October 22, 2026
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Independent Christian ChurchWorld Gospel OutreachWorld Gospel Outreach serves children and communities in Honduras and Belize through Rancho Ebenezer, serve teams,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
World Gospel Outreach
World Gospel Outreach — Organization Profile World Gospel Outreach is a Christian mission organization focused on serving and evangelizing children and the poor. Its stated vision is “Impacting the faith of Christ followers through serving and evangelizing children and the…
World Gospel Outreach — Organization Profile World Gospel Outreach is a Christian mission organization focused on serving and evangelizing children and the poor. Its stated vision is “Impacting the faith of Christ followers through serving and evangelizing children and the poor.” WGO describes its work as rooted in biblical mandates to care for the poor, share the gospel of Jesus Christ, and meet the needs of others in accountable Christian service. The ministry serves in Honduras and Belize, with a U.S. office in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and ministry headquarters at Casa de Esperanza in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. World Gospel Outreach began ministry in Honduras before expanding into Belize in 2014. Its work brings North American volunteers together with Honduran and Belizean…
World Gospel Outreach — Organization Profile
World Gospel Outreach is a Christian mission organization focused on serving and evangelizing children and the poor. Its stated vision is “Impacting the faith of Christ followers through serving and evangelizing children and the poor.” WGO describes its work as rooted in biblical mandates to care for the poor, share the gospel of Jesus Christ, and meet the needs of others in accountable Christian service.
The ministry serves in Honduras and Belize, with a U.S. office in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and ministry headquarters at Casa de Esperanza in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. World Gospel Outreach began ministry in Honduras before expanding into Belize in 2014. Its work brings North American volunteers together with Honduran and Belizean staff, missionaries, local churches, and ministry partners.
WGO operates through several ministry areas, including Rancho Ebenezer, Tegucigalpa Serve Teams, Belize Serve Teams, Relief and Development, and WGO Kids child sponsorship. Rancho Ebenezer is a family-based children’s community in the mountains near Tegucigalpa for at-risk Honduran children. The ministry provides safe homes, education, counseling, Christian mentorship, vocational development, and preparation for independent adulthood.
Through its Tegucigalpa and Belize serve-team ministries, WGO works with local churches and communities to meet practical needs while sharing the gospel. Teams may participate in medical, dental, and optical care, water-filter installation, concrete floors, home and church projects, food distribution, Vacation Bible School, children’s ministry, relational discipleship, and evangelism. In Honduras, WGO describes long-term relationships with local evangelical churches that host serve teams and help facilitate outreach in their communities.
The organization’s Relief and Development ministry strengthens local churches by helping meet physical and spiritual needs in Central America. Relief work includes clean water, shelter, medical outreach, food distribution, and church-related construction. Development work includes pastoral training and support, small-business development, microfinance, biblical entrepreneurship courses, and vocational-skills training intended to help participants grow spiritually and move toward greater stability.
People can engage with World Gospel Outreach by joining a serve trip, sponsoring a child through WGO Kids, giving to ministry projects, supporting a specific missionary, participating in church partnerships, joining the newsletter, praying for the work, or supporting the WGO Coffee Club connected to Rancho Ebenezer. WGO also lists career opportunities and service roles for people interested in longer-term ministry involvement in Honduras, Belize, or stateside support.
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Independent Christian ChurchRescued Not ArrestedRescued Not Arrested is a Phoenix-based Christian prison ministry serving incarcerated people and families through Bible…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Rescued Not Arrested
Rescued Not Arrested — Organization Profile Rescued Not Arrested is a 501(c)(3) Christian nonprofit prison ministry that exists to reach incarcerated people and their loved ones with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Great Commission. The ministry serves youth…
Rescued Not Arrested — Organization Profile Rescued Not Arrested is a 501(c)(3) Christian nonprofit prison ministry that exists to reach incarcerated people and their loved ones with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Great Commission. The ministry serves youth and adults in jails, prisons, correctional facilities, and re-entry settings through Bible distribution, evangelistic outreach, testimony, chaplain support, and volunteer service. The organization is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and serves incarcerated people and families across Arizona, the United States, and international ministry locations. Its public materials describe work with county jail facilities, the Arizona State Juvenile Correctional Department, chaplains nationwide, and mission outreach connected to countries including Belize, China, Costa Rica, Kenya, Kerala India, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, and Zimbabwe. Rescued…
Rescued Not Arrested — Organization Profile
Rescued Not Arrested is a 501(c)(3) Christian nonprofit prison ministry that exists to reach incarcerated people and their loved ones with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Great Commission. The ministry serves youth and adults in jails, prisons, correctional facilities, and re-entry settings through Bible distribution, evangelistic outreach, testimony, chaplain support, and volunteer service.
