GLOBALLY
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD INITIATIVE
“Every box is an opportunity to reach a child with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” —Franklin Graham Participating as a family in filling shoeboxes with prayerfully selected toys, school supplies, and hygiene items for Operation Christmas Child is a great way to example love for others. OCC delivers God’s love in a tangible way to children around the world and shares the Good News of Jesus Christ with every box. This is a great way to give and share the Gospel and each year our local church partners with 100 boxes. Launches in September - Collection in November
HORIZON PARTNERSHIP
Horizon is a global village of passionate people, innovating and leading the way down a path of radical transformation that rescues, restores and empowers orphaned and vulnerable children and at-risk youth toward a life of self-sustainability. They do this by strengthening families, building community resiliency, and creating sustainable social enterprises in Guatemala, Honduras, and Kenya.
HOP (Honduran Orphan Partnership) INITIATIVE
HOP Teams are short-term learning and serving experiences for teams sent from Hillcrest to visit and support the goals of our partner orphanage, La Providencia in Siguatepeque, Honduras. HOP Teams typically visit for one to two weeks and have different focuses including: work projects, helping in the school, community teaching, sports & VBS programs, and relational work with the La Providencia children, families and staff. To learn more about La Providencia, click HERE.
NAVIGATORS PARTNERSHIP
Hillcrest supports a couple as they serve on a college campus in New Zealand, building relationships with students, many of whom are from countries throughout the world.
POLAND PARTNERSHIP
Hillcrest supports a couple as she teaches English classes, and he mentors and teaches future pastors in a few different seminaries.
TURKEY PARTNERSHIP
Hillcrest supports a church-planting couple as they share the Gospel through internet-based outreach, English conversation groups, tract distribution and friendship evangelism. Their church is flourishing with some Turkish leadership in weekly services, Bible Studies and baptisms.
SOUTHEAST ASIA PARTNERSHIP
Hillcrest supports a family living in this area building relationships, undergoing intensive study of the language and culture, and serving an unreached people group needing the gospel.
SPAIN PARTNERSHIP
Hillcrest supports a family who loves to share Christ’s love and message with neighbors and immigrants to Spain from Northern Africa. They also teach people to work with this people group.
THAILAND PARTNERSHIP
These partners record the Gospel and basic Christian teaching materials for small unreached people groups in their own language as many of these people cannot read or do not have these materials written down. They build relationships with local people, identify translators, prepare scripts, and record, edit and distribute the recordings in small villages throughout Southeast Asia.
UKRAINE PARTNERSHIP
Partners work with church leaders in Eurasia & Southeast Asia to build healthy and dynamic churches that are not based on tradition. Through his books he helps pastors and church leaders covering many aspects of theology and church leadership. His wife coordinates Christian resources to be used in homes and churches, helping women to become better wives and mothers.