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Missions

Our Missions—Outfitters teams travel to bring encouragement, aide, and training.

Republic of Ireland Bethany Eastvold serving in the Emerald Isle Bethany Eastvold is our Outfitters for Adventure missionary in Ireland. Bethany works with women and youth using music, dance, creative writing, and art in her ministry. She pioneered two youth groups in villages in the west of Ireland,  before moving recently to Newbridge near Dublin where she is working in a church and helping in a Teen Challenge Center. Bethany has a heart to see lives changed (especially youth, women in recovery from addictions, and homeless individuals) by the unconditional love and healing power of God. Using music, mentorship, and the arts, she is seeing that happen!

Kenya Neil Thielke with friend in Kenya, 2008 In 2004, a pastor in the Kisi region of Kenya near Lake Victoria invited Neil Thielke to his churches.  While Neil and his Outfitters for Adventure team were visiting, they noticed the need to help children whose parents had died from AIDS.  AIDS began near Lake Victoria, and there are many orphans.  Outfitters for Adventure began the Kenyan Orphan fund, placing an orphan with a family in one of the Kenyan churches.  For $17 American dollars a month a Kenyan family can obtain the needed food and clothing to raise a child.   Use the Kenyan AIDS Orphans tab for more information.

Mexico David Garcia travels river to visit Indigenous people About once a year Neil Thielke visits David Garcia who serves with World Indigenous Missions in the state of Chiapas in Mexico.  David has been planting churches, training pastors and lay ministry staff for several years.  Although the churches are self-supporting, David and his family rely on the contributions of friends in the United States for their personal financial support. Some of the newer churches hold open air meetings in rural villages.

Mongolia Ruslan, pastor, his lovely wife Sveta, and their growing family In 2001 while teaching at a school in Asia, Neil kept sensing that he would some day teach in Mongolia.  The next year while again teaching in Asia, we met a missionary to Mongolia who implored us to come to help his church the next year.  In 2003 we made our first visit to his church, bringing along an Outfitters for Adventure ministry team.  We have helped the church with financial needs, and have sent additional ministry teams.  The people of Mongolia show a hunger for the Bible and for salvation in Jesus Christ.