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"...you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ..." Phil 1:5 NLT

By Laurel Ellis

April 9^th, 2024

Sent.

The AGWM theme for 2024 is "Sent" taken from John 20:22 "As the Father has sent me, so send I you." Our new Executive Director John Easter expresses it well is this video:

40 years of being sent by YOU!

The pictures below are just a sampling of the multitude of churches and individuals who have faithfully supported Rick and me over these four decades. The first church to send us in 1984 was Parkway Christian Center in Grants Pass, Oregon under the leadership of Pastor Gordon Myers. Since then many more have sustained us through giving and prayer, both of which are key. This beautiful partnership of going and sending began when God sent Jesus, continued through the book of Acts and extends to us today.

2018 Laurel with Tee Steele, now 95 years old, and one of my biggest financial supporters.

2023 Laurel with Lloyd and Helen Smith, friends and supporters from the very beginning in Grants Pass in 1984.

2013 Ron and Trudy Hermsmeier, faithful supporters and mentors, who ministered with us many times in Chile.

1998 Joanna Cope and June Schoonover, longtime friends and supporters from Canby, now in their nineties, visited us in Chile.

2023 Laurel with Dan and Nancy Phillips, friends and supporters from Northwest College days.

2018 Laurel receiving STL funds from Pendleton First.

Spray Assembly of God, a faithful supporting church for many decades.

2015 Rick preaching at Living Word Fellowship, Boring, Oregon.

1986 Rick preaching the missions convention at Parkway Christian Center in Grants Pass, Oregon.

Fruitful ministry because you sent.

I could fill pages and pages with pictures of people who have been touched and transformed by the gospel through our ministry. Every church planted, every person who found new life in Jesus, every worker called into ministry, is because you sent us. The work ripples out from your faithfulness, radiating through us and on into eternity, a partnership originating in the heart of God.

Partnership

1986 San Pedro, Chile church plant.

1998 Arauco, Chile church plant.

1992 Loja, Ecuador church plant.

2013 Concepción, Chile church plant.

2014 Rick leading an all church meeting in Concepción, Chile.

Laurel has continued as a missionary since's Rick's sudden passing in January 2017.

2023 Laurel preaching in Cuenca, Ecuador

2023 Laurel preaching an evangelistic message at a community Christmas event in Chiquintad, Ecuador

Footnotes

"I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy." Phil 1:3,4

FootNotes

"I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy." Phil 1:3,4

© 2026 Laurel Ellis

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news. Romans 10:15 NIV

Her children arise and call her blessed.

Proverbs 31:28 NIV

"Here I am. Send me!"

Isaiah 6:8

Neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1Corinthians 3:7

The Lord directs the steps of the godly.

He delights in every detail of their lives. Psalm 37:23 NLT

The Goodness of God

Taste and see how good the Lord is! Psalm 34:8 CEB

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