Missions
Doing Christ’s Work Around the World
FCFI is Active in Missions
The Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International has been very active in missions around the world, including Mexico, Albania, Russia, Romania, as well as here in the United States, including ECHO Global Farms, Reality Ranch, and Lives Under Construction.
Board member and former FCFI Board President Dave Carter has led several mission trips to Mexico in support of Pastor Tony Gomez, building church facilities and a covered soccer field.
In Albania, George and Julie Holmes provide seed packets and eyeglasses to people in need.
In Romania, current Board President Steve Cernek has made at least 16 trips and worked on the Caminul Dairy Project. We will have new stories explaining how we are helping children flee the violence in neighboring Ukraine. Stay tuned for upcoming news!
Here at home, yearly trips to ECHO Global Farms help keep the farm running and improve the grounds and buildings, making the visitor experience better.
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- In Faith and Farming: Rallying Behind AD Alvarez Amidst Financial Struggles
AD Alvarez with his family At FCFI (Fellowship of Christian Farmers International), we have always admired and supported those who step out in faith to make a difference. AD Alvarez, a dedicated farmer and missionary in a developing country, is one such individual. His… Read more: In Faith and Farming: Rallying Behind AD Alvarez Amidst Financial Struggles - Faith in the Field: A Missionary’s Vision for Farmers in the Philippines (AD Alvarez)
Join A.D. Alvarez, a missionary and farmer from Camotes Island, Cebu, Philippines, as he shares his inspiring story of faith and farming. In this heartfelt message, A.D. reflects on his connection with the Fellowship of Christian Farmers International (FCFI), his prayers for establishing a… Read more: Faith in the Field: A Missionary’s Vision for Farmers in the Philippines (AD Alvarez) - FCFI Has Evangelism Booth at Northern Navajo Nation Fair
We are considering including FFA’ers in our trip next year and will need volunteers to help… For many years, FCFI has been ministering at the Northern Navajo Nation Fair in Shiprock, New Mexico, and it seems to become more fruitful with each passing year.… Read more: FCFI Has Evangelism Booth at Northern Navajo Nation Fair
I know many of you like being in the middle of God’s work and one of FCFI’s main missions is to give ordinary farmers, like me and you, the opportunity to jump in and use our abilities to further God’s Kingdom.
Let me share a story: As a young farm kid in the late 1960’s I developed an interest in the country called Romania. It was a communist-run country at that time, but God gave me a keen interest in learning all I could about it. And I felt that God would take me there someday and work with orphans. Now fast forward to the start of the 21st century, when I read some articles in the Successful Farming magazine about a FCFI mission trip to Romania. It took a couple years but I finally convinced my wife that I should go. My daughter and I made the first trip there in 2003. We were privileged to meet and work with FCFI missionary farmers, Clark and Sue Phillips from Collinsville, NY. They spent 6 years of their lives developing and running a milking parlor style, 150 cow, dairy farm in conjunction with Caminul Felix, a large orphanage in Oradea, Romania.
That trip I fell in love with the Romanian people, (Clark and Sue, too), and the country, and I have returned on mission trips for 16 straight years up until the travel restrictions of the last couple years. Through the years I have used my “farming” skills to remodel churches and homes, construct buildings, fix equipment, share the love of Jesus and pertinent to this story, start up a nursing home facility built from scratch. Then when government regulations became overbearing we transitioned the nursing home into a youth camp center in 2014.
Now jump ahead to 2022; recently my brother Kevin, who is the pastor of Martintown Community Church called me with a question. His church wanted to help with Ukrainian refugees, many of who are seeking shelter in Romania, how can we help? I called Pastor Alex who has been instrumental in all my involvement throughout the years. As I shared with him the gift that was offered, he spoke through tears of joy, and told me that he had been asked that day, if he could help find a place to relocate 70 kids from a Ukrainian orphanage near Kyiv. Alex told them to bring the kids to our camp, and although he had no money to support them he would be trusting God to provide. The church’s monetary gift was an overwhelming confirmation that God could and would provide, starting even before the need was made known!
So around 70 kids came! They left the orphanage and that night their town was heavily bombed. Great timing, you say? Alex said, GOD’S PERFECT TIMING!!
Isn’t it great to be a part of God’s work and to see how He fits everything together? An old folks home to a temporary orphanage??? Who would have thought it!!
So back to you; You don’t have to be someone “important” or “special” to do God’s work, just be tuned in and listening for God’s prompting and then get ready to jump in,(not too much different than farming). God made you for a purpose so get going and do it! There is no one better if He has called you! Most of God’s work through the ages has been done by “ordinary” people. So make yourself available to God and remember FCFI wants to help you in any way we can! You’ll never know how God will use you until you start.
Steve Cernek, FCFI Board President
