Responding at a Moment's Notice!

 Recently we were sitting around a table with a group of missionary workers and discussing our ministry as member care givers, sharing a little understanding about what we do. We were asked at that time, where we would be traveling to next for our ministry. We responded that at this time and for the remainder of the year, we do not have any out of country visits planned. We continued our visit together and left the meeting, only to receive a phone call asking us if we can come to Kenya. 

Often our ministry is not unlike the Minutemen volunteers of the Civil War Era. They were ready to respond in a moments notice, and we like them too are ready to respond. We have been in this ministry of support and care to our missionaries for over twenty years now. It is a joy for us to go, to share, to listen, to care and it is time to respond again. 

We will be leaving for Kenya this weekend for two weeks of ministry with our team serving there. We anticipate many opportunities to support and care for our people there. We ask an interest in your prayers as we go that we may have ears to hear and hearts to empathize as we meet with folks during these days. 

Everytime we are called to go, we pause to think of you, the reader of this blog. We sort of think of you as our "Minutemen" persons that we can stop and say, thank you, Father God for giving us a support team that continues to stand with us in ministry. We thank you, Father God for people who pray for us as we go on ministry journeys like this, and for the many individuals and churches that give sacrificially to us through World Gospel Mission so we can go. While we say thank you, Father God, we say thank you to you. Without your faithfulness, we would not be able to go. 

Please pray for us as we prepare for this trip. Please pray for our flights, connections, and luggage as we will be carrying supplies with us for the ministry there. Please pray for our visits with our team mates and co-workers serving faithfully on the front lines of ministry. Please pray for the entire staff continuing to work throughout Kenya as they partner with the African Gospel Church and the various important ministries taking place through the mission. We will have significant time to share with workers at Tenwek Hospital and at the newly opened Cardiac Thoracic Center. This state of the art facility was a result of a partnership with World Gospel Mission, the African Gospel Church, and Samaritan's Purse. 

Finally, thanks for praying and supporting us in a minute's notice. If you would like to give a one-time gift to further support our work and help defray the extra costs of this ministry visit to Kenya, please make a contribution to WORLD GOSPEL MISSION . It will be a blessing to our work, as will your prayers. 

Thankyou for being our "Minutemen" in this important endeavor. 

Sincerely,

Ned and Marlene McGrady

Missionaries with World Gospel Mission

Box 948

Marion, IN 46952

727-459-2966

God is at work in Europe and What's Next?

 

God is at work throughout Europe.

Ministry Opportunties in Europe

Spain will be our first destination. 

Albania will be our second desitnation

Greece will be our third destination......

Hi  Everyone,

We are excited to share with you that our ministry opportunities are calling us to Europe this month. On May 17 we will be heading off to Spain, for a ministry visit to our partners serving in the Barcelona Area. World Gospel Mission has partnered with a ministry to refugees and we will be visiting the leaders as well as two of our WGM Global Workers. We will travel by high speed train to Malaga about 6 hours south on the Mediterranean Sea. There we will have an opportunity to visit a ministry for Global Workers who can benefit from a respite and retreat setting. Ned has been meeting with the leaders of Sent Well to learn more about this ministry. We will stay at their Sent Well facility to learn more about the ministry and services they offer. In addition we will visit a WGM Global Worker Family in that area during our stay. 

On May 21 we will fly from Malaga to Tirana, Albania where a WGM Team partners with an agency known as Planters. This international team of global workers are led by Nathan and Cydil Waggoner, long time WGM workers and area team leaders. The ministry in Albania includes a variety of ministries, including sports, special needs, church planting, and more. Marlene and I will be able to spend quality time with each person on the team. God is working in very unique and special ways in this country and we look foward to this visit. 

On May 25 we will fly from Tirana, to Athens, Greece. There we will connect with some long time supporters of our ministry that represent two churches in the southern Ohio area. Ned's brother Jack and wife, Naomi, will be meeting us there to join us in a pilgrimage of the footsteps of St. Paul. We anticipate this to be both a learning opportunity, as well as some time to enjoy family and Sabbath Rest. 

One of the biggest messages we share with our Global Workers concerns the importance of Sabbath rest and taking a pause to replenish and refresh their own souls. It is clear that we minister best out of the overflow we possess. We have an opporutnity to do this with some family and are grateful for this chance to conclude this ministry trip with a couple days to do just that. 

