Go therefore and make disciples of all nations

Matthew 28:19

We strive to help you, our congregation, act as missionaries in every day life while also helping other missionaries on a local, regional, and global basis: Live Transformed.

  • Throughout the year, we connect our congregation and missionaries in several ways:  
  • Informing our MPC members and friends about our mission partners through videos, updates, luncheons, and more.  
  • Connecting our congregation with other missionaries through coordinating missionary visits and mission trips.  Praying for our mission partners as part of the Missions Prayer Team.  
  • Equipping our missionaries by managing the mission budget. See our 2020-2021 budget here.
  • Coordinating local, regional, or global mission activities.

Join the mission

Don't just see the difference. Be the difference. 

We hope you will consider getting involved in MPC missions that will enable you to grow in your relationship with Jesus. Being involved will not only allow you to be part of what God is doing through MPC missions, but will also give you an opportunity for sharing in the joy of people coming to know Jesus through building relationships with God's people, and seeing God move in miraculous ways. 

America Missionaries

Mexico

Pastor Arturo and Elizabeth Velasco, Alianza Christiana y Misionera A.R., Mexico 

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Pastor Arturo Velasco is the pastor of the Lion of Judah Church in Atizapan, Mexico, as well as the Coordinator of the Central Region Missions for the Mexican Christian and Missionary Alliance.

The Lion of Judah is a missional church and a sending church. The church members are very active and visible in the Atizapan community. Pastor Arturo and Elizabeth have also been instrumental in planting several churches int he mountainous regions outside of Mexico City. One missionary sent out by the Lion of Judah is Dr. Luis Hurtado, who is also a mission partner with Memorial Park.

Please pray for Lion of Judah, that the church will continue to grow in numbers and influence in the community so that Jesus will be glorified near and far. Contact Pastor Arturo and Elizabeth Velasco

Diana Garrett, Mexico 

Diana Garrett (Field Missionary) lives in Tuxpan, Veracruz on the Mexican Gulf Coast. She and Mirna Sotomayor are developing Camp Kikomar, which is a beautiful beachfront property on the Gulf of Mexico. They work with construction, team building, hosting groups, and establishing relationships with local churches and the indigenous people. Contact Diana Garrett.

Dr. Luis and Karla Hurtado, Alianza Christiana y Misionera A.R., Mexico 

Luis and Karla work with the Pame people, an indigenous group that lives in the Eastern Sierra Madre in Mexico. The Pame have their own language, culture, and mindset. They live in remote villages in the mountain range, where they lack many services like a water system, telephones, roads, and medical aid. Their limited understanding of the Spanish language and their high rate of illiteracy make it difficult for them to develop and even understand the Bible and Christian doctrine.

Luis gives medical aid to the Pame in El Huizachal, and in nearby villages. He and Karla also seek to develop a healthy Pame Church through teaching, discipleship, and preaching. Pray that the Pame people would feel the love of Christ through the Hurtado family. Contact Dr. Luis and Karla Hurtado.

Paco Pena, PROSIGUE, Mexico 

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PROSIGUE, formerly Children in Crisis has completed 28 years of service to the most vulnerable children in Mexico City, Mexico. PROSIGUE ministry:
  • rescues boys, girls, and adolescents living on the streets and seeks to prevent those at risk from doing so;
  • improves living conditions and promotes their integral development at the individual, family, social, and spiritual level within a framework of respect to their rights;
  • provides support to encourage a better quality of life for children working on the streets so that they may develop their holistic potential within their community and as human beings. Contact PROSIGUE.

Diana Garrett, Mexico 

Mirna Sotomayor (Field Missionary) lives in Tuxpan, Veracruz on the Mexican Gulf Coast. She and Diana Garrett are developing Camp Kikomar, which is a beautiful beachfront property on the Gulf of Mexico. They work with construction, team building, hosting groups, and establishing relationships with local churches and the indigenous people. Contact Mirna Sotomayor.

Costa Rica

Argentina

Susan Grosser, Christ for the City International, Costa Rica 

Susan and her coworker, Sara Bautista, lead a team that works in the community of Carpio, Costa Rica. Read about their ministry work. Susan and Sara are both fully funded without support from Memorial Park. Funds from Memorial Park are used to support the efforts of three wonderful Latin missionaries:
  • Dr. Egle Frugone is the medical director of the Carpio Christian Clinic. She started the clinic 28 years ago and has been serving faithfully ever since.
  • Dr. Karelia Manzo ia a pediatric neurologist who joined the team of the Carpio Christian Clinic fairly recently. She is from Venezuela. With so may children in Carpio, a pediatrician is a huge blessing./
  • Damaris Estrada leads a thriving ministry to women teaching sewing and crafts in Carpio. She is used by God to minister to the women through daily devotionals, mentoring, and personal counseling.
Susan works as a nurse at the Carpio Christian Clinic, and helps lead a children's Bible club, teaches Sunday School to a class of adolescents, and heads up a ministry to Nicuraguan refugees helping them with physical needs, through emotional support and friendship, and supporting them spiritually. Contact Susan Grosser.  Sara is a teacher with a Masters in Special Education.  She heads up the after-school tutoring program which is carried on simultaneously at two different sites with participation of approximately 100 children.  The children are taught to read and receive help in reading comprehension and basic math.  There is always a Bible lesson as part of each session. 

