Missions
Washington Community Fellowship supports the following missionaries and ministries through its missions budget: Domestic Ministries | International Ministries
Domestic Missionaries and Ministries
Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center
This ministry offers compassionate support and assistance to anyone facing a pregnancy or experiencing post-abortion stress. The center offers free pregnancy tests, confidential support, childbirth and parenting classes, maternity and baby clothing and supplies, and post-abortion support.
Coalition for Christian Outreach
Sandie Starr Everhart
The CCO (Coalition for Christian Outreach) “is a campus ministry that partners with churches, colleges and organizations to develop men and women who live out their Christian faith in every area of life.” Sandie reaches out to student athletes at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Allegheny College.
Cornerstone School
Cornerstone is a private, Christian school, which provides a Christ-centered, nurturing and academically rigorous education for the young people of Washington, D.C. The school began in 1997 with support from WCF and was located within the church building for ten years. WCF supports Cornerstone by providing a full scholarship for one student.
Navigators
David and June Smith
David and June work with volunteer campus leaders in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama to recruit, start, resource and coach these campus ministries. This ministry focus is called NavFusion.
The Porch
The Porch is a multi-church youth ministry created through WCF with the support of Care Company. Current participating churches include WCF, Christ Our Shepherd, Church of the Resurrection, and Faith Temple Church. WCF missions supports The Porch by providing in-kind rent, paid staff support, and help with programmatic expenses.
Young Life Capernaum
Pam Harmon
Young Life Capernaum is a ministry that offers teens with disabilities a relationship with friends and a relationship with Jesus. WCF supports Pam, Director of Operations and Eastern Coordinator for Young Life Capernaum.
International Missionaries and Ministries
Ghana Bible Society
Kofi and Gladys Owusu
WCF supports the Owusu family in Accra, Ghana, where Kofi is the General Secretary of the Ghana Bible Society. The society translates the Bible into Ghanaian languages and distributes it at prices local people can afford.
Gospel for Asia
Gospel for Asia (GFA) trains and sends native missionaries into the most unreached areas of Asia. WCF helps to support three native missionaries through GFA.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
Daryl and Cindy Byler
Daryl and Cindy are MCC Regional Representatives for four countries in the Middle East—Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine. They provide pastoral care/support to MCC international staff in those countries.
Steve and Cheryl Hochstetler-Shirk
Steve and Cheryl, along with children Peter and Katie, serve in Mozambique as MCC country directors. They work in partnership with churches and Christian organizations on community development efforts, including community-based savings groups, HIV and AIDS prevention and care, and improving agriculture and water supplies, along with providing theological education for Brethren in Christ church leaders.
Mission to the World
Tim and Huilan
Tim and Huilan minister to leaders of young churches in East Asia.
Randy and Martha
Randy and Martha have a business outreach and church planting ministry among a Southeast Asian people group.
Susy M.
Susy, with her daughter Zarina, works in India with a team focusing on village visits (building friendships & spreading the Gospel) and teaching literacy to slum children.
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Jason and Liz Parks
Jason and Liz work with SIL International (a Wycliffe Bible Translators partner) in Sign Language Assessment for the Americas Area. They investigate questions about sign language use and status among deaf people with the goal of facilitating partnerships and recommending appropriate strategies for language development projects that will best serve deaf communities.
Jeanne Thum
Jeanne serves as the chief financial officer for Wycliffe Bible Translators in Papua New Guinea.