Missions at Grace
January Mission of the Month
Brent Kooi
City Sanctum is a ministry that meets monthly in downtown Sydney aimed at providing community to Sydney’s busy working adults. It is a place for workers to discover where the Christian faith and work intersect in their lives, and where participants hear from a speaker who helps them tackle the bigger questions in life. In addition to the monthly dinners, smaller groups meet more regularly in various parts of the city. City Sanctum is a safe place to which Christians can invite unsaved friends and co-workers, where they will encounter the gospel and develop relationships with Christians.
As the leader of City Sanctum, I will work with a core group of young professionals who have been giving leadership to the organization. In addition to further developing the City Sanctum ministry itself, I anticipate that much of my time will involve mentoring core group leaders as well as other participants.
February Mission of the Month
Collision Café
Collision Café is a ministry of First Priority. Collision isn’t a program, it’s a movement. It starts with student leaders that are concerned enough about their peers that they are willing to go and build new relationships that lead to strong friendships. This takes time, patience, and consistency. Student leaders commit themselves to being around their peers
by playing soccer, mentoring, helping with homework, attending games, and leading small groups. All of this, because they care about their peers as friends, and, they see that God has a plan and purpose for their friends’ lives. They are faithfully living, speaking, and revealing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
March Mission of the Month
center of hope
Whether it’s a temporary situation, life transition, or a long-term struggle with poverty, addiction, or mental health issues, the Center of Hope is committed to sharing the Love of Christ in tangible ways to our guests. The specific ways that we do this are varied, but mainly we are providing information about programs and organizations; low cost bicycles to qualifying families and individuals for transportation and recreation; phones for local and long distance calls; computers for job search and applications; winter clothing and work-wear; faith-based nursing care; pastoral care; and Bible studies for men and women. Each guest is treated with kindness and compassion in an effort to show them Christ’s love in deed and word, ultimately for their good and for God’s glory.
April Mission of the Month
Worldview Academy
Worldview Academy is a non-denominational organization dedicated to helping Christians learn to think and to live in accord with a Biblical worldview so that they will serve Christ and lead the culture. High school students come for week-long, Biblically-intensive summer camps centered on worldview, apologetics, and servant leadership. Students from Grace have attended Worldview Academy Camps and our own J. Mark Bertrand is on Worldview Academy's faculty of theology.
May Mission of the Month
medical missions abroad
June Mission of the Month
local service projects
Small Groups at Grace are encouraged to find ways each year to serve local ministries in the community. Our mission is to show more grace and build more community as we grow in our faith.
The Mission Committee also seeks each year to encourage members to engage in short term ministry opportunities both locally and in the wider world.
July Mission of the Month
Siouxlands Presbytery
Church Planting
Siouxlands Presbytery is made up of all the PCA churches in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota. As a presbytery we have committed to planting at least one new church every five years. At Grace, we set aside one percent of our total budget for this important work.
August Mission of the Month
Mission of Grace Children
Each week during Sunday School and Children's Church the chidren of Grace take an offering. At the end of each year, their offerings are matched by the session of Grace and the children's ministry leadership choose a mission or ministry to give the offerings to. We want to teach them give joyously and generously and help them know that it is God who provides for their every need.
September Mission of the Month
brennan & becca mccafferty
We thank God for the ability to devote ourselves to full-time language learning over the course of our first year in Cambodia. Learning a new language feels a lot like riding a roller coaster. It is full of ups and downs. Overall, we are feeling encouraged. So far, our language exams have gone very well , but there are times when we get discouraged and we wonder how we are ever going to become fluent in this new language—there are so many new words to learn (the vocab list just keeps getting bigger and bigger!) and difficult sounds to master. Thankfully, our experience is not unique, and it is a blessing to be part of a team of other MTW missionaries who can relate to the joys and struggles that come with learning a new language. We also are so grateful for our personal Khmer tutors who we meet with on a weekly basis. They have been such a great blessing and help to us as we continue on in our journey of language learning.
October Mission of the Month
Grace Missions
At Grace, our vision is to see God glorified and his Kingdom come through the advancement of his church. This means we participate in the Holy Spirit’s work of renewal, which includes:
Personal Renewal – MORE GRACE,
Church Renewal – MORE DEPTH,
and, the renewal of culture and society – MORE COMMUNITY, all through the power of the Gospel.
Our Missions Team seeks to disciple our members to serve our church, our city, our presbytery and our world through Gospel centered ministries. We encourage you to support, to serve and to pray for our ministries and missionaries. We also invite you to consider being a part of the Missions Team.
November Mission of the Month
Brandon Haan,
U of Minnesota RUF
RUF Brandon Haan is a PCA Pastor from our Presbytery serving at the University of Minnesota with Reformed University Fellowship. More than just a ministry on the university campus, RUF seeks to be a ministry for the university. They strive to serve in this unique stage of a student’s life in the world they live in, exploring together how the Lordship of Christ informs every area of life.
December Mission of the Month
brock larson
Fargo, ND Church Plant
More than a quarter of North Dakota’s population resides in Fargo, making it the center of cultural and economic life in the region. The city is also home to the largest university in North Dakota, NDSU. And Fargo is growing quickly. With growth comes need. Apart from Ressurection, there are currently no other PCA congregations in the entire state of North Dakota. In 2022 Ressurection issued a call to Fargo native and NDSU alumnus Brock Larson to help plant the church. He has been married to his wife Katie since 2016. After graduating from NDSU, Brock taught both elementary and middle school. Following his teaching career, Brock and Katie moved to North Carolina to attend school at Reformed Theological Seminary. In 2021, the Larsons moved back to Fargo to begin working with RUF at NDSU. Please pray for Brock, his wife Katie, and the church in Fargo.
Additional organizations that Grace supports include:
