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Farragut Church of Christ supports the following missions areas on a regular basis: Click the missions below for a description.
United States Outreach Efforts:
- Lake City Church of Christ - Lake City, Tennessee
- University of Tennessee Christian Student Center
- Central Church of Christ - Knoxville Inner-City
International Missions:
- Albanian Missionaries
- Tom Bonner in Luscia
- IBIA Students
- World Christian Broadcasting
- World English Institute
- Eastern European Missions
Other mission efforts with which we maintain contact, though don't support on a regular basis:
- Village of Hope in Ghana, Africa
- Baxter Institute in Honduras, South America
Our Mission Policy is updated periodically by a committee working under the direction of one of the Farragut Deacons and overseen by the Elders. Policy guidelines are to focus in a few areas where we can do increasingly good things over the long term rather than spreading efforts too thin over a number of areas. However, a small amount of the mission budget is set aside each month to address selected one time mission requests.
Lake City Church of Christ
The Farragut church has sponsored Tim Mefford as the minister of the Lake City Church of Christ for several years. Lake City is located about thirty miles north of Knoxville and is in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. Tim also preaches and teaches at White Oak and Jellico, Tennessee. All of these are small rural churches where we hope to have an impact on people's spiritual lives.
Because of the close proximity of Lake City to Farragut, we also help with clothing and food drives in Lake City. Various groups from Farragut have visited the congregation in Lake City for worship and work days. This involvement has helped to make Tim's outreach efforts more fruitful.
Lake City Church of Christ
115 Leach Ave.
Lake City, TN 37769
Telephone: (865) 562-7304
Tim Mefford
P.O. Box 41
Caryville, TN 37714
UT Christian Student Center
The Christian Student Center is a mission effort for students supported by the Farragut congregation and other churches of Christ. The center is located on the campus of The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The center provides a variety of services to students. The major emphasis of the ministry is the spiritual relationship of students with the Lord. Activities include devotionals, mission trips, fellowships, and retreats. The center is also a place for students just to 'hang out' and be assured of being around other people who value a Christian environment. The center is overseen by the Laurel Church of Christ and its campus minister, Mike Buckley.
Christian Student Center
1821 Melrose Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37916
Telephone: (865) 523-4796
Sponsoring congregation:
Laurel Church of Christ
3457 Kingston Pike
Knoxville, TN 37919
Telephone: (865) 524-1122
Campus Minister:
Todd Tarbett
Web site:
http://web.utk.edu/~csc/
Central Church of Christ
In late 2004 an older church building in the heart of the inner city of Knoxville was purchased by a group of fellow Christians who had been meeting at the downtown YMCA. Led by the evangelistic efforts of Eric Bonner who serves as their full time minister, the congregation is known as the Central Church of Christ. The Farragut congregation helps Central with monthly financial support to pay off their building. We also partner with them on benevolent activities and help with their popular summer program called Children's Chariot.
Central Church of Christ
1932 Woodbine Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37917
Telephone: (865) 522-3710
Map to Central
Albania
As part of the Missions Policy, Farragut church has chosen to concentrate much of its mission efforts in Albania. Several of the Farragut members are involved as teachers of Bible correspondence courses with students in Albania through the World English Institute (WEI). Several members have also participated in summer teaching campaigns in Albania using the WEI literature in a six week teaching program.
In addition to supporting WEI in Albania, the congregation is involved in supporting three missionary families in Albania. (For addresses, recent newsletters, and additional information on any of these families, follow the links to their individual pages.
Tom Bonner works with the newly established congregation in Lushnja, Albania.
The International Bible Institute of Albania is a school that is organized to train preachers in Eastern Europe as part of the Sunset International Bible School. The Farragut congregation helps support these students while they participate in studies at the school.
Albania - Tom Bonner
In 2002 through the efforts of WEI teachers, the Tirana congregation, and members from the Farragut congregation, a church of Christ was established in a small town south of Tirana known as Lushnja. Tom Bonner from the Metro Church of Christ in Gresham, Oregon serves as missionary there. The Farragut congregation helps to financially support Tom on a monthly basis through his sponsoring congregation in Oregon.
Tom Bonner
WEI/ Lushnja
Lagj.Skender Libohova
Pall. 118
Lushnja, Albania, Europe
Email: weilushuja@albmail.com
or tombonner@albaniaonline.net Click here to read Tom's Newsletter
Albania - IBIA Students
In January 2006, the International Bible Institute of Albania began operation in Tirana, Albania. Steve Stamatis serves as Dean of this school that is organized to train preachers in Eastern Europe. It is part of the Sunset International Bible School located in Texas. The school requires two years of study and students live in Tirana while attending the school full time. The Farragut congregation helps support these students while they participate in studies at the school.
