Ben and Melody are missionaries with Cadence International and serve as directors of Victory Villa Hospitality House, at Naval Station Rota in Spain. They offer Biblical hospitality through a Christ-centered “home away from home” for the Sailors, Marines, and Airmen stationed there. They provide an environment in which meaningful conversations can take place and shared experiences can be made. The Blokers hold weekly dinners, Bible study gatherings, and men’s and women’s discipleship groups. They also run monthly day trips, game nights and other special activities as a way to build relationships with the unchurched.
The Blokers have been serving with Cadence since 2014 and were previously the directors of The Soldiers Hospitality House for Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood), in Killeen, Texas.
Elsa Wallace has served with the campus ministry of Cru for more than 12 years, with the last 5 years here in Utah. She currently serves as a team leader overseeing and giving direction to the local team and ministry. She is primarily serving at the University of Utah but desires to see college-age women across the Salt Lake Valley have an opportunity to know Jesus and grow in their faith in the context of a healthy Christian community. During her years in college, Elsa was not only impacted in her own faith as God used Cru to cultivate a deeper love for Him and grow her heart for discipleship and evangelism, but she saw firsthand how pivotal this time in life is as college students are often asking significant questions about life, purpose, and faith. She is passionate about meeting college students wherever they are in their faith journey to connect them to Christ through Gospel proclamation, intentional discipleship, and providing opportunities to connect to meaningful community through Bible studies, Cru meetings, outreaches, and social events.
Doug McNutt is President of Trinity Center for World Mission, a ministry started by American pastors in East and Central Africa to plant churches, do pastoral theological training, and empower local churches to advance the kingdom of God. He is an ordained Minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a graduate of Covenant College and Beeson Divinity School, Samford University. He currently lives in the North Atlanta area with his family but spends 3 months out of the year in Africa teaching and helping to run theology courses in 5 locations in 3 African countries and working with local African pastors to facilitate church-planting. He also does curriculum-writing and represents the organization in the United States.
Trinity Center is a reformed, evangelical Christian Ministry that works in Africa planting and running Biblical Interdenominational seminaries. They primarily work in East and Central Africa. Once students finish their theology program, many are ready to go out and plant churches! Trinity Center provides grants, training, and resources to help make that happen for the kingdom of God. They also provide a network for alumni and associated churches, to help with placement, pulpit-filling, apprenticeships, and continued church health and church growth for established pastors and churches.
The Ogden Rescue Mission is a faith-based, nonprofit organization established in 1965 to help the homeless and restore broken lives. They seek to provide services that meet spiritual, physical, emotional, educational, social and mental wholeness needs through the love and power of Jesus Christ.
All Saints Reformed Church is a church plant committed to their mission to establish an orthodox, reformed, and evangelical church in the spiritual desert of St. George. In an area dominated by the Mormon church, and increasingly populated by "nones" who have no religious identification or practice, All Saints strives to be a light for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Pregnancy Medical Clinic (PMC) is an outreach ministry of Jesus Christ through His church. Therefore, the PMC, embodied in its volunteers, is committed to presenting the gospel of our Lord to women in unexpected pregnancies – both in word and in deed. Commensurate with this purpose, those who labor as PMC board members, directors, and volunteers, are expected to know Christ as their Savior and Lord.
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