National Missionaries

The year 2020 is a year that will go down in history as one of the most challenging years for those who lived through it. Covid-19 and the response of various governments seemed to almost thwart the work of the gospel going forth. We at SGWM have been absolutely blown away at how our God, the God of the impossible, has used this very tragedy to bring the gospel to many in need of truth and hope. Stateside we have been blessed to see the culture returning, for the most part, back to normal. But in many places around the world, the pandemic is on the rise. We have had the great honor of coming alongside many nationals to provide much needed relief and spiritual support during these dark and trying days. One pastor in South Asia has been extremely active during this time and we at SGWM have by your support and prayers, been able to send relief to these areas through this pastor and his church. As Covid cases rise, so do opportunities to share Christ through relief efforts. *Pastor E was able to gather his church together and fill dozens of bags with for for those who were suffering. Here’s a portion of his last update.

“God opened up an opportunity to visit and share the Gospel with people who are suffering and broken. Almost everyone in the families we visited got tears in their eyes, and asked us to please pray for them. It is really sad to see them suffering during this time of COVID. We prayed and distributed food among them. We also visited each family and shared the Gospel and prayed over them.We were so blessed that one family believed on Jesus. Most of them are unbelievers. On the day we did food distribution, they really felt loved and cared for. So please continually pray for these families. They need Jesus. Every Sunday we are going to meet with them and share the Gospel. We are planning to start a Bible study and then start having Sunday worship. This will be another new church plant. So please continuously pray.” – Pastor E

Missionary Equipping

Calvary School of Missions

The Calvary School of Missions has been a huge part of SGWM and raising up the next generation of world-changers. It’s exciting to see the program grow and evolve. More and more people are catching on to the beauty of what God is accomplishing through CSOM and because of that we have seen an influx of amazing people get added to our team. Each year the Lord has provided a strong and steady team to help lead the summer program, and this year is no exception. Pastor Trent and his wife Debbie will once again be able to join for most of the summer, coming back on weekends to lead church services at Calvary Chapel Saving Grace in Yorba Linda. Pastor Tim Pappas, who oversees the school and all our current interns, and his wife Jenn, will be on the ground full time providing leadership and spiritual direction.

We are also blessed to have SGWM missionaries and great friends of ours Pastor Aaron Garcia and his wife Jena and baby Lily. Aaron has recently taken the role of Missions Pastor at Calvary Chapel West Grove but will continue to partner with SGWM to see churches planted all over the 10/40 window. One of our own interns, Nancy will also be with us for the entire duration of the program as Tim’s assistant and the girls dorm leader. She will also be our main translator as she is completely bi-lingual. Elaine Sedillos is joining us again for the first few weeks helping with student oversight and weekly outreach which is always a great blessing. This amazing team has been hand- picked by God and we look forward to all that He has in store for this year’s students. Please pray for each team member, that God would protect them from sickness, discouragement, and opposition. Also, pray for them to wage a good warfare, to walk in the power of the Spirit, and to love each student with the heart of the Father.

Missionary Care

It’s easy to forget that many, if not most, missionaries do not have access to the kind of fellowship and community that believers who live in their native home and culture have. The body of Christ is a gift to each and every believer for our encouragement and our sanctification. This is a gift that many missionaries, in making the sacrifice to preach Christ in another cultural context, do not get to take advantage of regularly.

Consider one SGWM missionary family who serves in a “closed” country: Living in a Muslim culture, the R family have little to no access to the benefits of a community of strong believers to hold them accountable and build them up. This month, as they have been home on furlough, SGWM staff and CCSG church members have had the incredible privilege of coming alongside this beautiful family while they are home to offer the love, encouragement and rest that is much needed. Every year they come home to us on furlough, SGWM’s hub church, Calvary Chapel Saving Grace, seeks to lay out a sort of “red carpet” for them while they are here. Through their care team and CCSG, we try to provide them with a vehicle, a phone, and a place to share their story. We invite them to share from the pulpit, come to Life Groups to share and be prayed for, give them a Missionary Update Night where they can share and have opportunity to raise support, as well as just have them in our homes. Missionary care is an essential part of what SGWM does and we are always honored to be a part of sending these world changers to those who have never heard.

