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| OUR MISSION VISION Calvary Protestant Church supports eight missionaries and eleven missions organizations annually. Special gifts are also disbursed to missions projects and needy missionaries from the Moon Memorial Fund, Ladies Missions Groups and designated gifts. The projected missionary giving for the current fiscal year is approximately 19% of the general budget. The Missions Committee has set a goal of increasing the missions budget so that it would be 25% of the general budget. Calvary believes that the spreading of the gospel in our community and around the world is urgent. The gospel is desperately needed everywhere in the world. The fields are ripe for harvest and we can be a part of God’s harvest team. It is our desire that an increased percentage of our members become personally involved with the work of missions through prayer, giving, writing to our missionaries and going on short-term mission trips.
Missionaries who we help to support are:
John & Lynn Annis -
EFC Romania
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John and Lynn met and married while attending Kansas State University.
At a young age they both expressed their desire to be obedient to God’s
call, if He called them to the mission field. For twenty years after college,
John worked as an industrial engineer while Lynn was a homemaker and mother.
After twenty years in the business world, God called them into missionary
service.The Annis' are now career missionaries in Romania with the Evangelical Free Church. Their goal is to launch church planting movements internationally. Tom & Peg Corcoran - Trans World Radio, NC Calvary Church is home to Tom and Peg. Commissioned to the mission field by Calvary Church in 1984,  Tom and Peg spent the first eight years of their
missionary service in Sri Lanka with Trans World Radio. In 1992, they moved
to the Caribbean Island of Bonaire and in 1997 moved to Miami, FL to establish TWR’s regional office there.Presently, they serve at TWR Headquarters in Cary, NC. Tom serves as International Director for North and South America. Peg serves as International Coordinator for Project Hannah, a ministry touching woman around the world. They reside in Apex, NC.
Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School, Deerborn, IL
Don and Jan Erickson, EFCM, Kenosha, WI Don and Jan have been
missionaries with the Evangelical Free Church of America International Mission
since 1969, first as teachers in a mission school in Africa and lately as
coordinators of short-term mission teams.
Ralph & Betty Essery -
Northern Frontier
Camp, NY
Ralph has served for many years with the Christian Service Brigade,
mostly in the New York area. Currently he is the Executive Director
of Northern Frontier Camp. Northern Frontier is located in the Lake
George area of New York State. Ralph has spoken at our church
several times and many are impressed with his demeanor and
godliness.
This camp is a great Christian outreach to young boys through the high
school age. Many of our own have gone to camp there and still "brag"
about having hiked up Mount Marcy, the highest mountain in New York
State. None ever got chased by a bear.
Brian & Jenny Maret - Sudan Interior Mission, NC
Brian grew up in Calvary Church and he and Jenny went to serve as
missionaries in Ethiopia after their schooling. They served there faithfully
until the doors in Ethiopia were closed quite a few years ago. Since then,
they have worked with the Sudan Interior Mission at the Missions headquarters
in Charlotte, NC. Brian works as purchasing and shipping agent for missionary
supplies and Jenny works in the SIM office.
Jack & Tina Raeside - Children's Bible Fellowship Jack and Tina work with Children’s Bible Fellowship in the Bronx, NY, where Jack serves as Missionary Pastor of Beacon Church. Their desire is that Beacon would grow and become a site for future evangelism and church planting in the New York City area. Throughout the year, the Raesides host groups of kids from CBF camps and local churches who take part in street evangelism and puppet ministries. The Raesides live in Mt. Vernon, NY. They have four children. Gary & Karen Shogren - Latin America Mission (Costa Rica)  Gary and Karen
Shogren are serving with the Latin America Missions and live in San Jose, Costa
Rica. In 1999, Gary became a professor of New Testament at Seminario ESEPA. He
is also the Dean of the Faculty of Christian Theology, the Director of Graduate
and Postgraduate programs and an academic Vice President.ESEPA is a school for Pastoral studies. Today there are 400 full and part-time students. ESEPA is a home-grown product of Latin America Missions, offering a Masters of Arts in New Testament, Bachelors degrees in Bible diploma and certificate program. The Shogrens are blest of the Lord with four children.
Missions Organization which we help support:
St. Paul’s House, New York City St. Paul's House was started in 1945 by J.J.D. "Daddy" Hall and Creighton Dunlap, street evangelists operating out of an apartment on 45th Street. When they purchased their present location on 51st Street, their focus shifted to training Christian workers and reaching out to the homeless of the Times Square District and ministering to the many low-income families living in Hell's Kitchen. Today Rev. David Burns, who started serving at St. Paul's House in 1964, serves as the Executive Director. St. Paul's House operates as a mission with the same goal of training Christian workers and has developed food programs, a job start program and a transitional housing and discipleship program for a limited number of men. Residents are invited to live at St. Paul's for several months, and during their stay, they receive job and computer training, Bible study and discipleship classes, and addiction counseling. The food programs include a six-day breakfast soup kitchen and a one day food pantry. Gospel services are held daily. The Job Start Program specializes in computer training and includes GED classes and job-readiness seminars.
Camp Orchard Hill
, EFCA Youth Camp, PA
Christian Service Brigade, Chicago, IL
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