Sharing God's Grace with the World

 Brook Seekins was on her way to Tanzania for the first time on 9/11/2001. Her plan was to serve under GMI teaching missionary children. Soon the Lord opened doors for her to focus on youth ministries. She worked alongside national pastors to establish youth groups in local churches and train youth leaders. Together they ran camps, seminars, and conferences to establish the youth in God’s Word. They were blessed to see young people become faithful leaders of the church through more than 15 years of ministry in Tanzania.

In 2018, Brook joined the GMI team in Malawi. Brook has seen the Lord open doors for her to lead in worship service training, leadership training, and youth leader training.  Taking what she learned while working with youth in Tanzania, Brook has been working together with the Malawian youth ministry leaders.  Together they have begun to establish local youth groups and train youth group leaders from more than 20 churches around the country as well as running regional Bible conferences for youth. Living in the capital city of Lilongwe, Brook has also helped out with local youth, teaching piano and guitar, as well as leading Bible studies.

She has also been able to help create curricula which is being used to help train national leaders in leading worship services, setting up guidelines for local youth ministries, ministering to youth in regional youth conferences, and teaching Bible studies in their local churches. Brook has been blessed that several of these ministries have started to see fruit and by God’s grace will continue to grow.

YIELD is the acronym for Brook’s ministries. YOUTH INSTRUCTED in EVANGELISM, LEADERSHIP, and DEVELOPMENT. When you see a YIELD sign, please pray for Brook’s ministries in Malawi.

(from: gracem.denarionline.com)

Lily was raised in a Christian home where the family went to church  every Sunday and she heard about Jesus and His love for her often.

As she got older she served as a leader in OANSA (AWANA), was active  as a youth leader, played the guitar and sang in the worship band, and  discipled and taught youth.

One day her dad surprised her with an English class which opened up  so many doors of opportunity for her to work and get to know people. One  of those opportunities was to be part of the Logos Hope ship, where she  felt God calling her to work as a full-time missionary. It was during  this time on the ship she asked God to prepare her in whatever area He  wanted her to serve—before it was time to leave the ship, she felt  strongly that she should be prepared in theological knowledge before  going to the mission field.

She was also able to graduate with a theology degree which she  received because she was following God's leading in her life. Lily  believes He still has much more for her to do.

She is obeying God's call on her life by pursuing becoming a  missionary in Nicaragua alongside Emiliano and Raquel Seravalli. She  believes God wants to complete His work He has begun in her life so she  is very sensitive to His leading.

Her ministries in Nicaragua are discipleship, teaching, and music ministries.

(from:  gracem.denarionline.com )

JAMES AND AGAPE BERMEJO are both children of Grace  believers  in the Philippines and graduates of the TCM’s IGBI-Ozamis  Bible school as well  as Grace Theological Center for Missions (GTCM).   James also holds a university degree in  English. Over the past 13 years  the Bermejos planted and pastored two urban  churches in the Manila  region. 

The Bermejos were initially challenged for mission work  by  TCM missionary Genesis Maraat in 2009 and engaged in subsequent  communication  about mission possibilities with Ben and Joyce Anderson.  In 2015 James resigned  from his secular job to attend the GTCM  training.    

James is excited for the opportunities he has had  since then  to share and challenge Grace churches in the Philippines to  Passionately Pray  and Purposely Participate in TCM's vision of  establishing Grace Churches in the  remaining countries in Southeast  Asia where no Grace Church exists yet. He  states, “My Faith, Hope &  Love is to carry on Paul's powerful intention -  to the preach the  Gospel of the Grace of God to the regions beyond!”

Agape says, “There is no other place I would rather  be than  in the service of my God in the regions beyond. Knowing the  purpose of God in  my life is one of the most wonderful things that has  happened to me!  Now I am at the crossroads of my ministry and  taking a  step towards becoming a missionary with an intention to cross cultural   boundaries.  By God's grace I would like  spend the rest of my life  sharing His wonderful, powerful and transforming  message. Doing the  will of God is my heart’s desire and I want to fulfill this  desire  through TCM as a missionary.”

We believe the Lord has  called and prepared us to be a part of His  Global Mission as missionaries. It  is very clear in our minds and  hearts that God wants to establish and declare  His glory among the  nations (Psalm 96:3); He desires all men to be saved (1  Timothy 2:4);  He instructed the Body of Christ to preach the Gospel to the  regions  beyond (2 Corinthians 10:16) and to make all men see the mystery  (Ephesians  3:9).
 

We decided to be trained  and partner with TCM in accomplishing  God’s Global Mission. After completing  the two-month training at Grace  Theological Center for Mission (GTCM October-November  2015), we started  to pray for Singapore. Why Singapore? Because less than 10%  are  Evangelical Christians. We were sent as TCM Missionaries to Singapore in   May 2016 where we made new friends and started a Bible Study  discipleship/mentoring  program and  regular Sunday Worship and   Fellowship.
 

The challenge of staying  in Singapore was far greater than what we  expected. We were held at Singapore  immigration in November 2016 and  told not to re-enter Singapore unless we had an  employment visa. We  returned to the Philippines doing all that we could to  acquire an  employment visa while continuing to serve the Lord in whatever   opportunity He provided. We were given the privilege to teach in TCM’s  Bible  School in Indonesia (February 2017) and in the second batch of  GTCM training (April  & May 2017). However, favor was not on our  side in acquiring an employment  visa for Singapore.
 

We then remembered and meditated  on what Apostle Paul experienced in Acts 16:6-10  

Paul and his companions travelled throughout the region of  Phrygia  and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching  the word in the  province of Asia. When they came to the border of  Mysia, they tried to enter  Bithynia, but the Holy Spirit would not  allow them to. So they passed by Mysia  and went down to Troas. During  the night Paul had a vision of a man of  Macedonia standing and begging  him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” After  Paul had seen the  vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia,  concluding that  God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
 

The TCM leadership decided  to reassign us to Phnom Penh, capital  city of Cambodia. After much prayer and  meditation, we realized the  Lord is doing a REDIRECTION in our lives for His Global  Mission. The  truth is, it hurts. But the Lord knows what’s ahead of us. Like  Paul,  who followed God’s leading resulting in the establishment of the  Philippi  Church, we also believe that divine redirection must begin  with unconditional  submission.
 With all our hearts and  with the grace of God, we are now ready to  take part in accomplishing God’s  Global Mission in Phnom Penh,  Cambodia! We arrived October 3, 2017. The  ministry we started in  Singapore continues with the core members and at times  with Ben &  Joyce Anderson who have a base there. Thank you once again for  standing  with us as PARTNERS in God’s Global Mission which will only end when   Philippians 2:10-11 is realized: “Every knee will bow and every tongue  will  confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God!” 

(from:  tcmusa.org )