Missions

IRENE CANTON The gospel is unstoppable and the second year of the pandemic would not hinder it. • In Cambodia, Ratanak supported over 200 men and women to return to Cambodia after being trafficked into slavery. Ratanak staff persevered through COVID-19 quarantines and travel restrictions to care for survivors. • In India, Helping Point celebrated 20 years of delivering quality education to children of Dalit and marginalized communities. At St. Simon’s School, a new classroom block and the third floor of the dormitory were completed, all cyclone proof. The school and daycare centers slowly reopened after pandemic shut downs. • For Malawi, we continued to pray with our Malawian brothers and sisters as they waited patiently for a resolution of the leadership crisis in the Diocese of the Upper Shire. Priests remain faithful to gospel ministry despite difficult circumstances. St. John’s hosted two virtual missions lunches for our launching missionaries. The first featured Andrew Buchanan, who moved to South Carolina to pursue further theological studies as he waits for a visa to Japan. The second featured Habib, who returned to the Middle East and North Africa region. He has connected to a disciplemaking movement and is seeing God move powerfully in the region. In 2021, the gospel was proclaimed through translating the Bible, discipling students, building schools, freeing the oppressed, and feeding the hungry. From Vancouver to Paraguay to West Africa, Nepal and beyond, may God’s kingdom come and will be done in every corner of the earth.