The view is incredible, the ground is fertile, trees planted by streams of water with roots running deep. Their leaves are not withering. Their fruit is big and luscious. If we could buy this property we would but we can’t… It’s CSOM!! (Calvary School of Missions)

16 Students: Serena, Alyson, Elli, Olivia, Ariana, Zoe, Michaiah, Emma, Brittany, Katia, John, James, Deprii, Judah, Christian & Russell seeking the Lord with all they’ve got. To say that Watching them use the gifts God has given them was amazing is an understatement. Seven of these students came from the body here at Calvery Chapel Saving Grace. Four students came from Calvary Chapel Simple Faith in Washington, 1 student from Arizona. 1 from Nevada and the others were local. We are excited to share with you that at least 10 of these 16 students will be taking a next step in continuing on with the Missions Training School (MTS) at Saving Grace. Typically a minimum of a 1 year commitment, they will receive in-depth intensive training in church, planting, Bible literacy, cultural issues, being a part of ascending hub, the inner workings of a missions sending agency and so much more. Can you please join us in praying for them individually as they continue to seek the Lord and be equipped for the Mission field,. Please pray for us too, as when we are not out on the field, engaged in missionary care and missionary training we are here at the home office running the MTS

Well we began writing this newsletter while sitting in an airport in TJ (Tijuana Mexico) headed to Culiacan Mexico with 22 people for a couple days of visiting church plants there and then to drive 12 hours up a mountain to an unreached people group (more on that later) every year we are in awe of God’s grace & mercy upon us.  At this point, we are 4 weeks into the school so let’s look at a typical day at CSOM: class in the morning, outreaches 2-3 times a week in the afternoon.  Book reading time, throughout the 6 weeks they are assigned 9 books to read. Guest missionaries that are on furlough come to the school to share their testimony and teach on challenges of living on the mission field, how to share the gospel when it’s illegal or highly persecuted are some examples of what they teach on.  We also incorporate 2 fun days of team building.  In 4 weeks, we have had the privilege of putting on 9 outreaches and visited 7 church plants including CC Rosarito The 1st church plant out of Calvary Chapel Saving Grace.  It’s always a blessing we get to connect with the Pastor’s and wives of the church plants in Mexico, building relationships and attend the Church Planters Conference at CC Rosarito.   Praying with them, listening to some of the challenges along with the blessings. 

There is so much to tell you about the six weeks but not enough room in this newsletter to share everything so we invite and desire personal connection to share more. Please call us or email us so we could share a meal at our house or if that doesn’t work, we could grab coffee, a snack or even just a phone call to connect with y’all and let you hear more about what’s going on.  We will share with you some highlights of our time with the students, church plants, missionaries.  Jenn will start first.

Jenn:

God has blessed us both with amazing privileges at CSOM, my husband is an amazing leader, I’m in awe every year at the gifts God has given him. We had an  awesome staff, and we both got to disciple the students while they are at the school.  I especially enjoy this.  I enjoy getting to know the gals, hearing their testimonies, encouraging them, praying with them. The best part is, it doesn’t stop when the school is over. It continues as they continue in the Missions Training School and until they get sent out!  This is huge for the future missionaries.  Having that ground support, a rope to hang onto as they are sent to another country for the furtherance of the gospel.  “Missionary Care” is a must for these world changers.  

I Jenn had great opportunity to share my testimony at a Women’s Rehab in Culiacan.  Jenna Peppin, a missionary at CC Norte, began a ministry “Casa Manantial”- Clinica de addictions para mujeres rehab earlier this year. As many of you know, this is my wheel house. As I shared my testimony, Jenna translated in Spanish to the ladies.  About 40 ladies in house.  Part of my testimony involves a caterpillar and a butterfly.  A new creation in Christ, 1 Corinthians 5:17- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here! Before you get to the new creation, you are a caterpillar.  I was blessed by some women who came up to me to tell me how they could relate to my testimony and some ladies admitted they were still in the caterpillar stage.  Another blessing, when I finished my testimony, I noticed a podium in the room that had a Butterfly on the front of it.  Isn’t God awesome!  That brought a huge smile on my face.  I found out later that their logo has a butterfly on it with a bible verse in Romans 12:2 – And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  

The other great opportunity was to teach the women at the Midweek service in Culiacan at CC Norte.  This was a special opportunity not only because I had a teaching opportunity, but my hubby also taught this same evening to the men.  I’ll let him tell you about it below.  CC Norte had been going through the book of 1 John. We were to teach out of 1 John 2:7-11. Love God and love your neighbor.  What a great passage to teach on, but also challenging in this world.  I titled my message “The Unchanging Commandment in a Changing World”.  A woman came up to me and explained she has been having a hard time loving some family members because of their behaviors and actions.  She said she was going to love them more like Jesus tells us to do in His word.   (in the picture below of me teaching, I’m demonstrating how deep the love of our God, how wide…etc.)

So many other opportunities where I was able to connect to women on outreaches, in passing, just listening to their testimonies of their life, hearing them pour out their hearts and give them encouragement and pray with them. This is one of the blessings in our travels. I love connecting with the women and ministering to them. 

Tim:

I have two things I’d like to share on.