The organization is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and serves incarcerated people and families across Arizona, the United States, and international ministry locations. Its public materials describe work with county jail facilities, the Arizona State Juvenile Correctional Department, chaplains nationwide, and mission outreach connected to countries including Belize, China, Costa Rica, Kenya, Kerala India, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, and Zimbabwe.
Rescued Not Arrested’s ministry began from the story of founder Roger Munchian, who developed a passion for outreach to people in jail and prison after his own experience of incarceration and spiritual transformation. The organization’s message emphasizes that people can be “rescued” through Christ rather than defined by arrest, conviction, or incarceration. Its work is aimed at both the incarcerated and the loved ones who carry fear, grief, and uncertainty outside prison walls.
A central part of the ministry is providing English and Spanish NIV Bibles and NIV Life Application Study Bibles to inmates and chaplains free of charge. Rescued Not Arrested states that it provides Bibles upon request from inmates and chaplains nationwide, with Life Application Study Bibles connected to completion of a nine-lesson correspondence Bible study through American Bible Academy. The ministry also provides Bibles to jail and juvenile correctional settings and has supplied chaplains with large quantities of Scripture resources.
Rescued Not Arrested also serves through re-entry support, facility outreach, baptisms, testimony sharing, volunteer service, and practical care. Its re-entry program is connected with Arizona 2nd Chance programs in state, federal, and county facilities, providing resources for inmates preparing for release. The ministry also notes that it provides prescription eyeglasses and eye exams for inmates needing vision screening.
People can engage with Rescued Not Arrested by donating, volunteering, supporting Bible distribution, serving through approved prison outreach opportunities, participating in ministry events, praying for incarcerated people and families, or contacting the ministry about chaplain requests and service opportunities. Its distinct contribution is a Gospel-centered prison ministry that combines Scripture distribution, correctional facility outreach, re-entry support, testimony, international missions, and practical care for incarcerated people and their loved ones.
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Independent Christian ChurchMission JourneysMission Journeys helps churches and individuals fulfill the Great Commission through mission trips, Global Bible School,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Mission Journeys
Mission Journeys — Organization Profile Mission Journeys is a Christian mission organization based in Lexington, Kentucky. The ministry describes itself as a mission and ministry of non-denominational Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, with the public theme “Living Out the…
Mission Journeys — Organization Profile Mission Journeys is a Christian mission organization based in Lexington, Kentucky. The ministry describes itself as a mission and ministry of non-denominational Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, with the public theme “Living Out the Great Commission.” Its work includes mission trips, Bible training, long-term missionary support, Appalachian outreach, and leadership development. The organization’s core focus is helping churches and individuals fulfill the Great Commission through evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, mission trips, and support for local, regional, and international mission work. Mission Journeys states that it exists to direct people to Jesus as Lord and Savior, assist churches with leadership and strategic planning, give Christians a heart for missions and the lost, coordinate mission trips…
Mission Journeys — Organization Profile
Mission Journeys is a Christian mission organization based in Lexington, Kentucky. The ministry describes itself as a mission and ministry of non-denominational Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, with the public theme “Living Out the Great Commission.” Its work includes mission trips, Bible training, long-term missionary support, Appalachian outreach, and leadership development.
The organization’s core focus is helping churches and individuals fulfill the Great Commission through evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, mission trips, and support for local, regional, and international mission work. Mission Journeys states that it exists to direct people to Jesus as Lord and Savior, assist churches with leadership and strategic planning, give Christians a heart for missions and the lost, coordinate mission trips and projects, and support mission work.
Mission Journeys serves from Lexington, Kentucky, with ongoing ministry efforts in Appalachia and Eastern Kentucky. The organization also has full-time missionaries serving in Belize, Central America, and its Global Bible School outreach is active in the Philippines, Kenya, Guyana, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Pakistan. Its website also highlights work in Guyana, Tanzania, Leyte in the Philippines, and Islamabad, Pakistan.
