Outreach

At Christ Community, we take the Great Commission seriously.

We believe it’s important to take the Gospel next door, to the inner city, throughout the nation and around the world. Missionaries we help to support are establishing churches, translating the Bible, and flying missionaries into areas that roads won’t reach.

Our missionaries conduct radio ministries in Muslim countries, counsel women about alternatives to abortion, and minister to college students on campus. Some even work in ministries we can’t even mention on this site because it would invite persecution from the government in the countries where they minister.

We pray for these missionaries and support them financially – because at CCBC, we want to obey our Lord’s command to make disciples at home and throughout our world.

CCBC’s local-to-global outreach

Dale And Leanne Barkley

Wycliffe Bible Translators in Tucson, Arizona

Dale serves as executive secretary to the director of the Mexico Branch of SIL. Leanne works in the linguistics center library. Every year they travel to visit the Teita Mixtec people of southern Mexico, as they continue the New Testament translation project for their language.

Tom And Mary Beekman

JARS in Waxhaw, North Carolina

Tom & Mary Beekman:
I continue to Work with JAARS, the Wycliffe Service arm, as a Pilot and Instructor Pilot
preparing new recruits to serve in Aviation around the world making Bible Translation possible
in remote and hard to reach locations. I also correspond with and travel each year to our
foreign aviation operations to monitor and consult on standards to facilitate safety in our
operations. My Job Titles are Initial and Recurrent Training Pilot; and Aviation Standards
Coordinator. We fly to see people come to know the God of the Bible and support ministries
that work to see lives and communities transformed as they apply the Scriptures in their lives.
Mary continues to develop illustrated, and interactive Sunday School and Home Fellowship
lessons in Indonesian.

Adam And Ruth Huntley

Wycliffe Bible Translators

Adam and Ruth Huntley (Wycliffe Bible Translators), along with their five children, serve Bible
translation teams in the Central African Republic. Adam serves as a translation consultant,
helping four Bible translation teams (Bhogoto, Gbaya, Mandja, and Luto) check translated
Scripture portions in order to ensure exegetical and linguistic excellence. Ruth homeschools
their children and enjoys Bible studies and everyday discipleship with women in their
neighborhood.

Rod & Ellen Casali

Wycliffe Bible Translators in Alberta, Canada

After serving years in translation projects in Ghana, the Casalis relocated to Alberta, Canada, where Rod teaches linguistics and phonology at the Wycliffe training center, equipping missionaries to translate the Bible into tribal languages. They still help with some 250 translation projects in the Bantu language family in Ghana.

Tad And Michelle Cooper

InFaith. Newark, California

Formerly an elder at our church, Tad now does evangelism, discipleship and church planting among the Khmu, a Laotian people relocated to California.

Larry & Linda Jones

The Seed Company in Arlington, Texas (and around the world)

Larry and Linda have been missionaries with Wycliffe Bible translators since 1977.
They have helped the Yawa people of Indonesia get the New Testament and Psalms in their
language. They served 18 years in Indonesia and 9 years in the Philippines. Linda served as
the chief advisor in the Yawa New Testament translation project. After seven years working with
the Yawas, Larry transitioned to mission leadership roles in Indonesia and in the Asia Area. In
2008 they accepted an assignment at Seed Company, a Wycliffe affiliate organization. Larry
continued in senior mission leadership roles and Linda has been a linguistics consultant with
special focus on teaching translation teams how to write their own languages. In 2020 Larry was
appointed the President and CEO of Seed Company, a job he continues to fill today. Thank you
for your prayers and faithful generosity over many years!

Darin And Susan McFarland

CRU in Boston, Massachusetts

We have been on staff with Cru since 1989. Our first assignment took us to the University of
Texas in Austin and we moved to Russia in 1993. After fourteen years of doing ministry in
Russia we returned to the states in 2009 to direct the college ministry of Athletes in Action in the
greater Boston Metro area. We are excited about this new and strategic ministry opportunity to
reach student athletes at schools like Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Boston College,
Merrimack, Bentley, Babson, Emerson, Suffolk Northeastern and UMass Lowell. Today, more
than 200 student athletes are involved in the ministry of AIA in Boston. We are also helping to

coordinate Athletes in Action's new partnership and mission focus to the Central Asia by
introducing US staff and student athletes to cross-cultural missions in that country. We thank
God for your interest in our ministry and we invite you to consider joining our prayer and
financial support team.

