Serve the World

Serve The World

We SERVE, relying on Christ, to make a spiritual and personal impact on those around the world who we are called to help. Globally, we partner to spread God’s love and care via our missionary partners on the ground that are represented by need as well as a geographic location. Some partnerships are for a season, a year, or for several years. They often include significant financial support and sending teams to serve alongside the ministry or missionary.

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Mission Opportunities

As followers of Christ within the Presbyterian tradition, we are called not only to worship within our walls but to be a living witness to the Gospel across the globe. Driven by the Great Commission in Matthew 28 to "go and make disciples of all nations," our short-term international mission trips offer a unique opportunity to live out this biblical mandate through tangible acts of service. By engaging in light construction projects and fostering intentional relationships with our global neighbors, you become the hands and feet of Jesus. These journeys are transformative: the communities we serve receive much-needed infrastructure and the encouragement of Christian fellowship, while you, the servant, gain a widened perspective of God’s kingdom and a deepened faith. We invite you to step outside your comfort zone, share the hope of Christ, and experience the profound joy that comes from serving the "least of these" in our international family.

Friends of Samburu Mission Trip
June 5-22 | North Central Kenya (outside of Nairobi)

Friends of Samburu hosts two mission trips each year to north central Kenya—and you’re invited. Serve alongside the Samburu people by building relationships, sharing your faith, and supporting our project constructing a girls’ school. It’s not just about giving—many return deeply changed by the experience. Cost is $4500–$5000 (partial scholarships available). Contact Margaret Ellis at friendsofsamburu@yahoo.com to learn more. Other ways to get involved: pray for the team members God is calling to serve, and for Margaret Ellis and the ongoing work of Friends of Samburu; serve by joining the mission team; or support the trip through financial sponsorship if you are unable to travel this year.

Outreach Foundation Kenya Mission Trip
August 5–17 | North Central Kenya (outside of Nairobi)

Join your Grace friends and family for a mission trip to Kenya in August. In partnership with The Outreach Foundation and Stu Ross, our church has helped build more than 35 churches and girls’ schools—and this year, our team will continue that work by helping complete and dedicate a new church and girls’ school near Nairobi. Led by John Pflug and Ted Teinert, the trip also includes a safari as we celebrate what God is doing in this growing community of faith. Cost is $4500–$5000 (partial scholarships available). To learn more, contact Kristy Elmore at kelmore@gpch.org. You can get involved by praying for the team and partners, serving by joining the trip, or supporting the mission through financial sponsorship.

Living Water International Mission Trip
October 4–10 | Dominican Republic

Join us in October for a mission trip to the Dominican Republic in partnership with Living Water International. Led by Amy Wisniewski, our team will help bring clean water to remote communities by supporting new well installations—connecting water lines to homes and schools through the WASH program. Along the way, you’ll build meaningful relationships with local residents and experience a week of service, connection, and lasting impact. Cost is $2500–$3000 (partial scholarships are available). To learn more, contact Amy at amywisniewski28@yahoo.com or Kristy Elmore at kelmore@gpch.org. You may get involved by praying for the team and ministry, serving by joining the trip, or supporting the mission through financial sponsorship if you’re unable to travel.

Grace is excited to welcome Misha Reyes, our mission partner serving in Budapest, Hungary, and Eastern Europe. Misha will be visiting us in early October to celebrate World Communion Sunday and reconnect with friends. We encourage you to schedule a meal or a time to catch up with her to learn about her impactful work with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the Discipleship Training School. To coordinate a visit, please contact Kristy Elmore at kelmore@gpch.org.

North Carolina Disaster Response Trip
North Carolina | April 2027

Prayerfully consider joining your Grace Family members in April 2027 for a Disaster Response trip to North Carolina, where the team will assist families still rebuilding from the 2024 devastation of Hurricane Helene. This will be an opportunity to come alongside families in need—offering practical support, encouragement, and the hope of Christ through presence and service. While the exact cost will be finalized in August, it is estimated to be approximately $500. For more details or to express interest, please contact Michael Doemer (mdoemar@gmail.com) or Kristy Elmore (kelmore@gpch.org). You can get involved by joining the mission team, providing financial sponsorship if you are unable to travel, or praying for the families, the leadership, and the work of World Renew.

