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Matthew 28:19
Missions Spotlight
- About Us
We were born and raised in north Texas. I, Peter, grew up in Midlothian and attended Midlothian Bible Church from the age of 6 years old. I met my bride, Johanna Johnson, at college in 1993 and we were married that same year. Our family has grown in the last several years. Our three boys Bryan, Benjamen, and Jacob, now men, have found three godly women, Mary, Darcy, and Rylee, that love the Lord and our youngest son helped make us grandparents with our beautiful granddaughter Shayne.
We’ve seen God work in our lives over the years in many ways. After restoring our struggling marriage in 2002, God began to use us and our story to give others hope in their lives and marriages. We knew God deserved all the glory, so we began sharing that with anyone He placed in our paths. In 2005 Johanna first began to feel that God was calling us to something more. In early 2006 God confirmed this calling in Peter. God first called us to full-time ministry in 2006 when we joined FamilyLife Ministries in 2007, ministering for 7 years to marriages and families through FamilyLife while based in Little Rock, AR. While with FamilyLife we were introduced to Montana and in a trip there in 2009 I felt God's burden for me to minister to Montana's. After several years of waiting on the Lord, He revealed to me His next step. In 2014 God led us to Outdoorsmen Church, and showed us, even when we felt very unqualified, that this was what He had for us. What a gift to be able to couple Peter’s passion for both the Lord and the outdoors! I started as a church planting intern in September of 2014 only to hear the Lord inform me that He wanted me to stay and help as the Associate pastor. Over the years He continued to unveil His plan and direction and in 2019 Peter became the lead pastor of Outdoorsmen Church. We see God working even more today as we are committed to teaching God's word and showing the love of Jesus through authentic relationships and we stand in awe to look back and see all that He has done both in us and through us! For more information about our ministry go here.
Missionary Families / missions We Support
Gusti & Jeta Prenga, CRU-Albania
David & Cindy Cox, Word of Life Brazil
Peter & Johanna Zipp, Outdoorsmen Church-MT
Andy and Lori Keener - Wycliffe
Candy Summers and Andy Perkins - Bestwa
Johan and Haruko Strydom, Fellowship International Mission
Manna House is a community outreach organization created in 1992 to serve the needs of Midlothian residents. Manna’s goal is to give families a helping hand, empowering them to rise above the immediate crisis with the sense of dignity. Manna House is dedicated to serving the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of people in crisis. Manna strives to bring hope, encouragement and stability as we build a stronger, healthier community.
FirstLook Medical Clinic is a nonprofit Christian organization dedicated to saving lives and protecting futures. Services focus on positive, life-affirming alternatives to abortion for women and families facing tough decisions about their unplanned pregnancy. The goal at FirstLook is to educate the clients on their options, equip them with the facts, and empower them to make healthy decisions. All of the services are completely confidential and delivered at no charge. For more information visit txlifeinvestors.org.
world impact & local footprint
The mission of BESTWA is to build Liberia's future-one child at a time. Liberia is at a crossroads. A land destroyed by civil war and ravaged by poverty and disease, but THERE IS HOPE. BESTWA offers a feeding program which provides over 900 children with medical care, the love of Jesus and a nutritious daily meal they can depend on. They also offer the opportunity for future leadership by putting children in school, many for the first time. Their college scholarship program takes the next step by enabling the best and brightest to attend college. Additionally, they are working to complete a birthing clinic that will provide prenatal care, birth services and training for midwives. MBC member Andy Perkins founded BESTWA. If you would like more information about BESTWA, go HERE.
The Prengas
CRU - Europe
Gusti was raised in a Catholic family, and Jeta was raised in a nominally Muslim family. We were both born when Albania was still under communism. Gusti came to Christ in his first year in college during an outreach for first-year students at the University of Shkodra by Cru staff and volunteers. As a faculty of law student, he volunteered with the movement till graduation in 2005. A year later, Gusti was led by God to use his gifts in full-time ministry (Luke 24:25-35).
The Strydoms
Osaka Japan Church Planting Missionaries
Open Doors
Japan is the second largest unreached Nation in the world, with only 0.5% born-again Christians. Johan & Haruko`s mission is to plant a church in Osaka, Japan, saturate it with the Gospel of Christ, disciple the young generation through the Bible, and equip them to fulfill the Great Commission.
Part of our strategy is to connect with Heian Jogakuin high school through teaching days, start a small English School to build relationships and gain trust in society, reach out to the youth through English events with fun activities, and do church with an evangelism and discipleship focus. read our latest newsletter and sign up to receive more.
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