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Three small groups, including one for youth, are meeting regularly in Montevideo, Uruguay, as part of a church plant. These outreaches are led by Alliance workers who are supported by the GCF.  

Friends of Isaan in Thailand is a GCF-supported Alliance church-planting initiative among the largely unreached Isaan people of northeast Thailand. A prison ministry has introduced Jesus to many incarcerated people, who have evangelized their home villages upon their release. EQ, a former gang member, gave his life to Jesus through the prison ministry. Since his release, [...]

A Madrid, Spain, suburb outreach that began initially with summer English camps has grown to include sports coaching and after school tutoring. City officials have encouraged the expansion of the project, noting that the outreach is meeting felt needs of the community. And in Granada, Alliance workers baptized nine people in the last month and [...]

Doors have opened in Dakar, Senegal, for Alliance international workers to teach business courses in local universities, giving them opportunity to build bridges into the community that will bear the weight of truth. Also, health care needs of Senegalese people are addressed through a church-run dispensary, which allows Alliance workers to demonstrate the love of [...]

In Moscow, Russia, a help center for Central Asian migrant workers began operations, aiding workers with registration of their temporary residence in the city and helping them in job hunting. This kind of help, enabled through GCF dollars, is offered to people trying to navigate the complexities of life in a foreign society that views them [...]

The C&MA Church of the Philippines (CAMACOP) plans to plant 1,500 new churches by 2015.  Currently they have 2,800 churches nationwide, roughly 600 more than the US C&MA, and are aggressively pursuing 1,500 more! This movement has all been made possible through the faithful GCF-giving of Alliance people over the years.    

Mi Esparanza (My Hope) church in Asunción, Paraguay, saw significant growth as it continued to used a variety of creative activities to reach out into the community because GCF-supported Alliance international workers, Forest and Sarah Schell and Bob and Joy Brougher are committed to reaching the lost in this country.  

Alliance workers in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, have organized children’s educational centers in poor districts around the outskirts of the city.  These centers are meeting felt needs of families in those areas where schools are overburdened and provide a business opportunity for believing educators who otherwise would have trouble finding work. This GCF initiative provides the location [...]

  It almost goes without saying that many countries today are closed to the overt sharing of the gospel. Marketplace ministries (mm) deploys and supports lay professionals to enter countries that are closed to traditional mission workers. Through professional endeavors, mm servants, some of whom receive partial GCF funding as well as raising their own support, [...]

Through the ministry of Dalat International School in Malaysia, the children of Alliance international workers (MKs) are involved in many projects that impact their community.  Service projects by MKs, whose education is paid for by the GCF, include cleaning at St. Joseph School’s Blind Center, walking with the blind, food distribution projects, and painting a [...]