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Through your support, Global Ministries missionaries lift up the name of Jesus in thought, word and deed, proclaiming Jesus Christ as “the Word become flesh” through incarnate living and deeds of love, service, healing and renewal. Through your partnership with Global Ministries, missionaries are doing exactly this worldwide. On the following pages are just a few stories of the whole-person, whole-community ministry taking place across the globe.

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Good News Reaching the Whole Person with the

Global Ministries missionaries Reverend Andrew Soon Lee and Janice Sehyung Lee lead a multifaceted ministry throughout the country of Cambodia. Today, the Methodist Church of Cambodia (MCC) thrives in 10 districts with 55 elder pastors and 70 lay leaders shepherding 7,500 Christians.

“Our focus is mainly on people,” says Janice, who has been in Phnom Penh with her husband since 2017. “When we do any kind of mission, it’s all about people.”

Among the many projects through which the Lees work with MCC to minister to the whole person are Community Health and Agricultural Development (CHAD) initiatives such as well-building and hygiene trainings. Over the last two years, 90 wells have been built in rural communities.

“We are providing clean water to people in need in provinces where MCC churches are located,” says Andrew.

Increasingly, these communities are contributing a percentage of the well-building costs. Having started at a 10% investment, communities are now contributing 20-30% of the costs and, as a result, are taking greater ownership for their own clean water.

Ministering to the socially marginalized

The Cambodia mission initiative also ministers to socially marginalized children who come from families who cannot afford the cost of school.

Global Ministries missionaries collaborate with a local nonprofit that operates a school for these children, providing uniforms and school supplies as well as funds for building renovations, teacher salaries and trainings. As Andrew explains, “The street children ministry … is changing the community a lot. We are now providing Christian values classes with the permission of the school, so we are teaching them and sharing the love of God based on the Bible. … The school is growing, and we are so glad.”

A worldwide reach

Your contribution to missionaries in Cambodia stretches beyond Phnom Penh to Christians and non-Christians throughout the country and even around the world. Because of their use of digital technology, the Lees believe that is just how far the gospel is reaching.

Your support of Global Ministry missionaries makes this multifaceted ministry throughout Cambodia possible.

Susanna Wesley House (women’s dorm) students celebrating graduating students.

Global Ministry missionaries, Andrew and Janice Lee (shown above, right), lead a multifaceted ministry across Cambodia.

When a local pastor approached the Lees to request that they create a Sunday school curriculum, they jumped at the chance, but they wanted to ensure the curriculum would be relevant and useful. In the 21st century, in a country where everyone has smartphones, the Cambodia office conceived of a digital children’s education curriculum that includes PDF lesson plans for Sunday school teachers, YouTube versions of

It’s the various videos that have proven to be popular beyond what the Lees could have imagined:

“One of the videos has 150,000 views,” shares Andrew. “It is definitely going out of the four walls of MCC churches. It is reaching out to other denominations—all the Christians in Cambodia.”

Holistic ministry is whole-person ministry

Methodist missionaries in Cambodia teach children about the love and character of Jesus through popular materials like these YouTube videos, but that love and Christ-like character is woven through every one of their holistic ministries—from providing clean water to empowering women in promising careers.

“When your focus is on people,” explains Janice, “you see the needs of a whole person. … Ministry just naturally becomes holistic.”

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The Lee's ministry includes sharing children’s clothes with Mondulkiri Methodist Church in Cambodia (Missionary Andrew Lee pictured on far right).

Cambodian child receiving donated clothes.

Enabling the Local Church to Reach Others With the Love of Christ

Empowering indigenous churches in Guatemala

In a country of volcanic vistas and a significant indigenous population, the National Evangelical Primitive Methodist Church of Guatemala is growing. With your support, missionaries like Edwin Campomanes Ramirez are helping this church of indigenous, mostly K’iche’, believers become self-sustaining so that it can reach more communities with the love of Christ.

Campomanes Ramirez was born in Mexico where he worked as a banker. He became invested in mission when a medical team from Tennessee began serving in his hometown.

“[Participating in the mission] was a … life-changing experience for me,” he explains. “… I never would have thought that my skills and my talents were needed in mission. So, the first time [the mission team arrived], that changed me, because I started to appreciate how these foreign brothers and sisters were selflessly helping my fellow countrymen.”

