REACH intern: ‘I have two families now!’
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.
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.”
“Guys, I prayed for something and it actually happened!” said Globalscope campus minister Abigail Bullinger in a recent update to her partners.
Church planting and leadership training are the heartbeat of the ministry of Craig and Allison Fowler and the CMF team in Ethiopia, and the past several months have been full of steady growth in both of these areas.
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.
More than 115 university students from Globalscope’s two South American campus ministries were recently united by their love of Christian community at the El Oasis retreat in the coastal town of El Tabo, Chile.
The CMF ministry in Ivory Coast is centered on child sponsorship and the renowned PIM Medical Clinic in Abengourou, but REACH intern Lauren Cathey is learning that these wide-ranging programs touch Ivorians in many ways.