World Missions

Shaq and Ruth have been married since June 2017. Ruth was born and raised in Buena Vista, Colorado. She moved to Pittsburgh in 2013 to do ministry on the Northside of Pittsburgh, where she served for 9 years. Shaq is a Pittsburgh native and has lived on the Northside all his life. He grew up in Northview Heights, a predominately African-American neighborhood. Shaq has served in several North Side non-profit organizations since 2015. He is a community activist and advocate known for empowering young leaders and building up youth and families. Ruth and Pastor Shaq live in the North Side’s Brighton Heights neighborhood and are honored to be serving with Garden City Church’s mission to “meet the physical and spiritual needs of our neighbors and neighborhoods, and be a people whose lives are marked by goodness and justice.”

Drew, Andrea (last name withheld for security reasons) and their four children are part of Avant Ministries serving in Western Asia.  Avant Ministries is an interdenominational, multinational missionary sending organization that has focused on planting and developing churches in the unreached areas of the world since the 1890's.  Avant defines unreached as places where less than two percent of the population is evangelical Christian. More than 2 billion people still need to hear the gospel! Avant trains, sends and serves missionaries in 50 countries globally.

The Valcins work in Haiti by focusing on evangelism, church planting, and discipleship. In 2007 they established a camp called Commission Every Nation which strategically ministers to children so that a new generation is raised up to become strong believing leaders in the midst of the strongest voodoo areas in Northern Haiti. They do so much in Haiti that we would need an entire page just for them! For more information go to www.cten.org/gersanvalcin.

Brandon serves with Camp Royal in West Virginia.  Coming from a background of pro motocross racing, Brandon followed God’s invitation into action sports ministry in 2002, and started ROYAL in 2005. Brandon is crazy about ROYAL because he gets to be around all of his favorite things: action sports, his ultra talented team, the most incredible playground, and gets to share what it means to be a child of the King of the Universe with thousands of kids, young and old!

Camp Royal's Vision is that millions of youth over many generations would come to faith in Jesus Christ and embrace their Identity as ROYALTY. Our mission is to provide the best action sports training available, while reaching youth with the Gospel and teaching them how to live in their Identity as children of God.

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Jay is the President of T-Net. Nancy and Jay have been married for 30 years and currently live in Divide, CO. Their kids are Kaleb (wife Lizzy and kids Josie, Lily, and Teddy – Kaleb (on staff with T-Net), Jared (full-time T-Net Asia), and Alexa (husband John).

Teleo Network, or T-Net has been in existence since 1992. We are currently in more than 40 countries with 10,000 in training. Teleo is a Biblical Greek word for “finish”. Our mission is to “finish” the Great Commission. We train and equip pastors and leaders to revitalize churches and we initiate church planting movements around the world.  Visit http://www.finishprojectzero.com to find out more.

AJ & Rachel are long-term volunteers with YWAM Queenstown, NZ.  Their main focus as a ministry is to work in the South Pacific region.  This includes Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Fiji.  With their ministry in Queenstown, New Zealand hey facilitate Discipleship Training Schools.  Typically they will send short-term outreaches into the nations around them multiple times a year, forming friendships and trust with locals.  To find out more visit https://ywam.org.

Neema Village was established in 2012 by Michael and Dorris Fortson in Arusha, Tanzania. They are the only rescue center in Tanzania who care for orphaned, abandoned, and at-risk children under the age of three. They provide 24/7 care with a large staff of nannies and other support personnel. For more information go to www.neemavillage.org.

Gil & Karen (last name withheld for security reasons) work for One Challenge International. If you would like more information please contact either ClearView or www.onechallenge.org

Doug & Myrtha (last name withheld for security reasons) work in the Russian territories with Frontiers. For more information please contact either ClearView or www.frontiers.org.