marketplace ministries
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, [...]
MKs Minister, Too
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 [...]
God’s Peace in a War-Torn Nation
Partnering with a national evangelical church, Alliance international workers have established a church plant and community center—the first joint project, largely funded by the GCF, to take root in largely unevangelized Kosovo. The Ringjallja (Resurrection) Community Center, strategically situated across the street from the local teaching college, serves as a conduit by which Alliance workers [...]
Tsunami Tragedy Opens Doors to the Gospel
Because Alliance people faithfully support the GCF, international workers in Japan were able to relocate from Tokyo to the heart of the area affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. They are partnering with another mission agency to demonstrate the love of Christ in practical ways, such as providing rice cookers to shop owners who [...]
Where There’s Hope . . .
Hope House Ministries in Hiroshima, Japan, is led by GCF-supported Alliance international workers, Ken and Kathy Young. The Youngs are using Hope House, which is located near a major hospital, as an outreach to people who have spiritual and emotional needs as they deal with hospitalized relatives. Doors are opening for ministry to doctors and [...]
Black Gospel Music Draws Japanese to Jesus
The Tokyo Journal reports that “thousands of Japanese [are] flocking to gospel singing workshops to clap their hands and sing praise to Jesus.” African-American gospel music has become very popular in Japan, and the phenomenon has inspired a new outreach by Kawaguchi Church, an Alliance congregation in Japan. Because of God’s provision through the GCF, [...]
Indonesia Church Planting
Alliance international workers, supported by the GCF, are partnering with the C&MA of Indonesia (GKII) in planting 20 churches among the least reached in the country. The Alliance, which established its mission in Indonesia in 1929, has nearly 2,000 organized churches with nearly 400,000 inclusive members because of generous giving to the GCF.
A Light in the Darkness
An art gallery, Lego brunch, and two church plants combined as one church in Berlin, Germany, has resulted in many people coming to faith in Jesus through the Freischwimmer outreaches. Recently, a Christian preschool opened, providing biblically based education for the youngest generation of Berliners. Because the GCF supports dedicated Alliance workers, the light of [...]
Tried by Fire
In September 2010, three local Christian men in Gabon were tied up by demon worshipping villagers who doused the believers with gasoline and lit their feet on fire. The men were brought to Bongolo Hospital, where Alliance international worker Dr. David Thompson, supported by gifts to the GCF, treated the men with skin grafts. After [...]
Alliance Medical Mission Lights the Way for Thousands
At Bongolo Hospital in Gabon, 1,724 people prayed to receive Christ in 2010. That is roughly 1 out of every 10 patients who came to the hospital during the year. Through the ministry of our two faithful chaplains, the Holy Spirit powerfully delivered more than 200 people from the bondage of demonic spirits. The hospital’s [...]

