Mission Outreach at Grace Bible Church

from Missions Chairman Ralph Nichols, December 2007

Grace Bible Church is sending financial and spiritual support to several missionary endeavors.

Marvin and Pam Campbell were members of Oxnard First Baptist Church while Marvin was stationed at CBC. He resigned his commission and went with Navigators. He is now Regional Director for Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Ministries, responsible for recruitment, training, development, and mentoring of collegiate staff and volunteers on campuses throughout the area. Recently, Pam has been diagnosed with the beginnings of Multiple Myloma.

Tom and Irene Hodges met and were married here at Oxnard First Baptist Church. They have been with Christians In Action for many years, serving in Italy and England, but are now on loan to Wycliffe Bible Translators to develop and program the Speech Analyzer, which makes translating much easier. Irene types the completed translated manuscripts to be sent for printing and bound into Bibles in the “heart language” of the indigenous people. Tom is having trouble with his heart. In spite of wearing a pacemaker, he is having arrhythmia. He has been in and out the hospital. This has affected his working on getting the bugs out of the programs he is developing to make translation easier.
Kerry Kelly came to Oxnard First Baptist Church as a teenager. We have seen him grow in his physical and spiritual life. He and his wife, Charlyn, spent several years as missionaries in Spain, and are now with World Team. He is supervisor over all the churches they have established in the Western Hemisphere. He travels a lot, meeting with pastors and leaders throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean.
The Lighthouse is part of the Ventura County Rescue Mission working with homeless women and children.
The Gideons International distributes Bibles and Testaments throughout the world. They have members in 182 countries placing scriptures in hotels and motels, hospitals, jails and prisons, schools, colleges and universities, and military personnel, police, firefighters and EMTs. Locally, around 5000 testaments were distributed in 2006-2007 to Jr. and Sr. High schoolers as they left campus.