 First is the amazing privilege and mind blowing experience I’ve had being able to not only do life together, but also partner in full-time ministry with my wife. A year ago when she stepped out of her job resigning from her career in chemical dependency and addiction treatment we knew it was time but we didn’t have any idea how good God’s timing was. I always knew she had an anointing on her life to walk with and counsel broken women, but in the last year,  I’ve seen that in a much deeper way. I have also found out what an incredible administrator she is and as many of you know me you understand what an incredible blessing that is. Jenn has many God given gifts that she brings to the table and we are both willing to follow God’s call on our lives 100% but we are super grateful He called us to minister in the same capacities together. Although she’s been able to help and attend CSOM for various links over the years. This was the first year we were able to lead the school side-by-side the whole time. It’s difficult to put into words. What a blessing that was and what a valuable gift she is. Well unless you think I’m completely partial (and I am 🙂 I’ll move onto the second thing I wanted to share with y’all.

Visiting an unreached people group on our second time to partner with a good friend and ministry partner Pastor Antonio from Calvary Chapel Aguaruto. Pastor Antonio has been ministering to an unreached people group located in the mountains of Mexico known as the “circle of silence”. Last year on our first trip we went to visit the Kuáre tribe and wanted to return to see them again this year, however due to circumstances beyond our control, i.e. un-passable roads, vehicle issues, ECT we had to make different plans actually what I should say is we needed to align our plans with God’s plan. It’s funny how God can use adversity to get us in line with his plans. We went to visit a related tribe known as the Cora. They are located several hours away from the tribe we last visited but it was still quite a journey. With several hours of technical off-road driving cut off from last year’s trip it still took us 10+ hours to get to them. Upon arrival Pastor Antonio, myself, Pastor Gary, and two other brothers went to meet with the tribal counsel and chief to gain permission to be there. The 16 or so council members were seated along the walls of a not so large room with one table in it. It was quite the scene, forgive me for no pictures. It just didn’t seem like the time to start snapping selfies. After a customary time of greeting each one of them from each one of us the conversation began. One of the benefits of this tribe is that they speak their native tongue as well as Spanish so Pastor Antonio was able to dialogue with them much better than the tribe that we visited last year. After sometime, what seemed like some pretty intense discussion in Spanish, the conversations switched to their native tongue where they were talking amongst themselves as we stood there having no idea how it was going to go but I’m happy to say by God’s grace we were given a warm welcome and an invitation to stay with them in their community for a few days. We had all been in much prayer leading up to this point and continued on seeking the Lord for opportunities to just plant seeds. We really expected nothing more than being able to share the love of Christ in word and in deed, but one of the really cool things that wound up happening was, we were praying for someone to connect with in that community. Long story short, we connected with a young man named Fabian. Fabian spent some time in the states spoke English, Spanish and the native dialect. The young man in his early 20s so some of the younger students shared the gospel with him. Jenn and I and a few others got to go to his grandmother’s house and visit and by the third day there he wound up giving his life to the Lord. He told us he had known parts of the story, but had just been waiting for someone to come tell him the rest of the story of Gods love. We were blown away… that Sunday, there were several other professions of faith and now we are seeking to get back as fast as possible with Bibles. Please pray for Pastor Antonio as he is raising up a local man to eventually plant a church there. We love you all so much and wish we can tell you much more in this newsletter. However, the invitations still stands please contact us so we can tell you more in person. 

Please keep us in prayer 9/13-10/25/24 as we travel to Thailand for a Church Conference and then head to S. Asia to visit 3 of our workers there for missionary care. We can’t wait to tell you all about it on our next newsletter. 

We love you all so much and thank you for being behind us. Through your generous, financial support you have made this ministry possible for us and we want to let you know that this is the fruit of your labor as well. If the Lord leads you to partner with us financially, or increase you’re already generous support, you can do so by clicking here to become a financial partner or mailing your support check to:

Saving Grace World Missions

17451 Bastanchury Rd., Ste.203

Yorba Linda, CA 62886

*Note Pappas support in memo

All for His Glory, 

Tim and Jenn Pappas

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.”

Isaiah 55:8 NKJV

Hello our friends and family,

It’s been a few months since our last update and we are very grateful for each of you who pray for us, encourage us or financially partner with us as we continue to be faithful and obedient to our Father! So many privilege’s and opportunities have been placed in our path and God continues to show us it’s not about our ways, but His ways! It’s definitely been a humbling experience but by God’s grace, we are blessed to be a part of His plan. His Will. 

Tim finished teaching the book of Matthew to the students at the Bible college in S. Asia. They spent several months going through this glorious gospel and mining out the beautiful and powerful truths that are there. It was a great time for Tim and the students. We are grateful that even when we can’t physically be there. Technology allows us to continue to pour into these young future church planters who are passionate for the furtherance of the gospel and the work of the ministry in some of the most persecuted and difficult places in the world.

In March, one of our dear friends Merry, went home to be with the Lord. Her husband of 46 years rejoices that she is present with the Lord, but still struggles through much grief as you could imagine. We are grateful to be here for him and with him. Tim was able to have a roll in the funeral and the celebration of life that meant so much to him and his dear friend John. Please be praying for John as he tries to figure out how to navigate life here without his bride by his side. We are fortunate to have had him at our house often and he has joined Tim in a men’s small group that meets every Friday.

Wedding Bells

Life certainly has its ups and downs, new beginnings and sudden endings but through it all it’s clear that God is in complete control. 100% sovereign. What a fun time we had at the wedding of a couple of our past students.  We are grateful, humbled and somewhat baffled that these youngsters not only want us in their lives, but consider us near and dear to them. It was such a privilege for us to walk them through this pivotal event in their lives and for Tim to be able to conduct their wedding. 

