Howard and Jo-Ann Brant have been involved in evangelism and church planting for over 50 years. Today they continue to preach, teach, and mentor rising leaders in churches and missions. Howard serves the 74 Ethiopian missionaries sent by their Ethiopian churches to 13 countries outside of their homeland by editing and circulating their ministry reports and prayer letters. The Brants are in mentoring contact and involved with fund-raising for church planting and the Gurage Theological and Pastoral Training College (formerly simply called Gurage Bible College). 

www.simusa.org

P&J Bell are working in the Western Mediterranean to help engage, evangelize and empower local believers in the region to go and transform their communities with the Good News of Jesus Christ. P&J, along with their regional teams, are praying for God to shift this geographically strategic region from “receiving” to “sending” laborers back into His harvest field of unreached people in North Africa and Europe.

https://www.eastwest.org/

Fraser serves in two of Wycliffe's partner organizations. As Associate Director of SIL LEAD, Fraser provides expertise about minority languages to internationally-funded development projects. SIL LEAD-supported projects are currently helping over two million kids learn to read in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Better education means more people who can read the translated Scriptures, and a better economic and social situation for the whole community. Fraser also works in SIL International, where he coordinates user training for Bloom, SIL’s award-winning software for creating books for new readers.

Liz supervises the education of our two youngest two daughters, and volunteers at our church and at the Pregnancy Help Center of Fort Worth. 

www.wycliffe.org/partner/flbennett

Sons of Thunder is an interdenominational Christian mission organization, God-initiated and God-directed, with the mission statement “to feed Africa physically and spiritually through the enabling of the Holy Spirit.”  There are multiple facets to this ministry. 

First, there is the spiritual aspect with multiple churches and church plants as well as a Sons of Thunder men’s ministry and women’s ministry respectively, all with the focus to share the good news of salvation as well as the love of Jesus in compassionate service to those in need.

Next, there is an agricultural aspect with a conservational type of farming based on biblical principles called Farming God’s Way that includes maize production as well as fruits and vegetables. Other areas of the agriculture side include fish farming and village chickens. A maize mill was purchased and production and distribution of Sons of Thunder mealie meal has begun.

The third facet of Sons of Thunder is a medical ministry which now includes an entire medical complex of an outpatient clinic, freestanding lab, maternity center, a newly constructed 12-bed inpatient facility, and medical staff housing for professional staff, including 5 individual houses plus a female hostel. Three Land Cruisers comprise the medical fleet of vehicles answering emergency calls and providing transport to the 10 plus outreaches every month. 

The fourth area of ministry is education and includes 2 preschools and a primary school as well as a work/study program called the Blessed Fund for grades 8-12. There is also a student sponsorship program through secondary school and even college in some cases.

Continued entrepreneurship and skills training with mentorships have led to licenses and certifications. There is a conference center used mainly by the Ministry of Health for varied workshops as well as student nurse clinical rotations.  SOT offers free childcare for working mothers and has a sewing center, convenience store, and entire business center with receiving, sales office and stores. Last, but not least, there is a “Nshima Kitchen” used to feed the hungry from the surrounding communities free of charge.

In all areas of ministry, Jesus is found in the midst and offered as our only source of hope!

www.sotzambia.com   

Steve & Kim Blewett are linguists with Wycliffe Bible Translators. They have worked in Papua New Guinea since 1982. They were married at Neelsville in June 1980, and Neelsville has had a key role in sending and supporting them through their 40 years in Papua New Guinea. In 1987, the Blewetts went to Bougainville Island to live with the Rapoisi people. They developed the Rapoisi alphabet, helped start Rapoisi literacy classes, and helped two Rapoisi men begin translating the Bible into their Rapoisi language. They have also assisted Bougainvilleans from twelve other languages to translate the Bible into their own languages. Scripture books have been printed and audio-recorded in most of these languages, and translation continues. 

www.wycliffe.org/partner/blewett

Neelsville member Rev. William Okletey and his wife, Susuana, pastor Blessed Redemption Outreach Ministry (BROM) in Haatso-Narhman, Accra, Ghana.  BROM was started in 1990 after much prayer and careful considerations of the despreate spiritual needs of the village dwellers around the country of Ghana.  The church has active programs in evangelism, Bible School education, literacy and vocational training.  Currently, the ministry is constructing a large worship center.

MBF is a Christ-centered organization dedicated to transforming lives by building sustainable medical ministries in developing countries. Through long-term partnerships, MBF equips indigenous churches with tools and resources that allow them to meet the health care needs of their community and share the Gospel. MBF’s vision translates into a set of medical ministries that serve the poorest of the poor in the developing world, providing critical care for women and children, hospital and clinic support and development, spiritual ministry, and nursing schools and scholarships. They work with roughly 16 hospitals/clinics and 5 nursing schools across Africa. They work with 2 major clinics and one nursing school in Haiti. Neelsville supports the nursing scholarship fund as the FSIL School of Nursing that works with Hôpital Ste. Croix (HSC), the primary hospital in the Léogâne region-a 60-bed facility with ER, Radiology, Pediatric, Maternity, Laboratory, and Pharmacy

www.medicalmission.org

www.mbfglobalnursing.org