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2012 Missions Conference

January 27-29, 2012

FaithLink - Generations Linked by Faith to Change the World

Conference Speaker: John Maisel, Founder and Chairman Emeritus
East-West Ministries, International
One of the distinguishing marks of John Maisel’s life has been his absolute faith in his sovereign God. John’s faith in God’s leading and provision has enabled him to be a world changer. John had the opportunity to play as Quarterback and Defensive back for the OSU Cowboys, he is a decorated U.S. Marine Corps captain, has ministered behind the Iron Curtain and began East West Ministries when the Iron Curtain fell. East West exists to evangelize and equip nationals to establish grace-oriented churches.

 

Our Featured Commended Missionaries

  • Russ & Melody Ebersole, Medical Missions, Togo, West Africa
  • Tim & Catherine Rogers, Mission Aviation Fellowship, Haiti
  • Tim & Andrea Ullum, Church Planting, Indonesia
  • David Windley, East-West Ministries, International, Director of Short Term Missions

Conference Schedule

Wednesday, January 25 - Women's Event
9:30 AM & 7:00 PM - Missionary Wives Roundtable - D3

Friday, January 27
6:30 PM - Adult Fellowship Dinners
Mandarin Fellowship Dinner with Ullums, open to all - D1  (Sign up Sundays in the portico)

Saturday, January 28
5:00-7:30 PM for Adults - FaithLink Family Dinner - Family Life Center  (Featuring Dave & Mac's Barbecue - get your tickets Sundays in the portico)
- Visits with our Featured Commended Missionaries
- Keynote Speaker John Maisel
5:00-7:30 PM for Children (PreK-5th Gr.) - Children's Missions Conference - Check in at Bldg. B

Sunday, January 29
8:00, 9:30 & 11:00 AM - Worship Services with Keynote Speaker John Maisel
8:00, 9:30 & 11:00 AM - Children's Programs as usual
9:30 & 11:00 AM - Adults in Bldg. D for Adult Ed. Breakout Sessions

6:00-7:30 PM for Adults - Praise Night & Keynote Speaker John Maisel - Auditorium
6:00-7:30 PM for Children (PreK-5th Gr.) - Children's Missions Conference - Check in at Bldg. B

Sunday Morning Adult Ed. Breakout Sessions

 

D5 - Ebersole: Medical Missions
Medical missions have been part of the Gospel outreach since the Great Physician walked on earth. Jesus met both spiritual and physical needs. Methods are different now, and missionary medical workers don’t usually perform “direct” miracles, but we are continually blessed to see God do miraculous things in the lives of desperately ill and dying patients.  Come see how God is using medicine to reach people, including relatively-closed groups like the Muslims. Learn about a new hospital being built in northern Togo, where the people are 95% Muslim, but have asked our missionaries to come live and work with them.
 
D6-Rogers: Vital Links in Missions
Imagine you are on a mission field and you need medical assistance or supplies, but your only chance of survival is a ten day trek out of the jungle. Now imagine you hear the drone of a small airplane and that airplane is on final approach to your location to provide you with vital support and supplies. Did you know CFC supports such mission work and has other missionaries in the US and overseas who support and help the cause of missions through various vocations? Come learn how these vocations are vital to sending and keeping missionaries on the field AND learn how the Lord might use your giftedness to serve Him.   
 
D1-Ullums: Ministering in an Animistic Culture  
“Wouldn’t it be faster to teach the tribal people English and then teach the gospel?” Believe it or not, this is a fairly common question people have when they hear all that is involved in tribal church planting.  Join Tim and Andrea for this overview of tribal church planting and become an “insider” as you pray for church planting ministries around the world. Go ahead and bring your questions regarding tribal life, translation, and church planting. You’re sure to be amazed at the answers!
 
D8 - Windley: Value of Short Term Missions & Intro of CFC’s 2012 Short Term Trips
Short term mission trips impact everyone.  Come hear David Windley share how God is using short term mission trips worldwide to impact goer, senders and those who are being ministered to.  You will hear stories of those changed forever by short term mission endeavors.  
 
From the very first CFC short term mission trip in 1991 until now, God has used short term missions at CFC to call both goers and senders into His ripe harvest.  Come hear why and how we do short term missions at CFC and learn about the 2012 trips.  
 