Jane Pappenhagen

Wycliffe Bible Translators in Dallas (and Thailand)

Jane serves as senior editor for corporate communications for Wycliffe Bible Translators. She also teaches English as a Second Language in Thailand.

Craig And Barbara Prather

Camino Global in Dallas

Craig oversees the Quest Ministry of encouragement to Hispanic pastors and missionaries in DFW. Craig was the first pastor of Christ Community Bible Church (then Grand Prairie Bible Church).

Pregnancy Resource Center Of Grand Prairie

Our Vision: To reach women and men who are faced with an unplanned pregnancy and are at
risk for abortion in hopes they will make a life-affirming decision for their unborn child. The Truth
and Love of Jesus Christ is woven with all areas of The Pregnancy Resource Center Ministry as
we provide a standard of excellence in offering services, resources and education.
Mission Statement: Empowering women to make positive pregnancy decisions through options,
resources and education, while showing the love of Christ.

Sergio And Miriam Ramirez

Camino Global in Spain

Sergio and Miriam Ramires work in evangelism, church planting, teaching, discipleship and
consolidation in Santander, Spain. Also, they work in evangelism and pre-church planting in
Reinosa, at 70 kms from Santander. At this time Sergio teaches four virtual 45 minutes Bible
classes each week and personally disciples 8 people, plus preaching and teaching at some of
the church's meetings. Miriam overviews the SS ministry, ladies ministry and personally
disciples 4 young women. She also helps with the administration of our church in Santander. At
the end of last year our church gave away 900 evangelistic calendars and we anticipate
baptizing 4 disciples by the summer in the will of God. Finally, we are praying and giving to be
able to buy our meeting place by 2025.

Glenn And Judy Stewart

Camino Global in Guatemala

The Stewarts served 15 years with South American Mission in Bolivia, where Glen did aviation mechanics support. Today they serve a “Barnabas ministry” as Pastoral Care Coordinators for Camino Global families in Guatemala.

Michael And Lynette Wilson

Wycliffe Bible Translators in Australia

Michael and Lynette Wilson have been serving in Australia to help Bible translation in
Arnhemland since 2015. Lynette is using her training in applied linguistics and translation while
Michael has used a variety of skills to support Bible translation and Scripture use. In September
of 2020 he started work with a software development team that creates custom software to
further the work of Bible translation. Lynette trained missionaries as an associate instructor at
the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics in Dallas, TX as her first Wycliffe assignment, and
is training to become a Bible translation consultant while assisting Aboriginal Australians in the
Bible translation process.

Eric And Linda Darjean

Pastoral Intern, Paradox Church (Ft. Worth, TX)

I am the associate pastor and over community impact. What this means is that I oversee the
Sunday morning experience leading several teams that serve to make Sunday morning run
smoothly. I am also over community initiatives and partnership; Deciding where we are going to
put our time, energy and resources. Then putting an action plan together for how we will
achieve those goals as a church body. Over the past few years, I have gotten to know many of
the non-profits and other programs on the ground already in East Fort Worth and we have been
able to partner with them and do the work together.

Nabeeh And Ruba Abbassi

Church planters in Jordan

Nabeeh and Ruba Abbassi have been church planters in Jordan for 28 years. Nabeeh is the
pastor of a local church and is the General Director of the Arab Center for Consulting and
Training Services (ACCTS). He preaches regularly at his local church and provides support and
biblical encouragement for Arab youth through his role at ACCTS. Nabeeh is also president of
the Jordan Baptist Convention, where he serves by leading and supporting Baptist churches
and entities in Jordan. Ruba Abbassi is the founder of Arab Woman Today, a ministry in Jordan.
Arab Woman Today provides training and equipment for women across the Arab world, whether
in the community or the church.

Wycliffe Bible Translators

Wycliffe Bible translators to Asia

CCBC supports a husband and wife team of linguists, working remotely on a Bible translation project for an unreached people group in a restricted-access location in Asia. They were a part of our church before moving overseas to begin their ministry with Wycliffe and have been missionaries supported by our church for many years. They currently reside in Tennessee.