Jenn got to use her God given gift of hospitality and host a bridal shower for a MTS student moving to S. Asia who will be marrying one of the National Pastors serving with SGWM. She said “ I especially enjoyed cooking the Indian Dishes, Tikka Masala & Chaat dip I made from scratch, it turned out so yummy. Chaat dip is a layered dip. Tikka Masala is a yummy sauce with chicken. Typically it is very spicy but I didn’t make it spicy. Now I know how to make food for our nationals when they come on furlough”. If you would like to join us for dinner and eat National food together, please let us know.  I truly enjoy hosting, it’s such a blessing to bless others. 

There are definitely no shortages of care needed on the mission field. In these past months, Jenn’s counseled women struggling with many difficult things.  Spiritual depletion & warfare, deception, grief and loss, marriage counseling. Also, good stuff too, encouragement with the calling on the field, rejoicing with them for God’s faithfulness and provisions. Building them up through the Word of God and prayer. 

What an amazing opportunity to serve at the Voice of Refugees a Ministry here in Orange County. They host a yearly event to help women who have fled from persecuted and dangerous countries for safety. These women have been through a lot of trauma, at times fearing for their lives . VOR is the hands and feet of Jesus transforming lives through God’s love.  Assistance with many resources from English classes to housing and much more. 

Last month our church hosted a woman’s spring brunch where Jenn was asked to lead up this event along with an awesome opportunity to share her testimony along with the gospel to the Women at Saving Grace Spring Brunch.  The theme was “New Life” 🦋🦋🦋 We are a new creation in Christ. We played games and had crafts too!! The butterfly craft was a hit!! Over 80 women attended this event!! I truly love teaching and encouraging the women by the Word of God and by my testimony. It’s humbling and honoring to our Father! 

 Tim had a wonderful opportunity to teach the principles of biblical counseling in the missions training school . We believe Scripture is absolutely sufficient to guide us through all issues in our  life. While the world’s approach to counseling may aim to “fix” people from the outside, biblical counseling’s goal is to lead individuals into the Word, allowing the Holy Spirit to transform them from the inside out. The emphasis is on heart change, realignment with God’s will, and internal transformation. This is something that Jenn and I are passionate about and seek to pass on to the next generation.  

Calvary School of Missions coming up around the corner. 

It’s hard to believe that we get to do this for the sixth year in a row, and we are expecting God to do great things. Time fails us to tell you of all the wonderful things that he has done in the past five years of this school, but we have seen the fruit of this ministry grow beyond what we ever thought it could. We have seven graduated students serving full-time in the Middle East, two in Japan and two in South Asia. We’ve seen incredible spiritual, and personal growth in the students as well as ourselves. So far we have 15 students that will be attending with a few interviews still to conduct. There is much work left to do so we appreciate everyone’s prayers as we put the finishing touches on scheduling teachers, outreaches, transportation, housing etc. One of the incredible things that we get to do this year is a return visit to the unreached people group in the mountains of Mexico that we visited last year. In our next newsletter we will speak more of that and of the unreached. 

We love you all so much and thank you for being behind us. Through your generous, financial support you have made this ministry possible for us and we want to let you know that this is the fruit of your labor as well.  If the Lord leads you to partner with us financially, or increase you’re already generous support you can do so by clicking here to become a financial partner or mailing your support check to
Saving Grace World Missions

17451 Bastanchury Rd., Ste.203 Yorba Linda, CA 62886

*Note Pappas support in memo

All for His Glory, 

Tim and Jenn Pappas

How great are His signs, and how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation.

Daniel 4:3

Last month we mentioned that we wanted to “Be Still” and wait upon the Lord. Well, we did that and heard Him saying to continue being faithful to what is in front of us. Jenn is itching to “GO,” however, we are to STAY for now.  There are many opportunities and privileges God has put in front of us. The sheep need us, MTS (Missions Training School) & CSOM (Calvary School of Missions) need us, the missionaries overseas need us…and of course we couldn’t do any of this without each and every one of you and most importantly our Father! We need Him! Amen?!  

We are in our Father’s Business!!

Here’s what we have been up to since our last newsletter, hold on to your seats:

We had an awesome time at the Church Planter’s Conference in Mazatlan.  We took one of the MTS students with us, Marcelo. Let us tell you about him. He is a Mexican national, who has graduated from CSOM and is now at our church training to go over seas to the Middle East to join 7 other missionaries that have been sent already in the last year. Marcelo has a huge serving heart and has a passion for the lost.  His uncle is the senior pastor at Calvary Culiacan.  We are so delighted to have him with us for the time being, he helped us in Mazatlan with promoting the school and helping us with translation.  He is an excellent interpreter.  

We heard from some GREAT bible teachers & pastors. Hugo Limon from Culiacan spoke on, “Creating a Sending Hub” to reach big cities. Wes Bentley founder of “Far Reaching Ministries” taught on “Planting Churches to reach the World.” Bruce Zachary, pastor and author of 17 books, taught on “Raising up Leaders.” Pastor Mike Vincent from CCR who has planted 39 churches and 20 church planting schools taught, “The Sending Hub,” an overview of Acts 1:8. “But you will receive the power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” And finally, Pastor Tony Carranza from Calvary Maranatha, a bilingual church that sent out 6 new church plants. Tony taught on, “Creating a Sending Hub through a Church Planting School.”  Tim also taught a workshop on serving as an assistant pastor and closed out the conference with communion. Jenn helped out in the children’s ministry, her wheel house.

So many other workshops were taught by missionaries serving on the field, Pastors & Pastors wives Q & A.   Sooo encouraging and stirring for the Nations.  We are in awe that WE get to be a part of the Great Commission!! 

