A celebration of ministry progress from the past year

Missionary Launches

Missionaries who completed their support-raising and launched into their first term of service.

Career Missionary Launches

Obed and Lacy Berasngar (Chad)

Jared and Jessica Raines (Missionary Acres)

Sarah Weidner (Romania)

A Creative Access Nations missionary

Short Term

Makenzie Speas (Campus Bible Fellowship

Church Launches

New churches started by missionaries or missionaries partnering with nationals. 

Dalgety Bay (Scotland), United Kingdom

Forthside Christian Fellowship

Church Planters: Trevor & Amelia Galbraith, Timothy & Autumn Galbraith

Aix-en-Provence, France

Église Évangélique Baptiste d’Aix en Provence

Church Planters: Jonathan & Priscilla Laase

Church Graduations

Churches that reached self-supporting status and were turned over to national leadership. 

Charlesbourg, Quebec, Canada

Église Baptiste de Charlesbourg (Baptist Church of Charlesbourg)

Church Planters: Simon & Elise Ouellette

National pastor and wife: The Ouellettes will continue to serve in the same capacity.

Morden, Manitoba, Canada

Ambassador Baptist Church

Church Planters: Church started by Pastor Lyle & Helen Neufeld in 2000. Church revitalization missionaries Terry and Jane Carruthers took over leadership in 2020.

National pastor and wife: The Carruthers will continue to serve in the same capacity.

Havant (England), United Kingdom

Bethel Evangelical Church

Church Planters: Glen and Tammy Galbraith