Three years ago, Campomanes Ramirez became a Global Ministries missionary as the assistant to the president for institutional development in Quetzaltenango, a Guatemalan economic and cultural hub nestled at the foot of the Santa María volcano. Here, Campomanes Ramirez helps congregations nationwide develop stewardship and communications policies and procedures. The goal is to move these congregations from dependence on donations to financial security that will not only sustain them but also enable them to do compassionate and evangelistic outreach.

“What I’m doing here, how I’m serving,” explains Campomanes Ramirez, “is enabling the local church to reach new areas of people. By using resources in the correct way, we can actually reach more people who don’t know anything about the gospel and have never heard the word of God.”

Together we are the church on mission.

“By using resources in the correct way, we can actually reach more people who don’t know anything about the gospel and have never heard the word of God.”

– Edwin Campomanes Ramirez

Campomanes Ramirez working with local Guatemalan churches to develop stewardship and communications procedures.

Edwin Campomanes Ramirez (above) worked in the banking industry before becoming a Global Ministries missionary.

The Good News Finds A Way in Southeast Asia

Filing paperwork, paying fees, and meeting with government officials: it may not be the work A. Broncano anticipated when she became a missionary in Southeast Asia in 2016, but without it, there will be no missions to do. That is because the government doesn’t yet formally recognize the Methodist Church. And without formal recognition, which takes time and money to attain, the holistic ministry of the church is limited by governmental restrictions. Even so, the mission initiative has formed creative partnerships with schools, hospitals, and other institutions to legally foster flourishing ministries: establishing the Sunbeam Language and Vocational Center, partnering with a preschool to offer Vacation Bible School, empowering women through literacy education and livelihood projects, building a clean water system in a rural school, and educating church leaders who are shepherding growing congregations.

Empowered through education

Language differences could present another barrier to ministry in Southeast Asia, but this challenge has been turned into an asset, stressing literacy and education as ways to manifest God’s love and encourage learning in areas with some of the lowest education rates in Southeast Asia.

“I’ve been an educator for a long time,” says Broncano, who was a faculty member and dean at Harris Memorial College in her native Philippines before becoming a missionary. “… We say that we have to invest in education because everything is education.”

“Sharing the gospel is not only with words, but also in action. We have to combine all the work so the compassion and mercy are always there.”

– A. Broncano

Broncano serves in a region populated by four people groups, each with its own unique language. In order for these groups to hear the gospel, their church leaders need to learn the ethnic languages. Then, they can be equipped to read, understand, and translate the good news to share it with their communities. They will also be better equipped to succeed in school and work that can help lift them out of poverty.

“We have the basic literacy program so that people can share the gospel,” Broncano explains. “Sharing the gospel is not only with words, but also in action. We have to combine all the work so the compassion and mercy are always there. While we’re doing leadership development, we also need to feed the stomach through the seed project or some livelihood assistance, because it’s holistic evangelization.”

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Through your support, missionary A. Broncano is creatively demonstrating God’s love.

Meeting with pastors, church women, the village chief and the school principal in preparation for Vacation Bible School.

Missionary A. Brocana teaching church leaders.

Leadership training for organizing care groups and women's groups in the local church.

Helping Men Break Free from the Cycle of Human Trafficking

Advancing Resilient Khmer (ARK) in Cambodia gives formerly trafficked individuals skills and a reason to hope.

“Many of the guys we work with,” says Patrick Booth, who leads the ARK (Advancing Resilient Khmer) program through the Methodist Mission in Cambodia, “were trafficked when they were 8-12 years old. They were taken to Thailand and they were put on a [fishing] boat. And I asked them, how long does [your labor] last? And they said, ‘what do you mean? It lasts until I die.’”

An estimated 260,000 individuals are similarly locked in modern-day slavery in Cambodia. Sadly, even among those who might eventually be liberated, many will return to forced labor because they lack both the options and the skills to enter a safer workforce.

This is where ARK comes in. Providing job training, food, housing and community for up to 15 participants at a time, ARK equips formerly trafficked individuals with both construction skills and a sense of worth and resilience.

