Check out what it's like to serve in Global Outreach!
There are many ways to serve in Global Outreach. Show up on a Saturday morning and befriend an English language learner. Take groceries to a refugee family and stay for tea. Learn about other cultures by taking a class on world religions, or by serving at our international student events. Send a note of encouragement to our Global Partners. Go experience the world beyond our borders. Are you ready?
Global Outreach Monthly Prayer
Every 3rd Sunday | 12-1 PM, F101
Pray for our Strategic Global Focus Areas
"They gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the nations."
Acts 14:26
Use these PrayerCast videos as a guide to pray for open doors of faith in the following nations of our strategic global focus!
Becoming an Alongsider
Sundays, September 13-October 25 | 9 AM, B202
3 million Hindus live in North America. Perhaps you’ve met some at school or work, in a store or a gym, or living down the street. Ever wonder what it’s like for your Hindu friend or neighbor living here? How might we serve them well, coming alongside them in their journeys?
If you would like to take the next step towards understanding and loving your Hindu friends, join us for this 7-week equipping course.
If you would like to take the next step towards understanding and loving your Hindu friends, join us for this 7-week equipping course.
GO Experience: NYC
June 26-July 1, 2026
New York City is home to over 50 Unreached People Groups from around the world, and many have never heard the good news about Jesus. Pray for our team as we sow seeds of the gospel during Seed Week: an immersive, hands-on Great Commission experience. The contacts we make will help intercultural church planters connect with spiritually receptive people who are open to studying the Bible or learning more about God.
GO Experience: India
Professionals: Oct 30-Nov 7 | Apply by Aug 17
College Students: May 2027 | Apply by Oct 15
As we build on our commitment to India, two teams will go experience how God is working as we encounter the world of the unreached, engage in the work of our Global Partners, and explore how God might be calling us to serve.
GO Experience: The Middle East
December 26-January 3 (Tentative)
Come explore the heartland of the Muslim world, from sparkling cities to dusty deserts, as we encourage our Global Partners and support them in the work they are doing. This is an intergenerational trip.
Meet our Global Partners.
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Strategic Focus Areas
M & E
India
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Serving in the heart of the Hindu world, this family has made a home in one of the most unreached areas of the world for more than a decade. Working in education, their focus is pointing high-caste Brahmins to the God who is supreme over all.
Business Team
India
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This team is deeply engaged in business-as-mission, impacting the community through practical goods and services while being a light for Christ.
Medical Team
India
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Through compassionate, holistic healthcare at a well established Christian hospital, this team of doctors, surgeons, and nurses is commited to bringing healing and hope to the least of these.
J. I.
Philly Diaspora
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After serving in a Muslim-majority country abroad, this partner is now helping to meet the needs of Afghan refugees and engaging other unreached Muslim people groups in the Philadelphia metro area.
M & L
Middle East
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These Global Partners are committed to sharing the good news with Arab Muslims in the Middle East. They have worked as professionals for more than a decade in one of the most closed regions of the world, where they live with their two children.
J & J
Middle East
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With years of experience across the Middle East, these partners met on the field and now serve together as professionals. Their heart is to show Gulf Arab Muslims that true salvation and life can only be found in Christ.
D & J
Middle East
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J. S.
Middle East
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Believing his community, work, and hobbies are natural places to engage with people, this partner is building bridges of understanding and creating open dialogue in order to offer hope and transformation. His desire is to see healthy, established fellowships of Gulf Arab Muslims worshiping the Creator.
Unreached People Groups
D & N
The Balkans
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Pastoring a small local church in the Balkans and raising three young children, these Global Partners are reaching out to their Muslim-majority community and discipling minority believers to do the same. In a country with a long history of ethnic conflict along religious lines, the message of forgiveness and reconciliation is a beacon of hope.
Christi Armstrong
The Balkans
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Christi has taken her role as a Special Education teacher to a place of great need, both in her line of work, and spiritually in a Muslim-majority country in the Balkans where most have never met a follower of Jesus. She shares the love and hope of Christ through training families, teachers, and professionals who care for and work with children with disabilities.
Timur Topuz
Turkey
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Timur serves as a pastor in Istanbul, Turkey, and is the chair of the Istanbul Protestant Church Foundation. His strategic role allows him to cast vision during a time of changing dynamics in this Muslim-majority nation. He also referees as a means to connect with the community, and is raising two teenage children.
Bill & Kristie Campbell
France
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Bill & Kristie and their five children have been based in Paris, France, as church planters for more than a decade. They pray and labor to see a great move of God in Europe, where they also reach out to the immigrant community, especially North African Muslims through coaching American football.
Geoff & Jillian Wright
Canada
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Jillian grew up at COS and felt called to serve long-term after a student ministry trip to Montreal. She and Geoff have been church planters while living incarnationally and raising three young children in the highly diverse Montreal metro area of French-speaking Quebec since 2017.
Scott & Jacqui Curley
Poland
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Scott is the pastor of a very diverse and rapidly growing church plant in Warsaw, Poland. The church develops leaders who are often in Europe for a season, then return to their own countries to reach their own people. Many Muslims and Hindus in the disapora have heard the gospel for the first time through City Church. Scott and Jacqui have one young adult daughter.
