Mark & Jijian
Missionaries of the Week
Pastor Al & Judy Howard
His Nesting Place
His nesting place is a pro-life ministry under the direction of Pastor Al and Judy Howard. This ministry seeks to minister to mothers in a cris pregnancy and their babies in Long Beach, California. They began this outreach over 40 years ago and have assisted thousands of pregnant women to carry their babies to full term. HNP offers a maternity home during pregnancy and counseling for needed support.
Prayer Requests
- This summer has held many losses for Al and Judy. Two of their grandsons passed away in July as well as a former employee. Please pray with them as they navigate this loss for both Al and Judy and their family but also the family of the former employee.
- They are experiencing several staffing losses as well. Two employees are on to the next chapter of their life, with one retiring and another moving to Florida. They are incredibly thankful to the Lord for the time they had with these staff members and pray that the Lord will send the right people to work with them as they start looking to fill these positions.
Praise Report
- This summer has been a blessing to them and the mothers and families. They celebrated four baby showers and had several outings over the summer. They are all so grateful for these memories and moments.
Presently, we support local churches and missions in various parts of the world.
Foreign Missions
Foreign Missions: The missions we support are involved in church planting, pastoral training, evangelism, and Christian education. We support missionaries and organizations that serve in the Philippines, Cambodia, East Asia, Indonesia, India, Japan, the Middle East, Uganda, France, Ecuador, Mexico, Slovenia, and Russia.
Home Missions
The missions here at home that we support are missionaries and organizations involved in pro-life health, camps for abused children, teaching and training teams to minister to Muslims, equipping parents and Christian teachers who have children in public schools and providing support for incarcerated youth and their families.
Current Missionaries
The Ukraine Collective is comprised of people around the world coming alongside those on the ground in providing housing, food, medical care, counseling, and the love of Jesus to those displaced from their homes from the war with Russia.
The Ukraine Collective provided housing and food for 544 Internally Displaced Peoples and refugees at the height of the crisis, but have paired down to 323 beds as we transition to more long-term care. The Ukraine collective is actively providing food, medicine, counseling, and building supplies to those who lost everything under Russian occupation.
As a church, we will be supporting two Ukrainian pastors for the next six months. We need your help to do that!
The church in Lviv is a larger church and one of the most significant churches in that city. Over a hundred families in the church have fled Ukraine, and many men are off fighting the war. The church is facing financial difficulties due to the hundreds of internally displaced people the church has taken in since the start of the war. We will be supporting their pastor, Pastor Vova Bilik.
The other church is a Rroma church. The Rroma are very poor and a much-neglected people group in the world. Their pastor, Pastor Rostik, was a lawyer, but due to the war, he became a taxi driver to try and earn money to support his family. The war has made it very difficult for the community.
Church in the Park
CITP is a small congregation of seniors that meets every Sunday at 11:00 AM.
Sunday Service
- Sundays at 11:00
- El Toro Mobile Estates
Bible Study
- Mondays 6:30 – 7:30 PM
- El Toro Mobile Estates Community Center Card Room
Discipleship for Iran
DFI Ministries (a non-profit organization) see ourselves responsible to preach the Gospel all over the world including Farsi-speaking countries, a population of 110 million people. This number includes countries such as Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, some parts of Russia, and more.
A large community of Iranians are living in the U.S. Of the 1.2 million Iranians in the U.S. 750,000 of them are located in the state of California with 250,000 of them in Orange County alone. Chicago has a large community of 30,000 Iranians.