Building the foundation of a future career

ARK operates as a business, first, bidding on projects and hiring skilled workers. Participants in the nonprofit side of the program apprentice themselves to these workers and learn any variety of skills: HVAC repair, renovation, landscaping, roofing, painting, etc. They commit to the program for six months, although the goal is for participants to stay longer so that they can eventually gain the networks, management experience, and business acumen that will help them launch their own careers and, in Booth’s words, “give them the ability and the resilience to keep them from having to go back into vulnerable employment.”

Booth, a trained counselor who

spent years counseling individuals with trauma, expected to encounter high rates of trauma among ARK participants when he helped start the program in 2020. But while difficult stories do emerge, Booth has

been surprised by the overwhelming joy, relief and gratitude participants have expressed. He tells the story of one participant who sang continuously. He explained to Booth that he sang because his time at ARK was the happiest time of his life; never before had he been surrounded by such care and generosity or encouraged to know his own worth. Such compassion and respect complete ARK’s whole-person ministry. Freed from a cutthroat world of oppression and intimidation, ARK participants enter a workplace where they experience love, the source of which is the God they learn about in communal devotions. As they learn to trust the ARK team and each other, they start sharing that love with one another.

Still in its pilot phase, ARK has many future participants to nurture and goals to meet, such as supporting its own outreach activities. But for now, says Booth, your support allows ARK to continue equipping these young men to “stand on their own two feet and [be] happy with the life that they are now providing for themselves.”

Empower Global Ministries to pilot programs like ARK and reach men and women trapped by human trafficking.

“I asked them, how long does [your labor] last? And they said, ‘what do you mean? It lasts until I die.’”

– Patrick Booth

ARK participant joyfully demonstrates newly learned electrical skills.

ARK crew lays foundation for reconstruction of classrooms and library for children's ministry.

Sowing Seeds of Hope in the Democratic Republic of Congo

At Kamisamba Farm, missionary Lorraine Charinda helps cultivate physical and spiritual flourishing.

“Mutombo” was ready to leave his rural province of Haut-Lomami in the Democratic Republic of Congo and pursue a university degree, but his widowed mother was unable to pay for his education.

“So we gave her seeds so that she could start vegetables,” says Lorraine Charinda, a Global Ministries missionary and director of the Center for Formation at Kamisamba Farm in Haut-Lomami.

“She [raised] Chinese cabbage, cassava, and sugarcane and sold it … but she didn’t have enough, so we said, ‘if you reach this level of harvest, we’ll double [the revenue].’ … She was so happy she managed on her own to pay three-quarters and we [provided] the rest.”

Now, having graduated from university, Mutombo is back at Kamisamba participating in a training program that provides loans for young people to start their own agricultural enterprises. He proudly refers to himself as “a product of Kamisamba.”

Indeed, Kamisamba Farm produces more than the vegetables, meats, seeds, farmed fish and fruit trees that are its physical harvest. Hundreds of people come to Kamisamba for a free agricultural education—sponsored by grants and your donations—in this province where subsistence farming is a common but insufficient livelihood.

“Community members come,” explains Charinda, “we train them, we give them [tools and soil amendments] and seeds, and we

visit them. Just like if someone goes to church and they’re hungry, they don’t have anything. But when you give them something to produce, I believe that’s the gospel in itself.”

A bountiful harvest—with your help

Charinda, who is originally from Zimbabwe, always wanted to share the gospel but wasn’t sure how her background in agricultural economics would suit missions. But at Kamisamba, her expertise equips young people with the capacity to start productive farming and livestock enterprises; it rehabilitates malnourished children through a center where parents learn about nutrition; and it helps women establish small businesses to support their families.

Yet there’s much more to be planted at Kamisamba. With your support, the farm will be able to employ local educators for the long term. The nutrition center will expand so that children recovering from malnutrition can simultaneously get an education. Charinda and her team will be able to extend a solar power educational campaign deep into the province where forest burning for fuel is damaging the soil and ecology of the area.

When Kamisamba first started, farmers from the community didn’t trust its innovative programs until the farm itself began to thrive. “Now,” Charinda says, “they see what we are doing, and they say, OK, this is possible.” Your support will help make even more growth possible at Kamisamba Farm.

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Missionary Lorraine Charinda showing workers how to plant a mandarin tree.

Delegates from 5 districts of North Katanga conference finishing their 3 month training at Kamisamba farm.