International Missions

Carlos Gomez was born in 1947 in Madrid, Spain. He was converted to faith in Jesus Christ at the age of 17 through the Christian testimony of his mother. Having sensed a call to the gospel ministry soon after his conversion, Carlos completed a 3 year course of Biblical studies in Great Britain. For the past 40 years he has served in Spain as a pastor, evangelist, and 34 years being a church planter.

Carlos is a very gifted man and has been used greatly by the Lord. Being Spanish, he obviously knows the Spanish mind and culture very well. Serving with a mission organization in the States, having studied in England, and being married to Yolanda, daughter of American missionaries who served in Cuba and Spain, qualifies him to minister the gospel in many cross-cultural situations.

A large part of Carlos’ time and efforts are spent serving as president of Spain’s Conference of Evangelists (C.E.E.), a member of the executive committee of A.M.E. (Associacion de Missiones Extranjeras), and professor at SEFOVAN in Madrid and another Bible School in Leon. He is also a frequently requested conference, seminar, and retreat speaker, and is actively involved with a variety of other ministry projects. In the past 34 years, he along with his family has started 6 churches in the Madrid area and 1 in Cantabria (a northern region in Spain). Carlos has mentored a number of “Timothies” and through them 16 new Churches have been born throughout Spain (not counting the 7 mentioned before). Presently, Carlos and Yolanda are working on the 7th Church in a city near Madrid called Las Rozas. As he has said many times, “Church planting is where my heart is!” Not only is his heart there, but the majority of his energies are there as well.

Carlos and Yolanda have 2 precious daughters who actively have been involved in the ministry as well. Esther, their oldest, is married to Fernando and they have a son Marcos (born on May 19, 2000), twins Alex and Carlota (born on April 2, 2005) and Alvaro (born on April 29, 2008). Their younger daughter, Hadassah attends College in the States and is in her 3rd year.

Carlos and Yolanda Gomez
Apartado de Correos 36
28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

Mission Statement
We at Equip embrace an understanding of the Scriptures which clearly recognizes that the response of the believer to human need is an integral part of the Gospel. The love of Christ in us and through us must be demonstrated as well as heard in our preaching.
Our mission, therefore, is to prepare, send and support evangelical missionaries to assist the church around the world to be:
• responsive to the poor
• sensitive to the Holy Spirit,
• focused on personal evangelism,
• practically engaged in strengthening the Body of Christ.

Equip, Inc.
P.O. Box 1126
Marion, NC 28752 U.S.A.

See what short term mission our Presbytery of the Alleghenies is involved in, and how you can be a part.

After serving with Campus Crusade for Christ in Japan, the Burrows family came back to the U. S. to work with CCC’s FamilyLife division. They currently live in Little Rock, AR, home of FamilyLife Ministries. The Presbyterian Church of Portersville has a long time friendship with the Burrows, since Judy worked with CCC at SRU and attended this church during Vern Holstad’s ministry.

Our Roots – Providing the Blueprints for Marriage
The roots of FamilyLife go back as far as 1951, with the beginning of Campus Crusade for Christ. Its founders, Bill and Vonette Bright, had a great desire to help fulfill Christ’s Great Commission — taking the gospel to every nation. Starting on one college campus with one couple, Campus Crusade has grown into a multifaceted ministry with tens of thousands of full-time and associate staff serving in more than 150 countries.

In 1976, Campus Crusade began Family Ministry to provide pre-marriage seminars for its staff members. Following our success in meeting the needs of pre-marrieds, married staff couples began asking for encouragement through marriage seminars. Community leaders and pastors soon found out about the seminars and said they were exactly what couples needed — the blueprints on how to build strong homes. Family Ministry, now called FamilyLife, opened the FamilyLife Marriage Conference to the public in 1978.

This year more than 100 FamilyLife Marriage Conferences will be held in almost every major city in America. These weekend conferences will offer hope to tens of thousands of marriages.

www.familylife.com

The Gideons International is the result of a meeting between two men who wished to band commercial travelers together for evangelism. What began in 1908 as an Association of Christian businessmen placing Bibles in hotel rooms has evolved into an expanding mission to provide Scriptures to all people in nearly every facet of life. Today, we have taken more than 2 billion Scriptures in more than 95 languages to 200 countries, territories, and possessions across the globe.

For more information visit the Gideons International website.

Daniel and Shelly Young have served with the Latin America Mission (LAM) for over 20 years. Daniel and Shelly are starting a new work in the Southern Baja Province through LAM in La Paz, Mexico.

Daniel and Shelly met in Costa Rica, where they later married, and where three of their five children were born. Their two youngest children were born in Mexico. Shelly, born in Boston and later raised in Costa Rica as a missionary kid, graduated from Gordon College with a degree in teaching. Daniel is from Southern California, graduate from California State University, Long Beach in Construction Management. Daniel went to Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary for a Masters of Arts in Theological Studies emphasizing in Missions and Evangelism. It was during the Young’s time in Massachusetts that Daniel and Shelly became friends with Dana and Marg Opp.

Daniel & Shelly Young
Calle Califia #3060
Entre Sonora y Veracruz
Col. Pueblo Nuevo
La Paz, B.C.S. C.P. 23060
1(858)605-1476

danyoung@LatinAmericaMission.org

Barry was raised in a Christian family who attended an independent Baptist church. At an early age he remembers accepting the Lord after the children’s service. Suzzanne was not raised in a Christian family but thanks God for how He came to her family through a childhood friend and some of Barry’s family members. They both met at 11 years of age and began writing letters to each other from that first meeting and thus a romance began.

After completing high school and two years of college for Barry, they got married in 1983. They then obeyed God’s call to pursue full time ministry, getting ministry training at Moody Bible Institute. They began to become involved in the ministry of Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL International. In September of 1994 they went to serve Wycliffe in the city of Nairobi.
After adopting Kaitlyn and Molly in Butler the Nichols now live at Wycliffe’s JAARS Center in North Carolina.
The History of Wycliffe Bible Translators
Wycliffe was founded in 1942 by William Cameron Townsend. A missionary to the Cakchiquel Indians of Guatemala, Townsend had caught the vision for translation when a Cakchiquel man challenged him: “If your God is so great, why doesn’t He speak in my language?”

Townsend resolved that everyone should be able to read God’s Word in their own language. Borrowing the name of the Reformation hero, John Wycliffe, Townsend founded “Camp Wycliffe” in 1934 as a linguistics training school. By 1942, “Camp Wycliffe” had grown into two sister organizations, Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Today, the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Wycliffe Bible Translators work together to translate Scripture, train field personnel in linguistics and promote interest in translation.
Wycliffe Bible Translators

www.wycliffe.org