Global Missions Partners

African Bible College (ABC) was founded in the late 1970s and, today, is training leaders for the African church in three countries: Liberia, Malawi and Uganda. The Malawi campus offers degrees in Biblical studies, education, communication, community development and business administration. In addition, ABC Malawi has a Christian radio station, a hospital and an academy that goes through the 12th grade.  Larry Brown has been with ABC, Malawi, since February 1993 and is now the Acting Head of the Biblical Studies Department.

MacGregor and Ashley offer rest, coaching, spiritual direction, and debriefing to missionaries, pastors, and other Gospel workers at Tributary Retreat Center and around the world through Field Life. Their ministry helps workers remember their calling and remain emotionally, spiritually, and physically healthy, allowing them to be more effective. Thanks to the support of generous partners, they provide all their hosting and Soul Care services free of charge, so finances never prevent Gospel workers from receiving the rest and care they need. They are excited to be empowered by this congregation’s support and prayers to serve God in this way. 

Bethany Centre is a Christian ministry established by Ugandan native Peter Kiwanuka who attended LSU and regularly attended worship at First Presbyterian Church. After returning to Uganda in 2004, he mobilized community members to establish Bethany Centre which is now a thriving primary and high school with attendance of over 750 children with a Sunday worship service. The school is a refuge for vulnerable children providing education, food, clothing, and health screenings.  The campus includes the primary school, a high school building, a boy’s dormitory, a girl’s dormitory, and 2 houses for teachers.   

School expenses are provided by financial donations from individuals and other partners including First Presbyterian Church who has also given to this needy community through capital grants on several essential projects that have improved their quality of life.

EduNations is a nonprofit organization that builds and operates Christian-based schools in Sierra Leone that are devoted to providing free, quality education to children who otherwise would not receive one. It operates 15 schools in 6 villages and serves roughly 3700 students. Each village includes an Evangelical Presbyterian Church formed as a result of the Christian-based education at the schools. 

Last year, the six EPC Sierra Leone churches planted 22 additional churches in surrounding villages. Of the 380 students in the Senior Secondary School that have come from the entirely Muslim community, 264 have made public professions of faith in Jesus Christ. 

Brian and Heather Marx are missionaries with Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) serving in Indonesia. As a missionary pilot, Brian flies in support of missions and church work including transport and supply for dozens of church planters and Bible translators in remote villages and supporting Lentera Papua Harapan, a growing ministry focused on education and healthcare for isolated peoples. Each flight brings hope, help, and healing to the isolated tribes of Papua. Brian also manages the MAF construction team who are currently building six new homes for the growing MAF team. Heather manages the MAF guesthouse that hosts missionaries and local believers.

The International Friendship Partners (IFP) team is a friendship-building initiative to match internationals with members of First Presbyterian church. It’s a one-year commitment with the hope that members will continue building trust and friendship with their IFP. Partners will meet at least once a month and maintain weekly contact with their IFP and will be asked to complete training materials before being matched.  

The IFP leadership team promises to come alongside, encourage and give partners whatever support they need as they engage in building a friendship with an international. 

In 2013, God gave Brian and Katherine a vision to create Global Transformation Ministries (GTM) to connect influential individuals with a passion to help reach and serve the “least of these” within their communities. In 2014, GTM planted their first church in Medellin. In 2016, they started a university in Medellin, followed by a crisis pregnancy home (Esther’s House) for street girls within the city.

Through it’s church plant, GTM reaches out to emerging leaders through a vibrant university ministry dedicated to training Christian leaders. These leaders, in return, reach out to the impoverished in their own communities. By doing so, Christ is making a complete transformation beginning in local communities and expanding throughout the nation. 

Mike and Stephanie Kuhn lived for a total of 28 years in countries around the Mediterranean. They have been involved in discipleship and leadership development in Muslim majority areas.  

Mike is the director of the EPC’s ITEN—the International Theological Education Network (See itenglobal.org). ITEN partners with indigenous movements to develop leaders for new churches and church-plants among people groups with little access to the gospel or where it is misunderstood.  

ITEN’s current training sites include Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Nepal and Eastern Europe. ITEN trainees are taking the gospel to people and places that were not accessible including Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and animist people groups.