Sponsored Missionaries

Missionary: Courtney Rodriguez (Heck)
Organization: Kid's Alive
Location: Guatemala
Mentoring girls/young women and teaching them life skills. The girls are living in the home due to family hardships. Courtney works to strengthen their spiritual, moral, intellectual and emotional state. She leads Bible studies and tutors and helps them to become self-supporting adults. She is newly married to Tono.

Mission: Fountain of Hope Junior School & True Worship Center
Location: Uganda
Christian school headed by Robert & Sarah Sityo - Reaching the Muslim community of Bukeeka. Many students are orphans and cannot pay the school fees. Supplies and teachers salaries are lacking, but God's mercy is in great supply. There is much opposition and they need God’s protection both physically and spiritually.

Missionary: Carol Osmon
Organization: Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Location: Needles, California
Leading Bible studies and ministering among the Mohave Nation in and around Needles. There is much poverty, crime and despair among the people. Carol's body is not strong but her spirit remains devoted to Jesus.

Missionary: Kendra Hoover
Organization: Atlantic Bridge
Location: Europe
Trains/develops Christian youth with the goal to send some of the youth over to the US and bring US students over there. She is developing her own group and traveling to other parts of Eastern Europe to build more groups and strengthen them as they reach out to the lost and deceived.

Missionary: Eric Gbotoe (with wife Laura)
Organization: Lutheran Church Missouri Synod—Seminary
Location: South Africa
Attending Lutheran Theological Seminary for the purpose of becoming a pastor to his own people in Liberia. Laura is taking medical training and they are expecting their first child (she has had a number of miscarriages).

Missionary: Dennis Denow
Organization: Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Location: Indonesia
Training teachers to work in the school systems and live the gospel in an area that has been closed to Christians for a long time. Must work with the local leaders and gain their favor

Missionary: Chuck Altig
Organization: Hospital Chaplain
Location: Portland Metro
Sharing the love of Christ to hospital patients (praying with them, reading the Bible, giving encouragement and hope)

Missionary: Ron Riesinger
Organization: Intervarsity/FOCUS International Students—Regional Director
Location: NW United States
FOCUS seeks to befriend international students and help them to live in this culture and to share God's love for them.

Missionary: John & Annalyn Guest
Organization: Intervarsity/FOCUS International Students—PSU
Location: Portland State University
FOCUS seeks to befriend international students and help them to live in this culture and to share God's love for them.

Missionary: Jaipur Community Transformation Center (CTC)
Organization: United Evangelical Mission India
Location: Jaipur, India
Twelve missionaries are learning how to start churches and also become self-sufficient financially so that they can go to outermost areas in India to preach the gospel and make disciples. This is a big sacrifice to them and their families. They live by faith and face much persecution.

Missionary: Megan Brown
Organization: Campus Crusade for Christ
Location: University of Washington
She is developing relationships, strengthening the Christians on campus and proclaiming the gospel to the non-believers. She has to raise her own support and live wisely. Pray for effectiveness and great discernment of where to give her energy.