We ask an interest in your prayers as we expect to have some long flights, lots of connections, many conversations, and much listening to people and to the Holy Spirit as we share together. Pleaes pray for health and safety as well as good flights and connections with all we plan to see. God has certianly been faithful in preparing the way for us to go and we know that we never go on these trips alone. We go with a sense of your prayers, and your support and the prescious presence of Jesus. Thank you for your faithfulness. 

Sincerely,

Ned and Marlene McGrady

Directors of Member Health 

World Gospel Mission

Box 948

Marion, IN 46952

If you wish to send a special gift to help with ministry travel to Spain or Albania, please follow this link. SPAIN and ALBANIA 

 Merry Christmas to our supporters and friends in ministry. 

We were able to reach to many of you to wish you a very happy holiday season, but just in case we missed someone, MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

At the start of this year 2023, we both thought that this would be a year when we would not travel as much and focus on the work around WGM and support our team members as they travel out to our many mission fields. Boy, were we mistaken. I think we traveled as much, if not more in 2023.

We found ourselves with ministry opportunities in England, Albania, Czech Republic, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Scotland as well as a few trips out west to some of our US based mission ministry locations. Pictured here is a visit to a wonderful family we love so much, Billy and Joanna Coppedge and their kiddos. We sure loved our visit with them as well as all the missionaries we connected with throughout this year. 

We had no idea we would respond to a crisis as a result of tribal warfare, or to war being declared in the Middle East. It sure kept us on our toes as mental health counselors, pastors and support folks. We have often said, we are honored to walk alongside of these giants of the faith that are on the front lines serving Jesus and serving others in remarkable ways. 

Which brings us to you. We could not do this work with out you. We know for sure that your prayers and your financial support has made our ministry happen. We praise Jesus for YOU! 

Thank you so much for standing with us in prayerful support. You are helping us make THE difference in the world for good, for the Gospel and most of all in partnership with this ministry. 

May the Christ of Christmas fill your hearts to capacity. We will stay tuned to what Jesus has for us in 2024. I am sure it will be exciting to see how He leads. Will join with us and follow Him in 2024.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

Ned and Marlene McGrady 

Missionaries with World Gospel Mission Box 948, Marion, IN 46952

What does Papua New Guinea and Edinburg Scotland have in common?

 

We were called to respond to a Crisis Incident Stress Debriefing to Papua New Guinea on September 13 after our missionary team and a work team were caught in an ambush between two tribes fighting. Tribal warfare is fairly common but is generally confined to remote places. However, this time the tribal warfare had reached a main road leading down the mountainside. Our missionaries and their visitors were coming down a mountain from a dinner out when they were ambushed. There were several 

miracles that took

place that were gifts and graces from our Heavenly Father. We praise God that no one was physically harmed and all were able to safely return to their homes. 

Many of you prayed for us as we responded to debrief this team and offer spiritual and emotional support and care to our missionaries. We were able to secure our visas and get to PNG in record time, arriving on the ground in 56 hours.. Everything fell into place and we praise God that we were able to get there, support and debrief as we ministered and cared for these folks. Thank you for praying for us. 

We returned back to Indiana on September 24th, thankful to God for each of you that prayed for us. 

The question is posed in the title of this blog, "What does PNG and Edinburg have in common? Well, for us it is time for us to go there for a debriefing. All of us are saddened by the outbreak of War in between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. WGM has a missionary family of seven that had been in Israel for 3 months studying Hebrew. We began following them closely and as war was declared, it was prudent for our family to evacuate. They were able to get out on one of the last commercial flights before the State Department began evacuation of Americans. The family will arrive in Edinburg, Scotland on Saturday where they will safely shelter and we can go to meet with them. 

The war in Israel has created havoc in the lives of so many and the devastation and destruction of war is impacting so many lives. Our missionaries were sheltering in place but had to evacuate. Marlene and I will fly out to Scotland on Wednesday of this week. We will meet with this family of seven as we debrief, support, and pray with them. We ask a special interest in your prayers as we again respond to this crisis. 

We thank each and every person reading this blog. Your prayers are coveted. Your gifts  are worth so much to us, as it enables us to respond to crisis' like these. We are honored to serve of this way and to bring some comfort, hope, and peace to global workers that have been impacted by crisis such as war. 

We will be in Scotland on Thursday of this week, October 19th and will be there for a week as we minister there in this our 35th country to minister in. 

