Missionaries of the Week
Jason Schultz
After serving for ten years at Agua Viva, Jason Schultz stepped down as Executive Director last year. He continues to teach at the seminary and will join the Board of Directors beginning in October. The Schultz family is now based in Ensenada, where they are focusing on Bible and book distribution throughout Mexico, teaching and speaking, and actively engaging in world missions. Jason is also completing a Master of Divinity program this year.
Jason and Rigel have three children: Abi (18) is currently completing a Discipleship Training School with YWAM; Alexa, a high school sophomore, enjoys flag football and music; and David, who is almost 13, loves playing soccer and basketball.
We would appreciate your prayers for:
God’s provision and guidance for Agua Viva Ministries, and for Hans Marrón as he leads it into a new season.
Strength and clarity for Jason as he teaches and transitions into a new leadership role on the board.
God’s direction for Abi as she finishes her DTS this summer and discerns what to study next.
Ongoing provision and health for our family as we serve in a season of transition and new opportunities.
Thank you for standing with us in prayer and support. We’re deeply grateful for your partnership in the Gospel!
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.
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.