Missionaries

Igor Mukha, Jasmina Ristic Mukha, Mila Claire Mukha

Jasmina (from Serbia) and Igor (from Ukraine) met in YWAM (Youth With a Mission) Budapest in 2006 and were married the next year. They felt God’s calling to preach the Gospel in Europe, specifically France. God opened doors for them to move to France in 2008. In 2013, Mila Claire Mukha was born in France. She is a bundle of joy, and she understands and can say words in four different languages. Jasmina and Igor work to build relationships with people in their community through evangelism, small groups, Bible Studies, programs like VBS bilingual camp for children and Christmas concerts. Their desire is to see God’s kingdom come in Europe with many lives changed and transformed by the power of Gospel!
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Stu Ross

When he retired from his job here in the States, Stu went to work with The Outreach Foundation in Kenya. Grace Presbyterian Church partners with him in building churches, schools, clinics and water wells. Through Stu’s work, our Kenyan friends are learning about Jesus Christ and becoming healthier both physically and spiritually. Your support of Stu will help spread the Word of the Lord to the people of Kenya.
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Rosie & Akap Phom

Rosie, Akap and daughters, Emma and Eliza live in Budapest, Hungary and serve with Youth With a Mission (YWAM). Akap is from India and Rosie is from Serbia. Akap completed DTS (Discipleship Training School) in India in 2001 while Rosie did DTS in Budapest, Hungary in 2003. They have been serving the Lord with YWAM since 2002. Rosie and Akap are reaching out Hungarians, International students and expats. As well homeless people on the streets of Budapest and partnering with a local homeless shelter. Their hearts are to disciple people in their walk with God, to build support groups which will provide an opportunity for these people to receive counseling, share their struggles, renew their hope and ultimately find life in Jesus Christ. We are very grateful for our Grace family. Thank you so much for partnering with us in making an Eternal difference! Together we make Jesus visible!
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Christopher and Grace Mancillas

Christopher and Grace, with their son Andreas, will be serving in college ministry at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Christopher grew up in Houston and was raised going to church here at Grace. After graduating from college in 2014, he moved to West Virginia to help start a campus ministry at West Virginia University (WVU), where he met Grace. Grace grew up in West Virginia and, after graduating from WVU, starting working with the same ministry. They married in 2019 and Andreas was born in 2023. In May of 2024, they transitioned to world missions and are currently preparing for their first two years in the Netherlands starting in January. They have a huge heart for college students and are excited to take to the Netherlands what they’ve learned and experienced here in the U.S. Although the Netherlands has a rich history of Christianity, it is now bound by the secular worldview, with over half the population denying the existence of any god, and the percentage of evangelical Christianity at only 4% of the population. Their hope is, through reaching college students for Jesus, the Netherlands will be changed from Utrecht.
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Misha Reyes

Born in Bulgaria, I was raised in a nominal Christian-Orthodox family. I became a new born Christian when I was a teenager, and my role models became people who went to the most remote places of the earth to tell people about Jesus. Their lives inspired me and challenged me to pursue a career that would expand God’s Kingdom. I am currently on staff with YWAM (Youth With a Mission) Budapest, connected with the Coffeehouse Ministry Center. I am the DTS (Discipleship Training School) coordinator for Central Europe and I lead the discipleship training programs at YWAM Budapest.
I was welcomed to be part of the Grace family in Houston in 2014 and became an honorary member of the Frownbusters Clowning ministry team. It’s been a blessing to journey together with you through the friendships I found at Grace, your support and prayers. Thank you!
My prayer for you is from Ephesians 3:17-19, “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
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Steve and Barbara Johnson

Steve and Barbara have served in Budapest, Hungary with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) since 1994. Their first outreach to Hungary was in 1991, two years after the fall of communism. They were following their dream and God's invitation into world missions. Their hearts were captured by the Hungarian youth who were disillusioned and searching for meaning and truth. After three years of training in Amsterdam they moved to Budapest to help establish a YWAM base. Now, after raising five children in Hungary, they are entering a new phase of life and ministry, yet their vision is the same: to reach the lost with the good news of Jesus and to disciple young believers. This is being accomplished through a wide spectrum of activities including running a coffee house, evangelistic street meetings, Bible studies, homelesss ministry, music, arts and a 6-month Discipleship Training School. They currently have a team of 16 full-time ministry staff from nine different nations. Steve serves as the team leader and is also part of a core leadership team that covers the 16 nations of YWAM Centerl Europe.
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Juan Constantino Santiago

Constantino currently lives in Guatemala and is part of the Grace en Español ministry called “Fe Maya.” He is a “retired” teacher of 27 years with 22 years in Guatemala and five in Colorado. While working as a teacher in Colorado, Constantino received God’s call on his heart to reach children in his homeland and provide them with school supplies while presenting the Gospel. The “Fe Maya” mission was born! He works hard to serve the extremely poor Mayan children in the rural mountains of western Guatemala. God has blessed the work in this region. The children are better equipped to attend school. Many churches have been started, and new believers have been brought into the Kingdom! Constantino has four adult children: Jenny, Allan, Aliri and Isabel. They all live here in the States and assist him in his Guatemala mission work.
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Serve the World News

Friends of Samburu

Join Friends of Samburu and serve alongside the Samburu people on a trip to north central Kenya this June!

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Living Water International Mission Trip

You are invited to be a part of the next Living Water mission trip to the Dominican Republic, October 4-10.

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Kenya Mission Trip

Join us on a life-changing trip to Kenya this August as we partner with The Outreach Foundation, building and dedicating a church and a girl's scho...

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