Christ the King, Toronto
Global Mission Projects: Christ the King, Toronto, ON
by The Rev. Keith Ganzer
Christ the King has a Mission Committee of four persons who select our mission partners, communicate with each one on a monthly basis to encourage them, and distribute funds from our annual mission budget to their sending organizations. The mission partners, in turn, send us their prayer requests, and our intercessors pray for them during our Sunday services each week.
We currently have five mission partners:
The Rev. Jacob Cole, in The Gambia, Africa, who is taking a four year course in Christian Studies at the University of The Gambia. CTK is providing Jacob's tuition expenses as well as covering the cost of his travel, books and photocopying.
Norm and Audrey Henderson, Canadians, serving at the CEML hospital in Lubango, Angola, where Audrey is a nurse and Norm is the IT guy. The Hendersons helped plant a church in a small nearby village, Candjambumba.
Student Ministry, through Power To Change, which sponsors the Relevant Series at the University of Toronto and other universities, providing a week of lectures followed by Q&A periods on topics relevant to young people, from a Christian point of view.
A couple for whom we have prayed and supported financially since our inception, who are fluent in Arabic and have served in several African countries but now teach English to Arabic-speaking refugees in London ON with a Christian witness.
The pastor of the Hesed Community Church, which serves three small villages outside Yangon, Myanmar, who has an extensive caring ministry for the Buddhist people in these villages and beyond.
Christ the King also has a Christian outreach to International Students. We cover the salary of our 'evangelist' and his out of pocket travel and hospitality expenses for this ministry. He, together with volunteers leads an ESL Bible study on Monday evenings and a Canadian Culture Conversation Class with a Christian witness on Wednesday evenings. He is bilingual - English and Mandarin.
Several of CTK's university-age students have done short-term mission trips in the last few years: one with OM aboard the Logos in Latin America; one with a Singaporean church outreach in Indonesia; and one with Serge, working as a half-time medical intern/half-time teacher in Burundi, Africa. There are two other students in conversation with OMF regarding a call to mission.
Seven individuals from CTK have completed the 15-week, internationally recognized, certificate course, "Perspectives on the World Christian Movement", a course that covers the Biblical mandate, history, cultural barriers and current strategies for missions.
Our Mission Committee includes one individual who is learning Arabic and may become a mission partner in the future, another individual who can minister in four languages and is an itinerant evangelist with RZIM in Ontario, Quebec and South America, plus two individuals who have served on the boards of several Christian organizations over the years.
Contact: Pam Bales rbales@bell.net