GLOCALLY-MINDED
We want SLEFC to be a church constantly breaking new ground in the tilling of human hearts, preparing for the seed of the gospel to be preached. We believe this takes place through acts of mercy, service, compassion, and love. Doing these things allows us to enter into someone else’s story. As John Stott says,“it comes more natural to us to shout the gospel at people from a distance than to involve ourselves deeply in their lives, to think ourselves into their culture and their problems, and to feel with them in their pains.”
We long for each and every one of our people, as disciples, to be glocally-minded when it comes to proclaiming the gospel. No, that's not a typo. Glocally is a joining of global and local. Some churches tend to focus on one area at the detriment of the other. Our heart really is for both ends, and everything in between! Below are a few of the many global and local ministries we are in partnership with.
individual missionaries
Bożena DASZUTA
serves as a staff missionary with International Messengers in Kielce, Poland. She is committed to making disciples of all nations through her local church. She is passionate about training and mobilizing believers for active involvement in reaching the world for Christ.
One of her highlights in ministry is an annual event she and her church host, which capitalizes on their ability to share the gospel with hundreds every year!
adel mounir & marina fawze
serve as staff missionaries with International Messengers in Alexandria, Egypt. They are seeking to reach those in the Coptic Church and beyond with the gospel.
Adel has a passion for teaching, preaching, and discipling young men. Marina has a vibrant counseling ministry to young women in the community.
Together they are trying to engage couples and families along with their son, Jason!
BEN & BURGI OEHLER
serve as staff missionaries with International Messengers. As native Germans, they currently reside in Cyprus but serve in Egypt, Lebanon, and throughout MENA (Middle East and North Africa), seeking to win, build, and equip future generations with and for the gospel.
Ben and Burgi are passionate about discipleship and are eager to multiply disciple makers in some of the hardest places on the planet to reach right now for the glory of God as He builds His church!
Greg & Mary Pearson
serve as staff missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators, with whom they have served for nearly thirty years. They are passionate about getting the Word of God into the hands of those who’ve never had it.
After decades in Papua New Guinea and seeing the translation project completed, they now work primarily from Minnesota: Greg with multiple teams in Africa and Mary with quality checking digital formats of Bible App read-along features for those using them!
Sammy Wanyonyi
leads and serves with Shine in the World Ministries, which is based in Victoria, Minnesota. SHINE exists as a vehicle to proclaim Jesus Christ to all lost peoples around the world, to mobilize and resource the local church in it’s passion to fulfill the Great Commission, and to equip the present and next generation of leaders in their spiritual quest and service to God and society.
Sammy’s aim is to see people from every tribe, tongue, and nation come to know the love of God and enter into a saving relationship with Him through Jesus Christ (Revelation 7:9-10)!
ministries
Bridges 4 justice
Biblical justice originates in the heart of God. God’s people are called to care about the oppressed and those who are trafficked, but often lack awareness and opportunities to get involved.
Bridges4Justice bridges that gap by providing practical opportunities to encourage, equip, empower, and engage in God’s work of justice in our broken world. Bridges4Justice is all about “Transforming communities one life at a time!”
Individual purchases and church donations help bring new life, hope, and dignity to trafficking survivors and to women, families, and communities that are at risk.
EFCA NATIONAL OFFICE
The Evangelical Free Church of American exists to glorify God by multiplying transformational churches among all people. EFCA Church Missions, or Reach Global, has an ambitious vision of impacting 100 million people with the gospel over ten years. They seek to have deep partnerships and empowered disciples who are making disciples in their own native context across the globe. Crisis Response endeavors are also tackled through this arm of the EFCA.
Hope Harbor in Marshall, Minnesota
Hope Harbor exists to Equip teens, Empower parents, and Serve those in need by anchoring them to the hope of God’s hope-filled promises!
Hope Harbor works with ordinary kids who are healing from extraordinary things. Each and every one is a child of God, eternally loved by the Savior. They and their families need to be met with this hope-filled news for the first or hundred and first time!
As the world has changed, the need for genuine love, care, compassion, and hope has not. The beauty of the gospel remains the central, needed message!
NORTH CENTRAL DISTRICT, EFCA
As one of 17 districts in the Evangelical Free Church of America, the North Central District is a family of local churches in Minnesota who believes we are better together than wee are apart! We share a common mission and are united around a core set of biblical convictions. Partnering with the NCD, we remain on mission to reach the lost and shepherd the found by multiplying transformational churches among all people in Minnesota.
TRUE LIGHT Christian School
True Light Christian School is based in Marshall, Minnesota, and exists to equip students to be lights who shine as they reflect ”the True Light (Jesus), who gives Light to everyone,” John 1:9!
They strive in all their efforts to transform students through faith, knowledge, and excellence both inside and outside the classroom. Through their curriculum and teaching, they seek to instill a biblical worldview where God is the center, enabling students to comprehend the world through the lens of the Bible.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”