Glendale Road Church of Christ: Programs: Missions

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Missions	Kenneth Cleaver, Grundy Falwell & David Ryan , Elders
Local Bible Studies \| Away From Home \| Used Literature \| World Bible School World Christian Broadcasting

Local Bible Studies	Todd Walker - Associate Minister
Glendale Road offers personal and correspondence Bible Studies. Some inquiries come from the Caring and Sharing Center, while others are turned in by members of the congregation who know relatives, friends and acquaintances who are interested in a personal Bible study or correspondence courses. A series of Bible correspondence lessons are sent to those requesting them. When returned, these lessons are graded and sent back to the student with a letter encouraging a personal Bible study. There are also personal Bible studies being conducted at the local jail on a regular basis.
Away From Home	Tommy Carraway & Artie D'Elia - Deacons
Special Campaigns - Money has been budgeted to help our members who want to go on a special campaign. Since 1975, Glendale Road members have been involved in mission trips outside of Murray. In the coming year, we have mission trips planned to Guyana, Mexico, Romania and the Ukraine. Members who are interested in going on mission trips should contact the group leader: Tommy Carraway, David Ryan or Walter Lee Steely for information. Charleston Church of Christ - Charleston, MO - Since May 2008, Glendale Road has helped with the support of Gary Hill. Gary formerly preached at Lebanon Church of Christ in Graves County, a congreagation of over 300. He left there to do work in the mission field with churches in Guyana, Jamaica, Montana and the Indian reservation in New Mexico. Now, he and his wife, Mondene, have move to Charleston, a town of about 5,000 people located in southeast Missouri. The congregation is small but willing to work. There are only two Church of Christ congregations in Mississippi County. Glendale Road is supporting Gary in this mission field. Guyana, South America - For the last 10 years, the Glendale Road congregation has sent a team of workers to Guyana, South America. Each theam works under the direction of Dr. Steve DeLoach, who is affiliated with Partners in Progress International - a Church of Christ sponsored organization. Steve and his family live in Guyana six months each year. There are seven to eight teams from all over the United States who travel to Guyana to work each year. Each team consists of doctors, nurses and dentists. Along with medical staff, there are Bible teachers who share Christ with the Guyanese. Teams can easily meet the medical and spiritual needs of 1,200-15,000 people in a week. Guyana Missions operates a medical clinic year round, as well as a Bible training school with several satellite links over all of Guyana. Steve is sponsored by the Jacksonville Beach Church of Christ in Florida, but the Glendale Road congregation helps in the personal support of the DeLoach family. Hope Children's Home-Guyana, South America - Although this work is not in our budget, the missions committee wanted to include it in the report to the Glendale congregation. The Hope Children's Home is organized to meet the needs of abused, abandoned and neglected children in Guyana. It is a ministry of the Church of Christ at Enmore, Guyana. Kenneth Finlayson, minister at Enmore, directs this work. Each year when members from Glendale go to Guyana for our medical missions, the congregation is asked to give money for the purchase of medicines for the home. Thanks to the generous giving of this congregation, the mission team can purchase and deliver much needed meds to the children's home. For the past several years, 300-400 pounds of medicine has been delivered each year. The 42 children who were carefully placed by God into the care of Hope Children's Home thank you. Special Missions - This item is budgeted to help relieve the burden of people who are not in our congregation and wish to go on campaigns. Glendale Road receives requests from our sister congregations for funds to assist their members to go on campaigns. The mission committee reviews each request and makes a decision on each one. A Special Mission Fund has been in place at Glendale Road for a number of years. Worldwide Evangelism - Harvey Starling leads the Worldwide Evangelism Program. This program is under the oversight of the Midway Church in Madison, Alabama. Harvey has been conducting campaigns in the United States and overseas for many years. At this time, the greatest emphasis is in Romania where he works with seven different congregations. This work is carried out through the distribution of Bibles, booklets and tracts, and then follow-up contacts with individuals expressing an interest in studying the Bible. Harvey directs a bible Training School and leads teaching teams throughout the year. Glendale Road has helped with Harvey's personal expenses for a number of years and supported the program with teachers and other monetary contributions. Ronald Coleman - Ronald Coleman is the brother-in-law of our sisters, Hazel Berkley and Ruby Herndon. Ronald has done mission work in London, Ukraine, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, Russia, Tasmania and South America. He has also preached and taught in Guyana and Zimbabwe. Ronald has worked in the mission field for over 20 years. The Centerville Road Church of Christ in Garland, Texas, is Ronald's sponsoring congregation. Glendale Road supplies some financial support to this work. Benin Bible Institute - This work is a dream come true for the Benton Church of Christ, Benton, Kentucky. The continent of Africa has a population of 700 million people. One-eighth of them speak French. The Benin Bible Institute trains French-speaking men in a three-year program to become preachers and teachers for the Lord. The students come from French-speaking countries of Africa, Europe and the United States. Several members of the Benton Church are on the advisory board for the training center. Glendale Road helps support the students while they are enrolled in the school. Don Iverson - India - There are 20 preacher training schools in the Tamil Nadu area of southern India. The Banner Elk Church in Banner Elk, NC, with the help of many individuals and congregations including Glendale Road, supports all of them. The evangelism schools