Troy and Heidi Jo Darrin seek to minister to the spiritual and physical needs of the people of Moldova. They team up with national pastors in church planting and construction efforts, partner with Convoy of Hope in community outreaches and minister in churches every week, preaching and encouraging the congregations. In addition, Heidi is involved in working against human trafficking—especially that of young women—through prevention awareness and the discipling of young women.
Troy’s first trip was in 1985 to Mexico City with Mike Shields, Rick Wilkerson and Bob Kilpatrick in a church planting effort. This trip was tremendous and marked the beginning of his missions journey. During his 20 years of pastoral ministry in the United States, Troy went on to lead 10 short-term mission trips with youth and adults before being called into full-time missions.
In September 2005, Troy led a short-term mission trip to Moldova from his church, Waukesha First Assembly of God. Within a week of returning, both he and Heidi felt the call to Moldova—and on September 27, 2005, they said yes to God and to missions.
Heather Darrin - Daughter
Heidi jo Darrin - Wife
River Valley 500. Our focus is equipping local Christian leaders (for Venture and with our local church) in hard to reach (tough) places in SE Asia with resources to help them share the Gospel, plant churches, and build the Kingdom of God.
While the people of Estonia have made advances in technology and are reaping the rewards of those efforts, they are spiritually dead. In fact, Estonians considered themselves one of the least religious countries in the world. Among those that do hold religious beliefs, many have shaped their beliefs from folk tales and cultural influences, such as the popular belief that trees have souls. Within this population these sorts of beliefs significantly outnumber those that know our Savior and the hope that is found in Him. The Estonian people are spiritually hungry but don’t have many Christ followers to guide them on how to satisfy that hunger. Many of the people still suffer from the trauma of the Soviet occupation and the oppression that came with it. It is that pain and hunger that our Lord longs to heal. And we are honored that he has placed the calling on our hearts to begin planting seeds of a new day of hope in Estonia.
The Kenyons are missionaries to the Youth Culture of Panama and present the gospel to students in the high schools of Panama City. They are launching a Youth Church that will establish a model to other churches in Panama of how to incorporate the emerging generation into their community without requiring them to meet an unstated list of rules and regulations in order to enter the premises or participate in the church community. This church will also provide a place where Panamanian students can retreat to feel safe, valued, and heard…a REFUGE. This REFUGE will house and rehabilitate abused girls within the context of the church.
this missions field is ripe, last year we saw thousands of gospel seeds planted, hundreds of salvations, healings, signs and wonders. South Africa is considered a Christian nation- but most people do not even know what it means to be Christian or why they call themselves Christians- but they're hearts are open and ready to receive once they hear the truth!! They are seeking truth and something to fill them and the spirit is moving and breaking out here not only within the church but within all the spheres of society- we believe we are on the verge of revival and that God is up to something huge here in South Africa to move from here into all of Africa.
Chris and Brook are the Directors for the Chi Alpha ministry on the campus of St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Paul and Mechthild Clark have been planting churches in Germany since 1984. They are presently planting a church in Bad Duerkheim, which is located about 60 miles southwest of Frankfurt. Paul is activity involved in mentoring church planters.
Students of all nations, backgrounds, religions, and more. People from all over the nation and all over the world come to NDSU. They have a high population of nonbelievers, Muslims, and more.
Japan has 127 million people but less than 1% is Christian. We minister in Fukuoka city a 2.2 million. Japan is considered an Unreached People group by AGWM
I’m serving all over the continent of Africa. At the moment, leadership has asked me to temporarily base out of Springfield with the Africa’s Hope team here until a decision is made about where on the continent a new Africa’s Hope team will be based. Until then, I’m traveling regularly to different countries around Africa to teach, meet with church leaders and translation teams, and be involved with a variety of other ministry.
River Valley 500. Paul and Robyn are serving in Northern Thailand. They are leading church planting teams reaching university students through English teaching centers.
Luke and Tanya McKinley’s mission field is the country of Estonia. Their primary focus is church planting in Tallinn, Estonia. They work with a team of missionaries in a multiplication network.