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Missions

Several of our members became full-time missionaries. Currently we have three Covenant couples whom we support.

Greg and Mary Ellen Schrock are with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Mexico. www.wycliffe.org/partner/4ED23C

Our recent pastor, Rev. Dr. Jon Good and his family are serving as missionaries in Hungary. Details about the Goods are below.

After school programs for Roosevelt Elementary School children
Hymn sings and other worship activities at senior nearby citizens’ residential facilities
Hands-on support for a crisis pregnancy center in nearby Farmington Hills (www.womanspregnancychoice.com)
Collecting food and other items for Friendship House – a Christian social service agency in Hamtramck, MI (www.detroitfriendshiphouse.org)

Collecting Bibles and other Christian literature for Friendship House or for worldwide use through Christian Resources International in Fowlerville, MI www.mycrimission.com
Collecting used or new medical supplies for World Medical Relief in Southfield, MI for recycling and distribution to developing countries www.worldmedicalrelief.org
A sister church relationship with Palestine Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit
Our White Cross ladies sew strips of cloth into roller bandages and make surgical masks, surgical caps, and receiving blankets for hospitals in Africa. They also collect items needed by American Baptist neighborhood ministries in the U.S. for their outreach programs.
We helped establish and continue to support a retirement community in Farmington Hills called The Baptist Manor www.thebaptistmanor.org
Helping a nine-member Vietnam War refugee family get established in a local community
Short-term youth mission trips to many U.S. destinations
Domestic and overseas short-term mission trips to Alaska, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Belarus
We are actively affiliated with American Baptist Churches-USA, one of the most ethnically and racially diverse denominations in the country. See
On the state level, we are part of American Baptist Churches of Michigan www.abc-mi.org
ABC-MI has two camps: Camp Lael www.camplael.com near Lapeer and Lake Louise www.camplakelouise.com near Boyne City. We help support both.

William Clemmer, M.D. and his wife Ann are in South Sudan. It is the newest country in the world and one of the most dangerous and impoverished. https://www.internationalministries.org/author/ab-clemmer/

Rev. Dr. Jon Good was our senior pastor from 2005 until early 2017. He resigned so that he and his wife, Amanda, and their four children can become missionaries in Hungary. They will emphasize helping local pastors, church planting, outreach to minorities, enabling refugees to have better lives, and educational ministries through local schools. https://www.internationalministries.org/author/aj-good/

Richard Gutierrez, M.D., and his wife Anita Gutierrez, M.D. are both pediatricians who left a successful practice in Michigan and became medical missionaries in South Africa. See

Rev. Carmella Jones is a Flint native who holds nursing and divinity degrees. She one of the newest ABC missionaries and is serving in Hungary through a unique arrangement that allows students in their public schools to get Christian education along with health care. https://www.internationalministries.org/author/c-jones/

Pieter Kalkman serves much of Europe and the Middle East. A major responsibility has been coordinating short-term mission teams to Europe, but that has been recently supplemented by helping churches meet the refugee crisis. See

Jeni Pedzinski (originally from Niles, MI) is in Thailand helping victims of human trafficking. www.internationalministries.org/teams/529-pedzinski

Ketly and Vital Pierre were both born in Haiti. They serve in the Dominican Republic and help coordinate short-term mission trips there. Earlier they were in Nicaragua. We sent several short-term mission teams to both places.

We also support several other ABC programs, such as One Great Hour of Sharing when there are major crisis concerns throughout the world.

One of our members has a missions-related website: www.HelpingWorldwide.org that connects more than 400 organizations.