Romans 10:14 – how then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 

Here are some quotes that stayed with us when leaving the conference:

**Engage, equip, encourage, empower.

**The gospel is of the world, the world needs more gospel centered churches.

**Be relational.

**Learn the culture.

**Identify future disciples and church planters.

**Prepare yourself for the opposition.

**Continue to be faithful and count the cost.

**Make prayer a priority.

We were blessed by some divine appointments in getting to know some new sisters and brothers with a possibility to partner with them and helping them use their ministry for the Great Commission AND catching fireflies for CSOM. One of the things we love the most is meeting new people in Christ.  

Tim and I continue to love on the students by training, debriefing, discipling, fellowshipping, and walking side-by-side with them on the road the Lord has for them to reach the unreached and fulfill the great commission. 

Jenn was able to attend the Calvary Curriculum Children’s Ministry Conference this past month along with one of our missionaries who is here on furlough. Thus was Jenn’s first time attending this conference, in prior years she was not able to attend because of work. Jenn was able to take away so many important ways to teach the kiddos about Jesus.  As she leads up the Nursery/ Toddlers Ministry, her main focus is to teach the kids how to pray, read the Bible, & worship.  Kids are smarter than we think at this age. Jenn truly enjoys ministering to the kiddos at Saving Grace and hopes to take this to the unreached God willing this year!  

Tim also had the opportunity to take/drive the high schoolers up to Big Bear for their annual retreat.  The theme of the retreat was God pursuing you. He was asked to teach so he shared on Psalm 139 bringing out the truths of how intimately God already knows you, how much He loves you, and how it doesn’t make sense to run from somebody you can’t get away from anyhow. 

Jenn also had the opportunity to teach an encouraging devotional to the group of wives in S. Asia over FaceTime. 5 wives showed up and it truly was a fruitful time praying and sharing. She taught a short lesson on, “It is Well With My Soul.” I’m sure you have heard of the song.  No matter the storms and/or persecution that come our way, our GOD is greater. No man can separate us from HIM. (Due to security, we are unable to post any photos) We continue to meet monthly. 

Tim and I are amazed by God’s grace and faithfulness to us.  We are truly blessed beyond measures that we get to be a part of the Great Commission at Saving Grace World Missions. We see so many times God confirming to us our calling since I quit my job. God continues to provide for us! This is our God! Loving, faithful, sovereign, compassionate.

Prayer Requests:

1. Please pray for the 2024 Calvary School of Missions and for us as we get to lead this wonderful work of God’s.
2. Please pray for us, as we are implementing some personal disciplines that will enable us to serve the Lord in this capacity for many more years.
3. Please pray for our son Andy as he is still wandering in his wilderness and desperately needs Jesus. Praise Jesus we are able to minister to him and see him frequently. We pray for our Father to renew his mind. 
4. Please pray for wisdom as we navigate this new year in a way that honors God and brings much glory to Him.  This year’s calendar for missionary care and equipping is quite full and opportunities are not lacking.

We love you all so much and thank you for being behind us. You are also part of this ‘Great Commission’!! We are so dependent on and grateful for your prayers and want to say thank you to those who have already joined us in this area. We realize it’s by God’s grace and through your prayers that we are able to serve the Lord the way we do! But if the Lord leads you to partner with us financially, we are in need of additional monthly supporters, and if you desire to increase your already generous support, please know that it would be a huge help. You can do so by clicking on the link below to become a financial partner or mailing your support check to:

Saving Grace World Missions

17451 Bastanchury Rd., Ste.203 Yorba Linda, CA 62886

*Note Pappas support in memo

All for His Glory, 

Tim and Jenn Pappas

Did you hear it?  Did you hear it? We heard it. The starting pistol…  it went off and the rat race begins. The first thing we’ve decided to do in 2024 is BE STILL !! The tendency is to hit the ground running, I’m sure we’re not alone but Jenn and I have decided to be still and know that He is God. We’re not going to try to catch up on any undone business of 2023. We’re not going to try to check off our to-do list or New Year’s resolutions of 2024 before we learn to practice the art of being still before our great God and king. We were grateful to be able to have a week of downtime between Christmas and New Year’s. 2024 started off with a short week in the office, followed by a weeklong time of prayer and fasting that our whole church engages in.

I heard somebody say the other day  “no one is as busy as I am” ! That saddened me, but I begin to wonder if the same could be said of us.  I think we are all the equal amount of busy, there are only 24 hours in a day, but just exactly what are we busy doing? That’s what Jenn and I have begun to pray about.  Ministry matters and affairs around the church have to be tended to but people matter more and being still before the Lord matters even more than that. 

THROWBACK TO 2023

We had the opportunity to serve at one of the church plants, Calvary Chapel Pedregales in Tijuana, Mexico. Taking Christmas shoeboxes and being part of an outreach for the community was such a blessing. SGWM missionary Deanna Juevez has been serving down there for 20+ years.  I love her testimony where she committed 1 year to serving at the church and now she doesn’t ever want to leave.  Deanna runs an afterschool program/soup kitchen with 40 children ages 6-12. She also oversees the Children’s Ministry at CC Pedregales, as well as correspondence for groups that come for short-term missions trips. She’s an amazing lady and friend and we were honored to be a part of blessing the families in the community.  The children there are very poor so several of them wanted to wait to open their gifts on Christmas because it is the only gift they will receive.  Please pray for these children and their families, that they would come to know Jesus and attend CC Pedragales. We love serving alongside each other, we provided the craft for the children ages 3-12yrs old.  The theme was the “birth of Jesus” in the manger.