 

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Tommy Ullum Memorial Scholarship Fund

Providing financial assistance to CFC students.

The Tommy Ullum Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to honor the life of Thomas Calvin Ullum, Jr. (April 17, 1970 - January 23, 1994) and to make funds available to members of Christian Family Chapel who are pursuing training at a Bible College or Seminary for future fulltime ministry. Recipients of the fund must be those whose character, love and passion for ministry carry on the memory of Tommy Ullum, whose life’s pursuit was “the more excellent way," the way of love.

Tommy was a gifted teacher and was instrumental in beginning the youth ministry summer internships we have here at CFC, where he served during the summers of 1992 and 1993. Tommy was pursing training at Dallas Theological Seminary when the Lord called him home to heaven to find rest and peace from his four year battle with cancer. 

To date, the fund has helped 31 students from CFC, and $123,000 has been distributed. You are invited to give to this fund that the world may know the One who is worthy of both our life and our death.

If you wish to contribute to the fund, just make your check payable to Christian Family Chapel, and indicate the Tommy Ullum Memorial Scholarship Fund on the memo line. If you have questions about this fund, contact Wendy Graves.

Students who have received the scholarship say:

   “Tommy Ullum was an amazing young man who impacted many of us who are now in our late 20s/early 30s. His life example caused us to stop and consider where we were headed and Who we were serving with our lives...and the scholarship in his name made much of the training for that possible. I know a lot of people who have had to stay in the States to pay off college debts, rather than heading overseas to begin missionary work. The TUMSF was one of the scholarships that allowed me to graduate debt free and head into ministry right away.”    - Renee Graves Weathers, CFC Commended Missionary

   “CIU matches up to $1,000 per year for this CFC scholarship! This just increases the blessing many times over. My experience there has been a rich one. Thank you so much for sharing with me, so that I can share with others.”     - J.P. Bowers, CIU Graduate

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Missions Philosophy

Here at Christian Family Chapel, we desire to be involved in both home and foreign missions as individuals and as a body corporately.

In order to do this, we believe the members and friends of the congregation first need to be adequately informed and motivated. This educational process is achieved by annual missions conferences that emphasize all aspects of missions as well as periodic seminars and messages during the year, not only from the pulpit, but through adult classes where discussion and feedback is encouraged.

As the body is properly informed, they are then given ample opportunities to pray and decide where and how the Lord would have them involve both their energies and their financial resources. CFC does not have a separate missions budget because we believe that the Scriptures teach the local church is not to be the chief agent through which funds are channeled to various mission boards and agencies without congregational approval and involvement. It is to be the sole responsibility of each believer in Christ to decide where his financial gifts should be given and then to stay personally informed on a regular basis rather than surrendering this role to a church committee (II Corinthians 9:7a). This is not to say that CFC does not become involved as a church corporately in supporting missions. Yearly we are taking part in "special projects" and support for various missionaries. Many are those who have been previously involved at CFC or have been "thrust out" from our midst who we are able to stand behind and confirm as qualified for the ministry.

We realize that this approach to missions is different than some, but it has proven to develop a mature attitude among believers at CFC and has been more than effective as shown by surveys taken among the members revealing a very high level of personal involvement. We are thoroughly committed to missions at Christian Family Chapel and desire to see each believer properly educated and personally involved in this vital New Testament ministry.

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Commended Missionaries

Below are individuals (or couples) who have grown in Christ and have faithfully served in ministry as members at CFC. The church leadership believes that God has called and gifted these people for ministry and considers them to be sufficiently trained to do so effectively.

Please note: We have CFC commended missionaries who we cannot list nor mention because they are serving in a country which prohibits any Christian activity. CFC members know who these missionaries are; please be sensitive to this situation when you correspond with these missionaries. If you have questions, please contact Wendy Graves at 262-3000.

Commended Missionaries

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Sending Teams

Sender Teams allow our members who are already individually supporting a commended missionary (through financial and/or prayer support) to join together and coordinate their sending efforts for a greater impact on the individual missionary. Even the best senders fall down on the job. Teams encourage one another, spur one another on, and multiply the efforts of each other.

