Purpose
The Missions Team of Trinity Presbyterian Church of Orange County exists to glorify God by obeying the call to make disciples of all nations, through personal engagement and in partnership with other Christians who proclaim the love of the Father, trust in the renewing power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and abide by the work of the Holy Spirit.
Mission Team’s Assignment:
Communicate with missionaries whom we support on a regular basis
Missionary care (gift packages, hosting visits to Trinity, hosting events during home assignment)
Present missionary updates to the congregation on a regular basis
Pray for and cultivate church commitment to pray for missionaries (e.g., Prayers of the People)
Promote the Biblical basis for world mission
Inform the congregation of current needs and events in world mission
Pray for missionaries to be sent out of our local congregation
Plan and organize short-term missions trips
Review and recommend potential missionary candidates to the session
Prepare and recommend annual mission budget to the session
Missionary & Church Planting Partners
Tim & Aletha Salcedo
Organization: Village Mission
Ministry: Kittredge Community Bible Church (Kittredge, CO)
Contact: aletha@missionarypastor.com | tim@missionarypastor.com
More info: www.villagemissions.org
Village Missions help rural churches maintain a Gospel presence in rural America. Their goal is to provide a Christ-centered community church program. The Salcedo’s attended our church and now Tim serves as the pastor of the Kittredge Community Bible Church in rural Colorado.
Juan Arjona-Todd
Organization: Mission to North America (MNA)
Ministry: Mision Vida Nueva (Escondido, CA)
Contact: juanjosearjonatodd@gmail.com
More info: www.misionvidanueva.org
The MNA coordinates church planting and missional partnerships to serve PCA churches and presbyteries in North American in their mission to grow and multiply biblically healthy churches. Juan Arjona is the pastor of Mision Vida Nueva in Escondido, California.
Mision Vida Nuevais a bilingual (Spanish and English) mission church of the South Coast Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in America. It started to minister among the community in Escondido California on September 2002. We have a Sunday school class at 10 A.M. and a Sunday worship service at 11 A.M. at the Pioneer Elementary school (980 N Ash St, Escondido, CA 92027).
We had also developed different ministries in Escondido and in particular in the Mission Park community. One of them is our Saturday Free Food Distribution Program that serves our community at 11 a.m. In this program we have huge influx of community members in need. We help families and individuals in need of sustenance in and around Grove Park in Escondido. Here, over 10,000 pounds of free food are distributed every Saturday.
Derek Rishmawy
Organization: Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)
Ministry: UC Irvine (Irvine, CA)
Contact: derek.rishmawy@ruf.org
More info: https://derekzrishmawy.com
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) is a ministry of the PCA denomination that exists on the university campus to demonstrate the words and work of Jesus as the basis for world transformation. RUF helps college students explore how the Lordship of Christ informs every area of their life. Our church wishes to support RUF campus ministries in California.
Suzanne B
Organization: Bridges International
Ministry: ASU & South Asia Network (Tempe, Arizona)
More info: www.bridgesinternational.com/
Bridges International is a non-profit, Christian organization that exists to serve and mobilize the international student population in the USA and abroad. Many of our staff have lived, studied, and worked overseas. We understand the unique challenges facing international students.
The United States is home to over 1,000,000 international students and visiting scholars. The top three countries with the most international students in the U.S. are China, India, and South Korea. The majority of all foreign students come from Asia. Over 96,000 internationals in California make that state the leading host, with New York and Texas rounding out the top three. Campuses with the most international students include New York University, the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, and Purdue University.
It’s no stretch of the imagination to predict that many of the world’s next generation of business, political, and academic leaders will emerge from this elite group.
Jason & Elizabeth Polk
Organization: Mission to the World (MTW)
Ministry: Ethiopia Aids Care & Treatment (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Contact: jasonandlizpolk@gmail.com
More info: www.mtw.org/teams/africa/addis-ababa-ethiopia
MTW is the missionary sending arm of the PCA denomination that seeks to spread the gospel throughout the world.
Located on the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is a diverse and rugged country of mountain ranges and forests, incredible wildlife and ancient ruins. Right in the middle sits the capital, Addis Ababa. Poverty, both economic and spiritual, afflicts many communities in this sprawling city, and though Orthodox Christianity has deep roots in Ethiopia, evangelical churches are few and far between and false teachings of a prosperity gospel are common.
