Tag: marketplace ministries

Living Water in a Dry Land

Written by danl on May 7, 2025. Posted in Asia.

“I heard you can deliver me from the demons that plague me,” she said, as she squirmed in her seat. This famous witch doctor from a small village in Southeast Asia, sat there, of all places, in a church? The truth was, living as a witch doctor had taken its toll. A rival witch doctor had told her she wouldn’t live long with the spiritual oppression she faced from her own demons, and that terrified her. And her distant faith in the teachings of Buddha didn’t promise much other than crossing her fingers for another chance at life again, stuck in the cycle of never-good-enough for nirvana.

Isabel Miller will serve with Marketplace Ministries in Mexico City!

Written by danl on September 22, 2023. Posted in Business as Mission, Mexico.

Isabel Miller entered university at Georgia Tech as a business major, never thinking that she would be a missionary or work abroad. But when she got involved with a campus ministry on Georgia Tech’s campus called CCF, she says that “Little by little, through different ways, just step by step, God changed my heart and sort of shifted my eyes toward this kind of work.”

Michael Grimm, Mexico City, Church Catalyst, Marketplace Ministries, Olivet Nazarene University, Aurora University, social work, youth ministry, discipleship, Community Center, Exchange

Michael Grimm: “I had never considered missions as a potential option for my life”

Written by mikaela on June 20, 2022. Posted in Uncategorized.

Michael Grimm is preparing to go to Mexico City to serve with the Church Catalyst team to support the ministries that are already taking place there.

Marketplace Ministries, Mexico City, Aspire, Sinapis, business training, Mariana Luna, Josh Durand, Olivia Shank

Marketplace business development program holds first training in Mexico City

Written by mikaela on September 21, 2021. Posted in Mexico.

Nine Mexican Christian business leaders gathered in Mexico City in early August to participate in a two-day overview and mock training of the Aspire business development program.

South Asia, COVID-19, pandemic, relief, Marketplace Ministries

Ministry team provides aid to desperate families in South Asia

Written by mikaela on September 10, 2020. Posted in Asia.

The people in a restricted access South Asian country where CMF serves quickly became desperate for food and basic essentials during the Coronavirus lock-down, so Marketplace team members Mr. and Mrs. L. immediately began looking for ways to help.

Despite challenging return to U.S., team member says, ‘I have lacked nothing!’

Written by mikaela on April 17, 2020. Posted in Asia.

Adventures are a normal way of life for Ms. J., a Marketplace Minister in a restricted access country in Asia, but her trip back to the U.S. a couple weeks ago was extreme even for her! However, in every step, she could see how God had been guiding her preparation and travel.