Global Service Associates

Crossing Boundaries and cultural barriers with the powerful life-changing message of Jesus.

If you have a child, grandchild or a good friend or colleague that grew up in church, youth group or a campus ministry but today they are not involved in church or following Jesus then you’re not alone. A large majority of the 20 and 30 somethings are saying no to church and walking with Jesus. You probably spent numerous hours on your knees for them and inviting them to church. But it seems they are not interested.

This current reality of young people breaks our hearts. We believe God is calling us to create, innovate and form new missional (going out with the message of Jesus) communities that will help our culture experience Jesus in a manner that relates to them and helps them see Jesus as the sustenance for life.

“According to research by George Barna, there is not one county in the U.S. that is currently experiencing overall growth in the number of Christians.” Felicity Dale

18 years ago Global Service Associates was formed to help Christian leaders follow the call of God on their hearts to expand the Kingdom of God to reach each and every person on the globe. Their desire was to provide an environment for Christian leaders where bold faith, creativity, deep relationships and new initiatives to share Christ would be honored and encouraged.

We are so blessed to have GSA give us the opportunity to lead and follow God to reach people in the gaps where they are not experiencing His love. We are excited to trust God with a ministry of simple Biblical methods to equip others to follow Jesus and to reach people with the Gospel. You can read more about GSA at their new website GSA along with bios of other staff members and some of their projects. GSA is a 501-c3 religious non-profit and governed by a board of directors. We hold to the historic creeds, The Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. Please post a comment if you have more questions.

For those of you who financially support us and that we have talked to this past month during our transition; thank you for your encouragement and continued partnership. Pray for us as we move forward in solidifying our final 30% of financial support. If you would like to support us prayerfully and financially please email us or visit our giving page at Giving

Pray for a deep work by God in us personally so that we will share this love with others. Thank you for your partnership in serving with us to bring about God’s Kingdom.
Categories: Prayer, Newsletter, GSA, Movements

Kingdom Signposts: Pointing People to Jesus

“Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into the harvest field.” Luke 10:2b

Every morning our cell phone alarm goes off at 10:02 am reminding us to pray this simple prayer of Jesus.

We believe that within minutes from every home, community, workplace and social network God is raising up men and women who will be a leader, a worker for Christ. Our dream and prayer is to see Kingdom Signposts (our new initiative), planted firmly in the ground so that people around the world know where to look for God and go to experience His love. This Kingdom Signpost could be a Bible study, a mom’s play group, a service project, a discipleship relationship, or prayer group.

Even today, for example, I met a pastor in Denver who is a leader of a 40 church alliance. He was referred to us and is wanting help to see how they can train and send out their youth to be workers for Christ in Colorado. Our prayer is to empower him and other believers to share Christ, disciple others, and create ministries out of their churches, homes and workplaces that point people to Christ. It is believing God for a generation of lay people who reach others for Christ and grow in their faith.

We will create a collaborative work of evangelism and discipleship with local churches and ministries and then these Kingdom Signpost leaders will build movements according to their unique gifting and calling. The Kingdom Signposts may not all look alike. Yet each will reflect core values of connecting our ever changing generation to Jesus, providing life changing discipleship, producing multiplying laborers and helping people grow in intimacy with Jesus.

A movement of Kingdom Signposts planted firmly in the ground all over our world giving people an opportunity to experience God’s Kingdom. Pray for our leadership as we connect with churches, ministries and those who don’t know Jesus. Pray with us this Luke 10:2b prayer so that the Spirit of God raises up a radical movement of Christians to be leaders for Jesus.
Categories: Prayer, Newsletter, KingdomSignposts, Kingdom, Movements

Project Revive

“...the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” Isaiah 61:1

Our cities and communities are full of people who are hurting, lost, lonely and needing the hands and feet of Jesus to bring about real transformation in their lives. Jesus desires to meet those needs with His love. Often until those needs are met the people living in our communities dismiss the message of Jesus.