The ministry began through Teen Mission, USA, which was founded in 1970. Mission Journeys was born after a mission trip to Haiti in 1985 and later became the ministry’s primary working name in 2010. Over time, its short-term teams have helped start congregations, build church buildings, repair children’s homes, schools, and homes for the elderly, assist disaster recovery, preach, teach, baptize, strengthen new Christians, and encourage missionaries.
A distinctive part of Mission Journeys’ current work is combining short-term mission trips with longer-term Bible training and full-time ministry partnerships. Its Global Bible School began in 2005 and has become a major priority, training church leaders and providing Bible study opportunities in multiple countries. The Barnabas Project, launched in 2010, supports year-round ministry in Belize, including work among disadvantaged people and at-risk children from a ministry center near Belmopan.
People can engage with Mission Journeys by giving, praying, joining mission trips, supporting Global Bible School, helping the Appalachian Christmas Project, or contacting the ministry about service opportunities. Current trip opportunities include Eastern Kentucky, Belize, and Guyana, with work such as home repairs, needed distributions, VBS, worship, witnessing, cross-cultural evangelism, discipleship, church planting support, medical clinics, and youth, music, or sports camps.
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Independent Christian ChurchLa Palabra de CristoLa Palabra de Cristo publishes Spanish Christian books and theological resources for discipleship, Bible study, and…Independent Christian Church · Missions
La Palabra de Cristo
La Palabra de Cristo — Organization Profile La Palabra de Cristo, also identified in English as The Word of Christ, is a Christian publishing ministry based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The ministry publishes Christian books in Spanish to equip Spanish-speaking Christians…
La Palabra de Cristo — Organization Profile La Palabra de Cristo, also identified in English as The Word of Christ, is a Christian publishing ministry based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The ministry publishes Christian books in Spanish to equip Spanish-speaking Christians for discipleship and leadership in the church. Its work grew from a mission trip to Colombia, where leaders saw the need for solid theological resources for churches in Colombia and other Spanish-speaking countries. The organization’s core focus is producing and distributing Christ-centered theological resources in Spanish for discipleship, Bible study, and church leadership development. La Palabra de Cristo states that its mission is to equip Spanish-speaking Christians for discipleship and for leadership in the church. Its published materials include Spanish-language…
La Palabra de Cristo — Organization Profile
La Palabra de Cristo, also identified in English as The Word of Christ, is a Christian publishing ministry based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The ministry publishes Christian books in Spanish to equip Spanish-speaking Christians for discipleship and leadership in the church. Its work grew from a mission trip to Colombia, where leaders saw the need for solid theological resources for churches in Colombia and other Spanish-speaking countries.
The organization’s core focus is producing and distributing Christ-centered theological resources in Spanish for discipleship, Bible study, and church leadership development. La Palabra de Cristo states that its mission is to equip Spanish-speaking Christians for discipleship and for leadership in the church. Its published materials include Spanish-language books related to Christian leadership, Bible studies, theology, and dual-language resources.
La Palabra de Cristo serves Spanish-speaking Christians in Latin America and the Hispanic world, with direct ministry visits publicly identified in Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Belize. The ministry’s purpose is not limited to publishing books; it also visits mission works to share the books and encourage Spanish-speaking believers in person. Its website describes a desire to help churches across Latin America grow in understanding Scripture and proclaim the gospel with clarity and conviction.
The ministry operates through book publishing, translation, adaptation, distribution, and mission-work visits. Its listed books include titles such as Dios Altísimo, Fuerza para la victoria, Los fundamentos de la fe, Ser tan bueno no es tan bueno, La fe enfrente al mundo, and Cómo prepararse para ser líder efectivo en la congregación. The leadership book was translated from Sam Stone’s How to Be an Effective Church Leader and adapted to Hispanic culture by veteran missionary Dale Meade.
A distinctive part of La Palabra de Cristo’s work is making doctrinally grounded Christian resources available in Spanish for churches and leaders who need accessible theological materials. The ministry’s authors include Jack Cottrell, Dale Roberto Meade, Thomas Friskney, Orrin Root, and Sam E. Stone. Through these resources, La Palabra de Cristo supports Bible teaching, discipleship, leadership preparation, and theological formation for Spanish-speaking believers.
People can engage with La Palabra de Cristo by purchasing books, contacting the ministry, sharing its resources with Spanish-speaking churches and mission works, or supporting the distribution of Spanish Christian literature. Churches, missionaries, and ministry leaders working in Hispanic contexts can use the ministry’s materials for discipleship, leadership training, Bible study, and strengthening congregations.
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