Summer GO Teams
Application Open for 2024. APPLY TODAY! (Estonia Team is Full)
Global Outreach trips are incredible opportunities to see God work in you and through you to reach people with the Gospel. We pray that you would consider where God will have you serve this year - and deepen the relationship with our Global partners and their ministry. Our teams go out trained and prepared. We help you all along the way from your support development (raising funds), to travel & spiritual preparation, & making the most of the experience.
Estonia 🇪🇪 (TEAM IS FULL)
July 16-30, 2024
$2,900.00
Mexico 🇲🇽
July 27 - August 4, 2024
$1,450.00
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Our Global FOCUS
As of Summer of 2022, we have completed our first Global Missions Focus for Arise. Our FOCUS was a concentrated effort to assist our missionary in Estonia, Beth Ann Erickson, in the launching of the ”Foundations for the Next Generation” project. Our church walked alongside Beth Ann in the development and implementation of this project beginning in 2019. This project expands the opportunities for gospel impact among young people in Estonia by providing a location for relationally based evangelism and discipleship. The Refuge Apartment is fully equipped, staffed, and functioning on a daily basis hosting various ministry groups, events, and even interns throughout the year. You can read more about our completed FOCUS Partnership goals HERE.
While we partner with many local and international cross-cultural opportunities, Arise Church Denver elevates one FOCUS project for intensive engagement. What’s our next FOCUS? Stay Tuned…More to come!
Global Outreach Partnerships
Arise Church Denver seeks to bring the transforming power of Jesus to the world-. We desire to support missionaries and maintain genuine relationships with them. Our Missions Partnership model focuses on five key areas:
Intentional prayer
Financial support
Partner care
Short-term teams
Effective communication
Our Missionaries
Dan and Melinda Nelson
Converge International Ministries
Children: Diana, Karina, Adrian, and Marcos
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
The Nelsons are veteran missionaries in Latin America. Since November 2016, Dan has served as International Leader for Latin America and the Caribbean, giving leadership to our work there. They live in Guadalajara, where Dan continues to teach at a local Bible institute and mentor pastors and church planters. Melinda has helped develop a ministry to pastors' wives in the Guadalajara area and remains active in this ministry that comes alongside these women in ministry.
K, E, & J* (Names omitted for security purposes)
WorldVenture
In transition to new field in Africa. More info soon!
Anyone interested in partnering with us financially should click the button below and select "Become a Partner Today." You will need to create a Partner ID. Once logged in to the Give Now page, under Step 1: Designation, enter 4000-344 and select "Worker Name Withheld."
Contact Jimmy for connecting with the this partner.
Crick and Mindy Porier*
Converge International Ministries
Kids: Faith and Asher
Tartu, Estonia
Crick and Mindy are partnering with Kolgata Baptist Church to connect, develop and support youth ministries, church plants and outreach programs throughout southern Estonia. They have a strong emphasis on building relationships in order to teach and mentor youth and young adults in leadership and spiritual growth. Estonia is a country with 1.3 million people. Less than two percent are evangelical Christians.
Pray for:
Estonian youth leaders and church planters
The vision and development of youth ministries
Opportunities for outreach in rural areas
Physical and spiritual health
Jimmy Smith*
Converge Nordic-Baltic Initiative
Denver, CO
Jimmy serves as the Nordic-Baltic Initiative Leader for Converge International Ministries. He works to spur and ignite gospel movements across Northern Europe through partnership networking, strategic team development, and mobilization of new workers for the region. Jimmy has been serving in the region, primarily in Estonia since 2013 — when Arise sent its first team there. In this post-Christian area of the world, only 2-3% of the regions 33 million people claim to be followers of Christ.
Jimmy & Amanda and their family are excited to attend and serve at Arise Church Denver.
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Pray for:
The development of in-country teams in all 8 countries of the Nordic-Baltic Initiative.
Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, and Iceland.
God to bring more workers to our region and to use them to catalyze gospel movements.
*Indicates Arise Church Denver is the Home/Sending Church
15 Ways to Pray for Missionaries
By far, the greatest way we can support our missionaries in true partnership is to regularly pray for them. In addition to specific prayer requests mentioned in their newsletters and websites, here is a list of ways you can pray on behalf of your missionaries.
Love for God
Pray that your missionaries will love God so much that they will always want to serve Him.Love for others
Pray that God will help your missionaries love each other and everyone else (1 Thessalonians 3:12).A deeper relationship with God
Pray that your missionaries would follow Jesus’ example. It’s hard to imagine any missionary having a busier life that Jesus did; yet He always took time to pray to His Father.Spirit-controlled lives
Pray that all of your missionaries will do what God wants them to do.The fruit of the spirit
Pray that your missionaries will live so others can see them doing things that show they love God.Wisdom and knowledge
Pray that missionaries will know they have good thoughts, be honest, love peace, be kind to others and obey God as you can read in the Bible (James 3:17).Courage
Pray that God will give your missionaries courage to pray as Paul did in Ephesians 6:19, that every time they will speak God’s Word.Receptive hearts
Pray that God will help your missionaries find people who want to learn about Jesus.Disciples
Pray that your missionaries will be very happy to teach people to obey everything Jesus commanded (Matthew 28:20).Strong faith
The apostles once asked Jesus: “Increase our faith!” Pray that your missionaries will have great faith that will lead them to ask great things of our Lord.Steadfastness
Pray that your missionaries will follow Paul’s advice to the Corinthians: “Stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:58).Strong family
Living in other countries can be hard for the missionaries. Pray that missionary families will be close to one another and have stronger families.Protection
Sometimes missionaries are in danger. Join Jesus in praying to the Father: “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one” (John 17:15).Material needs
Missionaries often have to live in places that are not comfortable. They may have no running water, hard beds and no stoves. They may not have very much money. Pray that God will give them the things they need so they can do their work “according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).Health and strength
Some places in the world today are not safe. Missionaries may be sick, or someone might steal from them. Pray that God will make them healthy and strong so they can bring Him glory and have all the good things they need.