As you know we recently began to be able to serve together as a couple in this new season of our lives.  One of the things we love most is pouring into the missions training students, discipling and teaching them the ways of the Word.  We also get to provide housing, transportation, and a safe place for the students to pour their hearts out. One of the really cool and kind of unexpected things we love is discipling the students who are engaged and married. It’s crazy to sit back and look at how good our Father is by raising these like minded youngsters up to marry and be sent out to the mission field! AND they want to hang out with US!! Tim and I love every minute of it. 

Another one of the blessings over the years has been to host and visit with missionaries around the world here on furlough. We had some great times in our home with Vincent and Melissa Aniku from Uganda. They are dear friends of ours, and we love to spend quality time. Before we closed out 2023 we had a wonderful opportunity to have dinner with some friends of ours from Uganda. They were at our home and shared the wonderful works that the Lord is doing there. We are hoping to go out and visit them and their ministry sometime before June. Another friend from a different area in Uganda was in the office for one day and Tim got to have great fellowship with him. 

We are thanking our Father for the many blessings He has brought us in 2023.  We are so grateful that we GET to serve the Lord in the capacity He allows us.  As we are reminded, our God is our Provider, Redeemer, our Salvation, and He saved a wretch like us!  We have had our challenges in 2023, but God is faithful and sovereign through it all!

Prayer Requests:

1. Please pray for the 2024 Calvary School of Missions and for us as we get to lead this wonderful work of God’s.
2. Please pray for us, as we are implementing some personal disciplines that will enable us to serve the Lord in this capacity for many more years.
3. Please pray for our son Andy as he is still wandering in his wilderness and desperately needs Jesus. Praise Jesus we are able to minister to him and see him frequently. We pray for our Father to renew his mind. 
4. Please pray for wisdom as we navigate this new year in a way that honors God and brings much glory to Him.  This year’s calendar for missionary care and equipping is quite full and opportunities are not lacking.

We love you all so much and thank you for being behind us. You are also part of this ‘Great Commission’!! We are so dependent on and grateful for your prayers and want to say thank you to those who have already joined us in this area. We realize it’s by God’s grace and through your prayers that we are able to serve the Lord the way we do! But if the Lord leads you to partner with us financially, we are in need of additional monthly supporters, and if you desire to increase your already generous support, please know that it would be a huge help. You can do so by clicking on the link below to to become a financial partner or mailing your support check to:

Saving Grace World Missions

17451 Bastanchury Rd., Ste.203 Yorba Linda, CA 62886
*Note Pappas support in memo

All for His Glory, 

Tim and Jenn Pappas

To borrow a line from an old song…

 “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”

There are many wonderful things about this month. There is the heightened awareness and celebration of Jesus, the Messiah, and the indescribable gift of grace, and love that God has given us, the opportunity and openness of this time of year for the gospel to go forth, and gratitude and love, that seems to be more freely shared. Another one of the things that Jenn and I truly love around Christmas time is wrapping. I know that may sound strange, but the wrapping of gifts and the beauty of gifts wrapped and placed under the tree and the thoughtfulness that goes into it has a super special spot in our hearts. As we wrap up 2023 we hope to do a good job of wrapping up in this final update. 

We often tell you about ministry with Saving Grace World Missions, but you may ask yourself what do they do around Calvary Chapel Saving Grace. Well, let me assure you there’s never a dull moment there and the Lord has allowed Jenn and I to be used in many ways around the church. Our first and primary calling is to serve with Saving Grace World Missions in fulfilling the great commission. But we are acutely aware that Calvary Chapel Saving Grace is the home base of Saving Grace World Missions and our church family, so we invest a lot of time there as well.

I Tim get to serve as an assistant pastor here at the fellowship, providing pastoral oversight for the hospitality ministry, Deacons ministry, as well as the safety ministry. I get to have an active role in seeing to it that Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings services are safe, clean, functioning well and distraction free so people can come to learn the word of God, fellowship with the body and get recharged.

Jenn recently stepped out of her job @ Hoag Hospital and is now serving full time alongside Tim at Saving Grace World Missions (SGWM) & Calvary Chapel Saving Grace (CCSG) as his assistant by helping with CSOM & Missions Training School. There are 21 students right now at MTS. Part of what we get to do is train up & disciple the next generation for cross-cultural church planting. These are a few of the things we get to do.

We also are both involved in biblical counseling here at the fellowship, and are really grateful to walk-through life’s struggles with others, looking to the Lord and His Word for solution. 

As far as our primary ministry with Saving Grace World Missions, it’s been a wonderful year of missionary equipping, and missionary care. We have had many opportunities this year, to provide missionary care on the field in South Asia, the Middle East, Mexico, and South America. We are very careful as to what we put in writing as in many of these areas the missionaries are working amongst the unreached and have governments that are hostile to the gospel.  Along with caring for those on the field, we have had wonderful teaching opportunities as well. Jenn was able to hold a women’s conference and Tim taught at several Bible college campuses.

Here are a couple photos, faces have been blotted out for security reasons. 

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Looking back at 2023 we are blown away with what the Lord has allowed us to be involved in, and the many partners he has brought alongside of us. For us to say to you you are very much part of this ministry and the fruit of the work we get to do is yours as much as ours and we couldn’t, and wouldn’t imagine doing this without you sound cliché, but it’s not. We mean it from the bottom of our hearts, we are so grateful for your love, encouragement, prayers, and financial support. The way you all have come along side of us and encourage us in the Lord is the best gift anyone could ask for. 

