Jaap and Morina Feenstra

Location: South Asia
Agency: Wycliffe Bible Translators
Focus: Jaap travels back and forth in South Asia overseeing Bible Translation departments, or operational unites, in various countries to accomplish their goals of serving churches, organizations and language communities, reached and unreached, in order to provide them with the Word of God.  Morina works part-time handling personnel care issues of team members that Jaap is working with. The other 90% of her time is involved with Mother Tongue early childhood training with various partners.
Prayer Requests: Creativity in finding appropriate strategies, energy in the many challenges and safety for travel to the various remote places. May the Lord use them to have the Word of God go out to reach heart for the first time or to feed those who are already His.

Noah’s Ark Children’s Ministry (NACMU)

Missionaries: Piet and Pita Buitendijk
Location: Africa, Uganda
Agency: Noah’s Ark Children’s Ministry was founded in 2000 by Dutch couple, Pieter and Pita Buitendijk. NACMU is a non-denominational Christian organization based in Uganda which cares for orphaned, abandoned and abused Ugandan children. They also run a Nursery, Primary School, High School and a Medical Clinic that services the children as well as the local community.

Website: nacmu.org
Prayer Requests: Pray for the health of the children and staff. Pray for strength and refreshing for Piet and Pita.

Cyrus Center

Location: Chilliwack
Agency: Cyrus Centre Ministries began in 2004 in Abbotsford as a community response to a community need to fill a gap for homeless and youth at-risk of being homeless and their families. Prior to opening youth who found themselves homeless had to leave their community to receive services; Cyrus Centre began by offering a street front location with showers, laundry, meals and a safe environment with adults who would listen and be the hands and feet of Jesus. In 2008 we opened an emergency youth shelter (now known as youth emergency housing program) Youth no longer had to leave Abbotsford to receive help they so desperately needed. In 2013 we open a semi-independent living home staffed with house parents and in 2014 at the request of the community we opened In Chilliwack in the old library on Wellington Ave.
Today services offered include; life skills training, emergency housing, extreme weather shelter, meals, food bank, laundry, showers, outreach, referral, drop in etc.
Cyrus Centre is active throughout the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon creating awareness, leading and participating in initiatives to alleviate poverty, suffering and exploitation. Between Metro Vancouver and the Okanogan Cyrus Centre has the only emergency youth beds available.

Website: cyruscentre.com

BC Teen Challenge

Location: Yarrow
Focus: Adult and Teen Challenge BC is a faith-based restoration program for men and women, ages 19 and older, who are trapped in addiction. Adult and Teen Challenge BC endeavours to help people become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well, and spiritually alive!

Website: teenchallengebc.com

The Table Gathering Ukraine

Director: Eunice Mitchell (Esau) – Founder
Location: Chilliwack | Kyiv, Ukraine
Focus: Bringing women, once orphans, to a family table where they can feel safe, then providing life skills, employment with our Bread of Life Home Services (assisted living for widows) and career training through a faith based approach of counselling, spiritual discipleship and pastoral care.
Bio: Eunice had a career in the travel industry that spanned 30 years which included 16 years with Menno Travel Service, many as Manager of the missionary travel focused company, as well as owner/operator of two travel agencies.  Her caring heart and “wanting to serve” attitude that made her successful with her clients eventually led her to start up a non-profit in Ukraine ministering to orphans and widows.  It started in 2006 when she made a pilgrimage to the Molotschna region of Ukraine with two cousins to find the ancestral home of their grandparents.  They found the house in the village of Alexandekrona, and an intense interest in the welfare of the Ukraine people began.  In 2014, with the help of Helen Sedikh from Kyiv, they started to minister to women who were once orphans, and met once a week over a meal.  This gathering at the table included teaching life skills along with some Bible studies and from there grew into an Alpha course, ESL, a Bible Study and several business opportunities that helped these women support themselves.  The Table Gathering Ukraine is now a registered charity in Ukraine and is a registered society in Canada.

Website:  thetablegathering.ca , silversoul.org

Meadow Rose Society

Executive Director: Sheila Friesen
Founder/Director of Communications: Kathereen Kessler
Location: 2-45789 Spadina Ave, Chilliwack BC V2P1T5
Focus: Child Poverty
Mission: Working with our community to ease hunger and the needs of impoverished children, aged three and under, by acquiring and supplying the basic needs for these children and to be the voice of our community to promote public awareness of these needs.
Website: www.meadowrosesociety.com

Afternoon Adventures

School: McCammon Traditional Elementary School
Leaders: Lindsey Doerksen & Shannon Hawkins
Focus: To reach out into our community and build encouraging relationships with the students from McCammon Traditional Elementary School in Grades 3-5. Afternoon Adventures is a safe, fun, and productive after school program for families who cannot afford traditional after school care for their children. This program offers great activities, including drama, cooking, woodworking, science, music, sports, art projects, and much more. Main Street Church is one of 4 local Churches, who have partnered with 4 Elementary Schools in the Chilliwack School District, to run the Afternoon Adventures Outreach Program
Prayer Requests: Pray that the students and their families would see God’s love through the leaders, and that lasting impacts would be made.

CMS Hang out

School:  Chilliwack Middle School
Director: Ryley Lewis
Focus: To reach out into our community and build encouraging relationships with the students from Chilliwack Middle School in Grades 6 & 7. The CMS Hang-Out Program is an outflow of Afternoon Adventures. This program offers great activities, life skill building, and much more. Main Street Church is one of 5 local Churches, who have partnered with 3 Middle Schools in the Chilliwack School District, to run the Hang-Out Program.
Prayer Request: Pray that the students their families would see God’s love through the leaders, and that lasting impacts would be made.

Tsion Westeringh

Location: United Kingdom
Agency: Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Harpenden
Website: ywamharpenden.org
Role: Co-leader of ECO (English Culture Orientation) School
Focus: Tsion is currently the Co-leader of ECO (English Culture Orientation) School. ECO starts again in April, and have 11 Chinese and 15 Brazilians students. Tsion’s main role is to oversee the ECO program and help with teaching English. Tsion is looking into working with a new ministry Orphans Know More. OKM is a ministry part of Youth With a Mission. OKM is a pilot project in the Jinja Region of Southern Uganda. OKM believe that the best way to tackle the international orphan crisis is to care for children in families. God has been really speaking to Tsion about joining the ministry and is planning to go to Uganda November 7th of this year to look into the ministry, see the homes and meet some of the girls and boys!
Prayer Requests: Please be praying for this year’s ECO program as they are adding new staff to the team. Team members come from different cultures and have different personalities so she would like prayer for team unity. Tsion would also like prayer as she trusts God for her direction. She would also ask for prayer for continued good health.

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