SERVING GLOBALLY.
2024 Global Missions Info
We are excited about our upcoming Legacy Church Missions opportunities. Applications are officially closed. Please note that any international trip is subject to change by a date or two depending on flight schedules. Contact Pastor Neil with any further questions at neil@visitlegacy.org
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Our relationship with the Zera House was one of the most seamless and self-formed partnerships that we have. Lee Yost and her children organized a team of people in 2018 to serve in West Virginia in honor of her husband Andy who had recently passed away. While on this trip, we met a group who had just purchased a property to serve women who had been trafficked and help them take their next steps of freedom. Since then, we have been in close contact and have formed a partnership where we help resource their mission as well as send teams to assist in big projects.
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The partnership with Crisalinco began in 2016 when Pastor Adam began organizing Legacy’s first mission trip with ANM (Advancing Native Missions). We sent our first team the following year and the rest is history. Crisalinco’s heart to reach the unreached and hard to reach tribes throughout the jungles of Colombia is unparalleled. Founders Helman and Rosalba have such a unique heart of discipleship and that heart is evidenced throughout the entirety of their organization. A lifelong partnership was only natural.
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When Pastor Neil was hired in the fall of 2017, he brought with him a heart for a mission that he had served with for years, Bread of Life. Their mission is to reach unreached people groups throughout different parts of Africa. Founder/Leader Joel Maregwa has the mind of a visionary and the heart of a servant, and has led Bread of Life into some of the most desolate lands to reach and save the lost. Legacy took their first trip to Kenya in 2019, and a partnership couldn’t be resisted.
Global Missions Partners
crisalinco, colombia
Legacy Church partners with Advancing Native Missions and Crisalinco to bring the Gospel to the unreached tribes in the country. Every year, we have seen lives literally changed in front of our eyes, including the doors opening to visit an unreached village that no Christians had ever been allowed to previously meet. The ministry that Helman and Rosalba Ocampo are faithfully leading is unique and exciting! God is using that family to advance the gospel in different tribes for generations to come!
BREAD OF LIFE, KENYA
Some of you have met with Joel Maregwa who leads an organization in Kenya called Bread of Life when he came to visit our church. This organization fits the mold of Legacy Church well as it is their goal to reach unreached people groups in Kenya and South Sudan. We partner with this organization to send a team into “the bush” where Bread of Life has existed for about 12 years. In the bush, you’ll work with some incredible Kenyan missionaries to advance the gospel further than it’s ever gone. You’ll meet people who have never seen a foreigner, let alone heard the name Jesus. There will be opportunities to help with construction, spend time with kids, and deliver the gospel message to unreached tribes!
zera house,
West Virginia
A few years ago, a team from Legacy Church went to serve in McDowell County, West Virginia. The team went in honor of one of our Legacy Church heroes, Andy Yost. Through a few trips across the mountain, we have established a new partner called the Zera House which exists to provide a safe home for women age 18+ who have been trafficked and sexually exploited where they can heal while experiencing the love, hope, and grace of Jesus Christ. As our partnership continues to grow, we will be sending teams to assist with construction projects, neighborhood outreaches, and whatever else is needed.
WHY GLOBAL MISSIONS?
Jesus gives us the challenge to reach the ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8). Global missions is our way of partnering with God’s heart to reach the ends of the earth.
HOW DO WE CHOOSE OUR MISSION TRIPS?
It’s simple for us at Legacy. Our desire is to care for the unreached and hard to reach places of the world. Matthew 24:14 makes it clear that once the gospel is heard by all people, Jesus will return. We want to do our part to bring the gospel to all people. Any mission partner that we pursue is carefully evaluated, prayed over, and voted on by staff and elders.
WHO SHOULD SERVE IN MISSIONS?
We believe that global missions is for everybody. However, we don’t all serve in the same way. We accomplish this goal in one of three ways:
PRAY: Pray for our partners, pray for those who are going on trips, and pray for the health of the organization.
GIVE: Some of us are blessed with the resources to send teams overseas. We can also provide resources to the specific organizations and the tribes we are influencing.
GO: God has equipped some of us spiritually, mentally, and physically to go on these trips.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE A LONG-TERM IMPACT BY TAKING SHORT TERM TRIPS?
Another thing that we are cautious of with our strategic partners is how long our impact lasts. We don’t want to just show up and leave. We might lead a couple people to Christ, show the kids a good time with VBS, and care for some of the people in the village. However, the question we want to ask is this; What happens when we leave?
As a church, we want to only send teams to organizations where a lasting impact is being made. All of our partners have permanent missionaries, pastors, elders, etc. who live in and around the places we visit who care for the people on a daily basis. Our role in sending short term teams are to help with any pressing matters like construction projects or church events, care for those in the trenches, and help advance the gospel strategically.