As we think of gifts that have been given to us throughout the year by all of you, we are so very grateful for you!  You are also part of this ‘Great Commission’ !! We are so dependent on and grateful for your prayers and want to say thank you to those who have already joined us in this area, we realize it’s by God’s grace and through your prayers that we are able to serve the Lord the way we do but if the Lord leads you to partner with us financially, we are in need of additional monthly supporters, if you desire to increase your already generous support, please know that it would be a huge help. Lastly, now that Jenn and I are full-time missionaries on support we would ask if you would consider a one time year-end tax deductible gift. It would be a huge blessing, and help launch us into 2024 on the right foot.

You can do so by clicking on the link below to become a financial partner or mailing your support check to Saving Grace World Missions

17451 Bastanchury Rd., Ste.203 Yorba Linda, CA 62886

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All for His Glory, 

Tim and Jenn Pappas

You gotta stick the landing !! 

In gymnastics an event can be fierce, the workouts, the practices, not to mention the competitions themselves are highly emotional and physically challenging. One of the most important things is to stick the landing… What does this mean? At the end of your gymnastic event there’s one final move and how you land can make all the difference in the world. As we have had a few moments to reflect on the past eight weeks in Mexico with the 2023 CSOM, our heart is to stick the landing… Land well. That’s the moment that can make all the difference. `Well thanks to our Gods grace, mercy, and the prayers of friends like you that’s exactly what happened. We landed well, six weeks of training, stretching and growing for staff and students alike. And we were no exception. We were able to get back to America and have time to wrap up the administrative details of the school. Calvary School Of Missions as you know, is no small feet, it takes months and months and months of preparation for us which is including but not limited to interviewing students, securing lodging, food, transportation. Arranging Ministry outreach, organizing curriculum, securing teachers, I’m exhausted just writing this 🙂 

I could go on and on but I think you get the point. It’s a lot of work, but it’s so worth it, just like competing in the Olympics for that gold medal is .  A week after we got back, we were able to sneak away for some much-needed R&R. Tent camping in the mountains just Jenn and I with our Bibles a good book and a guitar. We worshipped & cooked by the campfire and yes even got to do a little stream fishing but mostly we got to be still and know that He is God. It was much needed because as we came back down the mountain there’s more work to be done. The Missions Training School (MTS for short) is an extension of the Calvary School of Missions where some of the students from CSOM enter into the training school with the long-term goal of being placed full-time on the mission field, where the Lord would have them to be. There’s too much to tell about in this letter, so more will have to be told at a later time because we wanted to save room to tell a little more about our time during CSOM.

I’ll let Jenn share about one of the most exciting things we got to be a part of this summer at CSOM, which was visiting an unreached people group in the mountains of Mexico.

The Kuaré Tribe

We  joined other Calvary Chapels from Sinaloa, and traveled a total of about 15 hours to the state of Nayarit. From there, we then journeyed up the mountains through the night on uneven roads with many pot holes and very little asphalt. We use the term “road” loosely, but finally we reached the Kuaré Tribe.  Needless to say, we had little to no sleep. Pastor Antonio and his wife from Calvary Aguaruto, one of Pastor Hugo ‘s church plants have been visiting this tribe for the past 5 -6 years, creating relationships, providing for their needs, and sharing about Jesus. 

We were truly grateful for all the prayers as we were concerned about the weather going up the mountain. If the rain came it could have completely stopped our mission. The roads were treacherous, and the drive was difficult, so we were so grateful to God that the rain did not come until we arrived to their Community. Tim and I pulled out our rain gear and did what we do, “serve”.  When we asked the students to pull out their ponchos, most of them said they left them in their backpack which was tied down on the top of the vans under a tarp. As we chuckled inside, as we faced yet again, another challenge in training up these future missionaries. AGAIN, God reminded us, this is WHY we do what we do! Training and raising up these future missionaries and leaders has been such a joy and we are tempted to tell you of the nine past students who are now living in the 10/40 window making steps to reach some of the hardest people to reach. There’s too much to tell about in this letter, so more will have to be told at a later time. Since this is the second time, we said that we might as well reveal that somewhere in the next few months we will be having an update, get together, sometimes called a dessert gathering where we invite people to gather and here in person. All the Lord has allowed us to be a part of. We will keep you posted as we’re not sure yet if it will be at our home our church or another facility but we would love to share with you all live. It’s way overdue.  

Back to the mountain…We got to spend 3 days with these beautiful people. Some of the things we got to be a part of was going from house to house in groups passing out clothes, shoes, medical supplies, and praying for each family; the students helped put together VBS style outreaches alongside of the other church plant teams from Sinaloa and ended our time with the tribe’s first ever church service in their language, translating from Spanish to English and then into Kuaré, the local language. The Kuaré, people know that there is a God because they see the evidence through the mountains, trees, and weather, yet they worship creation instead of the Creator because they did not know who He was. 

It was a very simple Gospel message, but It was incredible to watch them hear that the God who created nature, also created them and that His name is Jesus and He wants a relationship with each one of them. 

There was so much else we got to engage in this summer at the school of missions and we want to make sure you know that, even if our visit to the unreached people groups was by far the most powerful and exciting, it does not diminish in anyway the ministry outreaches the church planters conference, visiting church plants, and yes, much Missionary Care !!!  We were able to connect with 8 or more SGWM Missionary’s over our summer and although the training of future missionaries seems to be the main focus God has for our lives at the very moment He has in no way lessened the call to care for existing missionaries on the field as well as to continue in biblical counseling and discipleship. We love being able to serve our Lord in this way !!!

