Mark 16:15 - Go into all the world and preach the gospel to
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Missions Milestones

Since 1987 the West-Ark congregation has sent workers, financial assistance, and/or relief supplies to the following mission sites:

Foreign Mission Efforts

Albania, American Samoa, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, England, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Vanuatu, plus other Pacific island nations and several former Soviet republics and medical projects of African Christian Hospitals Foundation

Domestic Mission Efforts

Fort Defiance, AZ; Madera, CA; West Haven, CT; Chicago, IL; Portland, ME; Worchester, MA; International Bible College campaigns; Harding University campaigns; Baldwin Church of Christ tract ministry; Manuelito Children's Home; Southern Christian Home; local Hispanic work

OVERVIEW

1987
Foreign missions program begins with special contribution in May
Randy English and Wade Tanneyhill are sent to begin education at IBC
Benue State, Nigeria, work begins with four families
Two-year program trains 22 men to preach
Twenty new Nigerian congregations are established over time
Ghana follow-up work begins with World Bible School

1988
West-Ark group travels to Portland, Maine, for campaign

1989
Randy English begins evangelistic work in South Pacific

1990
Work of establishing congregations in Thailand begins
West-Ark group travels to Nigerian Christian Hospital for medical mission

1991
West-Ark eldership chooses to begin work in Bulgaria
Tom Black and family begin four-year tour in Bulgaria
Wade Tanneyhill begins domestic evangelistic work
West-Ark's first medical mission trip to Guyana
Our first trip to Laos

1992
Vince Payne begins International Bible College education
West-Ark's first mission trip to South Pacific

1995
Real estate purchased for congregation in Thailand
Thomas Kweekul surveys Laos congregations for opportunity
Medical mission to Vanuatu

1996
Vince Payne completes education at IBC
Payne family begins work with Spanish-speaking church in Madera, CA
End of nine year work plan in Benue State, Nigeria
Planning begins for project in Laos

1997
Guyana, Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand
Madera, California
Jerry and Meg Canfield depart for Laos

1998
Guyana, Thailand, Ethiopia
Canfields are arrested in Laos in January
Madera, California, support ends in June

2000
Work in France begins
Guyana Medical Missions continue
Thailand, Laos, Ethiopia

2005
local Hispanic work
Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
Ethiopia, France, Nigeria, Guyana


To God be the glory! Great things He has done!


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