offer one and three year training programs. Don Iverson, an elder of the Banner Elk Church, with his wife Cathy, make numerous trips each year to teach in the schools and the many Church of Christ congregations that have been established there. Presently, there are 345 men in the preacher training schools. Don and Cathy also work closely with a church-supported children's home that has 120 children in its care. Church of Christ Bible College, Malawi - This work is an outreach of the Thomaston Road Church of Christ in Macon, Georgia. Dr. James Judd, who went to Africa in 1957 as a missionary, started a Bible training school in Malawi in 1989. That work has grown to Bible Colleges in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Nearly 1,000 preachers have graduated from this work. Dr. Judd, now 85 years old, and his son, Randy, direct the school in Mzuzu. Around 5,000 people are baptized each year. The majority of this work was done by the African brethren. In addition, hundreds of new congregations have begun. Glendale Road has been a part of this work since 1999. Zambia Missions - Mapepe Bible College - This work is an outreach of the Sycamore View Church of Christ in Memphis, TN. Mapepe Bible College was started to help train leaders for small struggling congregations in Zambia and to evangelize the seven countries around it. David French and his wife, Lorie, moved to Zambia in 2004 to start the school. They work to train leaders who can lead churches to maturity in Christ, leaders who can confront the spread of Islam, and leaders who can take Jesus to urban areas. The French's are dedicated to the training and development of self-supporting church leaders, spiritually - and ministerially - equipped to go forth as church planning missionaries and servant leaders. Glendale Road has been helping in this work for the past two years. Phillip Norwood, Whitesville, NC - Phillip Norwood is the brother of our sister Beth Falwell. Phillip graduated from Heritage Christian University, Florence, Alabama. He has been working with the Whiteville, North Carolina, church as minister for the last three years. Glendale Road is helping with Phillip's work fund in this mission effort. Hartsville Pike Church of Christ, Gallatin, Tennessee, has the oversight of the work. Mexico Mission Work - In January 2000, the Glendale Road congregation began work in the country of Mexico. Rick and Sherry Owens of Las Cruces, NM, who have been responsible for building over 100 church buildings all over Mexico, oversee the mission work in Mexico. Since 2000, Glendale has had a part in helping build in Muzquiz, Juarez, Piedras, Negras, Nuevo Laredo, Saltillo and Matamoros. Glendale members have been joined in these efforts by members from Antioch, Calvert City, Cooperstown (TN), Green Plain, Hardin, New Concord, New Providence and University Church of Christ. The people that participate in this mission work get to help with some phase of the construction of church buildings for our brethren in Mexico, as well as spending time with people who are very interested in spreading God's Word south of our border. Anyone interested in helping in this work please contact David or Nick Ryan. Ukraine Mission - This work in Dzerzchinsk, in the Donetsk region of the Ukraine, was started in 1994 by William Wharton holding Bible camps. The camps have grown until now they serve over 250 school age children. At this time, there is one congregation of the Lord's church in Dzerzchinsk, but plans are being made to establish another in the fall. Two houses have recently been purchased to house 16 orphans. Each will have a family to oversee the home - Buitko Volodimir and his wife, Proceeva Elen, and Voisehovski Yasha and his wife, Alena. Both men are graduates of the Ukraine Bible Institute. Alena speaks fluent English and will be of great help in the work there. The purchase of the houses was made possible with a grant to His Kids Too!, started by Rich and Teresa Fillmon of Tallahassee, FL. Working with His Kids Too!, tons of clothing, shoes, medicins, physical therapy equipment, bedding, mattresses, sheets and blankets have been collected and given to orphans, widows and others in need. One of the larger and rapidly-growing areas of work is with the adoption of children by U.S. families. There are also classes taught to both boys and girls about sex, drugs, smoking and physical health. Medically-trained persons to work with this program and teachers in the Bible camps are needed. Glendale Road has supported the Ukraine mission for the past six years. Walter Lee Steely, as well as others, has worked with this mission and made many trips to the Ukraine. For more information about the work, or to volunteer to go to the Ukraine and help with the work, contact Walter Lee.
Used Literature	Gerald Coles, Deacon
In January of each year, we encourage area churches to collect used literature for distribution to needy churches throughout the world. Gerald and Tim Coles then travel some four hundred miles to collect the literature and money for Bibles and transport them to the Crieve Hall congregation in Nashville, Tennessee, where sorting and shipping take place.
World Bible School	Tommy Carraway, Deacon
World Bible School is a Bible correspondence course system used to teach God's word all over the world. Now over one million people are studying the Bible by mail in nearly every country of the world. The WBS at Glendale Road sends about 12,000 lessons each year, resulting in many conversions. The work also includes over 600 campaigns a year with WBS students. It is the best evangelistic tool in the brotherhood today. About forty Glendale members work regularly as teachers in this effort. Artie D'Elia assists in the WBS program. Tommy or Artie will be happy to provide more information on WBS.
World Christian Broadcasting
Glendale Road has been involved in this Christian broadcasting outreach since 2004. Earlier this year, Andy Baker, vice president of WCB, informed us that the new tower is being built in Madagasgar; expanding broadcast coverage to another several million people. WCB has the possibilities of being able to broadcast to five billion people by radio. Because of this tremendous opportunity and the positive feedback from our membership, the mission committee included this work in the 2004 budget. World Christian Broadcasting is based in Franklin, Tennessee.