Global Cities Churches
We are in relationship with several pastors and are coming along side of them as they plant churches and grow ministries in cities around the world. Through building deep relationships, mentoring, networking, and financial commitments we are privileged to be a part of growing these leaders and the local church in these strategic cities.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Juan Santos is the senior pastor of Iglesia Accion Misionera, Los Palamares in the Dominican Republic. This was the first church we helped to plant over 20 years ago and this church has now helped to plant 17 churches throughout the Dominican Republic. Juan and his leadership team have been focused on multiplying the church in various areas and developing leaders and have seen much fruit over the years. Focused on the next generation, Juan lives in Santo Domingo with his wife Miriam and their grown son where they continue to grow the local church in the Dominican Republic and beyond.
Istanbul, Turkey
Paris, France
Samir Salibi has launched a missional church focused on responding to the refugee crisis in Paris. Samir was born in Beirut, Lebanon and currently lives in Paris with his wife Joanna and their two children. Samir moved to France when he was 12 for his primary and upper education. Samir’s Lebanese heritage has uniquely positioned him to pastor this growing church.
Hamburg, Germany
Daniel Bartz is the church planter and lead pastor of the Hamburgprojekt Church in Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth-largest city in the European Union. The Hamburgprojekt Church was planted in 2009 and has developed into a thriving city church. Several additional churches have been planted out of this project in parts of Germany as well. Their vision is to see a movement of reproducing churches with a vision to bring the Gospel to all sub-cultures, regions, and cities by showing teaching, and living lives that point to the Gospel’s transforming power in every aspect of life. Daniel was born and currently lives in the city of Hamburg with his wife and two daughters. Daniel is a gifted leader and also serves at FCC as the Director of European Church Planting.
Leipzig, Germany
Budapest, Hungary
Madrid, Spain
Alejandro and Carmen de Francisco are church planters leading the Church of God back into Spain. Together with the Three Worlds team, they have a vision to plant a network of healthy, self-sustaining, self-replicating congregations across Spain over the next 10 years, beginning with the launch of a church plant on the south side of Madrid.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Near East
Fairfax is helping to support two new church plants among the Muslim community in the Near East. Muslims are coming to faith in record numbers despite many being persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ. These churches in the Near East are comprised of refugees, many who are Muslim born believers, and who are now openly worshiping together, growing in their faith and serving their communities. God is doing an incredible work in this volatile region of the world.
Kampala, Uganda
Missionaries
Our global missionaries are the extension of our congregation serving around the world. We are privileged to support many people who have been called from and connected to this congregation to use their gifts and talents in cross-cultural vocational ministry. Check out the work they are a part of and contact us if you would like to be a part of a team of people praying for them. They each come back to the area for visits and we will keep you informed of opportunities to connect to them.
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Patrick and Jamie Nachtigall
Patrick and Jamie, and their entire team, commonly known as the Three Worlds team, focus ministry through a prism of three points: They work to engage young people in cross-cultural ministry; support empowered and accountable leaders, especially under the age of 45; and create interconnectivity within churches, countries, and the entire region.
Patrick is a third-generation missionary and grew up in Costa Rica. Jamie, also a third-generation missionary, grew up in Cairo, Egypt. They served with Church of God Global Missions for nine years as missionaries in Hong Kong, with outreach into mainland China as well. Between the two of them, the Nachtigalls have traveled to more than seventy countries and lived in six different regions of the world. Patrick is also the author of five books, used in colleges and seminaries in various countries, dealing with the interaction of globalization and religion, particularly Christianity. They are the parents of an engaging teenage son.
Global Partners
God is at work in amazing ways around the world. We are privileged to come along side of and partner with some wonderful organizations that are on the ground and making an impact in some of the places of greatest need. Our strategy is to resource and encourage the work our partners are doing. We do this through building deep relationships, generous financial commitments, and sending Global Impact teams to serve the needs of our partners each year.
Heart For Lebanon
Heart for Lebanon was founded in 2006 as a natural response to the devastation left behind after the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. The focus was to provide a holistic approach to ministry for people to have a better future. They began a student scholarship program to help students attend a Christian School. When civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, sending over one million refugees into Lebanon, they began providing holistic care to help refugee families. Through the Children at Risk Initiative, Hope on Wheels, and a hub of warehouse space for their food packing operations, they have been serving refugee families in Lebanon for nearly a decade. They have poured in to thousands of people’s live through home visits, holistic care and spiritual development. FCC has been privileged to support with them since the beginning and has seen this ministry grow in powerful ways. We have traveled to Lebanon in different capacities and with global impact trips and have seen first-hand the impact H4L in having. Last year they broke ground for a new Hope Ministry Center – Bekaa that will open in late 2019. This new facility will more than double their ministry capacity in the Bekaa Valley the epicenter for refugees arriving in Lebanon.
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Villages of Hope
Out on the beautiful African bush in the Chibomba District, 50 kilomoters north of Lusaka, lies a beacon of light – Villages of Hope. VOH is a community raising Zambian orphans and vulnerable children to become successful young adults, leaders, and followers of Christ. There are 1.6 million orphans living in Zambia. In 2006, 230 acres were purchased there to start Villages of Hope. Since then, the village has taken in at-risk children who have no one else to care for them, started several medium-sized businesses to financially support the village, and founded the School of Hope. Villages of Hope has created an holistic model where children live in loving homes led by house parents and are equipped with the knowledge and skills to succeed as adults and to create an economically sustainable community through hands-on job experience. It is a beautiful place of rescue, care, hope and restoration.
Kima International School of Theology (KIST)
In the hills of Kisumu, on the western coast of Kenya, Kima International School of Theology (KIST) stands as a landmark in the community. It’s been there for more than twenty years, and the goal has always been the same: be an excellent school of theology led by Africans that trains Church of God leaders in Africa. FCC has supported KIST for 20 years and God is at work in some exciting ways.
Capstone Ministries
Capstone Ministries was founded in 2005 with a vision to restore street children and their families in Kisumu, Kenya. More than 1000 children, mostly boys, live full‐time on the streets, begging and stealing to survive. They sleep in open parks, on the sidewalks in front of shops and even in the sewers. Dan and Patty Schmelzer have worked with street children in Kisumu since 2002. They are the founders and directors of the ministry with 12 indigenous staff. Capstone has to date reconciled more than 400 boys from the street since 2005.
Capstone Camp is an opportunity for former street kids who have been reintegrated with their families to come together for a week of spiritual enrichment, scouting activities, crafts and games. The intention of the Camp is to build up the children in Christ and help them to become better children at home and school. FCC has been the primary sponsor for this Camp for the last several years and it has been a privilege to see how God is bringing hope, healing and restoration to the lives of these street children and their families living in Kenya.
