At First Friends we directly support career missionaries locally, nationally, stateside support for international organizations, and internationally through our tithes and offerings. We support missionaries through our denomination alongside other churches in the Evangelical Friends Church-Eastern Region through our giving to the Great Commission Budget.
We pray for the missionaries and organizations we support.
We go on mission trips to serve and spread the gospel in person.
Our Middle School students and High School students have the opportunity to participate in local service and ministry days at Refuge of Hope and to travel nationally and internationally on summer mission trips. For more information on their trips please see:
Locally, we support the following organizations and people. If you are looking for a place to serve within our community we encourage you to look into the following options:
CSRM (Church Sports and Recreation Ministers)
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Stark and Carroll Counties
In order for international mission organizations to be able to function effectively, the international missionaries need support staff in the U.S. who will oversee recruiting, administrative needs, logistics, and the pre-field and ongoing training.
M. & S. A. work to recruit, train, and support missionaries in closed countries for People International
Glen Osborne is the director of China Outreach Ministries
Lynda Gravier works for Heaven Sent Ministries coordinating their emergency food packaging projects, and overseeing their volunteers
Dave and Susan living in Orlando and serving on the Global Strategy Team with The Jesus Film Project.
Ming and Mako Nagasawa – Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
Tom Young – Campus Crusade For Christ
Africa and the Middle East
David and Debby Thomas
GLLT (Great Lakes Leadership Training)
H. & W. B.
India
Jacob and Jaya Beera – Hope Ministries, International
Asia – All these missionaries work in hostile, closed countries, and for their safety and the safety of local believers we cannot identify them online. For more information please see the mission books in the Coffee Commons at First Friends.
J. & A. J.
K. & K. K.
M. & V. K.
S. K.
S.A.L.T. (Systematic Asian Leadership Training) and C.C.
Mexico, Central, and South America
Nishe Rothschild – Guatemala
Caribbean – The Dominican Republic
Grace and Peace Missionary Fellowship
Russia and Ukraine
Abe and Diane Bible
We participate in the sharing the truth of the Gospel and the completion of the Great Commission through the work of our denominational missionaries:
Administrative Assistant for Children's Ministry and Missions
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