In Christ,

SGWM Staff

Spring is in the air and God is bringing life and new growth to every corner of the earth despite current restrictions and opposition. Saving Grace World Missions is privileged and honored to be a part of what God is doing. SGWM continues to come alongside its partners all over the world and stand amazed at what He is accomplishing. 

National Partnerships

Partnering with National Missionaries is one of the most exciting things SGWM does. Coming alongside these brothers and sisters and giving them the love, care and encouragement they need to be successful is an honor and blessing. This last Christmas, SGWM helped provide funding, through partnering churches and supporters like you, for National workers to bring much love, joy and relief to their surrounding areas. During this very difficult time of Covid 19 and all its restrictions, many of those who work in South Asia found creative ways to bring the gospel to their people. Heather Gaona, director of International Relations, shared her thoughts about the outreaches. 

“I was blown away at seeing churches with 50 plus people attending where just a few years ago there was no church and only 1 believer!! Just knowing how far the guys and their wives hike to reach these unreached villages is impressive. I was also encouraged to find out that two of the local churches raised the money needed from their own fellowship to provide for a portion of the outreach (like the beanies or tracks) and that one church went house to house to visit 150 homes. Every single one of the national pastors did not allow Covid to cripple them, but instead they were creative and innovative and even reached new villages and new areas with the Gospel message of Jesus Christ.”

Here are a couple of their stories.

Outreach in South Asia

Funding provided by CCSG / SGWM Covid Christmas funds

“Funding provided for two outreaches, saris and blankets for elderly and widows, and one Jesus film outreach. Thank you for your financial help that made it possible for us to do the Christmas programs. I shared the Word of God about Jesus’ birth and distributed gifts to the children in our church. We were expecting 200 in my home village to attend, but more than 350 people came and heard the Word of God and ate lunch. We cooked Christmas lunches 2 times – once at my home and once in a village 350 kilometers away. Thanks to the Lord, everything went smoothly and great. I thank God for providing support for blankets and saris (women’s clothing) to give to widows. This made it possible for us to distribute them. Two people’s health conditions were very critical and I am thankful to God that He used me to help them and give them blankets and saris.”-Pastor R

Pastor R is currently pastoring 4 village churches. Before Covid, he was visiting and pastoring in 10 different villages. His area is one of the most persecuted, but he continues to bring hope and relief to all those he is blessed to visit with.

“At least 200 people came to our services. They were blessed by the sharing of the Word of God from Pastor A. We were able to feed those who came. We also distributed some winter hats/bonnets from my beautiful wife and our online fellowships/social media groups who helped with funds to purchase the hats. It was very hard for us to climb the mountain to this village area. Nothing was around to support us or hold on to while we traveled up and down the small narrow path. The people there were very poor, both spiritually and physically. We encouraged them and shared with them about joining our Bible training center for those with a heart for ministry. Pray for their lives to be rooted in the Word of God so that in the upcoming days we can take them, teach them, guide them, and disciple them.” -Pastor R

Pastor R and Pastor A, located in South Asia, conducted outreach in the poorest and most remote region in their part of the world. The people live primitively in the mountains and are often malnourished and uneducated. There is not currently a church there, but Pastor R has been making trips to this region several times a year to minister and share the Gospel. 

Missionary Equipping

Calvary School of Missions

Saving Grace is once again gearing up for its annual CSOM and the pastors are in the process of receiving applicants for this 6-week program. It’s always amazing to see how God sovereignly leads each student to the school. Because class size is limited, the SGWM staff prays very fervently that God would hand pick each student for this course and He has been faithful! This interview season has shown, once again, that God is in this. Over the last 20 years of doing cross cultural missions, the pastors and staff of SGWM realize that there are many out there who do not “GO” well and are not “SENT’ well. Missionary care was already in the DNA of Saving Grace World Missions when three years ago, Pastor Trent received clear direction from the Lord to start a school to provide care and direction for young people within the Calvary movement who want to be missionaries and see the lost saved amongst the nations, but don’t know the next steps. Please pray for this next class. After seeing 2 classes successfully complete the program, SGWM is looking forward to what God has for this next group.