We are so dependent on and grateful for your prayers and want to say thank you to those who have already joined us in this area, we realize it’s by gods grace and through your prayers that we are able to serve the lord the way we do but If the Lord leads you to partner with us financially, or increase you’re already generous support it would be a huge help. 

You can do so by clicking here to become a financial partner or mailing your support check to
Saving Grace World Missions

17451 Bastanchury Rd., Ste.203 Yorba Linda, CA 62886

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All for His Glory, 

Tim and Jenn Pappas

We are so thankful for each and every one of you who are reading this newsletter and wish you could be here to witness the wonderful and great things the Lord is putting in our paths for His Glory, And we know you are rejoicing with us in what the Lord has been doing in our lives. We are at the 1/2 way mark of the Calvary School of Missions.  IT’S TRULY BEEN AN AMAZING TIME ! !

Each and every year has been unique and this is no exception. We have a blend of students from 18 years old to 62 years old who are all in love with Jesus and are passionate about the great need for the gospel to go to all nations. It’s been a joy watching these students serve the Lord in different capacities. These students are proving to be on fire for the Lord. We have heard students talking about how the Lord has spoke to them about going to Japan, India, Indonesia, even Saudi Arabia.  The students have heard from many missionaries on the field, the R Family from N. Africa, Sam & Amy Baby from S Asia, Paul Billings from Jorden, Heather Gaona, Director of 10/40 National Missionaries, Kurt Kula from Georgia (the country) Pastor Nadeem M. from Pakistan. Our friends from Pakistan & S. Asia were not able to join us, but through the aide of modern technology, we felt as if they were right here with us.  We are grateful for technology.  I’ve heard nothing but positive comments from the students on how helpful the classes have been and how they are learning so much.  They are stirred up for the nations!!

As we wrap up our last week here at the Connections House in Rosarito, we are going to attend one of our favorite conferences in the whole world. Calvary Chapel Rosarito’s church planting conference. We are passionate about Evangelism, discipleship and church planting. We are excited to be able to attend this conference reuniting with the many church planters who know and love us. It is a great joy to hear of the wonderful works God has been doing in all of their church plants. We are also looking forward to the impact it will have upon our students. We will tell you more about that in our next newsletter. 

Next week,  Tim and I will be taking the students to the state of Sinaloa, where we will visit church plants in the cities of Culiacan, Mazatlan as well as go to the mountains to take the love of Jesus to an unreached Tribe the “Kuare” . We will be hiking to get there and camping at night, it will be cold and rainy and the students will definitely be stretched and we hope that the Lord will teach them through this new experience that going to any lengths to bring the gospel is worth the cost no matter what it may be.

Please pray for us in these next upcoming weeks for traveling mercies and what ever else the Lord places on your heart.

There are so many more blessings we look forward to telling you about in our time here at CSOM. We do want to share we were able to connect with some SGWM missionaries although it wasn’t the focus of this trip, the Lord had other plans and continues to open doors in our calling of missionary care.

We announced in our last newsletter we have a big announcement we want to tell you.  Drum roll please.. After many many months of prayer & counsel, the Lord has lead us to make a decision for Jenn (I) to resign from Hoag Addiction Treatment Center to serve full time in ministry alongside my hubby Pastor Tim in missionary care and equipping at SGWM (Saving Grace World Missions). In these past few weeks the Lord has already confirmed our decision through conversations with others and things said, as well as financially and through His word.  We strongly believe this is from the Lord.  As we take this step of faith, being led by the Holy Spirit, we are so excited for these next steps in our lives.  Please join us in prayer and rejoicing to our Lord for His continual guidance in our calling.  

2 Timothy 1:9

9 who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

We want to close by thanking you all so much for your faithful friendship, love, and prayers throughout the years. 

Prayer Requests:

1. Please pray for the 2023 Calvary School of Missions and for us as we travel to Sinaloa with the students.
2. Please pray for Tim as he leads a team to Perú late September/early October to help host the 2nd annual Calvary Chapel Missions Conference in South America
3. Please pray for our son Andy as he is still missing and desperately needs Jesus
4. Please pray for wisdom as we navigate the rest of this year. The calendar for missionary care and equipping is quite full and opportunities are not lacking.  

We love you all so much and thank you for being behind us. Through your generous financial support, you have made this ministry possible for us and we want to let you know that this is the fruit of your labor as well. If the Lord leads you to partner with us financially, or increase your already generous support, you can do so by clicking on the financial button below or mailing your support check to:

Saving Grace World Missions

17451 Bastanchury Rd., Ste.203 

Yorba Linda, CA 62886

*Note “Pappas support” in memo

All for His Glory, 

Tim and Jenn Pappas

We hope you had a wonderful 4th of July. 

This year has been a beautiful display of God’s grace and power. Jenn and I continue to be amazed at God’s grace and how through His power He allows us to participate in His plan for the gospel to go out to the whole world. (Mark 16:15)

As the director of missionary equipping here at Saving Grace World Missions, Tim’s role has many facets. Missionary care has been one of the main thrusts of the last six years, the way it looks changes frequently and has expanded into much more than we ever imagined. 

Jenn has been able to join Tim in partnering in the ministry of missionary care more and more each month. Lately we have been able to be involved in field care for missionaries. We both got to go to a country we shall call South Asia for security reasons. This is a “closed country” but God does not believe in “closed countries”!! We were able to be there to assist in establishing one of our CSOM graduates to her new home and life as a full-time missionary.

