Global Impact

2009 Partners

 

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Please take a moment to view this page. Connecting with a partner is another way to get involved in changing the world. Learn more about each organization by visiting their website. Pray often and check the weekly bulletin for missionary prayer requests, send notes of encouragement to a missionary, or provide financial support through Glenkirk for their work.

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Local Partners

(Southern California)

 

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Ingrid Carlson

Los  Angeles, California USA

Ingrid Carlson serves with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on the campus of UCLA to establish and advance student-led international witnesing communities.  Ingrid became a member of Glenkirk Church while in high school.  Ingrid has participated in local, national, and international mission teams through Glenkirk Church as well as through IVCF. 

 

Ken Zell

Claremont, California USA

Ken Zell is Area Director of InterVarsity Chistian Fellowship and serves on the campuses of Occidental, Redlands, Pomona, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, Scripps and Harvey Mudd. He and his wife, Ana Liza, have three children, and are members of the Glenkirk congregation. In addition to being active with IVCF, Ken is an Elder of Glenkirk and a member of the Glenkirk Youth Committee.

 

World Impact

Lynette Bartsch

Wichita, Kansas USA

Lyn Bartsch has served in various positions with World Impact for over 25 years. Currently, she serves in the Member Care Department.  She processes missionary and intern applications from start to finish, assists with the one week missionary Candidate Assessment Program (CAP), and assists the Member Care Director with personnel issues concerning missionaries and interns.  She is involved with ministry in her community and assists weekly with the Mobile Medical Clinic.

             

Meredith Carlson Abe

Los Angeles, California USA

Meredith Carlson Abe is a second grade teacher at the World Impact Los Angeles Christian School (LACS) in South Central L.A. Meredith and her family are members of the Glenkirk congregation, and she can sometimes been seen at our 11:11 service on Sunday mornings. Meredith just finshed her second year with World Impact at LACS and is working to develop her Spanish skills. She was recently married.

 

 

National Partners 

Campus Crusade for Christ

Chris and Christine Kernaghan

San Francisco, California USA

Chris and Christine Kernaghan are directors for Campus Crusade for Christ in San Francisco. They focus on San Francisco State University, as well as serving the poor in the neighborhood. Their desire is to bring their students into the community, serving the poor together, and learning how to express their faith more through acts of compassion and charity. Since college, both have been serving with Campus Crusade for Christ . Chris served in the Los Angeles inner city, as well as for two years in North Africa. Christine spent four years involved in the Campus Crusade urban ministry where her main area of focus was empowering the inner city church in Los Angeles through afterschool mentoring programs. Chris is connected with Glenkirk through his father being a former associate pastor here.

 

Hope Now for Youth, Inc.

Roger Feenstra

Fresno, California USA

Roger Feenstra is the Executive Director and CEO of Hope How for Youth. Hope Now was founded by Rev. Roger Minassian in 1993. Hope Now works intensely with young gang members, ages 16-24 years old, to help them get off the streets and secure jobs. Many of these young men are gang members filled with anger and bitterness, and are very dangerous. The staff of Hope Now shares the love of Jesus Christ with each of these young men with the hope that their hearts will be turned to Jesus Christ. Hope now has had a tremendous success rate since opening their doors in 1993. Total at-risk gang members placed in first time jobs since 1993 is 1,541. This year alone 46 at-risk gang members were placed in first time jobs and 107 youth have been placed in jobs.

 

Medical Benevolence Foundation

Worldwide

 

Trinity Presbyterian Church

Rev. Constance McIntosh

Arizona USA

 

World Vision

Robert Benavides

West Virginia USA

Robert Benavides works with middle school and high school students in rural Appalachia. He has led Sunday school classes for both middle school and high school students, as well as a young men's Bible study for students in eighth through twelfth grade. Currently he leads an after school character building program for seventh and eighth grade young men. In this program -- called "BOOST!" -- the students learn life skills, new skills for future employment, and new hobbies. Robert, a member of Glenkirk, commited his life to Jesus Christ while at a Glenkirk youth summer camp. He was married in 2007.

 

Wycliffe Bible Translators

Anton and Joanne Bucher

Arkansas USA

Worldwide

Anton and Joanne Bucher are members of Glenkirk and began serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators 25 years ago. During the 25 years they have served together in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, The Netherlands, and the United States. Anton works in Crisis Management and Human Resources monitoring events around the world with an eye for potential impact on Wycliffe teams. Joanne works in finance for the Americas Group of Wycliffe. They have two grown children, two grandchildren, and two more grandchildren on the way.

 

Youth with a Mission (YWAM)

Brian and Anna Kleinsasser

Missouri USA

Worldwide

Brian and Anna Kleinsasser grew up at Glenkirk Church. They have been married for over 20 years and have four children. Brian and Anna have served with YWAM in Hong Kong, Austrailia, New Zealand and the United States. Brian works with YWAM Campaigns - Impact World Tour. One of Brian's roles is working in the finance area with National Office budget as well as campaign city budgets with the various cities in which they are doing campaigns. Impact World Tours organizes evangelistic campaigns by pulling together churches and putting on events that are entertainment (to attract people), as well as sharing a relevant and uncompromising presentation of the Gospell of Jesus Christ. Impact World Tour operates in the United States, New Zealand, Canada, India, Brazil, and several European countries.

 

International Partners

African Enterprise

Stephen Lungu

Africa

Stephen Lungu is the International Team Leader for African Enterprise. Stephen has a miraculous testimony of radical life transformation from a violent freedom fighter to international evangelist. Abandoned as a young child, Stephen grew up on the streets of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe today), became a gang leader, and developed a deep bitterness toward God. In 1960 he became involved in violent Communist activism against the white Government, learning the dreadful skills of sabotage, bombing, and destruction. In 1962, Stephen and his gang plotted to blow up a bank when they came upon a large tent Gospel meeting with thousands of people. He and his fellow terrorists decided they would throw their bombs into the tent and shoot anyone who tried to escape. Before he could throw his bombs, he heard the Gospel and became convicted of his sins. He was converted at the very meeting he planned to bomb! The day after his conversion, Stephen surrendered himself to the authorities and confessed his crimes. After eight hours of interrogation, Stephen was released and given money by one policeman to buy his first Bible. He and his wife, Rachel, also serve as marriage counselors.

 

Arabic Broadcasting Service

Shukri and Adma Habibi

North Africa and Middle East

Shukri and Adma Habibi work together to reach the Arabic world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They write and produce several series of radio programs and short spots that are broadcast to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Arab Peninsula. They have been in radio ministry for over 35 years, with Arabic Broadcasting Service being in existence for over ten of those years. Shukri and Adma have been married for over 37 years.

     

Donetsk Christian University

Ukraine

 

For His Children

Ecuador

 

Glad Tidings India

India

 

Go Ye Fellowship

Sensitive Country

 

The Navigators

Sensitive Country

 

Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) Tumutumu Hospital

(Mission Partnership)

Related Entities:

PCEA Gathaithi Parish

PCEA Mahiga Dispensary

PCEA Riamukurwe Parish

Tumutumu School for the Hearing Impaired Children

Kenya - East Africa

 

Additional Links

http://www.iblministries.com/

www.musicmissionkiev.org

 

Should you wish to provide financial support through Glenkirk, please designate the actual recipient or purpose of the donation when providing financial support for missionaries, mission partners, mission teams, and/or mission projects.