MISSIONS

Since 1998, Beerlahai Roi Women's Ministries has provided shelter, food, clothing, and mentoring and has assisted with other practical needs to homeless pregnant women in a safe, loving Christian environment. Services are available free of charge to women during pregnancy and up to 14 months following childbirth. Consider volunteering: participate in Hike for Babies, provide child care, assist with lawn care. LEARN MORE

CSF serves on the campuses of the University of Illinois-Springfield and Lincoln Land Community College. They are connecting students with God and helping them grow into transformed followers of Christ through opportunities such as: small group Bible studies, evangelism, worship, prayer, missions, and building community with other Christian students. Consider volunteering: provide snacks, sponsor a student on a mission trip, assist at the furniture giveaway for international students. LEARN MORE

Inner City Mission is devoted to understanding the root causes of homelessness, engaging its presence in their community, and equipping the Body of Christ to be a leader in its restorative process. Shelter, sustenance, clothing, teaching, and Christian mentorship are all elements of the stable environment they provide to children, their parents, and single adults. Consider volunteering: lead a Bible study, cook a meal, donate ground coffee. LEARN MORE

Exists to partner with local churches and groups to see that all of their guests and campers ENCOUNTER the gospel message of Christ, EMBRACE the gospel message of Christ, and ENGAGE the gospel message of Christ. Consider volunteering: serve on the Board, help at their monthly work days, donate needed kitchen supplies. LEARN MORE

Living Hope’s vision is to serve hurting individuals and families by providing Biblically-based professional counseling. Their counseling is based on the belief that God is our ultimate healer and having a relationship with Him provides true, long-lasting change. You’ll receive care from a licensed professional counselor. All of Living Hope’s counselors are committed Christians. Consider volunteering: serve on the Board. LEARN MORE

Campus Outreach seeks to build laborers with a Christ-centered commitment to the Great Commission through evangelism and discipleship. They are passionately reaching students with the Gospel and training them to become mature followers of Christ. In 2021, Chase and Lynzey Walker joined the CO team at SIU-E, and Chase now serves as the Campus Director for the ministry. LEARN MORE

IVCF is a student-led, interdenominational Christian group whose vision is to see students and faculty transformed, campuses renewed, and world changers developed. Greg and Mari Chimitris serve at SIU-E where Greg serves as the Area Ministry Director and primary direct minister. Mari serves in a part-time role working on integrating mental health principles with Christian teaching and student leadership training. LEARN MORE

PBT disciples the nations by translating God’s Word into the languages of people who do not yet have access to it. Jeff and Laura Wilhoit are working with a team of nationals to translate the Bible into the Zialo language of West Africa. Jeff also serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. Laura serves as a translation consultant for additional Bible translation projects. Nathan D. serves as PBT’s Director of Recruitment, and his wife Lindsay leads a Healing Prayer Ministry. LEARN MORE

Nathanael and Kristin Avery founded Rejoice Project in October of 2008. Rejoice works in rural communities in East Africa alongside local church leaders and pastors to empower them and their members to meet the needs of their community through the love of Jesus. This entails outreaches such as providing hygiene items for vulnerable girls and providing access to clean water. Invest also provides Biblical resources and theological training for the pastors and church leaders. Through their Rejoice Project, 10,000+ children are being discipled weekly by indigenous leaders in their own community. LEARN MORE

Mark and Grace Fishel serve with Kampuchea Christian Community (KCC), a group of independent churches from across Cambodia who have come together for growth and fellowship. Mark is working to help these congregations become self-sustaining and outward focused. Mark also co-leads Phnom Penh Church. In addition, Mark and Grace disciple university students through dormitory ministries. Grace teaches English as a Second Language as an outreach to a minority people group. LEARN MORE

Cross River Christian College (CRCC) is preparing Nigerians to become pastors in local villages in the Calabar area. RCC partners with CRCC by providing scholarships for the pastoral students and by supporting Faith Way Global Outreach (FWGO), the ministry which founded CRCC. FWGO focuses on evangelism, church planting, training, enrichment programs for women and girls, and self-help projects, including a medical clinic and school.

Hisportic Global Christian Mission is primarily a church-planting ministry with the focus on Portuguese-speaking peoples. RCC’s connection has mainly been through their work in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa where they have planted more than 20 churches. All of their churches are locally led. They have also started three Christian schools. LEARN MORE

In His Hands Orphans Outreach exists to create orphan awareness, to help orphans be adopted into loving homes, and to help orphans left behind. They are committed to helping children in the U.S. foster system and orphans overseas. In His Hands is committed to educating Christians on the desperate need of orphans all over the world and how they can make a difference. LEARN MORE

Tracy’s Heart is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa. It opened in 2008 in response to the needs of the nearly 80,000 women that were brutalized during 6 years of war. Tracy’s Heart began as a home where these women could come to live so they could begin to heal. The ministry now includes business training in areas such as basket-making, sewing, and flower arrangements. The women complete Biblically-based business training, and when they graduate, they receive micro-loans and supplies to begin their own businesses. The ministry has expanded to include outreach programs to prostitutes and prisoners and is also now accredited as a school so the women can finish their education and earn diplomas. LEARN MORE

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- Phnom Penh, Cambodia -

In 2009, the Lord introduced RCC to Evens & Florence Sanon. Evens was finishing up his schooling at Lincoln Christian University, and the couple was preparing to return home to Haiti to begin a ministry there. It was through Evens that we first learned of the needs in Grand Savann, Haiti. After a mission team returned from Grand Savann in August 2010, the missions team, staff, and elders all agreed that God was calling us into a long-term partnership with Grand Savann Christian Church.
This Sister Church relationship means more than just financial support. As “Sister Churches”, RCC and GSCC mutually commit to:

• Pray vigilantly for one another

• Encourage each other with regular communication

• Plan with each other for the building of the Kingdom of God

• Work side by side on mission trips

One major component of the Sister Church partnership is the establishment of a child sponsorship program, administered by Just 4 Them. LEARN MORE