– TJ in S. Asia –

A few months later, Tim got to travel with a team of pastors to relocate and establish four other missionaries in their new home in a Muslim country we shall not name for security reasons as well. This trip had a double blessing in it, one was that Tim got to see exactly where our team is planted. To be able to walk the streets they walk, smell the smells they smell, taste the food they eat, and yes, hear the sounds they hear. One of which is the demonic Islamic call to worship which echoes throughout the country several times a day.

This is of great benefit as we continue to minister to them having at least a little bit of a picture of where they are. 

Local Mosque – 11 million lost in Islamic Worship

We have poured into these Calvary School of Missions graduates over the last four years. They shared how meaningful and valuable it was to them for us to be by their side as they permanently moved to other countries in the heart of the 10/40 window, leaving all of the comforts of America behind to further the gospel.

OTHER WAYS WE HAVE GOTTEN TO SERVE MISSIONARIES THIS YEAR:

• Connecting with and caring for missionaries through technology.
• Counseling opportunities. 
• Jenn has been consistently discipling the intern girls along with overseas counseling to some women on the field. 
• Housing missionaries on furlough or preparing to go to the field. 
• Providing transportation (rides and the use of our vehicle).
• Inviting them in our home for meals.
• Hosting events for them at our home. 
• Ongoing intern care and discipleship.

We love Missionary Care & Hospitality, Jenn describes it as a “heartfelt blessing”! We love blessing the missionaries when they pass through on furlough, providing housing, fellowship, and encouragement while they are are being refreshed.

“Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality” – Romans 12:10-13

The sacrifices our sisters and brothers make for the furtherance of the gospel is very humbling. While we bless them with fellowship, shelter, and encouragement, they ultimately bless us more! Jenn said she gets so fired up each time she meets with them to hear what God has been doing on the mission field in 🇵🇪 🇺🇬 🇲🇽 🇷🇴 and beyond! 

UPCOMING:

As we are only a few days away from launching the fifth Calvary School of Missions, there has been much to do. We will share more on that with you in our next newsletter, along with some very exciting news of ministry opportunities for Jenn and I. 

We want to close by thanking you all so much for your faithful friendship, love, and prayers throughout the years. 

Prayer Requests:

1. Please pray for the 2023 Calvary School of Missions and for us as we get to lead this wonderful work of God
2. Please pray for Tim as he leads a team to Perú late September/early October to help host the 2nd annual Calvary Chapel Missions Conference in South America
3. Please pray for our son Andy as he is still missing and desperately needs Jesus
4. Please pray for wisdom as we navigate the rest of this year. The calendar for missionary care and equipping is quite full and opportunities are not lacking. 

We love you all so much and thank you for being behind us. Through your generous financial support, you have made this ministry possible for us and we want to let you know that this is the fruit of your labor as well. If the Lord leads you to partner with us financially, or increase your already generous support, you can do so by clicking on the financial button below or mailing your support check to:

Saving Grace World Missions

17451 Bastanchury Rd., Ste.203 

Yorba Linda, CA 62886

*Note “Pappas support” in memo

All for His Glory, 

Tim and Jenn Pappas

Jenn and I were separated for a couple of weeks but are now glad to be back hand-in-hand serving the Lord together in Mexico. It’s hard to believe but for the fourth year I find myself in Mexico directing the Calvary School of Missions. We are down here with 18 incredibly focused young men and women who feel the call of God on their lives for church planting and missions work. 

  Jenn had some challenges while we were apart, she fell while at work (Praise God she was not seriously injured) also a co worker of hers passed away from a stroke. Despite challenges by God’s grace we both continue to be faithful in what He has put in front of us and lay our lives down for the gospel. 

“As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.”

John 10:15

As the Director of the Calvary School of Missions It was not preferred but necessary that I leave California two weeks earlier than Jenn to launch CSOM 2022. Surrounded by a great team of intern leaders who had previously graduated CSOM we got off to an incredible start. The Lord’s hand is clearly upon us as we begin to dig into scriptures highlighting the purpose of the church and outlining the biblical model of missions as found in the book of Acts. The students are hungry for the word of God and passionate for our Lord Jesus. 

 Part of what we do here is modeling ministry with local church plans from Calvary Chapel Rosorito (CCR). We took the students on two outreaches to the Rosorito dump where Pastor Eddie from Calvary Part of what we do here is modeling ministry with local church plants from Calvary Chapel Rosarito (CCR). We took the students on two outreaches to the Rosarito dump where Pastor Eddie from Calvary Chapel Homex, a church plant from CCR ministers to those living in the dump plaged with poverty, drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution and many other unmentionable sins bringing the hope of Jesus to the Homex community. We were also able to do a park outreach and Sunday church with him. Tim was able to connect with Gallo, a friend he made on our first years CSOM dump outreach. Gallo has been living in the dump for a long time, but came to faith in Christ four years ago and has been faithfully attending Calvary Chapel Homex. He walks 1 1/2 miles every Sunday. Although he still lives in the landfill, he is a new creation in Christ, loves the Lord and loves people. He greets Tim every year with a big hug and a loving welcome.

We have also had nights of testimony from veteran missionaries such as Mike Vincent who has spent over 20 years here in Mexico and Pastor Aaron Garcia who lived with his bride for seven years in Nepal. As great as these two weeks has been there was a big hole, avoid in my life… My bride by my side. We will be together for the remainder of the school and are looking forward to what the Lord is going to do in and through us as we minister to and with these incredible youngsters. We are grateful for the call that God has on our life in Mexico and are excited to see what he reveals to us in these next few weeks. We will keep you updated as best we can.