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Reaching... the people of LaVista Park, Atlanta & the world.
Westminster Presbyterian Church has a significant local and international missions program. It spans a variety of different ministries to the poor, college students, refugees, church planting and church partnerships. Through this work, we seek to both provide financial and professional assistance to partner organizations, but also service opportunities for our membership.This page provides a snapshot of current missions efforts. Contact the church office for more information about WPC’s missions work.
Click here for information and a slide show from last year's Clarkston Mission Trip
International
Jim and Daphne
Jim and Daphne are serving in the NAMESTAN (North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia) headquarters of Campus Crusade for Christ near Paris, France. Jim currently has two major responsibilities: Director of Operations and Regional Crisis Manager for the NAMESTAN region. Jim and Daphne have served in the NAMESTAN headquarters for 10 years.
Istanbul Gateway Partnership
The Istanbul Gateway Partnership (IGP)
is a global partnership to establish and facilitate locally
led movements
of church planting to bring Gospel transformation to the Middle East. IGP is composed of three constituent strands: local Middle Eastern church leaders, career U.S. field team and U.S. partner churches.
Representatives of these three meet regularly to coordinate the life of the partnership. Meetings are conducted both in the U.S. and on the field as best serves the work of the partnership. A key emphasis is facilitation of national pastors as church-planting leaders. We believe that our global partnership model brings gifts and resources together in a 21st century synergism that bodes well for the future. In the decade ahead, a strategic opportunity for ministry and church planting in the Middle East is before us. Istanbul is not only the geographic gateway to the east, it is, in particular, a spiritual portal for influence in the region. As in no other Muslim country, the publishing of the Gospel is culturally permitted. As such, it is a gateway for shining the light of the Gospel into culture darkened by unbelief.
Greg and Sue
Greg and Sue are working in a large western European city with people of all ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. In fact, it is a blessing to see many immigrants who come and then want to reach the traditional residents who are more hardened to the Gospel. We praise the Lord for the two main churches and the many "house churches" or small groups that are meeting in homes, studying the Bible and having fellowship. The youth and children's ministries are thriving and many have come to Christ.
Jud and Jan
These team members do sensitive work in Europe
Syd and Nola Johnsen
Syd and Nola Johnsen serve in Sentani, Papua, Indonesia. They work in partnership with JAARS to provide Aviation and Radio services to Indonesian and Expatriate teams that are involved in the task of Bible Translation. They have served with JAARS since 1981 and in Indonesia since 1990. Syd, as the YAJASI chief pilot, is involved in training pilots and maintaining safety standards. Nola serves in a variety of administrative roles with YAJASI. They are now among the more senior ones in YAJASI and have found themselves more and more involved in the role of encouragement, mentoring and training of both Indonesian and expatriate staff. What really encourages them is to see the difference these efforts make in the physical and spiritual lives of the peoples they serve in the various stages of the Bible Translation task.
Roy and Carole
Roy & Carole have served over 30 years in their adopted home in the 99.9% muslim Arabian Peninsula. Both are involved in evangelism to neighbors, friends and co-workers. Most of their presentations contain a story or parable. Jesus used this method in his culture and they have found it to be very helpful 2000 years later in a similar cultural setting. They also use gospel portions and videos in their presentation of the gospel. Roy’s passion is disciple-making. He heads up a Theological Education Extension Program (TEE). Roy is actively involved in discipling several young believers in the city where they live and in 2 other cities. Their goal in discipleship is for both knowledge and obedience. They are also involved in gathering believers to worship together and start to form ‘community’ that will be the basis of an emerging church. Carole is the Regional Language Coach for the Arabian peninsula and is ministering to teams in our own country and in the region.
Tim and Nicole
Tim and Nicole work among Muslims in Europe.
Roy and Kristy
Roy and Kristy are members of a church-planting team in South and Southeast Asia. The team is working in partnership with national reformed and presbyterian denominations in Muslim-majority countries. Roy and Kristy are mentoring national workers including those in university ministry.
Franklin and Beth
Franklin and Beth are raising support to serve in a sensitive area. They will develop a multi-media theological training resources ministry for church planters, pastors and teachers.
David and Susan
David and Susan live in Southeast Asia where they are training Chinese cross-cultural Christian communicators as part of the Chinese missions emphasis called the Back to Jerusalem movement.
David and Kathy North
David and Kathy North have served as church planters in the least evangelized cities of the Philippines since 1986. Currently they are working in the city of Mandaue sharing the gospel through friendships, neighborhood Bible studies, business studies, film showings, VBS and other means. The goal is always to lead them to accept Christ, disciple them into mature followers of Christ and equip them to keep on spreading the gospel to their community.
Juan and Rose Cardenas
Juan and Rose Cardenas have been living and ministering in Central Asia since 1990. They have served as English Teachers as well as helping in the training and development of the church. Recently, they served in Spain for two years working in a missionary training institute training Latino missionaries who are working throughout the world. They are presently living in the United States helping to develop new ministries in Europe and Central Asia. Juan also is lecturing in seminaries and churches in Europe, South America and North America.
