Missions & Outreach

The Avadaneis serve with My Brother’s Keeper in Romania working in orphan ministry and children & youth outreach.

Yoriyoshi Abe and his wife Emiko serve in Japan leading Grace Garden Church. We consider them “one of our own” because Yoriyoshi served as a pastoral intern here at Grace Community Church of Willow Street. They and their daughters, Kanae, Wakana and Honoka, are located in Ebina City just outside of Tokyo. Yoriyoshi & Emiko serve both Japanese and internationals in building up the Christ-centered community. 

Tomo and Jessica Abe are ministering to Japanese people and French people in France and Western Europe.

The Whitakers are missionaries sent by the Evangelical Congregational Church to serve in Spain with European Christian Mission International. From 2010 to 2020, they served as pioneer church planters in Alcora, Spain. In 2020, God led them to move to the town of Meco near Madrid, where they are currently involved in a church planting project in this town of 14,000 with no established Evangelical church.

Heidi Jensen is an Ambassador for Christ to the United Nations Community and English Language Learners serving with Global Service Network. 

Lamar and Janice Stoltzfus serve with Africa Inland Mission in Missionary Children Education at Rift Valley Academy in Kenya, Africa. Lamar and Janice serve as Dorm Parents for 9th and 10th Grade girls. Lamar also serves as the Director of Services at RVA, overseeing the departmental supervisors and the national staff as they support the functionality of all departments across the 90+ acre campus. It is a joy to serve in our specialized support ministry roles so our students’ parents can serve on the continent of Africa, reaching the unreached.

Beth taught Missionaries’ Kids (MKs) in a little one-room school (gr. K-5) for five years, and later taught MKs in Guatemala for 9 years over a period of 14 years, and in between worked at The Janus School (for students with learning disabilities). Since June 2006, Beth has been self-employed doing tutoring, testing, academic coaching, consultation, and intervention with home school, private school, cyber school, and college/seminary students, as a School Psychologist, Reading Specialist, and Educational Therapist. She is currently a Wycliffe (WBT) Volunteer Member under our EC Global Missions Community (GMC) with the job description as an Educational Specialist to be an international consultant to Missionary Kids (MK) schools, traveling extensively.

Brian & Missy Wagner serve with Africa Inland Mission as dorm parents and teachers at Rift Valley Academy in Kenya discipling and educating missionary children while enabling their parents to serve throughout the continent of Africa. They have three grown married children all living in the U.S. and recently became grandparents.

Dan & Anna Julian serve as pastoral trainers in Spain and Latin America with European Christian Mission and BEE World. They and their children, Calvin & Lucy, live in Lancaster, PA. Their desire is to help build healthy churches in the Spanish-speaking world through developing and equipping healthy church leaders.

Dan and Melinda have been ministering out of the Wycliffe USA headquarters in Orlando, FL since 2011. Dan serves as a videographer and editor in Wycliffe’s Marketing and Communications department.

Keilah serves as the Assistant Development Coordinator at Mission 2535 in the Dominican Republic. She works with her team to lead short-term teams in ministries, prayer, and devotional times, helps oversee interns, and develops and prepares the VBS curriculum. Her personal mission is to spread the love of Christ by serving “the least of these” in the DR. Her goal is to use the gifts that God has given her to build community, spread the Gospel, and serve the Dominican people as part of the Mission 2535 team.

Elton and Ida have been serving with Eurasia Partners Network since 2011. Elton serves as the Executive Director and Pastor of Impact Churches Movement. They have planted 5 churches and helped many Albanian Muslims discover Christ. Raised in Muslim families, their vision is to see a church-planting movement spread across the Balkans. They are committed to identifying, training, equipping, and sending church planters to multiply indigenous, gospel-centered churches. 

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. RFF focuses on the spiritual and physical needs of those in ministry. They have two preschool programs with over 100 children, provide maize and fertilizer for the Malawi people’s crops, and started a micro business program. They have provided thousands of Bibles as many don’t have money to buy them. They also have a literacy program as many can’t read or write, and have initiated Pastor training and refreshing courses, and have evangelical outreach to youth and adults using various means including soccer. Their mission will continue with the vision of reaching large areas of Malawi.

Carissa serves as a volunteer with Hope for Home Ministries to children at health risk in Guatemala. Practically, this looks like changing a lot of diapers, cleaning up a lot of vomit, and administering a lot of medication. 

Brittney (Stover) Lui serves with Bridges International, a ministry of Cru, in Washington D.C. She welcomes international students at some of the nation’s top universities in the DC metro area, offering them a “home away from home.” Her minsitry seeks to win students to faith, build up believers in their faith, and send them out as Christ-centered, multiplying disciples who are equipped and confident to share the Gospel with the nations.

She is married to Joseph, a software engineer who serves at their Northern Virginia church through children’s ministry, outreach, and leadership.

Kevin Kumher serves as the Missions and Outreach Pastor at Grace Community Church. He is passionate about teaching the word of God. He desires to see people come to know Christ and grow in spiritual maturity to be effective ambassadors for Christ in fulfilling the Great Commission.

Kevin is married to Cheryl. They met while attending Lancaster Bible College and were married in October of 1988. They have 4 children: Kristi, married to Jake Kreider, Jon married Cait, Rachel, and Sarah. They have 6 grandchildren.

Jazzy serves as our Missions, Outreach, & Counseling Coordinator here at GCC. She graduated from Lancaster Bible College with a B.A. in Intercultural Studies and Biblical Studies. Before choosing that path, Jazzy began college as a counseling major and completed a practicum with a local counseling and foster care and adoption organization. Through these experiences, she developed a love for connecting with people from different backgrounds and walking alongside them in meaningful ways.

Jazzy loves the people she gets to work with and is grateful that her role allows her to share the love of Christ through both local and global outreach. She also loves to travel and even spent a summer interning in Spain! Outside of work, Jazzy enjoys longboarding, reading, and thrifting.