Dr. Alan Foster serves with MNA as Church Planting Director. Alan and his wife Kim planted and pastored East Lanier Community Church in Buford, GA. for 12 years. They have a heart for church planting and understand the unique calling and the special gifting needed for this ministry. Alan and Kim are dear friends of ours here at Grace Community Church.
Russell and Amanda Jeffares have been in full time ministry for over 20 years including youth and young adult ministries, pastoral ministry and church planting. This all has led them now to full time church planting ministry in Dublin with Grace for Ireland.
Candace Lane founded this ministry after she and her husband returned to Georgia after serving as missionaries in Brazil with Campus Outreach Ministries. Coaches Wives Ministry was started, providing discipleship opportunities as well as resources for support and encouragement to coaches’ wives who understand that “The coach is the heart of the game. His wife is the heartbeat”.
Bill and Mae Lee Letchworth serve in a remote island community in Northern Ontario, the Moose Cree Native Reserve. Their ministry is multifaceted providing teaching, counseling, love and hospitality to a people they have grown to love, who are hopeless apart from the work of God in their lives. The need is great, especially for the children and youth.
Church Multiplication Ministries (CMM) is a church vitality ministry directed to church leaders, helping them thrive in their mission to multiply the gospel in their spheres of influence. CMM serves church and ministry leaders in the United States, Cuba, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Tom Wood, founder and president, his wife Rachel and daughter Annie worship with us at Grace Community Church.
Jesse and Yelena work with Wycliff Bible Translators in Southeast Asia. The government is fiercely opposed to any evangelism, so their work remains very sensitive. Yelena teaches English. Together they are developing a Bible Translation for this unreached people being careful not to raise concern regarding their work
Justin & Hannah, with Ripe for the Harvest Ministries, serve a local deaf community in the Middle East. Justin and Hannah are developing resources for learning for this most vulnerable, unreached group, all for the gospel of Christ.
Obria Medical Clinics have been serving Gwinnett and surrounding communities since 1991. Obria provides a safe haven for women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy including pregnancy verification testing, pre-natal and post-partum care. Truth and the love of Jesus changes the course of life for many women and their unborn who enter the doors of Obria Medical Clinics.
Lightway Recovery is a local, Christ centered residential program for women who have been impacted by addiction. Susan Barge is the founder. Grace Community Church has the privilege of being one of the local churches where these ladies come for Sunday worship.