Supported Missionaries
We support the Great Commission through our missionaries across the globe, and there are several ways each of us can get involved with their Kingdom Building Work. Here are a few ideas:
PRAY for them and the work they do for the Lord.
SIGN UP for their newsletters, so you can stay updated on their current
GIVE to their mission work directly.*
*Church of the Cross dedications a portion of its regular offering to our supported missionaries. However, if you would like to give directly to one of these missionaries, you’re very welcome to do so!
If you have questions about our missionaries, you’re welcome to reach out to Joel Bascom at missions@ofthecross.org. Otherwise, you can directly contact each missionary through their respective email.
Alex & Abby Dalton
The Daltons serve through YWAM in Paris, France.
Their ministry consists of reaching out to diverse neighborhoods filled with immigrants and refugees. They teach English, run feeding programs, and there’s opportunity for them to help pioneer ministries that revolve around worship and families at risk.
Alyssa and Thang Lai
The Lai Family partners with a ministry organization to serve the people in Vietnam. They enjoy spending time with the “Imago Work” ministry for Vietnamese with intellectual disabilities.
Andrew
Andrew works with One Collective in Athens, Greece.
Specifically, Andrew serves within a Greek organization, Nea Zoi. Their team in Athens helps the marginalized and oppressed through outreaches and programs that serve those experiencing homelessness and poverty, as well as those affected by sex trafficking and prostitution.
Email Deacon Joel to contact Andrew.
Blair & Elizabeth Carlson
Through GoodWORD Partnership, the Carlsons help believers and local churches spread the Good News of Jesus internationally. To do this, they help pastors and evangelists around the world understand and practice evangelism. Their ministry uses an adaptive process of consulting, training, and mentoring, so that people will respond to the message of Jesus and that movements of evangelism will multiply in every region of the world.
Joel & Gerri Warne
The Warnes co-founded WellSpring Life Resources to create transforming retreats, workshops, and counseling resources for spiritual leaders and laypeople. Joel has written and published spiritual formation curricula used across the country, and Gerri is passionate about helping individuals grow, heal, and be released into their God-given potential.
Molly Ruch
Our very own Molly Ruch partners with Always Forward and the ACNA to support churches and new church starts through coaching and training.
Ron & Bonny Thiesen
The Thiesens serve at the International Christian School (ICSB) in Budapest and also with YWAM. They do all kinds of work in the local community, with the youth, and serving refugees.
Samuel and Nicu Grigore
Nicu and Samuel Grigore are serving in Romania with Cru Romania.
Together, they are involved in running camps, VBS, and the work of evangelism in their home country and bordering countries. They are hard at work, helping with the relief efforts in Ukraine.
Steve & Jodi Swanson
The Swansons serve in Tanzania to provide medical aid for newborns.
Steve’s daily work focuses on training Tanzanian physicians and nurses, both in neonatology and hospital pediatrics, along with seeing critically ill and preterm newborn babies, hospitalized children, infectious disease consults (children and adults), and clinic patients. Jodi partners with Steve to develop a program for the care and treatment of severely malnourished children. By working with the families, they seek to understand the reasons that the child has come to be malnourished so they might address it from all angles.
Toni & Vesna Georgiev
The Georgievs serve in Macedonia with a vision for church planting.
Toni and Vesna currently work in village Gradsko Baldovci, which is located in North Macedonia. There, their work includes: hosting home Bible study groups and prayer meetings, sharing the Gospel in spiritually blind areas, delivering clothes to poor communities, and helping the locals however they can serve them best.