Project Revive is an initiative that believes that the love of Jesus is expressed when the church locks arms together and commits to meeting the needs around them, spiritual and physical. We are giving leadership to this project to aid the renovation and renewal of our cities so that men and women from all walks of life experience God’s love.

Can you imagine churches, non-Christians, businesses, and non-profits all working together to help those in need? We can and that is why in the months to come we’ll be starting a network and partnership organization that will be a catalyst for this city-wide transformation. Pray for us as we connect with civil, church and social leaders to build relationships and opportunities to connect them to those in need.
Categories: ProjectRevive, Movements, Kingdom,
Prayer, Newsletter

Please Pray

Please Pray:

• That we will wait on the Lord’s direction for our future.
• That we will grieve and trust the Lord with Christine’s mom’s death.
• That we will see the great opportunities for growth and outreach to those we interact with while in Greeley, CO.
• For Christine during her last 12 weeks of pregnancy. Pray for health and comfort.
• For our kids as they develop in homeschool and their friendships with kids around our neighborhood.

Categories: Prayer, Family, Newsletter, God

Please Pray

Please Pray:

• That we can deal with the changes, transition and sense of loss during this move from Mexico.
• That we will hear from God.
• That we will rest, truly rest in Jesus Christ.
• That God would heal our hearts.
• That God will continue to restore and make our marriage strong.
• That God will be Lord over every aspect of our lives.
• For our kids to transition well during this move.
• Supernatural healing of Christine's mom as she is in a lot of pain.
  

Thank you for praying for us!! We are grateful and cherish your prayers.
Categories: Family, Newsletter, Prayer

Huge Changes!

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Ephesians 6:12

So much has happened in our lives since we last gave you a written update. This passage about Spiritual Warfare hits home recently more than ever before. We always thought that Satan would attack us, go after us, try to keep a stronghold on Mexico City but we never thought he would hit us personally at home.

Over the past couple of months some issues have surfaced with Christine being isolated at home with the kids, homeschooling, her new pregnancy and helping with the ministry all without many Godly friends around. We began to see how these personal issues were affecting us in our leadership, our marriage and how we walk with God that we sought counsel. With the advice of our regional and national team and a Godly counselor we have decided to move back to the U.S.

We're sure this comes as a shock to many of you. It did to us too. We still believe God is doing an amazing work in Mexico City with our team and that He will raise up a spiritual movement that will impact every corner of the city. But that for now will happen without our family. It was humbling to say good-bye to teammates, ministry partners and friends but as we weighed the importance of what God is doing in our hearts, leadership and marriage we saw the tremendous wisdom in coming home to the U.S. to get help.

So over the Christmas holidays we packed up our house in Mexico and moved back to CO. After a few weeks of spending time with family in TX and CA we just arrived in CO. The time spent with family was much needed to help us deal with all the emotions, hurt and transition that we are experiencing.

In the midst of this Christine's mom, Pamela, has taken a horrible turn in her battle with lung cancer. She is still fighting tumors in her lungs and brain and her body has weakened even more.

What's Next?

So what in the world do we do next? Where will we end up? What is God calling us to do and be? Where are we living?

These are some questions that we are processing right now. Currently we're both meeting with a Godly counselor to help us sort out how we process life, lead, interact with each other and most importantly how we connect with God. Campus Crusade has given us a great gift to take some time to process all these important questions on an administrative leave. We are grateful.

We are currently renting a house in Greeley, CO near one of our good friends and regional directors and the kids are adjusting better than we ever imagined! Because of all the transition and change we thought it best to continue with homeschool and we are doing it together which is great.

The kids have enjoyed the snow and making new friends. Christine is beginning to show as she is in her 20th week of pregnancy. We’re going to have our baby now in CO and we hope sometime this coming summer to know where and what God is calling us to do. Please feel free to contact us at the email address above with questions or concerns.

We appreciate your prayers, love and support during this time as we seek the Lord to restore our hearts, leadership and relationship. God is good. Much love,

Steve & Christine
Categories: MexicoCity, Newsletter, Family, Prayer