United States

Emily shrader, serge, united states

Kyle and Claudia Zimmerman, Global Outreach International, Argentina 

Kyle and Claudia Zimmerman are missionaries serving as support staff at La Mision, a small Presbyterian church in the southern part of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. La Mision is a small church with a big heart, ministering to the poorest of the poor. Kyle is the director of vocational and recycling classes offered in two different community centers in the city's shanty towns. Claudia is assisting and teaching leadership and Bible classes in the developing seminary at La Mision. Together they lead a college and young professionals small discipleship group, and are part of a church-planting team targeting that same population. Contact Kyle and Claudia Zimmerman. 

Honduras

Dr. Lisa Anderson-Umana, United World Mission, Honduras 

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Lisa grew up at Memorial Park and was sent out as a missionary with a Latin America Mission (now a ministry under United World Mission) in 1983. She has worked with Christian Camping her entire missionary career. Since 95% of camping is done by the local church, Lisa's role is to train church and para-church leaders to serve as counselors, program directors, and bible study curriculum writers.

Over the years, Lisa and a team of Latin Americans have written an extensive curriculum to develop leaders, which is used in 12 countries of Latin America. Each of the 6 courses they have created entails an average of 150 hours of training and has proven to be deeply transformative.

Lisa and her husband, Alfredo, have two children: Valerie and Victor. Contact Dr. Lisa Anderson-Umana
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The work at Serge consists of sending and caring for missionaries, mentoring & equipping ministry leaders around the world, and developing resources for on-going spiritual renewal.
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Africa Missionaries

Sierra Leone

Pastor Thomas Kargobai, Rokassa, Sierra Leone, West Africa 

Rokassa is a Muslim village in a remote part of Sierra Leone. EduNations built a Christian school that now has over 300 students attending. In addition to the school, MPC, EduNations, and a few other churches have provided them with:
  • Clean water
  • Latrines
  • A clinic
  • A pastor
  •  A junior and senior secondary school
The EPC hired a young Sierra Leonean Mission Evangelist named Thomas Kargobai to serve the village. Pastor Thomas is married to Mariama and they have a young daughter named Thomasella. Since his hiring, Pastor Thomas has made great inroads into this 100% Muslim village with approximately 80 Muslim converts to date. Each of them has been baptized by Pastor Dean and Pastor Betsy as well as other EPC pastors over these last few years. MPC has "adopted" Rokassa and Pastor Thomas in this exciting unreached area of the world! Contact Pastor Thomas Kargobai

Dave Wilkes, Tutapona, uganda, east Africa 

Samuel Sesay, EduNations, Sierra Leone, West Africa 

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Motivated by compassion for “the least of these,” EduNations gives forgotten children tangible reasons to hope. Together we build and operate schools in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In addition to free Christian-based education in this largely Muslim country, EduNations brings clean water, health care and community development to remote and under resourced areas that are very open to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. With 98 Ebola orphans in our schools, there has never been a more crucial time to change the life of a child. A learning child is a healthy child, so our new partnership with Jericho Road community Health to operate our clinic in the village or Rokassa is a highly strategic relationship that invests in the well-being of an entire chiefdom. Rescuing even one child enriches a whole community, which strengthens a nation. By helping to educate forgotten children today, we create a brighter future for the nations of tomorrow.

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Rwanda

Yohani Kayinamura, PhD., Umuryango Children's Network, Inc., Rwanda

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Umuryango Children’s Network (Umuryango: means “family” in Kinyarwanda) is a non-profit Christian organization. Their mission is to transform the street children commonly known as “Mayibobo” from isolated outcasts into productive, fully integrated members of the community. By placing the street children in family homes where their emotional, spiritual and physical needs are met, and by equipping them with education and marketable skills, we hope to permanently transform these precious children from Rwanda’s Mayibobo into ethical leaders who are physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually whole. Umuryango Director and Founder, Yohani Kayinamura, asks MPC to pray that God will continue to bless the ministry as they devote their lives to saving the lives of the children by and for the glory of Christ Jesus. Contact Umuryango Children’s Network or Visit their Website 

Eurasia Missionaries

India

 Freedom Firm, Leah Henck 

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Freedom Firm, India is dedicated to the liberation of children enslaved in commercial sexual exploitation, their rehabilitation, and to justice against those who have profited from their misery.

