By God’s grace, active participation and prayer support of GCCSD members and many others, the missions ministry takes shape in the following active area:

 

• Bi-annual Missions conference aiming at raising mission awareness and building the theological foundation for mission ministries among GCCSD members
• Bi-annual Evangelistic meeting/Gospel Camp focusing on spreading the Gospel to the non-believers
• Local Evangelism and visitation through Evangelism Explosion program
• Annual community services such as Salvation Army Christmas Dinner Serving program and Samaritan’s Purse shoebox project
• Annual short-term missions trip to Ely and China

 

Besides the active missions, GCCSD continues to support missionaries all over the world who focus on cross-culture, cross-ethnic-boundary and cross-geographical-distance missions work.

           Missionaries James and Antonia Hwang

Both James and Antonia are from Taiwan. They have two children, Grace (11) and Timothy (8). James came to the United States for his graduate study in 1990, and completed his Master of Science in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of Mississippi. Because of God’s love and grace, he became a Christian in 1991, and received God’s calling in 1995 that was just one year before he completed his Ph.D. degree. Later, he graduated and worked in San Francisco and Silicon Valley for about three years.
To respond God’s calling for cross-cultural ministry, since 1995 James and Antonia have prepared themselves in terms of ministry and theological training. In 1999 God opened the door; James resigned his job; both James and his wife Antonia began their fulltime seminary study. After earned the Master of Divinity from Overseas Theological Seminary in San Jose, in June 2004 Brother James also completed his Master of Theology at a Reformed seminary called International Theological Seminary in Los Angeles.
Since moved to L.A. in 2002, James also served as a Pastoral Intern in First Chinese Baptist Church of Los Angeles, and focused on the Mandarin ministry that was started for less than one year at that time. In addition to preaching, he also participates in Sunday school teaching, discipleship training, family counseling, and Mission Committee.
In 2003, both James and Antonia had been accepted as missionary candidates by Africa Inland Mission (AIM). In August 2004, their whole family goes to Kenya in East Africa and dedicates to the cross-cultural missions.

Rev. and Mrs. Ho
South Korea

In response to the calling from GO International for a missionary to Korea to head a Chinese seminary, Rev. and Mrs. Ho left Myanmar in October 2003. The seminary is a joint venture between GO International and Korean churches, trying to help 200,000 Chinese workers in South Korea.  Rev. and Mrs. Ho are the teachers, Dean of Students, counselors, and drivers.  They live with the students in the dorm, participate their activities, and often work with them until very late at night.  There is a great need for your prayers so that they have extra physical and spiritual strength to help the students.

Besides ministry in Korea, Rev. Ho is also the Regional Director for Indo-China area supervising missionaries.  From time to time he needs to visit the region to care for the missionaries and handle the businesses over there.  Please pray that God grants him extra wisdom for all the work.

Mr. and Ms. Frank Wu

 Mongolia

Frank Wu graduated from Bethel Seminary West Campus in San Diego in June 2001. He was called by God to join Christian Mission Overseas (CMO) as a full-time missionary in Mongolia Republic. He married a local sister in 2003. Currently they are based in Ulaan Baatar, the capital city. Through disciple training, visiting and teaching ministries in collaboration with local churches, they are bringing Gospel to Mongolians and Chinese. Moreover, they are working with Christians in Kharkhorin﹐Western Mongol and Buryat Mongol (Mongolians in Russia) to reach out to countryside herders.

Rev. Jamie and Mimi Taylor

 Taiwan

Rev. Jamie Taylor is the great-great grandson of J. Hudson Taylor. After he graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary, he served in Chinese Bible Church of Greater Boston and Campus Evangelical Fellowship in Taiwan. Mimi completed her studies in vocal performance at Soochow University and taught at China Evangelical Seminary and three other schools in Taiwan. Currently they are based in Taiwan, serving through professional organizations to bring the Gospel to the local people in main land China and Middle Asia. Moreover, Jamie shuttles between evangelical frontline and supporting churches, preaching the importance of Evangelism and bringing the vision and needs from the frontline.

Rev. Mark and Mrs. Ruth Harbour

Taiwan

 

Mark and Ruth Harbour have served with SEND International in Taiwan since 1983. Working in Taiwanese language, they helped establish the Chingshui Gospel Church on the western coast of Taiwan until 1994. From 1997-1999, they assisted the establishment of the Evangelical Formosan Chuch in Taichung City. Since 1997, Mark has also been teaching at Taosheng Theological Seminary in Taipei using Mandarin language. Mark teaches church history and Old Testament. Taosheng’s emphasis is “training Asians for ministry in China”. Mark and Ruth continue to work alongside seminary students to establish new churches in Taiwan.

GO International China Ministry

China

 

To fulfill the vision of “Mission China”, GO International provides training for China local church leaders with Biblical truth as well as teaching on Missions. GO supports them to participate Missions. By the end of year 2002, there were more than 10 missionaries who were equipped and entered the fields in various parts of China.

Concerning local pastors’ basic needs, GO International also sponsors more than 10 local pastors’ living cost and has established funds for their children’s education. GCCSD is participating in this ministry of GO International by providing financial and prayer support.

Shalom and Felise Alaichamy

India

Shalom and Felise will be working in South Asia as linguist/translators sent by Wycliffe Bible Translators. There are 130 languages in their area of service. They will be doing research to find out which languages don’t have Bible translations, to determine whether people can understand Bibles that have already been translated, and to find out and overcome obstacles that keep people from reading the translated Bibles. Moreover, they will be working with church leaders and partner agencies to raise and equip local linguist/translators.

Rev. Gideon and Mrs. Mabel Wu

USA
Rev. Gideon and Mrs. Mabel Wu completed their five-year ministries in Argentina in December 2001. In response to God’s calling, they continued their missions at an island called Saipan. Saipan is a small island with a population of 60 thousand. It’s located 300 kilometers north of Guam. Being near the equator, it carries temperatures of 100°F throughout the year. In between working hours, hundreds of Chinese women labors from the local factories take their breaks by the roadside, just like the picture in the Gospel “harassed and helpless, like sheep without a sheperd”. Rev. Gideon and Mrs. Mabel Wu’s ministries at Saipan include preaching the Gospel and training believers.