Featured Missionaries

Mark & Kathy Lipic

TEAM Expansion

Supported Since 2018

The Lipic family moved to Louisville, KY in ‘22 where Mark continues his work with Team Expansion in new roles as Field Coordinator and Diaspora Services Consultant. Mark travels to countries to meet with, coach, and shepherd teams currently on the field. He also ministers to refugees in the Louisville area.

Let’s Pray

• Part of my (Mark) work here at Team Expansion is praying for, supervising, strategizing, and coordinating the work of several of our fields. A field is a location where we have workers on the ground, whether it be an individual, a couple, or a team of workers. Additionally, I am working towards sending workers to new areas where refugees are currently living. In order to send workers to new locations, they need training and a support network. Please pray for workers to send, the training they need, and a strong support network for each of them.
• We are always searching for new laborers to send into the Harvest, please pray for God to raise up teams of workers who are called to go to places like Lebanon, where in the Bekaa Valley there are around 900,000 Syrian, Kurdish and Iraqi refugees. 
• Also, please pray for a team of workers to go to Uganda, or that region of Africa, to work and share the Gospel among the Somali and South Sudanese refugees.  We were scheduled to go to Uganda in June, however, this trip had to be postponed due to the Ebola outbreak in that region.  Please pray with us for God's timing on when to go. I will be taking a married couple who are praying about relocating to this region, along with two other colleagues from Team Expansion. We are also in the beginning stages of supplying women at a refugee camp in southern Uganda with sanitary hygiene products. We are praying for more funding for these products to be distributed so that the women don't have to miss school for one week per month. In providing these items, we will share the Gospel and search for those who are receptive to the Good News.
  
• Please also pray for a team in the Middle East who are going into Syria and training local Christians to make more disciples among their own people. Pray for a local church in Damascus, Syria, the pastor and his congregation as they learn to share the Gospel.
• Additionally, please pray for the Louisville Diaspora Team as we continue to do outreach primarily among Afghans, but also among Somali people.

Missions has been a part of our DNA from the very beginning!

1964 our first full time missionary was sent.

1966 we hosted our first missions conference.

Presently we support over 40 missionaries near and far. They include church planters, college campus ministries, international ministry, and training / discipling / mobilizing.

Who are our missionaries?

First of all we call our missionaries, "Global Partners". We consider our support of them a partnership, and we take it seriously! We pray for them continually and strive to keep in touch with them so that we can remain involved in their work. Their stories are amazing!

Grace Church Global Partners are young adults just heading out on the mission field. They are couples and families choosing to live in other countries to form relationships so they can share the gospel. They are individuals entrenched on college campuses. They are seasoned workers of God who have spent their whole lives in service to Him to share the love of Jesus and further His Kingdom. And they are people who live and work in their neighborhoods and churches to share the salvation of Jesus Christ in their own countries.

How do we support our missionaries?

No money is used from the operating budget of Grace Church to support our Global Partners.

The financial support for all our Global Partners comes directly from the generous family of Grace Church. Pledges are made in the fall of each year to help the GO Team oversee the yearly budget and make decisions on support.

Are there other ways Grace Church fulfills the command of  Matthew 28:19?                                                 YES! The GO Team supports

Short term missions trips (Adult & Youth)

Annual Missions Garage Sale (an outreach to the local community the benefits our Global Partners in a big way)

Conferences & learning opportunities