Troy Christian Chapel supports various missionary families and missions organizations throughout the world. A missions drive is conducted annually, and all members are encouraged to allocate a portion of their giving to support our missions activities. These funds are administered by the TCC Missions Board, which is elected at the February annual business meeting.
The current Missions Board members are:
- Bob Pilgrim - Chairman
- Daryl-Lynn Essig - Secretary
- Molly Glad - Chapel Chat Correspondent
- Harriet Pearson - Bulletin Boards
- Peter Huizinga
Here is a sample of the missions families who receive continuing support from TCC. In addition, the Missions Board reviews other requests for support at their monthly meetings. Support may be given on a monthly basis or as a one-time gift.
Kyle and Bethany Stob serve with Partners Worldwide in Zambia which creates partnerships between Christian business people in North American and in developing countries to offer encouragement, training and support. Kyle will work with leaders and staff to develop the capacity of their projects, while facilitating the relationships between Zambian leaders and their North American partners.
Chris and Debbie Gibson serve with Send International and EPC World Outreach in Hungary. They provide ministry and missionary care for missionaries spread throughout Eastern Europe, team and church reconciliation, and evangelistic outreach ministry to third culture youth.
Jim and Janice Dahl are serving in Romania with World Venture. They are involved in theological education and leadership training.
Isaiah and Mercy Mafu serve in South Africa with African Christian Ministries, which they founded. They are involved in evangelism, church planting (Grace Evangelical Church), training and service. Some of their activities include after-school Bible classes, adult Bible classes, morning devotions in school, school lunch program, sewing classes and Zulu crafts.
Paul and Janice Alencar serve with Tentmakers Bible Mission in Brazil. They are involved in church planting, camps, running a recuperation house for drug addicts and working among the street children.
Allen and Dee Dee Iobst are staff members with Campus Crusade for Christ in Spain. They work with Operation Transit. Their ministry reaches North Africans as they pass through western Mediterranean ports. They offer travelers New Testaments, the Jesus film video and audio tapes, and other evangelical material in whatever language the travelers speak.
Kent and Suzanne Hirschelman serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators and recently relocated to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Kent works with the Seed Company, which develops partnerships between churches and people groups who do not have the Bible translated into their mother tongue, in an effort to provide translation teams to these people groups.
Tom and Lynn Suchy serve with Evangelical Free Church in Mongolia. They are involved in leadership training, summer camp, Bible studies and outreach programs.
Prison Fellowship, Central Detroit Christian Development Corporation and MOPS are three additional missions organizations we support.
University of the Nations
These missionaries are leaders of various Schools of Biblical Studies, University of the Nations, that convened in southern Germany in June 2006. Senior Pastor Dan Lewis was the featured speaker in their conference.
University of the Nations is an international missions university, and the School of Biblical Studies is where missionaries and pastors come to be trained in Biblical exegesis. Each year since 1991, Pastor Dan has traveled to Europe to lecture in various branches of the School of Biblical Studies. To date, he has lectured in England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Germany and Hungary.
Missions Board Purpose Statement
It is the responsibility of the Troy Christian Chapel Missions Board to assist our Congregation in obediently participating in Christ's Great Commission both locally and abroad. We commit to do this in the following ways; To foster awareness of missions through education and dissemination of information; To encourage and support financial and hands-on participation of TCC members and friends in various mission endeavors; To prayerfully and responsibly distribute funds allocated by the TCC congregation to reputable, evangelical missionaries and mission organizations; To maintain a continuum of commitment and communication between the TCC congregation and those we regularly support; To evaluate discontinuation of support funds when necessary.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
— Matthew 28:19-20