“It is truly amazing how such a small group of people can generate so much for good. One couple alone, or even just one person, can make a huge difference for those living in another culture who sometimes feel they are laboring alone. Sender Group involvement is a critical boost, especially for those who are fairly new on the field.“ - Gary Garvin, Missionary to Moldova

Why Were Sending Teams Formed?

Sending Teams were formed when Missions leadership realized much was being done by individuals to support our missionaries, but nothing was being coordinated. Missionaries might be encouraged around the holidays and then forgotten through the year. It was the feeling of the team that if we could get some coordination, two things would happen.

  1. Missionaries would be encouraged year-round
  2. People in the body who were supporting our missionaries would be encouraged and energized by working with a group of people toward the same end.

Every member is encouraged to choose one of the missionaries you support and join their Sending Team. Or maybe you've never chosen a missionary before, this is a great way to get started! It is not too late to join a team.

Below are the various sending teams and their contact information.

NOTE: Sending Team Leaders for foreign missionaries; Advocate Group Leaders for U.S. based missionaries.

Commended Missionaries Team Leader Contact Information
Dirk & Joy Anderson Martha Mazza 221-2525
Email Martha
Rick & Elizabeth Arnold Colin & Tricia Murphy 262-8363
Email Murphy's
Rhonda Bennett Wandeana Wilburn 260-8568
Email Wandeana
John & Diana Bowers Patty Sullivan

Email Patty
The Browns Kim Dudley 370-1329
Email Kim
Charlie & Marnie Densmore Wendy Graves Email Wendy
Russ & Melody Ebersol Wayne & Diane Mangum 731-3189
Email Wayne
Jody Hanford Peter & Kim Davis 733-3452
Email Kim
Forrest & Kristina Hendrix Larry & Char Bennett 737-1062 - H
262-3000 - W
Email Char
Jim & Kathie Jenkins Robin Bedwell Email Robin
Timothy & Allison Lusk Margaret Davis 260-4389
Email Jenny
Dominic & Damaris Marrone Betsy Baker 608-8077
Email Betsy
Kent & Yuko Muhling Steve & Susan Schneider Email Susan
Curtis & Lesley Sewell Maria Faunce 292-4870
Email Maria
Marty & Debbie Shilling Kristi Russell 443-6385
Email Kristi
Todd & Terri Smalley Patty Sullivan Email Patty
Bud & Carolyn Toole Jim Goodrich 268-6813
Email Jim
Tim & Andrea Ullum Bill & Angela Muyres 529-7418
Email Muyres'
Don & Gwen Volle Rick & Debbie Brackett 829-9649
Email Rick
Joel & Renee Weathers Sarah Connor 262-0565
Email Sarah
Jim & Christina Whorton Jim & Jennie Lesniak 886-2643
Email Jim
Dave & Sharon Windley Wendy Graves Email Wendy
Judy Wood Hugh & Cindy Harby 737-8810
Email Cindy

 

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Missions

To Know Him and to Make Him Known to All Peoples

In his letter to the Romans, Paul identifies that the foundation for people calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved is that proclaimers will be sent! Missions at CFC begins with sending, just as the father sent His Son on our behalf, then the Son send out the apostles. As the Apostle Paul reflected on those who sent him from Philippi, he provides for us a blueprint for becoming a highly effective sender in Philippians 4:10-19.

The church in Philippi was so blessed by what Paul had done for them that they not only supported him wile he was ministering in their city, they also supported him while in Thessalonica. As you recall how you came to faith in Christ or grew in Christ, you may want to invest in those who continue to do that ministry currently. 

Many of our commended missionaries once sat in CFC services. You may have had a relationwhip with them prior to their entering ministry or while in ministry and, therefore, you are excited to invest in them, not only as missionaries, but as friends. It is a real privilege to send out other people who are a blessing to you. Certainly there are other ways in which God may "connect" you with a missionary. The point is to listen to the Lord as you get to know our commended missionaries through their profiles.

Thank you for your willingness to share in the work of God among the nations. What a privilege it is to be used by Him in His global purpose. If you would like to learn how to become involved in our Sender Teams at CFC, please contact our Director of Missions, Wendy Graves.