, flights to Thailand, initial setup/settling in costs, and cover visa expenses.

Lack of education for kids of missionaries has long been one of the top reasons missionaries go back to their home country. Justin and Angela have first-hand experience and a passion for supporting the efforts it takes to allow missionaries to stay in the field long-term. Angela will teach at Grace International School, which primarily exists to meet the educational needs of missionary families in the region. Justin will work directly with our ministry, Teach with Cru, to build partnerships with other schools around the globe. In addition to their daily roles, Justin and Angela will be involved in inward facing ministry at the school by discipling students, and outward facing ministry alongside other GIS staff and students in building relationships and sharing the gospel in the local community.

We are excited to partner with Justin and Angela in their vision to come alongside missionary families who have a desire to stay in the field to make an impact for gospel growth. Thank you for your generous support!

Ryan and Marianne

Ryan and Marianne have gone through our sending pipeline with Wycliffe Bible Translators and are already in their final missionary location in West Africa, where they work in partnership with SIL (an international linguistics organization). Ryan works in project management supporting several language groups in the process of translating the Scriptures. Financial contributions to their SIL office will allow for participation in training sessions that equip translation teams in the areas of translation, literacy, scripture engagement and linguistics. Contributions would also allow for the offering of enrichment, soul care, and team building that would help their dedicated team thrive. Additionally, financial support would also help cover personal and wellness needs that their team may have.

We are excited to partner with Ryan and Marianne in their passion to translate scripture into local languages. Thank you for your generous support!

B & R*

*due to security reasons, we cannot share their first names

B & R have gone through the sending pipeline at New Eden Church in Decatur. As part of Summit Crossing Limestone, and then being commissioned out to be a part of a team that launched New Eden Church, B & R have understood God’s heart for the nations. The training they have received through short-term trips, Perspectives, Radius International, and ongoing partnerships with the staff at Summit Crossing Madison, Summit Crossing Limestone, and New Eden has equipped them for this journey of long-term missions.

Financial support through Advent Giving would allow B & R to move to the Middle East to attend 3 years of language school to learn Arabic, cover the cost of living expenses, as well as schooling for their daughter. Once they have completed language school, they will travel to an area they have identified to begin the process of starting a business to engage the community with the gospel in a remote, unreached context.

We are excited to partner with B & R in their heart to make disciples in the Middle East! Thank you for your generous support!

Neverthirst

Neverthirst works with their local partners and the local church to find the best and most sustainable solutions in each country. These solutions range from improving water quality through household water filters, to boring deep wells, to tapping mountain springs and using gravity to pipe water to an entire community. In every setting, one thing is consistent—they promote sanitation, good hygiene practices and form a local water committee trained to keep the water flowing.

Clean water changes lives. Access to clean water in rural communities means:
– Improved Health
– More time to attend school, grow crops and earn an income to reduce poverty
–  Improved safety for women and children
– Empowers the local church by serving their communities with clean water

Neverthirst has been a long-standing global partner and financial support will increase their efforts of giving people access to clean and living water in the Eastern Sahara region of Africa. Thank you for your generous support!

International Leadership Institute (ILI)

A new opportunity this year is the global-focused International Leadership Institute (ILI). ILI is a movement of men and women who are passionate about training and mobilizing leaders of leaders. Their focus is to train leaders within indigenous people groups to equip others among their nation with the power of the gospel of Jesus with the mission to plant churches.

Training and equipping leaders of leaders in the hardest to reach areas around the world, and specifically in the Middle East and other challenging contexts, is a significant task. Financial support would allow the ILI training materials to be translated into a new language to equip leaders in gospel advancement in the most remote locations.

ILI’s Seven Prayerful Outcomes:
– Unbelievers become followers of Christ
– Followers become disciples
– Disciples become effective workers
– Leaders become equipped
– The needs of the hurting are met
– New churches are planted
– Lives are transformed

People from Summit Crossing have been working alongside ILI for years, and we are excited to introduce ILI and their efforts to equip and train leaders to take the gospel to unreached areas! Thank you for your generous support!