Worldwide Missions | Lake Spokane Community Church

At Lake Spokane Community Church, we are committed to sharing the Gospel—not only in our own community but also throughout our region, our nation, and the world. We support select ministries in these areas and, whenever possible, send our own members to serve directly.

We prioritize reaching the least-reached, supporting people groups with no established church, and aiding ministries in the greatest need. With limited resources, we strive to invest wisely, evaluating each ministry’s strategic impact in the context of global needs.

Beyond financial support, we seek to ignite a passion for missions within our church. We encourage our members to learn about the work of missionaries, pray for them, and engage with their ministries. We regularly invite guest missionaries to speak, offer encouragement, and assist with special needs. Most importantly, we believe that going and serving firsthand is one of the most powerful ways to cultivate a heart for missions.

Missions will always be a core emphasis at Lake Spokane Community Church because Christ’s command to “Go into all the world…” (Matthew 28:19) remains as urgent today as ever.

Our Missionary Partners

Bob & Ruth Silver

Oasis

Traiskirchen, Austria, Europe

The Oasis is an International Teams refugee ministry center in Traiskirchen Austria. We are a team of international workers with a christian worldview serving refugees from around the world. Our passion is demonstrating the love of God in word and deed and restoring dignity and respect to these people who have endured so much.

Caleb & Kelsey Powers

YWAM

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

We are a YWAM Raleigh Missionary Couple committed to spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the Nations. We focus on discipling the next generation of Christians through the teaching and application of Scripture, evangelism, local Church involvement, outdoor ministries, healthcare, and the cultivation of personal intimacy with Jesus. We moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in the fall of 2023 to help pioneer a new YWAM campus here. We are currently focusing on making connections in the area as well as preparing to run our first Discipleship Training School!

Carol Halm

Action International

Traiskirchen, Austria, Europe

Overflowing with love and gratitude, my heart's desire after embracing the truth of the Gospel at the age of 24 was to devote my life to serving the Lord full-time in some capacity. That desire became a reality 7 years later when I felt the Lord leading me to Austria to be involved in the refugee ministry at the Oasis center. And now 35+ years later, I can say that it's been, and continues to be, my privilege and joy, to share the truth with the refugees whom the Lord brings across our path, many from a Muslim background who have never heard a clear presentation of the Gospel before.

Jay & Tiffany Paulson

Living Springs Ranch Ministry

Deer Park, Washington State, United States

Ministry Directors

We provide restful retreats and lodging for people serving in Christian ministry, with three cabins set on 140 acres of peaceful mountaintop forest near Spokane, Washington. While here, guests create their own schedule, finding space to rest, pray, think, and reconnect with God, their spouse, and their family. Additional resources are available for people in crisis or experiencing burnout.

Jeremy & Bethany Colvin

Choshen Farm

Mansa, Zambia, Africa

The mission of Choshen Farm is to impact rural Zambia for Christ through relational encouragement, community development, and strengthening of the local church. Choshen Farm is lead by Jeremy and Bethany Colvin, where they serve as the chief strategists and visionary leaders of the operation. Jeremy and Bethany are the only non-Zambian’s in the picture, though they blend in more and more as the years go by. In order to accomplish a large quantity of work in a sustainable, culturally relevant, and indigenous manner, Choshen Farm relies largely on the inclusion of local staff and leadership.

Jimmy & Nevey Francisco

Village Missions

Defiance, New Mexico, United States

Pastor

Jimmy and Nevey Francisco joined Village Missions in 2009 and have served in Defiance, NM, since 2011. They pastor a small church in the Navaho Nation, ministering to the rural Navaho people of New Mexico.

John & Asmara Anyan

Ethnos 360

Pahi Kondoa, Tanzania, Africa

We are John and Asmara Anyan. We are missionaries with Ethnos360 and are serving in a village in Tanzania, Southeast Africa, among a least reached people group. We are also parents four beautiful children. Homeschoolers. Book worms. Coffee lovers. And, most importantly, followers of Jesus Christ and adopted children of our Most High God.

Kevin & Lynn Lewis

Village Missions

Four Lakes, Washington, United States

Four Lakes Community Church is a non-denominational church committed to Christ Jesus and guided by the authority of the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God. We exist to exalt the Lord, edify and equip the saints, and evangelize the lost. We are located twelve miles west of Spokane in the beautiful countryside just north of Cheney, Washington. Please feel free to stop by and join us in our worship of the Lord Jesus Christ. Kevin and Lynn first felt called to vocational ministry in 1985. Kevin responded by attending Bible school and became part of a church staff while still in school. Kevin and Lynn have served in many roles within the local church since then. For some time Kevin was senior pastor at a former Village Missions church. He also served with a Christian camping organization. Then he sensed that God wants to use his experience and gifts within a church again. The heart of Village Missions -- to preach the Word and love the people -- is the model Kevin and Lynn desire to employ, and they feel called to serve within a small church. In February 2023, they started serving in Four Lakes, WA.

Loving Hearts Foundation for Africa

Zirobwe, Uganda, Africa

We exist to help reach the next generation with the love of God through providing education, care for basic needs and support to families in Uganda! We are a Christian run school that provides meals for the children who attend, and our desire is to develop a larger school in order to provide education for children.

Shawn & Christena Werdebaugh

Mesa Global

Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe

Youth and Church Development

Shawn and Christena Werdebaugh serve as missionaries in Slovenia, following a clear calling God first placed on Shawn’s heart in 2001. They have a deep burden to see this nation transformed by the gospel, where fewer than one percent know Jesus as their personal Savior. In December of 2001, Shawn clearly sensed God say, “You’re going to Slovenia.” Two years later, Shawn married Christena, and in the early months of their marriage they miraculously connected with missionaries already serving in Slovenia—further confirming God’s call. Eleven years after that initial calling, Shawn and Christena moved to Slovenia with their four children in 2012. They began their ministry in Kočevje, where they served for seven years before God led them to relocate near the capital city of Ljubljana, where they now serve. The Werdebaughs are passionate about seeing people come to know Jesus personally and helping believers grow in maturity and knowledge of the Lord. Their heart is to see lives transformed and communities reached as God’s Word and light spread throughout Slovenia.

Village Missions

Dallas, Oregon, United States

Rural Church Planting

Village Missions is committed to helping country churches not only survive, but thrive. Since 1948, we have been helping country churches thrive all across North America. We place pastors in rural churches and help those churches get back on their feet. We care about the country church and are working to keep the church a vibrant and vital presence in more than 200 rural communities throughout North America. We're here when crisis hits, when the community is searching for somewhere to turn for answers.