Great Commission Fund
Celebration Stories
The Alliance is grateful to God for His faithful provision through the Great Commission Fund (GCF) to send, support and equip active light-bearers in more than 50 countries around the world. The following stories from each of the International Ministries regions demonstrate our love for lost people through spiritual and/or holistic ministries around the world, made possible by GCF supporters.
Africa: The Senegal Connection. Doors have opened in Dakar, Senegal, for Alliance international workers to teach business courses in local universities, giving them opportunity to build bridges into the community that will bear the weight of truth. Also, health care needs of Senegalese people are addressed through a church-run dispensary, which allows Alliance workers to demonstrate the love of Jesus through compassionate care.
Additionally, Dakar Academy students, most of whom are children of Alliance missionaries, experience ministry firsthand by going to remote villages to participate in evangelistic events.
Asia and Pacific: Where There’s Hope… Hope House Ministries in Hiroshima, Japan, is led by GCF-supported Alliance international workers, Ken and Kathy Young. The Youngs are using Hope House, which is located near a major hospital, as an outreach to people who have spiritual and emotional needs as they deal with hospitalized relatives. Doors are opening for ministry to doctors and nurses within the hospital, as well.
Europe: A Source of Hope. The Source community center in Bosnia is impacting the people of Sarajevo through English classes, film festivals, poetry readings, day care, and music lessons. The year-old center, strategically located in the heart of the capital city, is made possible by generous gifts to the Great Commission Fund. Recognizing The Source as a valuable asset to the community, a few nonbelievers have eagerly joined the outreach that is reaching their neighborhood for Christ. Pray that they will soon place their trust in Jesus as their Savior.
Creative-Access Countries: Blazing New Trails. Alliance leaders are visiting critically unreached areas of a creative-access nation for the purpose of planning a strategic initiative there. Meetings with national believers to pray and seek God’s direction regarding how to best begin ministry have led to the possibility of establishing IT (information technology) business models in the northern part of the country. As faithful supporters continue to give to the Great Commission Fund, new initiatives like this will come to fruition for God’s glory.
Marketplace Ministries. It almost goes without saying that many countries today are closed to the overt sharing of the Good News. Marketplace Ministries deploys and supports lay professionals to enter countries that are closed to traditional mission workers. Through professional endeavors, Marketplace Ministries servants, some of whom receive partial Great Commission Fund funding as well as raise their own support, are able to build relationships as they work and live in those communities. Because of the sensitive nature of these Marketplace Ministry initiatives, only the vaguest descriptions are given below, but specific prayer is greatly appreciated:
A professor is working at a leading university in Asia and is holding Bible studies in his home.
A family in the Middle East is working and teaching at a leading public university.