Currently, there are an estimated 500,000 minor girls in forced trafficking in India. These girls need counseling and a strong Christian support network to avoid returning to prostitution. Uneducated and often considered ineligible for marriage because of their sexual exploitation, rescued girls are in desperate need of basic education, medical care, and vocational training.

Freedom Firm deploys teams of undercover investigators who identify minor victims. With assistance from Freedom Firm, the police raid the brothels and rescue the girls who are then placed in protective custody or are reunited with their families *(if their families are safe). Freedom Firm works to bring accountability to police and court proceedings as charges are brought against the criminals. Freedom Firm supports the girl as she testifies against her perpetrators. The goal is to send traffickers and brothel keepers to jail, both to pay for their crimes and to act as a deterrent to those who buy and sell children. Freedom Firm walks alongside each victim through the recovery process, providing counselling, medical care, vocational training, and support in a variety of ways, long after rescue. Contact Freedom Firm.  Website, Newsletter Sign-Up Link, Donation Link

Thailand, Pat Premick

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Pat is with Mesa Global and the EPC and has served in China for 11 years then Taiwan for more than 4 years doing discipleship, mentoring, training and coaching with first generation Christians. She is now serving in Thailand to sit around the table to engage in relational ministry with Thai Nationals and the Chinese diaspora to disciple and equip servant leaders with the Church for God’s mission.

Current Prayer Requests
* Transition well into the Thai culture and new country (moved from Taiwan to Thailand Feb. 18 2025)
* Find suitable housing that will enable me to thrive
* My home and table (Mesa) will be a place of respite and peace for all who enter
* My ability and perseverance to learn the Thai language
* Seek God for the direction on what ministry looks like
* Build community with my Mesa Global team and others

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AlongSideAsia, Dave and Cathy Hicks 

Dave and Cathy strengthen, coach, and encourage leaders of 15 indigenous Great Commission ministries and church networks in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Thier passion is that South Asians might increasingly know, love and serve Jesus Christ.

Based in Kentucky and Geogia, the Hicks travel frequently to South Asia. Some of their Indian partners include: Dr. K. and Pramila Rajendran, Freedom Firm, Hindustan Institute of Missions, North Bengal Outreach, Nepal Gospel Centre, and Malda Christian Fellowship. Contact Dave and Cathy Hicks.

Global Consultants and Missionary Care, Pramila Rajendran 

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Pramila Rajendran is a mission partner who is building a Global Movement of Christians innovatively finding ways to share the Gospel in all areas of their societies. Pramila's ministry focuses on missionary care and well-being.

Based in Bangalore, India, Pramila lives at the forefront of worldwide witness for Christ. Contact Pramila Rajendran.  Website

Germany, Luis hurtado

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Luis is a Medical Doctor, Counselor, Discipler, and Pastor. The Hurtado family served in the rural mountains of Mexico for 12 years, working with the Xi’iuy, an Indigenous people group; developing a healthy Xi’iuy Church through creating oral Bible stories, teaching, discipleship & preaching. They recently transitioned into a new ministry calling to minister and witness to Muslims from many nations. 

East Asia

East Asia | Rev. Derek and Holly 

Rev. Derek leads a network of international organizations and churches from 17 different countries, putting together strategies and projects to reach the most persecuted people group in East Asia. Among this people group, they work with underground churches, as well as with the diaspora and migrant workers. He and Holly also lived for 12 years in another large East Asian country, where they helped start hundreds of house churches, including the first churches among a certain previously, unreached people group. Derek has written a book on mission strategy, published through William Carey Library.

Holly serves victims of sex trafficking both locally and in East Asia. She works alongside organizations like Living in Liberty and other churches in the Pittsburgh area, helping victims. Most recently she's been involved with women who have completed the safe-house program and are desperate for creating a new life, through Christ, seeing healing of body, mind, and spirit. Derek and Holly have two daughters.

united world mission - china

This missionary is commissioned by the EPC to serve with United World Mission in unreached areas of China. The ministry goal is to establish self-reproducing churches across China.

Budapest, rev. kevin mason

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Kevin is the Senior Director for Global Programs with visionSynergy (on loan from United World Mission). visionSynergy helps Christian organizations work together for maximum impact by developing and strengthening strategic ministry networks and partnerships in critical areas of world mission. They play a unique role in the worldwide Christian movement as one of the few mission service organizations specifically dedicated to empowering ministry collaboration to accelerate progress of the gospel among the least reached peoples in the world. This means that the result of the relationships and programs he directs, disciple making movements and widespread church planting is taking place in areas where it is needed most. Kevin and his wife, Wendy, have four children: Chelsea, Cameron, Caroline, and Chad. 

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