Missions
Spreading the Gospel through support of national and international programs is of utmost importance to us at LFBC.
Tim & Jenna Reed - Brazil
The Reeds have been serving in Porto Velho since March of 2023 where Tim is part of the team as a pilot/mechanic in partnership with Asas de Socorro. Jenna will be homeschooling a missionary child starting in August 2024 and daily teaches her son, Benjamin. Tim and Jenna feel privileged to be part of the aviation team and serve unreached and remote people groups in the Amazon Rainforest. The Reeds can be supported through Wycliffe, at https://wycliffe.org/partner/handinhand.
Jonathan & Kathryn Lewis - Charlotte, NC
The Lewis family works with first generation immigrant children who find themselves caught between cultures and without much (if any) spiritual guidance and discipleship in secular American spaces. The Lewises open up their home to help meet these needs of refugee children and families in Charlotte. In a regular week, they interact with Chin-Burmese, Nepali, Congolese, Afghan, and Hispanic background immigrant and refugees. Jonathan is currently employed by a local Chinese church that is pursuing this demographic in Charlotte as their church’s primary vision. They share the Gospel regularly with people in our city who don’t know Jesus, and also provide discipleship for immigrant and refugee youth who do know the Lord but who aren’t receiving guidance in what the Christian life looks like.
Jacob & Karen Hall - Southeast Asia
Jacob and Karen Hall have served with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Southeast Asia for nineteen years. For almost a decade they worked among the Lo'am people, cooperating with local believers to produce a Scripture translation as well as other materials in the Lo'am language. In 2017 their visa would no longer allow them to continue this work, although they keep in close contact with members of the Bible Translation team and support them as they can. Jacob is a Scripture Engagement Consultant for translation teams in their region of the country. In this role he works with them to incorporate strategies to help the people in the cultures in which they live to engage with the translated Scriptures in ways that will allow them to understand the truth of the gospel. For the Halls to have a visa to live in their country of service, Jacob teaches at an international school. Karen serves in a variety of roles in the arenas of music, finance, and administration. She is also a member of the Third Culture Kid Advocacy Team, which seeks to provide knowledge and tools to families living overseas on issues related to growing up among different cultures.
Their children are Isabelle (21), Ezra (18), Levi (16), and Shem (13).
Their children are Isabelle (21), Ezra (18), Levi (16), and Shem (13).
Alex Ivanchuk - Ludz, Poland
Pastor Alex moved from America to Ukraine only three months before the war started. After the war began, he moved his family to Warsaw, Poland. There, he helped run a hotel that temporarily housed Ukrainian refugees. Afterwards, he started a ministry called Cornerstone Academy which helped provide jobs and language lessons for refugees. He is now in Lodz, Poland where he pastors Alfa Bible Church, a small church plant for Russian speaking residents in Poland. Alex is hoping to find the church its own permanent location, and they continue to have financial needs. But more than anything, Alex asks that we pray for genuine repentance in unbelievers, unity in the church, and continued discipleship.
Jonathan & Andreea Deseno - France
The DeSenos are members of Living Faith Baptist Church, living and are serving in Nantes, France. Jonathan and Andreea, along with their five children, are part of a local French church, preach for an English Church plant, and help with an equipping weekly Bible study program. They are also actively involved in discipleship and evangelism. France is a country in need of the Gospel, in as there are very few Christians, and the church that does exist is very compromised. There are many immigrants from all over the world in France who need to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Little Lambs Orphanage (Joshva & Esther Karem) - Andhra Pradesh, India
The Little Lambs Orphanage, in Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India was started in 2000 by Joshva Karem and Esther Karem. They started the orphanage with the goal of taking many of the abandoned children in their town and providing them with food, clothing, shelter, education, and most importantly, the Gospel message. Vizianagaram is a very poor area in southern India, located on the southeast coast of the country. May the name of Jesus be glorified in the ministry of the Karem family to these children, and may the Lord bless them for the work that they are doing in sharing the Gospel to those who would otherwise have no hope. Esther takes care of the children during the day; preparing the meals for them and taking them to school. She takes part of the day after school to teach them bible lessons. Joshva and his father take turns staying with the children at night. The Orphanage is currently housing 39 children, which is the maximum that they can support with the current space and funding they have.
Michael & Lindie Wadham - Lynden, Washington
Our mission is a cross-cultural native American ministry that seeks to build bridges cross culturally from a Christian reformed covenantal worldview into the spiritual cosmology of the indigenous tribes of America - namely, the Lummi & Nooksack of the Pacific North West, and the Tohono O’odham and Gila River nation of the South West. The end goal is to develop and disciple native leadership to plant churches amongst their tribal nations.