Mades & Sopheary Meas
USA | Cambodia
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Mades and Sopheary are discipling Cambodian believers in Santa Ana, California, which has the largest population of Cambodians in the United States. They also provide support and mentoring for student ministry leaders in Cambodia, developing Christian leaders of the next generation in this Buddhist nation. They have two teenage children.
Boonchu Pongdamrongsap
Thailand
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Serving in a strategic role across northern Thailand, Boonchu is an evangelist and pastor providing training and support for churches as they reach minorities and refugees from a bordering country in the region. Much of his ministry involves traveling through rough terrain to small, isolated villages in the jungle, hidden from most of the world but seen and loved by God. He and his wife have two teenage children.
A & F
East Asia
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Despite persecution, our Global Partners in East Asia are spreading the good news of Jesus and seeing much fruit. As nationals, they encourage and disciple house church leaders in various ways, including offering marriage workshops based on biblical teaching.
Sue Corl
USA | International
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After serving for many years with her family in China, Sue provides conferences and discipleship training for women from impoverished and unreached nations to find their identity in Christ through Crown of Beauty International, now in its 20th year. She is the author of several books and Bible studies for women. Sue is married to Todd and they have two young adult children.
Training, Support, & Mobilization
Steve Richardson
USA | International
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Steve is the President of Pioneers, with 3,100 global members working amongst 500+ unreached people groups, and a bold vision to see 250 more unreached people groups engaged with the gospel by 2034. He was raised and later served in Indonesia, and is the author of several books focused on mobilizing the church to fulfill the Great Commission.
Keith Swartley
USA | International
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Keith is the editor behind Encountering Muslims, a comprehensive course that teaches Christians to lovingly engage Muslims and introduce them to Jesus. He often travels to the Muslim world to support national church planters. His wife Ethel teaches and connects with international students in the Linguistics department at the University of Denver.
Frank & Linda
USA | International
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Frank equips and mentors national leaders who are using cutting-edge, strategic missional practices through Media to Movements for church planting in closed countries, particulary in the Muslim and Hindu world. Linda offers pastoral counseling, transition coaching and debriefing at critical times of need in cross-cultural workers’ lives.
Michael Oh
USA | International
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Michael Oh is the Global Executive Director/CEO of the Lausanne Movement, which connects influencers and ideas for global mission. Most recently, Lausanne held its 4th Congress in Seoul, South Korea, which was the largest and most diverse gathering of Christian leaders ever. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors for CBI and chancellor of Christ Bible Seminary.
Lynn Newhouse
USA | International
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Lynn served cross-culturally for many years in Africa and Asia. Today, she travels internationally to provide spiritual formation training to cross-cultural workers, helping them stay strong and grow in their own spiritual lives so that the love of God overflows into the lives of those they serve.
Mike & Lorina B.
USA | East Asia
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After four decades serving in Communist East Asia, Mike and Lorina are now at their mobilization base in the US, preparing new laborers for the field with crucial cross-cultural training from their vast experience in Asia.
J & H
USA | Europe
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After many years serving in the Balkans themselves, these Global Partners provide leadership with Greater Europe Mission, supporting cross-cultural disciple makers across Europe.
Mark & Anne Bradley
USA | Haiti
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The Bradleys serve with Crossworld to improve the quality of education in Haiti’s Christian schools. Through equipping school leaders and developing resources for trauma care, the Bradleys seek to strengthen Christian leadership, while providing a firm foundation in Christ to Haiti's vulnerable youth. After a time raising their family in Anne's native Haiti, the Bradley's three children are now young adults.
Fran & Sue Patt
USA
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The Patts work with Frontier Ventures, formerly the U.S. Center for World Mission. Fran is the legal manager for the mission and Sue is the editor of the organization's publications.
Sharon M.
USA
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Sharon supports, cares for, and coaches global workers strategically laboring where the worship of Christ does not yet take place. She is a lifeline for people serving in isolation and deep spiritual need.
Elisabeth Berger
USA
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Elisabeth serves as the VP of Community Life at Crossworld, leading the training, orientation, and preparation for new cross-cultural workers who are bringing God’s love to life in the world’s least-reached marketplaces.
Deb M.
USA
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Deb trains cross-cultural workers in conflict resolution, peer counseling, and provides care to Crossworld's international staff.
Joey & Emily Cogliano
USA
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The Coglianos work at Ethnos 360 Bible Institute, training the next generation of cross-cultural disciple makers to serve where there is no church, nor any work being done to establish a church. Growing up on the field herself, Emily has a unique perspective to offer those considering mission work. Together with Joey, who once served on staff at COS, they are raising two young boys while living in community with their students.
Local Partners
Lisa Catton
USA
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Lisa serves with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes on the campuses of Eastern University and Conestoga High School, with the goal to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His church.
Leah Darwin
USA
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Leah serves with Cru, working with women who have suffered betrayal and/or abandonment, giving them hope and help in a safe space. She trains people how to write their life stories, inviting them to co-write the rest of their story with the Holy Spirit.
Jeff Whitebread
USA
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Jeff serves as State Minister with Capitol Commission Pennsylvania, with the goal to intentionally develop disciples and disciplers of Jesus Christ in the political arena through group and personal Bible study, prayer initiatives, and various forms of service.
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