Stepping Out to Serve in Africa and Asia

Lexi’s Story— Serving the Lost in South Asia with the International Mission Board

Lexi contacted us through RightNow.org in June 2008. Her and her husband had a passion to help stir the heart of the American church towards caring for the lost and oppressed. They felt in order to do that, they must first “go” and touch those lives firsthand.

Lexi’s RightNow mission coach told her about the Journeyman Conference put on by one of our partners, the International Mission Board. Her and her husband attended the week-long conference in Virginia.

She told her RightNow coach at the end of August that they will be serving in South Asia working as “strategic church coordinators” connecting stateside churches to unreached people groups.

Lexi said, “We are so excited to be able to serve these beautiful people, and God is daily increasing our burden for them. At the same time, we hope to facilitate the American church to experience the heart of Jesus like they have not been able to do before.”

The IMB’s main objective is presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to lead individuals to saving faith in Him and result in church-planting movements among all the peoples of the world.

JenniLynn’s Story— Comforting Orphans in Africa with Serving in Mission

JenniLynn contacted us through RightNow.org in July 2006 as a Senior Business Management major at Eastern University.

Missions had always been a huge passion of JenniLynn’s but money and family issues seemed to stand as a road block. As she approached graduation, she didn’t want to simply get a business job she wouldn’t care at all about.

JenniLynn then graduated in May 2007 and went to Zimbabwe for a month with her church that summer. She took a job in her area and worked with a local ministry for a year. She stayed in regular contact with her mission coach through it all, emailing and calling every couple of months.

In August 2008, she told her mission coach she was ready to go so she was connected to a few different organizations. She is now going with Serving in Mission to work in an orphanage in Kenya for two months, where she’ll officially begin January 2009.

SIM’s purpose is to glorify God by planting, strengthening, and partnering with churches around the world.