Jennafer Gaventa

Jennafer Gaventa is serving with World Gospel Mission in Uganda for one year. She is assisting the missionaries in their ministry, helping with book keeping and training Ugandan Christians to serve Christ and the church in Uganda.

Please support Jennafer’s work in Uganda by giving generously to the mission's budget. Most importantly she needs your prayer support as she works with WGM in this strategic location. Check out her poster and info in the narthex and play a vital role in her ministry through prayer and support.

Even if you are not called to go to a foreign land, as Christians we all have received the Great Commission to preach the Gospel… even to the uttermost parts of the earth. Supporting Jennafer, financially and with your faithful prayers is one way your life can touch the “uttermost parts of the earth.”

You can read more about the ministries on the field in Uganda at http://www.wgm.org/Page.aspx?pid=423. Being the home of Kampala International University and Heritage International School, Uganda is a critical location for ministry not only to the people of that nation, but also to the entire continent of Africa, and to the world, through the international community that gathers there. Please be praying for Jennafer as she goes, and for all those who long to see the church of Christ increase in Uganda and work faithfully towards that goal.

Jennafer's blog will keep you informed of what she is doing in Uganda.

http://www.jennasafricanjourney.blogspot.com/

Joy Phillips

Joy serves with World Gospel Mission Africa. For 20 years she worked with Tenwek Community Health & Development with WGM in Kenya. More recently she was partnering with Samaritan’s Purse as Project Coordinator for Lui Hospital in Southern Sudan. After Samaritan’s Purse pulled out of that project Joy continues to work coordinating WGM’s work in the Sudan. www.joyphillips.blogspot.com

Len And Betsy Phillips

Len and Betsy serve with World Gospel Mission and The Mission Society, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Having spent a number of years in Honduras they now work alongside La Iglesia Evangélica Mundial de Bolivia (the World Gospel Church of Bolivia). Len teaches at Bolivian Evangelical University and Berea Bible Seminary, and Betsy is involved in ministry with elementary school students at Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center. Len and Betsy have three children, Anna, Abigail and Luke.

Paul and Patsy Shingledecker

Paul and Pat serve with World Gospel Mission. Formerly missionaries to Haiti, Paul is now the Regional Director for the U.S. and Caribbean. His territory includes the American Indian Field, Haitian American Ministries, Stockton Peniel, St. Croix and Haiti. He oversees the mission fields, their missionary care, orientation and training. Pat also works in the home office and is Administrative Assistant for Field Ministries.

Steve And Gail Quigg

Steve and Gail serve with the General Board of Global Ministries of the UMC. For twenty years Steve was a pilot with Wings of Caring in The Congo, Africa. When political unrest forced them out of the Congo, they were reassigned by the GBGM to Mission Safety International. They are now based in the U.S. and travel widely in support of aviation ministries around the world. They have two daughters, Kathy and Heather.

Lisa Fish

Lisa serves with World Gospel Mission in Uganda, Africa. She formerly served at the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center in Bolivia, South America. In Uganda Lisa teaches at Heritage International School in Kampala. She also has responsibilities for developing youth ministries in the school, and working in the national church training youth leaders and ministering to women through Bible studies and discipleship groups. (http://thefishlineonline.blogspot.com/index.html) (http://www.heritageinternationalschool.org)

Mark and Jodi Amey

After spending nearly 20 years as missionaries in Kenya, Africa, Mark and Jodie, now serve with Handi*Vangelism. They are involved with Bible studies in hospitals and institutions, with handicamp for children, youth and adults, and other types of ministry to people with mental and physical disabilities.

Andy and Lizet Bowen

Andy and Lizet serve with World Gospel Mission in Paraguay. They work with English-speaking missionaries to help them learn the Guarani language (one of Paraguay’s two national languages) and Paraguayan culture. They also work with Paraguayans to help them become more effective in their church roles—such as youth work, teaching, leading worship, and evangelism. Andy and Lizet have two sons, Lucas and Timothy.
(http://pynandi.blogspot.com/)

Handi*Vangelism

Handi*Vangelism is a ministry to people with disabilities. They do this through Sunday School programs, camps, correspondence courses, curriculum development, and hospital ministries. They minister to both the physically handicapped and the mentally impaired. They also provide support groups and grief seminars. While their primary ministry is in the Delaware Valley area, they also have a growing international ministry.

Gideons International

The Gideons International serves as an extended missionary arm of the church. Their sole purpose is to win men, women, boys and girls to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ through association for service, personal testimony, and distributing the Bible in the human traffic lanes and streams of everyday life. Gideons is a Christian business and professional men's association distributing Bibles and New Testaments in hospitals, motels, college campuses, and places worldwide.

