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Visiting Our Church Planters, Michael and Melissa Hanson – Pastor Mike Vincent
I had a fantastic time up in Santa Cruz visiting our church planters, Michael and Melissa Hanson. They planted Santa Cruz Bilingual Church last year, and continue to work hard in this church plant! Keep them in your prayers and plan a trip to visit them and their church up in beautiful Santa Cruz California!…
Urgent Prayer Request For 3 Year Old, Ian Aniku
Please pray for our 3-year-old son Ian, to make a full recovery from this mysterious illness that had him hospitalized for a week and unable to walk. Pray for his physical therapy, that he will get full mobility back in his left leg. That this was just an infection deep in the muscle that they…
Prayer Request for Dave Zavala – CCA Pastor’s Conference Uganda
(Editor’s Note: The following is a prayer request from Twinkle Zavala. The Zavalas serve with SGWM in Africa) Please pray for Pastor Dave Zavala and the other pastors as they attend the CCA Pastors conference in Uganda this week. Please pray for me (Twinkle), and our daughters Bianca and Sophie in Nairobi. Please pray for…
The Waiting Period
The waiting period. Also known as the most difficult season in my book. The anticipation of being sent out. The eagerness to get where you are going. The longing to be where you know where the Lord has called you. The yearning, the tears, the prayers that are lifted up, the crying out to…
South Sudan – Prayer Request For Pastor Rob And The Team
The Sudan Team needs your prayers: Here’s a photo of the complete team of seven at MAF Mission aviation fellowship. They are flying from Nairobi to the border of South Sudan this morning (our nighttime right now) At about midnight (California Time) they will be driving through no mans land. This is potentially the…
Backpacks & New Roofs for Christmas!
Happy New Year! We pray that you had a wonderful Christmas and the opportunity to spend some meaningful time with family. I know that we did and we are so thankful to a large number of people that have made this possible. We would like to start off by updating you on the church plant…
South Sudan – Bringing Hope and Love of Jesus Christ to Unreached people
(Editor’s Note: This is an update from our missionary Pastor Rob Douglass, who is doing amazing work in South Sudan) Myself and a team of seven people will be leaving for South Sudan tonight. Over the next two weeks, we will be ministering to a group of people that have been devastated by war. The…
SGWM at the Calvary Chapel 2018 Global Missions Conference
(Editor’s Note: Tim Rich (deacon and leader of Missionary Care Teams at Calvary Chapel Saving Grace) and his wife Mary Ann helped man SGWM’s table at the Calvary Chapel 2018 Global Missions Conference. Below is Tim’s assessment of SGWM’s reach from his experience at the conference.) Picture yourself sitting at the SGWM table at the…
End of 2017 Update
Wow! 2017 turned out to be one of the most amazing years, seeing God take command and direct in a way we’ve never seen before. During the first part of the year, I wrote about his direction with the first Season of Discipleship and the chapel. That has still continued through the end of the…
Gaona Family Update: Christmas Comes To The Leper Colony
About a year ago, an opportunity opened up to visit a leper colony in Nepal and they welcomed us gladly since visitors to the compound are very few. The first bumpy bus ride to the outskirts of town was filled with thoughts that raced through our minds like “would we touch the lepers” and “how…