Our Missions
Camp Manitoqua Ministries
At the heart of Camp Manitoqua and Retreat Center is a desire to help
people find Christ and grow in their faith. We desire Manitoqua to be
a place where people of all ages come for spiritual renewal, fellowship
and fun, or simply a quiet reprieve from the hectic pace of everyday life.
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Mission Trip
Our yearly mission trip. See video from last year.
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Local Missions
Area Youth Ministry
Area Youth Ministry (AYM) is a Christian outreach ministry to inner-city adolescents
in Indianapolis, Indiana. Focusing on the development of the whole person - spiritual,
physical, emotional, and intellectual - AYM reaches out to fill voids. A Drop-In Center
(located across from Tech High School) provides a safe haven where youth ages 13-18 can
hang out after school to get help with homework, relax, play games, or talk to someone
about problems they are having.
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Good News Mission
Good News Ministries is dedicated to proclaiming the gospel among the disadvantaged
people of the inner-city and establishing them in Christian living while extending
assistance of shelter, food, clothing, medical care and educational opportunities.
Our ultimate goal is to help individuals achieve independent living with a reliance on God.
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Wheeler Mission
Wheeler Mission Ministries is a non-denominational, Christian, social services
organization, which provides critically needed goods and services to homeless,
poor, and needy of central Indiana without regard to race, color, creed, national
origin or religion.
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Shepherd Community
Shepherd is a faith-based, non-profit organization established in 1984
with a simple but staggering goal: to break the cycle of poverty on the
near east side of Indianapolis. Located centrally within the community
it serves, Shepherd offers programs for children, teens, adults, and families,
helping to meet their physical, emotional, academic, and spiritual needs.
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Global Missions
Brian and Elizabeth Bruxvoort
Brian and Elizabeth (Beth) Bruxvoort serve in Soldotna, Alaska, under the auspices of Mission Aviation Repair
Center (MARC). Brian flies pastors and others to and from remote Alaskan villages and transports children to
Bible camp. These areas must be reached by air because they are not connected to the state's limited road system.
Soldotna, with a population of about 3,500, is situated 140 miles southwest of Anchorage on the west coast of
the Kenai Peninsula.
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William and Peggy De Boer
Bill and Peg De Boer have been working with Jicarilla Apache Reformed Church since 1994. The De Boers
provide pastoral leadership for the church. Bill's work also includes community involvement with
alcohol and drug abuse programs. Peg's primary responsibilities in the church are in the Sunday school
and women's ministries. She also works as a teacher aide in the local elementary school.
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Peter and Patty Ford
Peter Ford has established and now directs the new program in Christian-Muslim relations at the EECMY's
primary seminary, Mekane Yesus Theological Seminary (MYTS); he also serves as the program's primary teacher.
"I have established the program's curriculum, structure, textbooks, library books, etc.," says Peter. "I am
teaching the first round of courses and establishing syllabi for each. I also have been assisting the church
in sending two Ethiopians for training, who will join me in the teaching. I plan to train a successor to
direct the program and enough teachers so that I can leave with the program running well." Patty volunteers
for various ministries, including serving as the MYTS campus nurse.
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Justin and Ruth Majawa
As project manager of Save Orphans Ministries, Justin Majawa coordinates SOM's programs, which range from HIV/AIDS
counseling to economic development. SOM's Bible camps reach hundreds of children with the gospel. By helping orphans
pay for their secondary schooling, the ministry gives them a chance for a better future. SOM income-generation
programs teach orphan caregivers skills for running a business and provide start-up loans; courses in agricultural
techniques help give farmers a steady food supply for their households. SOM workers also work with churches, helping
them minister more effectively to orphans and people with AIDS.
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Abdi Tadesse-Mulat
Almost half of all Ethiopians are Muslims, and Islam continues to make inroads. "My heart fills with a burden when
I see that in every place new mosques are erected," says Abdi Tadesse Mulat, who is training to provide leadership
in a new program in Christian-Muslim relations at Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa. "I have been praying before
God that he might reveal how and when I could engage in this ministry. I believe that God has called me to respond
to this need at this time."
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