October 19-20, 2024
Saturday 9AM-1PM and Sunday 9AM & 11AM services
Featuring Peter Greer, President & CEO of HOPE International.
Our Mission
Helping you discover your role in advancing the Kingdom through local and global missions!
Our Theme
To challenge the notion that ordinary people aren’t called to join God’s mission and explore how He is building His Church—and how each of us can play a vital role in advancing His kingdom.
Peter Greer
HOPE International
Hope International
Peter Greer is the president and CEO of HOPE International, a global Christ-centered economic development organization serving throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.
Before joining HOPE, Peter worked internationally as a microfinance adviser in Cambodia and Zimbabwe and as managing director for Urwego Bank in Rwanda. He received a B.S. in international business from Messiah University and an MPP in political and economic development from Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Peter’s favorite part of his job is spending time with the entrepreneurs HOPE serves—whether harvesting coffee with farmers in Rwanda, dancing alongside savings groups in Haiti, or visiting the greenhouses of entrepreneurs in Ukraine.
As an advocate for the Church’s role in missions and alleviating extreme poverty, Peter has co-authored over 10 books, including Mission Drift(selected as a 2015 Book Award Winner from Christianity Today), Rooting for Rivals (selected as a 2019 Leadership Resource of the Year in Outreach magazine), The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good (selected as one of the top 40 books on poverty by WORLD Magazine), Created to Flourish(which his mom reviewed with five stars and a smiley face emoji), The Gift of Disillusionment, and Lead with Prayer.
More important than his role at HOPE is his role as husband to Laurel and dad to Keith, Liliana, Myles, and London. While his sports loyalties remain in New England, Peter and his family live in Lancaster, PA.
Learn more at hopeinternational.org
Kristina Bethea
Monthly Miracles
Monthly Miracles
Kristina Bethea is the founder and executive director of Monthly Miracles homeless charity. The Lord called her from Croatia, all the way to the Tri-Valley, to start a nonprofit that provides a way out of homelessness to our neighbors in need. Kristina's passionate purpose in life is to exemplify the tangible love of Jesus Christ and His Gospel, to those around her.
Learn more at monthlymiracles.org
MATT ROBERTsON
AIM- Agape International Missions
AIM - Agape International Missions
Matt Robertson has over 24 years of experience in fundraising, business development, and leadership, with a passion for fighting sex trafficking through his work with AIM.
Matt, a seasoned mentor, business developer, and catalyst for change has helped global organizations grow, adapt and expand.
His broad career includes, Lean Process Improvement in the Software Industry, Organizational Change, Leadership Development and new partnership development for Habitat for Humanity in Uganda and World Vision US, serving as a Pastor at NorthWood Church in Texas, and later at Bayside Church in California and a Director of Business Development for a start-up company in the Construction Industry.
He now serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Agape International Missions. A Christ-centered ministry focused on fighting sex-trafficking in Cambodia, Belize and the US.
He and his wife Shela, married 29 years, have two children. Matt loves surfing in the summer and snowboarding in the winter.
Learn more at aimfree.org
PABLO & Martha Garcia
Link International
Link International
Pablo and Martha Garcia
Pablo co-pastors a vibrant church in a low-income area of Ensenada, Mexico, where he and his wife Martha are dedicated to serving the community. Together, they host mission trips for churches and minister to the poor through various outreach initiatives. Their ministry includes discipleship, marriage counseling, men’s ministries, sports evangelism, free medical, dental, and vision clinics, as well as home building, repair projects, and music ministry. Pablo and Martha’s work reflects their deep commitment to meeting both the spiritual and physical needs of their community and maintaining an active and impactful presence in Ensenada.
Learn more linkintl.org
Philip Patterson
Foster the City
Foster the City
Philip Pattison is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Foster the City - a movement that inspires and equips churches to provide loving, supported homes for children in foster care. Philip is a foster/adoptive dad and resides with his family of 6 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn more at fosterthecity.org
Alpha
Russell and Susan Dunaway have been married for 34 years and have 2 adult sons who are married and have 4 grandchildren. Since their early adult years, they have served churches and ministries in full-time, part-time, and volunteer positions. For the past 11 years, they have focused on serving the marginalized residents of the Tenderloin neighborhood. They also serve on the leadership team for the Alpha citywide initiative in San Francisco.
Their mission in life is to passionately follow Jesus, bring healing to a broken world, and see followers of Christ grow in their faith.
Learn more about Alpha here.
Tri-Valley Seek and Save
Roland Ellingsen is the Executive Director of Tri-Valley Seek & Save, an organization dedicated to comforting, encouraging, and supporting struggling individuals and families by addressing their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The core mission of Tri-Valley Seek & Save is to share the Gospel of Christ’s saving power with those they serve and those who partner with them.
Learn more at trivalleyseekandsave.org
NEXT STEPS
Compassion Sunday is coming soon on October 27th! Sponsor a Child from Guatemala during both services.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”