If you would like to help us with a special financial gift, please consider that possibility. We have had some unexpected and emergency airfare to purchase. Your gifts and support, coupled with your prayers, are what make our response possible. 

May God bless you greatly. We sincerely thank you for your love and support. 

Ned and Marlene McGrady

Missionaries with World Gospel Mission

Box 948

Marion, IN 46952

McGradys Headed to PNG

Dear friends,

We have had a very active summer of ministry and pressing in to some big things for the fall. 

We are leaving in just a few hours for a response to Papua New Guinea for a crisis incident stress debriefing. I have placed a link to a video here to help you to pray for us. This sudden event requires our immediate response, so we go in the strength of our Lord, knowing your prayers are with us. 

We will be sharing a summary of a very impactful summer of ministry. 

Papua New Guinea is a 30 + hour journey. So thank you for your prayers as we travel. Also, our team is covering our Renewal with 11 missionaries that have come in from Kenya, Spain, the Texas, Arizona and Ohio. Our capable team of member care givers will be caring this ministry forth as we are on assignment. 

Here is a link to a video that will give you more info. We will be working with a several families and missionary units during this time. 

PLEASE CLICK ON THE VIDEO BELOW "RESPONDING TO PNG" 

Responding to PNG

Thank you so much for holding us in prayer as we go forth in ministry. 

Sincerely,

Ned and Marlene McGrady

WGM Missionaries

Travels to Europe on the horizon....

 

What is on the horizon? When you sit with this picture, from Lake Michigan  you can observe a lot of things. Light, beauty, calm, colors, contrasts, life, hope, glory, to name of few. "The heavens declare the Glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork." Psalm 19:1. 

It is time again for us to venture out on the horizon. This time we are heading to Albania by way of London. We will be traveling over this weekend through June 10th. Our layover in London will give us an opportunity to connect with one of our Global Workers who lives there and has been serving in Guatemala with a Street Kid's Ministry in partnership with WGM. We will connect with him for a visit and spend some time there before we fly on to Tirana, Albania. 

Every other year, WGM has a leadership training event known as IMPACT. It usually is held in Indiana  but this year instead of bringing mission leaders back to the USA for IMPACT, we are going to take the training across the ocean to them. Mission leaders from countries around the world where WGM serves, will be coming to Albania for 10 days of retreat, refreshment and training in leadership and ministry in order to better reach the nations for Christ.  

We are going not only to take part in IMPACT, but to be available to connect with our missionaries. It is always great to attend events like this, where we have a large gathering of our people in one area. We understand that we will be meeting on the Mediterranean Sea and we anticipate that there will be countless opportunities to meet with our global workers in times of pastoral care, support and listening to their hearts for ministry and serving Jesus. 

We have always said that we have the best job in the whole world, we get to be encouragers to those that are working on the frontlines of ministry and partner with them as we listen to their hearts, pray for their concerns and walk with them in their ministries. We will have an opportunity to impact over 20 countries with the Good News of Jesus, as we meet with folks from all walks of ministry. We have often realized that the sun never sets on the work of WGM, the Gospel is always being lived out, preached, taught and shared as persons come to Christ and are discipled in the faith. 

You may wonder if your investment in our ministry is making any impact on the world? The answer is YES! We hear of lives transformed and hope coming to the hurting, each and every day. God has called persons to go, and WGM has facilitated their going out to the nations to impact them with a better way of living. Our roles as pastor/counselor is to help to shepherd, encourage and keep those persons engaged in ministry. 

As you pray for us in these coming days, we ask that you will ask Jesus to give us great times of connection, very big and energized hearts to hear the joys and the concerns of our missionaries, and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit to speak, to listen, to empathize, to care, to pray, to encourage. Our greatest need is to have the impact of the spirit of God on our lives so that we may be ready to minister. We also know that in these travels there are always those unexpected opportunities to be a light in the world. Pray for us that we will be open and available to respond. 

IMPACT 2023 will be held in Albania, and together, you, and us, we can make an IMPACT on the nations at this event. We plan to take you with us in our hearts knowing that your prayers and your support has made this trip possible. 

We will plan to share some highlights and updates with you all in the next blog. 

Impacting the world together,

Ned and Marlene

WGM Missionaries

World Gospel Mission, Box 948 Marion, IN 46952 

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