Mission Trip

We are bringing a team to a wonderful Christian, English speaking orphanage in rural Northern India. During the last 2 weeks of February, we will have the opportunity to meet, connect to, love, and serve 40 young people and a couple of dozen leaders of a Hindi community.

International Strategic Partner

Through the truth of the Gospel and generous acts of compassion, thousands of students across the country of Rwanda have been transformed. Through sponsorship, children get to receive an education, are fed, given a set of clothes, and hear the gospel. New churches are planted wherever they start a new school. Currently there are 11,000 sponsored students who are working toward a high school diploma, vocational training, or a college degree. Their goal is for each student to achieve completing their high school education, and to bring them into a loving relationship with Christ. 

International Strategic Partner

As a ministry of ANLM, ACT is committed to preparing pastors for ministry in Rwanda and beyond.. Not only is theological training the greatest need in Africa, it is a governmental requirement in Rwanda. ACT is one of very few degree programs approved by the government for pastoral training.  It is thoroughly Biblical, evangelical, and qualified to equip pastors to start and grow churches.

International Strategic Partner

Living Water International exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience “living water” - the gospel of Jesus Christ - which alone satisfies the deepest thirst. Working through local churches, the ministries become crucial agents of compassion in their villages as they facilitate with LWI the procurement of clean water..  Through various aspects of this process, they are able to participate in the fulfillment of the Great Commission. 

International Strategic Partner

Students International is focused on meeting the holistic needs of people in vulnerable communities in Latin America. In Jesus’ name and for His glory, they lead ministry sites to serve those in need year-round. Our High School ministry visits the Dominican Republic every other year to help make an eternal difference in the lives of the people Students International serves.

International Strategic Partner

World Outreach International is a missions agency dedicated to making disciples who make disciples in unreached communities. They raise and develop leaders across the globe for evangelism, church planting, children’s ministry, and humanitarian aid. Through our partnership with World Outreach, River West is helping make Gospel pathways in Malaysia + Myanmar.

Missionary Partner

Ben and Rachel have been serving with World Outreach since 2003. They are passionate to see the unreached have access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Ben serves as the International Director of World Outreach, and helps to serve the missionaries focused on spreading the good news. 

Missionary Partner

Caroline serves at LCC Int’l University, a Christian college in Lithuania that has students from many different cultural and religious backgrounds. Caroline works to mentor these students through building community by finding common ground through faith in Jesus. 

Missionary Partner

Jonah Adams has a passion for sharing the gospel globally.  Having just graduated from Cal Poly SLO, he is ready for his next big step.  In college Jonah was involved in CRU and had experienced the joy of ministry on campus as well overseas through short term missions. Now, he's headed to Paris to work with CRU in an international setting, building relationships with students who have travelled from all over the world to study in France.  Jonah is strong in his faith, clear in his calling and full of desire and energy to get started.

Missionary Partner

Josh and Audra Cadd have been living in Kenya working for Door International, which is an organization that works to serve the deaf around the world by translating the bible into sign languages. The Cadds work with the translation teams to ensure correct translations of the Gospel in all the various unique languages that they come across.

Missionary Partner

Jon and Cher Cadd have been serving with Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) in Africa for the last 37 years. They work to bring education, health care, supplies, and the hope of the Gospel to those who live in isolation around the world. This has become a necessity in recent years as instability and violence continues to grow in these regions.

Missionary Partner

Shane and Tara Jette are based in Nelson, New Zealand and help lead the YWAM program there. Their vision is to train and send missionaries to the last, lost, and least around the world. They partner with 80+ missionaries around the world to disciple and care for.

Missionary Partner

Elliot and Hildur Jones serve in Reykjavik, Iceland where Hildur grew up. They both lead a college ministry in the city, and Elliot serves as an elder and discipleship pastor at a local church. Together, they plan to move up to northern Iceland to begin house-church planting, spreading the Gospel of Jesus throughout the country.

Missionary Partner

Greyson is a missionary in training, currently living in Santiago, Dominican Republic, working with Students International through their Global Bridge Program. Here, he gets to receive an education for vocational ministry while serving, ministering, and mentoring in the Dominican Republic.

Missionary Partner

Hector is on staff with Students International in the Dominican Republic, and engages with our high school students when they go every other year on their mission trip. Hector is the main point of contact for the students who help serve at the preschool to bring the light of Jesus and education into their lives.

Missionary Partner

Jesse and Bethany Schlender serve with Cru in the Boise metro area, sharing the Gospel with 50,000+ students in the southern Idaho and eastern Oregon region. Cru works to serve the nations of the world in reaching college students for Christ.

Missionary Partner

Jameson and Fernanda Wilent are a part of World Outreach, serving to spread the love of God and disciple the unreached by working with local leaders throughout the region, equipping them to disciple their own people and others. They provide organizational support to local ministry leaders who serve in challenging and often dangerous areas, where spreading the word of God is not an easy task.

Missionary Partner

The Millers work in a largely unreached Muslim country using business to build the church. As church leaders they serve in worship and music, preaching and teaching, and discipleship of Muslim-background, first-generation Christians. The relationships they build through business have inspired countless people to investigate and even come to faith in Jesus Christ!

Global Impact Friend

James and Dana Dirkson founded Songs for Saplings as a ministry to teach children and students Gospel truths through the art of song. They release Bible songs for churches, families, and parents around the world, and are dedicated to translating these songs to bring God’s truth to many of the major languages of the world.

Global Impact Friend

Joel and DeAnn Vermillion serve as leaders of Wilderness Ministry Institute.  They equip leaders in over 40 countries to introduce young people to the Gospel through outdoor adventure. Their mission is to introduce youth in every culture to Jesus and that they would grow in their faith through transforming wilderness experiences.

Global Impact Friend

Ignite the World's mission is to bring hope to the nations through the transforming power of Jesus Christ by way of evangelism, evangelism training and missionary church planting, compassion relief projects and the ministry of prayer. Ignite the World’s vision is to bring salvation to the people of the world where the Gospel has not been preached or is rarely heard.

Global Impact Friend

Prosperina works to serve sexually abused girls (ages 10-17) in the Manabí province of Ecuador. These girls are now mothers as a result of the trauma they’ve endured. Prosperina provides specialized tailored assistance to these young girls including food, shelter, clothing, baby supplies, psychological care, education, occupational training, and legal aid.

Global Impact Friend

Located in the Ivory Coast, the Baptist Hospital is run by missionary Dr. Michael Butati, whose mission is to provide affordable healthcare to the people of Ivory Coast, and to spread the Gospel while doing it. He works to overcome the medical stigmas in Côte D’Ivoire, and to train up future medical professionals to spread good medical practices across the country. 

Global Impact Friend

David and Kathy Porter founded Hope House to provide young women in El Salvador with a loving home where they can grow in their faith, finish their education, and to go on to become agents of change in their own families and communities. These young women strive to spread the Gospel to other girls in their own villages through the Hope for Families girls club programs.  

Global Impact Friend

FSA is a Christian film school located in Kayamandi, South Africa. In this place where opportunities are extremely scarce they are dedicated to equipping its students to learn the process of film making and how it can be used as a form of art therapy. These students are immersed in the Gospel, and are taught fundamental skills that enable them to join the work force right after graduation so that they can make impacts within their own communities. 

Global Impact Friend

GSAM is a gospel light in a spiritually dark part of the world. Scores of orphans and abandoned children have been raised to trust in the Lord, but they also reach out to the community through running a very influential Christian school, mostly filled with the kids (K-10) from the community.  The joy of the Lord and the love of Christ is tangible!