Preston and Kristin Coursey and son Killian serve with CMF’s urban poor team in Chiang Mai, Thailand, reaching out to the poorest of the poor in juvenile detention centers and under-resourced villages in the hill country of Thailand. They were in our Indianapolis office recently and answered five questions about their lives and unique ministries.
For the past seven years God has been working in the most remote part of southwest Ethiopia near the South Sudan border in incredible ways, according to CMF team members Ted and Jennifer Bertleson.
The farms in Turkana, Kenya, are exploding with the growth of new crops, providing food and a livelihood for the farmers who work with the CMF garden projects, according to team member Gene Morden and Kenyan farm manager Haron Jackson.
“These last two months in Ivory Coast have meant the world to me, and I can’t imagine a better place for me to have been for this specific summer,” said REACH intern Claire Richardson. “I’ve been changed, my mind has been stretched, and I’ve grown in ways I didn’t even know I needed to grow and learned so much more than I anticipated.”
Remember your first birthday away from home? REACH intern Claire Richardson will never forget her 19th birthday, which she experienced while serving in Abengourou, Ivory Coast. Here’s how she celebrated.
“I cannot believe I’m almost done with this REACH internship,” said Olivia Millar, who served this summer with Missions of Hope International (MOHI) in Nairobi, Kenya. “I’ve experienced so many wonderful and shaping things and built some incredible relationships.”
Several Globalscope campus ministry students have recently stepped up to visit other Globalscope teams for varying lengths of time to gather ideas and inspiration to take back home. Globalscope Assistant Director Kami Reed shares two students’ stories and perspectives here, along with comments from their home ministry leaders.
Kevin Jones grew up in Los Angeles, so naturally as a kid he dreamed of being part of the entertainment industry or a marine biologist.
An invitation to make an Easter craft in a friend’s son’s class led to an opportunity for CMF team member Leah Scharfenberg to share the gospel story in a public school in Berdyansk, Ukraine.
When fourth-grader Midy Michelle, a student at Missions of Hope’s Baba Dogo school in Nairobi, Kenya, landed in Kenyatta Hospital with a broken leg, it was a given that members of the school staff would visit her. And REACH intern Olivia Millar, who’s serving with the school’s Community Health Evangelism program this summer, got to go along for the adventure.
