The International Core
Partnering globally to creatively build the Kingdom.
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Ministry Partners
The Ugandan Vulnerable Children program provides ongoing financial support to allow students throughout Uganda to secure a high-quality education and allow each young man and woman to ultimately find a sustainable career in Christ. Parishioners have sponsored more than 150 of these wonderful young people. Email the International Core Captain, Patty Lang, to learn more.
Twelve Churches partners with local churches to uplift their communities. This ministry equips and encourages pastors and laity to creatively reach the lost throughout Leon, Nicaragua. Mission teams will be forming to travel to and support such ongoing work and will include providing conferences, prayer walks, and supporting the Christian microenterprise work of this ministry. Learn more about Twelve Churches: ww.twelvechurches.org
Abara is linked with 32+ migrant shelters on both sides of the Rio Grande. They partner with local leaders to facilitate connections through hospitality, advocacy, and friendship. They collaborate with faith networks, NGOs, and residents who accompany asylum seekers. Team Abara is resourcing shelter leaders, welcoming new arrivals, and assisting migrant entrepreneurs daily.
Shade Ministries does wonderful work to support those in Tanzania with albinism at the New Wineskins conference in 2023. Albinism affects 1 in 1,400 children in Tanzania and people with the condition suffer discrimination, danger, and are considered outcasts. Shade works in Tanzania through outreach, advocacy and education to support those with Albinism.
Bishop Critch is the missionary bishop of the Diocese of Mahajanga, in the Anglican Province of the Indian Ocean. Before his election as a bishop in Madagascar He was a priest in the Diocese of Canada in the Anglican Church in North America. Madagascar is the 8th poorest country in the world, and Mahajanga is one of its poorest regions. Bishop Critch receives no salary, and relies entirely on the generosity of donors to fund him an his episcopal ministry. He is married to Sarah, and they have one 14 year old son, Chase.