Our Ministries

Rescue Mission of Utica

The Rescue Mission of Utica is a life-changing ministry that puts the love of Christ into action to those in need..

Founded in 1890, the Rescue Mission is a faith-based, nonprofit, multiple-service, charitable organization serving Utica and the Mohawk Valley. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the ministry “endeavors to assess and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of all people coming for assistance.”

The Rescue Mission serves individuals overcoming homelessness, abuse, addictions, and disabilities. Our programs provide safe lodging, food, clothing, case management, counseling, advocacy, education, referrals, spiritual and other supportive services.

Rescue Mission of Utica, Inc. is a Christian Ministry, established to proclaim, in word and deed, the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ, by unconditionally endeavoring to assess and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those individuals seeking assistance.

Our vision is to be a conduit for God’s love, grace and mercy; from which individuals can be healed, forgiven and empowered.

uticamission.org

John & Kristy Camp

Davids KidZ is a faith-based nonprofit charity organization bringing hope to the hopeless and help to the helpless. We are the hands and feet of Jesus carrying the good news in practical meaningful ways. Davids KidZ is a growing family of people sharing a common vision to see love win out over poverty and suffering.

Through Davids Kidz child sponsorship program, children are thriving and growing. We provide aid to assist the weak and vulnerable through education, feeding and medical programs.  Some of our other projects invest into families economic welfare with the goal to break the cycle of poverty. Davids KidZ is changing lives one child, family, and community at a time.

Our Mission is to show love in practical ways, provide life-giving resources, educate poor and needy children, aid in building community programs, share, serve, steward and strengthen.

davidskidz.org

Rebecca Chance, Zambia & Mozambique

Our Mission is we want to see vibrant communities of Jesus followers among the least reached.

Our Holy Ambition is We want to see vibrant communities of Jesus followers in reach of everyone. In order to reverse the trajectory of the least reached, we want to be a catalyst to see 25,000 new vibrant communities of Jesus followers being launched every year, by 2030.

Our Guiding Values are Imitating Jesus, Kingdom Transformation, A Biblically Just and Diverse Community, Strategic Innovation and Mutual Commitment

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William & Carolyn Farag, Egypt

More info coming soon…

Fred & Annette Farrokh, Muslims

Fred and Annette Farrokh are serving as International Trainers with “Global Initiative: Reaching Muslim Peoples”. As such, they travel extensively around the globe to train missionaries and witnesses for Christ who are serving among Muslims. Global Initiative’s vision is that every Muslim would know the truth about Jesus. Fred is also actively involved in developing curriculum and teaching materials for ministry to Muslims. This is an exciting time in history in which more Muslims are responding to the Gospel than ever before!

ReachingMuslimPeoples.com

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Kevin & Joyce Graves

Ministry information intentionally undisclosed. Contact the church office to learn more.

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David & Michelle Heed, Tanzania

David and Michelle Heed are missionaries in Kigoma, Tanzania with an emphasis on Children’s
ministries. The four main parts of their ministry are:

1. Children’s Feeding Programs: done in 12 different villages in partnership with the churches. We do a church service for children with singing, dancing, and games while teaching the word of God. After the service, the children receive something to eat.
2. English tutoring for young children (Building an Elementary School): We have a dream of starting an Elementary School in the village of Simbo. We are currently constructing our 4th building which will bring to completion a total of six classrooms and an office. For now, it operates as a tutoring center. The students get lessons four days a week (K-7) in English, math, and science. We want to raise up the next generation of the nation’s leaders, using children who come from poverty and who would otherwise have no chance to succeed.
3. Raising up young leaders: We are currently supporting High School students, college students, and others in education for various trades. We are also training up many teachers for both English and Bible.
4. Provision for health.: Health insurance is so cheap in Tanzania. An entire family can get health insurance for a full year for only $15 US, which provides unlimited free medicine. The families who choose not to get it, suffer from many preventable illnesses. We have supported 700 families get health insurance this year. We also provide support for 20 children with sickle-cell disease, and we distribute worm medicine to 2,000 children every 3 months when we are able.

elimfellowship.org

Bill & Shannon Kelley

Bill and Shannon Kelley serve as Elim Fellowship missionaries in Lima, NY.  Working with missionaries around the globe, they provide emotional and spiritual support so that missionaries are empowered to reproduce themselves in the nations.

Through the Global Care Team at Elim Fellowship, they facilitate training of missionaries, coordinate counseling and coaching, and walk with missionaries as they serve on the field.  They prepare, equip, and empower missionaries for life, family, ministry, and work.

elimfellowship.org

Dan & Nancy Larkin, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Dan Larkin serves as the Elim Fellowship Field Director for West and Central Europe. In the process, he works with Bible schools and leadership training in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Also, as a result of the Larkins having served in East Africa for years, Dan relates strongly to Bible schools and leadership training in that area of the world as well.

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Ed Markus

WEC (Worldwide Evangelization for Christ) is a multicultural, interdenominational church-planting mission agency, committed to finding new, creative and culturally-relevant ways of doing missions. Missions in this context is challenging. We don’t always get things right but our heart’s desire to is to serve God’s passion in the way he is leading us. 

God’s passion is that no one departs from this life without making things right with Him, but many are not hearing that message. The Good News is about how God has made a way to make things right through Jesus!

