Washington Community Fellowship supports the following missionaries and ministries through its missions budget.

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Urban Family Development

Urban Family Development is a nonprofit organization that is the primary neighborhood service ministry of Washington Community Fellowship. It is the parent organization of the Neighborhood Learning Center, which offers before and after school programs for youth and children.

Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center
This ministry offers compassionate support and assistance to anyone facing a pregnancy or experiencing post-abortion stress.

Center for Student Missions
Pam and Mark Harmon
The Center for Student Missions (CSM) provides suburban and rural groups with a bridge to ministry opportunities in North American urban cities. Groups from churches, schools and other organizations do short term mission and service trips in which they offer food and friendship at rescue missions and homeless shelters, clean and paint apartments for low-income families, hold Bible clubs for at-risk children, tutor inmates at prison schools, and do outreach and evangelism with inner-city residents in their neighborhoods, worship with Christians from other cultures-and much, much more. Mark Harmon is a former member of WCF and is the City Director for CSM-DC. His wife Pam also works in ministry with Young Life and Mentor Moms in the DC area. They have two sons, one in college and one in high school.

Coalition for Christian Outreach
Sandie Starr Everhart
The Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO) "fosters and strengthens commitment to Jesus Christ in colleges and universities throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Sandie Starr (WCF member) has been involved with CCO as the Director of College and Young Adult Ministries at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. She helps to connect young adults and college students with the church's youth ministry program.

Cornerstone Community School
Cornerstone is a private Christian school--located in WCF's facilities--that seeks to instill in God’s children a lifelong joy of learning and to equip them with the knowledge, skills and values necessary to become leaders who serve others in light of Christ and His truth. WCF supports Cornerstone by providing in-kind rent.

Bridges
Judy Ashburn
Bridges is a faith-based mission that reaches out to hurting women with compassion, understanding, and support. Its foundation is spiritual, and its strength comes through the collaboration of churches uniting in prayer and support for Bridges women. Bridges offer referrals to appropriate medical, mental health, and drug treatment agencies.

David Smith and June Arendt Smith
WCF member June Arendt Smith, with her husband David and children Sara Joan, Jonathan, and Michael, formerly worked with university students through the Navigators in Kiev, Ukraine. They are now on home assignment.

Bible Society of Ghana
Kofi and Gladys Owusu
WCF supports the Owusu family in Accra, Ghana. The purpose of the organization is to translate the Bible into Ghanaian languages and distributing it at prices people there can afford. The Owusus have three grown children: Kwaku, Abena, and Kwabena.

China Outreach Ministries
Tim and Huilan Mountfort
The China Outreach ministries purpose is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Chinese people. Tim has been a member of WCF since 1988 and has worked with COM since 1994. WCF support Tim and Huilan Mounfort's ministry to students and scholars at the University of Maryland at College Park. There are approximately 1,000 Mainland Chinese within the University of Maryland. They have two weekly meetings, one-to-one meetings with students, an English Bible study group, and other special events like picnics and retreats. They have a son Ethan and are expecting another baby in May 2002.

Gospel for Asia
WCF sponsors the training and equipping of several indigenous pastors to plant churches and spread the Gospel in places where it's never been heard. Native missionaries have fewer cultural barriers to overcome, and while they do face difficult obstacles, they still have an enormous advantage over their co-workers from North America and other non-Asian lands. Nothing is deducted from our sponsorship funds for administrative purposes--100% is sent directly to the mission field for its intended purpose.

Mennonite Central Committee
WCF elder Daryl Byler works for the Washington Office of MCC, the relief and development organization of the Mennonite church. Since WCF is affiliated with the Mennonite Church, we choose to support the work of MCC.

Steve and Cheryl Hostetler-Shirk
Steve and Cheryl, along with children Peter and Katie, serve in Mozambique as MCC country directors. The work involves assisting local church outreaches to those affected by HIV/AIDs, assisting with work on diet and nutrition, and actively engaging with local congregations.

VisionCare Ethiopia
Yoseph and Etagegnahu Haileselassie
Former WCF member Yoseph Haileselassie and his wife, Etagegneu Alemu lead this ministry to supply eyeglasses and eye care to impoverished peoples in Ethiopia as a way of demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ.

Wycliffe Bible Translators
Jason and Liz Parks
Please contact the Missions Commission for more information.

Our Missions Priorities

• 2/3 of missions budget for domestic missions
• 1/3 of missions budget for international missions
• Members of WCF will be given priority
• Priority will be given to ministries to unreached peoples (i.e. segments of society where people may not hear the gospel or worship in a church In their own language and culture. Currently the Muslim world, particularly the 10-40 window, which makes up most of the unreached peoples of the world)
• Priority will be given to ministries that focus on developing churches, as well as the training and nurture of indigenous people
• Priority will be given to urban work
• Priority will be given to people, over projects and organizations
• Priority will be given to people serving with mission organizatlons
• Priority will be given to people whose sending organization values a balance between evangelism and social justice