Here in Addis, a dynamic team of MTW missionaries and Ethiopian partners is working to plant churches and serve the poor and vulnerable. Ethiopia ACT, which is staffed in part by MTW missionaries and national partners, addresses healthcare, nutrition, housing, education, and family care in a holistic effort to reduce the impact of poverty and see communities transformed by the power of the gospel. Church planting is foundational to the team’s ministry and vision, and in the slum of Suki, the team has planted a church that is reaching many with the hope of Christ. The team works hard to live out the gospel in both word and deed, preaching to and serving the poor as the hands and feet of their Savior.
Christopher Sandoval
Organization: South Coast Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America
Ministry: Servant Church of San Diego (San Diego’s inner city community of Greater Logan Heights)
Contact: info@servantchurchsd.org
More info: https://www.servantchurchsd.org
Chris Sandoval is the pastor of Servant Church of San Diego and is married to Carrie Anne. Little about Chris: Chris is an ordained minister of PCA and has eight years of urban church planting experience among multi-cultural and multi-generational communities. Born to Hispanic immigrants, he received his Bachelor of Science from M.I.T. and his Master of Divinity from Westminster Seminary California.
Servant Church is a new church located in Logan Heights, a densely populated urban community with the highest number of children in the city (⅓ of the population is under 18). Servant Church seeks to have every person, family, and neighborhood in San Diego’s Greater Logan Heights hear the saving gospel of Jesus Christ and experience His transforming grace. Currently, there is a big push to build their youth outreach program and have hired on a new youth director. They seek to be an “every day church” to the many youth kids in the city and show them that they are loved by Jesus. Their vision is to actively, consistently, and daily engage in the community through worship services, Bible studies, youth outreach, and the programs of the affiliated Christian counseling and community development non-profit organization (called Alma Community Care). They currently have evangelism, discipleship, and service touchpoints in their community five to six days a week.
Mark and Megumi Bocanegra
Organization: Mission to the World (MTW)
Ministry: Oyumino Christ Church (Chiba, Japan)
Contact: markbocanegra@gmail.com
More info: www.bocanegrasinjapan.com
MTW is the missionary sending arm of the PCA denomination that seeks to spread the gospel throughout the world.
Mark and Megumi met in Chiba, Japan, at Oyumino Christ Church (OCC), both realizing that they had hearts to serve Japan. Megumi grew up in a Japanese Christian home and developed a heart for youth and college ministry. Mark, a Filipino graduate of Stanford, spent 10 years of his childhood in Tokyo. After marrying, Mark completed his M.Div. at Westminster Seminary California and was ordained as a PCA teaching elder of the South Coast Presbytery in 2017. From 2017-2019, Mark served at OCC as one of their pastors. Mark and Megumi now have three daughters.
In 2019, MTW and OCC sent out the Bocanegras with the hope to plant the second congregation of Kaihin Makuhari Grace Church (KMGC), in a strategic, growing location in Eastern Greater Tokyo. With Tokyo church density averaging about 15,000 people per church, this is an extremely needy and strategic place—even for the second most unreached people group. With a university and two high schools nearby, the Bocanegras also hope to start a young adult ministry that intentionally trains new young leaders for the Presbyterian Church of Japan.
Jonathan Lew
Organization: Faculty Bridges
Ministry: Southern California, specifically to faculty in colleges and universities throughout Orange and LA counties
Contact: jonathan@facultybridges.org
More info: www.globalassociates.org/jonathan-lew
Jonathan Lew is a member of Trinity and married to Audrey Lew; they have a baby boy, Barnabas. Jonathan is engaged in a ministry called Faculty Bridges, alongside founders Randy and Cheryl Lee, working together to encourage, equip, and counsel Christian professors (primarily at secular colleges and universities in Southern California) as they live out their callings in academia and beyond. Jonathan does that by meeting with professors, praying for them, helping them connect with others in academia, and assisting them in organizing roundtable discussions with faculty colleagues from a diversity of backgrounds and belief systems. In addition, Faculty Bridges sponsors an annual conference for Christian professors and future professors to share their experiences and ideas about how their faith in Christ can inspire and influence their teaching, research, service, and relationships on their campuses.
JJ and Carly Raymond
Organization: Cru
Ministry: Chapman University, UCI & junior colleges (South Orange County)
Contact: Justin.Raymond@cru.org | Carly.Raymond@cru.org
More info: www.raymondministry.com
JJ and Carly are the team leaders of South Orange County Cru. They provide: vision, direction and strategic plans for the Cru staff and students in how to reach their campus. In addition, they disciple students and are trusting God to launch new Gospel centered movements on junior college campuses. They are excited to partner with Trinity specifically as they minister to students at Chapman University which is located just couple blocks from our church!