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Missionary Care

In February, Pastor Trent, his wife Debbie, Pastor Tim, and one of the missions interns Spencer, were able to visit with one of SGWM’s missionary families in Acapulco, Mexico and visit church planters in Mazatlán and Culiacán, Mexico. It was a very fruitful trip and God’s hand was evident at every turn. Missionary care is absolutely necessary for a successful missions program.

Most missionaries never have visitors from their home church, much less from their Pastors. By visiting, Pastor Trent and the team were able to, face to face, tell the missionaries that they are loved and that the church has not forgotten them. Many times, when missionaries go out, they feel quite forgotten and alone. It’s essential to not just express our love but to show it by communication and visits when possible. Sitting with these precious saints, they were able to remind them of God’s call on their lives and the fruit that is abounding to their accounts. Their love for the lost, their passion for the people of God, and their devotion to making Jesus’ name famous amongst the nations is evidence of their commitment to God and His glory. Again, Saving Grace feels so privileged and honored to come alongside these precious saints and cheer them on as they run the race!

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In Christ

SGWM Staff

See What We’ve Been Doing Spreading the Gospel to the Nations This Summer

Welcome to the SGWM Newsletter! We hope you enjoy this content and are inspired to pray for and support the spread of the Gospel to the Nations!

Redefining SGWM as a Tri-Fold Ministry

At SGWM, we are passionate about Jesus’ final command to us and His call upon His church to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. We do that by following Paul’s example all through the book of Acts, by preaching the gospel, making disciples, and establishing churches. There are 3.2 billion people in the world who are still waiting to hear the gospel for the first time and we seek to mobilize, equip, and send Christians who are answering the call to Go! We do this in three ways: 

1. By being a missionary sending ministry launching missionaries from the U.S. into the foreign mission field and caring for them through administrative help, prayer support, leadership support, and general care
2. By working with nationals in other countries who plant churches and operate Bible schools to train other nationals to go and do the same, with a specific focus on the 10/40 window 
3. By equipping young people who are passionate about foreign missions through our yearly Calvary School of Missions and through our internship program.

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Calvary School of Missions

We have just completed our 2nd year of the Calvary School of Missions, a six-week program designed to catch, equip, and mobilize young people for long term cross-cultural church planting, and it was amazing. God did life transforming work in the hearts of the students and laid a firm foundation of the call of the church and our purpose for remaining in this earth. It’s always exciting to be a part of what God is doing as He plants and waters the seeds of His Word and starts to birth new works in hearts and minds. We look forward to partnering with each of these students as they prepare to be God’s hands, feet, and mouth to the lost world that still waits to hear the name of Jesus for the first time. Please join with us in praying for these precious ones who are willing to go to the front lines, being propelled by the love of God to be His ambassadors to the world.

Church Planting Conference at CC Rosarito

One of the highlights this summer at the School of Missions was being able to attend the Church Planting Conference put on by Calvary Chapel Rosarito. Partnering with a church like CCR has been exciting as we see Pastor Mike Vincent’s vision of church planting in Mexico multiply and be established. In the last 20 years they have seen over 25 churches planted and are continuing to plant churches throughout Mexico and other places through their Church Planting Course which is a 2 year program designed to help mobilize, equip, and send church planters. 

Involving the students in this conference was such a blessing as they were able to see how church planting is God’s way to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus in real time! Please continue to pray for CCR as they continue to send laborers out into His harvest!

COVID Relief Around the World

The year 2020 has shown itself to be a year of unprecedented challenges, and SGWM has had to learn to navigate an enemy we have never faced in our lifetime, COVID 19. We have, since the onslaught of this sickness, looked for ways to reach the hurting around us. We are praising God for the open doors we have had to bring relief directly to the people in Pakistan, Belize, Peru, Mexico, Uganda, Nepal, several locations in Asia, and the US through the loving hands and feet of our missionaries and national workers on the ground. These desperately hurting people have been overwhelmed by the love shown by those who have brought the much needed provision they have received through Saving Grace World Missions and its supporters! Glory to God for the great things He has done.

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Missionary Prayer Requests for October

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