World Christian Broadcasting
This ministry is a religious non-profit corporation governed by a Board of Directors consisting of faithful members of the churches of Christ from all parts of the U.S. Daily operations are overseen by President Charles H. Caudill and his staff of about thirty full and part time personnel. This ministry was incorporated in Texas July 30, 1976 and moved its Operations Center to Franklin, TN in the fall of 1989. Broadcasting has been done daily through station KNLS located just south of Anchor Point, Alaska since July 23, 1983. The effective radiated power of the station is more than 16 million watts. Transmissions cover a vast area populated by more than 2 billion people. Broadcasts consist of an entertaining mix of wholesome music, interesting feature stories, and compelling spiritual messages. Listeners are never solicited for contributions.
The mission of World Christian Broadcasting Corporation is to communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ to peoples of the world using any form of mass media effective for the place and time. The objective is to concentrate resources on reaching societies and ethnic groups which are closed to direct evangelism, or are geographically isolated. The programming is tailored to attract and hold a non-Christian and unchurched listening audience and is sensitive to the history and culture of the target audiences with programs written and recorded in the 'heart language' of the people. World Christian Broadcasting works closely with missionaries, churches and other concerned individuals who can provide follow-up services such as face-to-face teaching, free Bibles, and baptisms.
KNLS currently broadcasts ten hours each day; 5 hours in Mandarin Chinese, 3 hours in Russian, and 2 hours daily in the world's second language, English. Mail has been received from more than 125 nations on every continent and all of the U.S. Bible study courses have been provided to students in more than 60 countries. The majority of the mail comes from the former Soviet states, People's Republic of China, and Pacific Basin nations such as Japan, Philippines, Indonesia and Australia.
Future plans envision a world-wide network of short wave stations. Station KNLS is seen as the first in a series of three such facilities. In the immediate future, plans re being made to begin an Arabic language service to the Islamic nations. After communist China, Muslim people comprise the largest remaining ethnic/religious group closed to Christian evangelism.
World Christian Broadcasting
605 Bradley Court
Franklin, TN 37067-8200
Telephone: (615) 371-8707
Fax: (615) 371-8791
E-mail: wcbctn@juno.com
Web sites:
KNLS
World Christian Broadcasting
World English Institute
The World English Institute is sponsored by the Metro Church of Christ in Gresham OR. Materials written by Richard Ady are designed to attract students who are studying English as a second language. Billions of people in today's world are trying to learn English. Many students enroll in WEI to learn English. But as they study God's Word, their interest shifts from English to the Bible.
God is using WEI to teach hundreds of thousands of people in over 180 nations. Most of these students have studied the lessons by correspondence. Thousands of students have studied this material one-on-one with short-term summer mission teachers as well as full-time missionaries in the field.
Churches have been planted in Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and other places, using WEI as an evangelistic tool.
Many members at Farragut are involved as correspondence course teachers as well as making short-term mission trips to Albania in the summer time.
For more information about serving as a correspondence course teacher, contact one of the following:
Debbie Loveday
Telephone: (865) 966-5025
Woody Byars
Telephone: (865) 690-2723
Email: byarsws@comcast.net
Contact the following for more information about WEI:
Richard Ady
World English Institute
1525 N.W. Division
Gresham, OR 97030
Phone: (503) 661-0348
E-mail: weiady@aol.com
Family birthdays:
Maudine: July 16
Richard: June 22
Anniversary: June 2
Web site:
www.weiady.org
Sponsoring congregation:
Metro Church of Christ
1525 N.W. Division
Gresham, OR 97030
For the most recent WEI newsletter, go to:
http://www.weiady.org/update/current_update.htm
Click here for a list of previous newsletters.
Eastern European Missions
Eastern European Missions (EEM) has been providing Bibles, Biblical literature and services since 1961 to the nations of Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. For the first 28 years of its history, EEM had to find ways to get Bibles through the Iron Curtain. Since 1989, EEM has been supplying congregations, individuals, campaign groups, missionaries, etc. with Bibles and Biblical literature in all of the languages of the nations of the former Soviet Union. Also, EEM has been providing Bibles and biblical literature for major projects, such as all of the public schools in whole states in Russia, former communist youth camps in Ukraine, tens of thousands of families in Russia, and has supported opportunities to teach Universities in Russia, Ukraine and various Eastern European countries.
EEM has a Governing Board and Development/Advisory Board, and is under the oversight of Bammel Church of Christ in Houston, Texas.
The Farragut Church supports this mission effort regularly and during special fund raising drives such as "Million Dollar Sunday" to raise funds to supply schools in Russia with Bibles.
Village of Hope - Africa
Each year since 2005 a group of about 20 doctors, nurses, and other volunteers from the Farragut Church of Christ make a medical mission trip to the Village of Hope in Ghana, Africa. This village is supported churches of Christ and serves as a home and school for homeless children in Ghana. Each year hundreds of residents of the area around the village are treated by this medical team from Farragut and given medicine and other medical supplies. Click here to find out more about the Village of Hope
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