Jim Hughes Ministries

Jim, a gifted and talented man of God, is an evangelist, vocalist, and dramatist. He has a faith-based ministry using preaching, music, and drama to proclaim the word of the Lord. Jim has been with us on a number of occasions to do drama, to sing and to preach.

Camden Neighborhood Center

This ministry of our Annual Conference churches ministers to the needy people of Camden. The Center provides food, necessary articles, fellowship, Bible Studies, and Christian love and care. It gives hope to many otherwise hopeless people. It have preschool programs and after-school programs.

Council on Alcohol & Drug Education

The Council on Alcohol & Drug Education provides competent resource persons to assist the schools or individual classroom teacher in the presentation of the most accurate, factual information available concerning the effects of all drugs on the human body. They provide programs to schools in all 21 counties in NJ. They emphasize the wisdom of alcohol/drug free living.

The Mission Society

An evangelical missions organization that has grown up within the United Methodist Church. It is dedicated to putting missionaries in the field where they are needed, introducing people to Christ, planting churches, and training national leaders to carry on the ministries of the kingdom. The Mission Society has 183 missionaries serving 31 nations around the world.

Ranch Hope

Ranch Hope is a residential campus providing behavioral healthcare services to adolescent boys and girls. Their programs strive to rehabilitate troubled teenagers through new life in Christ and instill in them a sense of responsibility in life. They minister to the physical, educational, emotional and spiritual needs of the youth. The primary campus is in Alloway, NJ, with a girl’s residential unit, known as Victory House, located in Williamstown.

Delanco Camp

Delanco Camp is Christian camp located in Tabernacle Township, NJ. It provides a full schedule of summer camps for Juniors, Junior Highs, teens, and a family camp meeting. It is also the setting for year-round weekend retreats. Delanco Camps purpose is the proclamation of Scriptural holiness for the transformation of lives. Many of our youth and adults have been part of Delanco Camp.

Bethany Christian Service

Bethany is a pro-life, Christian adoption and family services agency. Bethany offers pregnancy counseling, maternity group homes, infant foster care and adoption services. Their Christian care extends to people struggling with unplanned pregnancies, infertility, and a multitude of other challenges. They offer both domestic and international adoption and international child sponsorship.

United Methodist Homes of New Jersey

These facilities, owned and operated by the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, provide places for retired people to live, as well as a host of services, including health care and infirmary units. Our support helps make it affordable to those in need. Some of our own church people have benefited from the facilities of the Homes. There are 11 homes throughout New Jersey, Pitman Manor and Collingswood Manor be the closest to us. www.umh-nj.org

Confessing Movement within the UM Church

The Confessing Movement is a grass-roots renewal movement in our denomination. “Confessing Jesus Christ as Son, Savior and Lord, the Confessing Movement exists to enable the United Methodist Church to retrieve its classical doctrinal identity and to live it out as disciples of Jesus Christ.” Supporting the Confessing Movement is one way we can help to call our United Methodist Church back to the historic faith rooted in Scripture and centered in Jesus Christ.

Kid’s Alley

Kid’s Alley ministers to more than 200 children a week in Camden. They seek to illustrate God’s love for children and to empower them with a message of hope for daily victorious living. They do this through a blend of living arts presentations, educational and academic supports, nutritional provisions and leadership development.

Junior/Senior High Youth Ministries

This helps provide resources for the work and ministry of the youth fellowships within our Church and their outreach into the community.

Blessing Store

The Blessing Store provides food for the needy people in our area. It is supported by contributions from individuals and groups, as well as food drives, and operates out of our Fellowship Hall on the third Saturday of each month. On any given month 40 to 50 bags of groceries are given away. Needs are also met throughout the month on an individual basis.

World Service & Conference Benevolences

This is the basic benevolence arm of our Annual Conference. This supports the program and boards of the Annual Conference as well as the boards and agencies of the General Conference.

Ministerial Education Fund

This fund enables the United Methodist Church to provide financial support for the recruitment and education of persons for the ordained ministry. It also helps underwrite a significant portion of the 13 United Methodist Seminaries.

Black College Fund

This fund provides financial support for current operating budgets and capital improvements of the black colleges that are related administratively to the United Methodist Church.

Africa University Fund

This General Conference fund supports Africa University in Zimbabwe, Africa. This university was founded by the United Methodist Church in 1992. It began with 40 students and now has an enrollment of over 800. It offers degrees in agriculture, humanities, education, theology, etc.

Lenten Project

Each year we do a special project during Lent that is over and above our planned giving. The support for this project is raised by special Lenten giving and the project is announced by the Missions Committee prior to the beginning of Lent.