Name Withheld - Sensitive Area Missions
This missions partner is engaged in a long-term project to plant churches, form a presbytery and disciple a generation of new national leaders for the Presbyterian church in Sweden. Currently, one church has been planted and particularized where the leadership (elders and deacons) is Swedish. Moreover, there is a church plant in progress in Stockholm with a vibrant core group and an ordained Swedish minister available for the call. Future plans include the formation of a presbytery (3 churches), the start of a Christian school and formal education for their future ministers. Click here to visit the website for the Evangelical Reformed Church located in Tranås, Sweden.
Name Withheld - Sensitive Area Missions
These team members serve in highly sensitive work in Southeast Asia.
Name Withheld - Sensitive Area Missions
These team members serve in highly sensitive work in Southeast Asia.
Name Withheld - Sensitive Area Missions
These team members do sensitive work in Europe.
North America
Bill and Joy Boerop
Bill and Joy Boerop work with World Thrust International (WTI), a teaching ministry that trains pastors and church leaders in the principles for beginning and/or strengthening their local church’s world missions outreach. Young churches overseas want to participate in what God is doing around the world (building His church) by sending out missionaries, but often do not know how to begin. WTI helps the church to care for, financially support and send out missionaries so that the Great Commission is fulfilled.
David and Lynn Frank
David and Lynn Frank serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators as linguists and translators. Their initial assignment was in St. Lucia, where they worked 16 years to translate the Bible into their French Creole language. Since then, they have also served in an active role in completing the Gullah New Testament translation, which has been widely used in the coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina. Currently, the Franks are serving as consultants to a number of translation projects, specializing in Creole languages. They are also involved in conferences and publications, and David is editor of the Journal of Translation. Click here to visit their ministry web site.
Paul and Maggie Frank
Paul and Maggie Frank work in leadership capacities with Wycliffe in Washington, DC. Wycliffe’s mission is to participate in every people group receiving the Word of God in the language of their heart. They aim to show love and value for minority language groups by affirming them in the use of their own unique language and helping them develop it so that it meets their needs in a changing world.
Vernon and Newton Frank
Vernon and Newton Frank have been members of Wycliffe Bible Translators since 1970. They currently live in Waxhaw, NC, near the JAARS Center, where they are are retired from the mission as active members, but continue on at JAARS as retired volunteers.
Atlanta Care Center
Atlanta Care Center serves as an evangelical outreach to women in Atlanta who are experiencing an unexpected or unwanted pregnancy. In a confidential, non-judgmental environment, prospective mothers receive help with their personal, practical and spiritual needs. The ministry provides counseling, pregnancy testing and ultrasounds that promote life-affirming decisions for mother and child. The ministry serves more than 100 zip codes and is the number one center in the country for receipt of hot-line calls from the nationally advertised number. Approximately 85% of abortion-vulnerable clients change their minds and choose life for their unborn after visiting the ministry. Click here to visit their website.
Virginia Strom
Ginny is part of a team working with refugees in eastern metro Atlanta. She ministers to about 14 Somali Bantu families, most of whom arrived in the USA in 2004 and 2005. Though they have been here several years now, adjustments continue to be many and are often stressful. The Somali Bantu, who were farmers before fleeing to refugee camps in the 1990s, have very little education (most with none at all) and few job skills suited to urban life. Most families are large, and most of the children struggle greatly with schoolwork. Ginny's days are full with teaching, filling out paperwork, taking people to appointments, dealing with unexpected hospital visits and all kinds of trouble-shooting.
Al LaCour
Rev. Al LaCour is a campus minister for international scholars at Georgia Tech through Reformed University Fellowship-International at Georgia Tech. He also serves as the national coordinator for RUF- International. In addition to his campus work, Al helps Atlanta churches welcome students from around the world. Prior to campus ministry, Al was a church planter and senior minister of four PCA churches. Al and Elaine are honored to welcome international scholars into their extended family.
Hunter Bailey
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Emory seeks to reach students for Christ and to equip them to serve God's people and the world. Our mission is to engage young people with the gospel and to challenge them to think through what it means to trust in and to live for Christ, not just for their four years at college but for a lifetime. He aims to help students wrestle through what it looks like to incarnate the gospel by being in the world, not of the world, but for the world.
Aaron Jeffrey
Rev. Aaron Jeffrey is the RUF Campus Minister serving in Atlanta on the Georgia Tech campus. Aaron and Amy previously worked to plant the RUF ministry at the University of Iowa.
Buckhead Christian Ministries
Buckhead Christian Ministry (BCM) is a faith-based, non-profit organization that provides emergency assistance to individuals and families of all backgrounds and faiths, treating everyone with dignity and compassion . BCM is driven by a dual mission to serve those in need and provide opportunities for members of the community to be involved in service. BCM places special emphasis on preventing homelessness through education and providing food, clothing and financial assistance to families and individuals in crisis. BCM also provides long term assistance for working parents and their children through The 70/30 Project, Transitional Housing Program and Money Management Course. Click here to visit their website.