First Baptist Matthews is honored to partner with missionaries and organizations around the world to take the hope of the gospel to a wide group of people.  We carefully cultivate relationships and support mission work through strategic partnerships where we come along side others to offer prayer, training, and financial support.

Josh and Susan Bolden
CRU - Chief of Staff | Missions Operations

Josh and Susan joined the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ (now known as CRU) in 1999 at Duke University.  In 2005 they moved to Western North Carolina to begin ministries on 25 campuses in the region.  Josh and Susan currently live in Holly Springs, NC where they have worked for Mid-South CRU, but will be moving to Orlando, FL soon.  Josh has recently been promoted to Chief of Staff Mission Operations.  We look forward to supporting Josh in his new responsibilities.

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Brandon and Ansley Hammond
CRU - South Carolina Low Country

Brandon and Ansley joined the full-time staff of Cru in 2004 after they graduated from College of Charleston and got married. They served at UNCC for four years and then had the opportunity to go to Brooklyn for three years where they reached students for Christ on many campuses in New York City. They had the chance to return to Charleston, SC in 2010 where they have continued to partner with students on many campuses in the area. Brandon and Ansley want to give every college student in the Low Country a chance to say “Yes” to Jesus Christ.

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Carmen Heffner
ABWE - Global Access Partnerships

Carmen joined ABWE in Nicaragua in 2007. For 10 years she supported church planting through teaching and equipping national pastors and their wives in Nicaragua. Carmen also supported the local churches through a teaching ministry. In 2018, God has brought changes in her role with ABWE. She will work in a branch called GAP. Her primary role will be to connect local churches with national partners throughout Latin America and the world in order to more effectively spread the Gospel.

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Loren and Michelle Rothmann
JAARS

Loren and Michelle have served with JAARS in Waxhaw, NC since 2010. Loren provides technical support and IT community development for Wycliffe and their partner organizations. He has traveled worldwide to help translators, directors & administrators improve their skills using online collaboration tools. Michelle serves at the JAARS Health Clinic which is a valuable asset to the missionaries at the JAARS Center. They are able to receive health care at a greatly reduced cost. Loren and Michelle are both thankful to support Bible translation.

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Michelle McPherson
IRIS Global - Kathmandu, Nepal

Michelle first began her ministry with the World Race in 2013. She served God in 11 countries in 11 months and was drawn to Nepal. She now works through Iris Global in Kathmandu where she helps in the Iris Nepal Children’s Home with 25 children and assists with the Iris Banquet House which provides hot meals for street people. Michelle also serves through a village outreach at four church plants in four different villages and is active in street outreach programs. Michelle is willing to answer in any way the Holy Spirit leads.

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Jeff & Kim Fox
CEDE SPORTS - Mint Hill, NC

After 25 years of ministry in the local church, the Lord opened an opportunity for Jeff to connect with and train in local churches, across North America, and around the world. Jeff recruits churches into the CSO network, he mentors Sports Outreach Leaders, and oversees the CSO Leadership Center. This reflects Jeff’s passion for the local church by allowing him to teach Biblical theology, mentor other ministers and strengthen the local church by enabling them to use sports for effective outreach. Church Sports Outreach recently changed their name to CEDESPORTS.

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Suresh and Anitha Sammangi
Indian Community Church - Boston, MA

Suresh was raised in India in a completely Hidu society.  He was saved through the ministry of a local pastor in 1997.  In 2007, sensing the call to ministry, he left everything behind and sought an education in the United States.  He received his undergraduate from Temple Baptist College and his Masters in Divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  

There are over 85,000 Indian people in the Boston area that Suresh seeks to reach with the gospel through the ministry of Indian Community Church.

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Tom Brown
Great Commission Ministries

Great Commission Ministries is about living the Great Commandment and fulfilling the Great Commission both locally and globally. It is a pioneering gospel work among the Nepalese and Bhutanese people groups in Nepal and Diaspora Nepalese scattered on the globe. GC believes in equipping indigenous leaders to train their people groups to teach and transfer the Great Commission to the ends of the earth. Nations have come to us. By reaching them here, we reach them there and reaching them there, we reach them here. It’s no longer domestic or foreign mission rather reaching the unreached people groups wherever they are.

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Dan Pokharel
President - Global Mission Nepal

Global Mission Nepal is committed to obeying Jesus Christ’s commandment to fulfill the Great Commission (Matthews 28:19-20) so that they will plant healthy and reproducing churches locally and globally. Through this process, they aim to reach the 30 million Nepalese in Nepal and 4 million Nepalese Diasporas around the world so that they too may have an opportunity to worship God and glorify Him through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The vision for Global Mission Nepal was born in 2013. In less than three years God has blessed them with more than 70 mission churches in Nepal. The goal is to plant 4000 more reproducing and healthy churches in Nepal by 2030. These church plants will occur with recruiting indigenous Nepali missionaries, giving them the vision, providing them training, and a partnership focus on mobilizing churches.

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Josh Wyatt
Charles River Church, Boston MA

Josh is the founder and lead pastor of Charles River Church in Boston, Massachusetts.  He wants to see the Boston area reached for Christ and has a passion to see the spiritual tide turned in all of New England in his lifetime.  Josh has a Bachelor and Seminary Degrees in Biblical Studies and Church Ministries.  He has started ministries for youth and families in urban housing developments along with new churches in Greater Boston.  In addition to his ministries in Boston, Josh enjoys traveling to speak across the country with a unique focus on the northeast.

Josh and his wife, Becky, have two sons, Isaiah and Luca, and a daughter, Norah.  He loves investing in next generation leaders, snowboarding, running, reading and exploring New England with his family. Josh and his family live in the Boston neighborhood of West Roxbury.

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