Ron & Carla Brand (Camille & Caleb)

  

 Gary & Martha Ellsworth

"We serve in the Church Development & Revitalization Ministry of U.S. Missions  The ministry of COMMUNITY OUTREACH (C.O), is to equip every pastor and local congregation of every revitalization work or church plant to look for where God is working, through a refocus in PRAYER, PENTECOSTAL RENEWAL, EVANGELISM (by teaching spirit-filled Christians how to ask a series of questions in witnessing), CARE VISITATION MINISTRIES, AND DISCIPLESHIP."  Ron Brand

Carla and Ron have been serving the Assemblies of God movement and the Southern Missouri District as nationally appointed home missions workers since 1994, and as the coordinator of the Community Outreach Project in the Southern Missouri District beginning in 1994.  They were awarded a Home Missionaries of the Year workers award in 2002 at the Assemblies of God Home Missions conference in Springfield.  Their ministry is well known in Missouri and across the Midwest among many churches and pastors. (see more on BIO page for your local promotion)

Gary & Martha Ellsworth have been serving the Assemblies of God movement also for more than 40 years as Church Planter, Pastor, and Evangelist.  The passion of the Ellsworth's ministry is to see a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our churches.  As a Nationally Appointed U.S. Missionary their focus is on Rural America as well as the plateaued or declining churches.      (see more on BIO page for your local promotion)

 

Several Community Outreaches are conducted each year where they lead volunteers to distribute thousands of Light For the Lost (LFTL) bibles and packets of church information to thousands of homes, praying with people about their needs during each outreach.  Resources are provided for each local congregation to find fulfillment in obeying the Great Commission.  Two such outreaches were January 2006 in Pleasant Hill, MO, and July 1998 in Noel, MO, and the churches are still reaping growth as a result.  

Recognizing the need to enlarge COMMUNITY OUTREACH (C.O.) to better minister on time to churches that call, the services of C.O. were expanded in 2003 to include the fulltime partnership of Pentecostal Renewal Ministries (with U.S. Missionaries Gary & Martha Ellsworth).   In certain situations where the churches that call are also in need of some of the specialized ministries that are available with our other missionaries we serve with, we attempt to utilize and network with every missions worker possible.  For instance, we are also in partnership with Rural Compassion with U.S. Missionaries Steve & Rebecca Donaldson as part of assisting the local church to fulfill it's mission of sharing the good news, many times directly relating to poverty issues and disaster relief.  We have and will continue to direct many pastors to use this ministry.  Then in the area of discipleship we have the benefit of having U.S. Missionaries Jim and Betty Hall in Springfield to partner with for support, the authors of Harvesters Handbook.  We encourage you to view both of their websites as well, and lend support to them (prayer and financial) in anyway you can.


 

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