WEC’s objectives are to share that good news around the world (Reaching People), help gather new believers into churches (Planting Churches), and help churches at home and abroad raise up more workers to fulfill God’s passion (Mobilizing for Missions).

wec-usa.org

Ana Cristina & Rene Matus, Mexico

Love In Action Partners, Inc. is a faith-based interdenominational non-profit organization that exists to support indigenous evangelical ministries in Mexico that exercise the love of Jesus Christ in word and action.

loveinactionpartners.org

John & Jenny Maxwell, Rowanda

John and Jennifer are serving the Kigali International Community School in Kigali, Rwanda, a Christian international school with an American-based curriculum. John is in charge of new buildings and maintenance and Jennifer, among other things, is responsible for community development and government-related matters. As a result of much effort, in 2012 the school received two very significant international accreditations – one from the Association of Christian Schools International and the other from the Middle States Association.

elimfellowship.org

Chuy Mondragon, Mexico

An elderly care facility for homeless seniors, El Refugio has been a free-of-charge facility since 2001. The elderly in Mexico do not receive Medical or Social Security benefits and cannot go to a convalescent home. Many end up living on the street when they are abandoned by family members who don’t have the means or space to care for them. They are then picked up by the Red Cross or local police and very often dropped off on our door step.

We currently have 130 seniors in our care. Our mission is that each of them will know Christ as their Savior before they pass away. We clothe and feed them, drive them to medical appointments, and most importantly embrace them with God’s love. 

loveinactionpartners.org

Tim & Sarah Outlaw

Tim & Sara have been ministering in Asia since 2010, married in 2012 and began working in other nations in 2016 and founded Train The Nations in 2022. Their ministry focuses on providing video-based training to Christians in developing areas of the world.

In 2016, after fasting, prayer and receiving counsel from elders, Tim and Sara moved their base of operations to South Texas. This enabled them to partner with more nations and delegate to more nationals around the world, accomplishing even more the further the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

In 2022, Train The Nations was established to give Tim and Sara freedom to better focus on persecuted nations in Asia and enable them to act quickly when doors open in these oppressed regions.

There are several ways you can get behind Tim & Sara’s Mission. Praying, giving, going and serving.

• Pray for their health, finances, spiritual growth and their ministry.
• Give, Tim & Sara rely on financial gifts from friends, family and prayer partners to meet their financial need.
• Go, every year there are opportunities to go with Tim into foreign nations to start Bible Schools. Send us an email or reach out on social media if you are interested.

trainthenations.org

Juan Carlos & Johanna Portillo

Help bring the love of Christ to isolated people

People living in isolation are cut off from the outside world, with little to no access to health care, education, supplies, and the hope of the gospel. Our airplanes are the only way many people living in remote jungles, deserts, and mountains have access to life-giving necessities and the love of Christ. You can help us—and the hundreds of churches, missionaries, and organizations we serve—bring help, hope, and healing to the ends of the earth.

MAF people and airplanes serve in the rugged, difficult places of the world that others can’t reach, or choose not to. From the jungles of Africa to the rivers of Borneo, MAF transports Bible translators, doctors, aid workers, the sick and injured, and local evangelists called to take God’s love to their own people.

maf.org

Irvin & Ruth Schwandt, Kenya

Irvin and Ruth Schwandt have ministered in Kenya under Elim Fellowship since 1976. In 1997 they were requested by the national church group they serve there (Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa — PEFA) to open an orphanage, which is now Rehema (Swahili for “Compassion”) Home. In mid-2011 there were 58 children in the home between the ages of 9 months and 15 years old, about half of whom were HIV positive. Through the grace of God, the Schwandts, with the other workers at the home, have been able to rescue children who were abandoned and orphaned. Some of these children had been tortured by their parents or xrelatives; some thrown in rubbish heaps or public toilets; some abandoned in hospitals or on the side of the road. Through the love and care the children receive, they have found healing to their emotions, spirits and bodies, knowing that they are accepted, valued, loved and encouraged as members of the Rehema family.

elimfellowship.org

David Spencer

We are a Non-Profit Organization serving local churches to reach college students. We believe that college students are a catalyst for change, and have an immense impact on our world to extend the Kingdom of God.

Our vision is to see a move of the Holy Spirit on college campuses to make a global impact.

Our mission is to effectively reach and disciple college students to experience the transformative love of God.

Harry & Connie Vellekoop, Paraguay

Harry and Connie have ministered at national level through seminars to pastors and leaders of all evangelical denominations in Paraguay, South America.

This first generation of Paraguayan spiritual leaders needs spiritual fathers to help them through the challenges that face them as they endeavor to extend the Kingdom of God in their nation in their generation.

At the invitation of the Paraguayan National Association of Pastors (APEP) Harry serves under their auspices annually with in-depth leadership teaching and vision casting.

As veteran missionaries, our understanding of the language and the culture prepared us for this privilege of a lifetime—to have a part in affecting the nation of Paraguay at the most spiritually pivotal time in its history.

Harry’s former experience as Director of the Elim Fellowship International Missions Department and currently the Missions Instructor at Elim Bible Institute also enables him to provide counsel for the newly forming missions organizations.

elimfellowship.org

Lucille Yaddaw

The Bible is one of the oldest and most popular books of all time. But is it just a book, or is it much more?

Like you, we believe that the Bible is God’s Word to us — something that everyone should be able to understand for themselves. Bible translation is critical for real transformation: When people encounter Jesus through Scripture in their own language, lives often change in amazing ways!  That’s why Wycliffe Bible Translators USA exists: to work with churches, communities and partner organizations until everyone can access God’s Word in a language that touches their hearts. We’ll keep on working so all people  — speaking or signing more than 7,000 languages worldwide — can have the Bible in the formats and languages that serve them best. 

OUR VISION is for people from every language to understand the Bible and be transformed.

OUR MISSION is to serve with the global body of Christ to advance Bible translation and work together so people can encounter God through His Word.

wycliffe.org