Join us for the Day #2 Vlog from our team visiting Lithuania and City Church. Jessica VanLeeuwen and Jolie Blankenship share their thoughts about the emotional day learning about history and hope.

Day 6 video blog coming to you on our team's travel day back home. Our team is worn out from all the amazing things they experienced the past 10 days. Hear from our Associate Director Tom Boone as he puts a bow on this trip with great insights about our hosts and team visiting.

The Outreach Foundation is introducing a team from Crestwood Church near RIchmond, VA, to our partner in Lithuania - City Church. Join us as we continue with our trip vlog series.

Day 5 Video Blog from Germany! Hear from our Outreach Foundation Board Member Powell Jones, Elder at First Presbyterian Church in Thomasville, as he recaps our second to last day on the ground in Nuremberg.

Day 4 video blog coming to you, on the way back from Pastor Sargez’s house! Listen as Ben and Heather Lindquist from First Presbyterian Church - Thomasville bring a word and recap from a busy day in and around Nuremberg.

Check out our day 3 vlog from our very own Jeremy Churchill. The team on the ground in Nuremberg got to tour the city, learning the history of the place our Persian friends now call home. They also heard from our partner Pastor Mehrdad who shared his testimony and told us about his ministry. It is amazing how God is using Mehrdad and his family to minister to Iranians here in Germany! check back later for day 4 of our video blog series from Germany.

Click and watch our Day 2 vlog from the team working with the Persian Diaspora in Germany! Hear from Jake and Chandler Fletcher, covenant partners at First Presbyterian Church Thomasville, GA, as they give an update from the Persian Christians Conference. The team has worshiped, heard preaching, listened to testimonies, and gotten to know some of the Persian Christians living across Europe.

We’re trying something new! For our team visiting the Persian Diaspora, we are receiving our trip blogs in video form. We hope you enjoy these updates from members of the team on the ground in beautiful rural rural Germany. Listen as Rev. Abby Gatliff, Associate Pastor at South Highlands Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama, tells us about worshiping and working with our Persian friends in Christ.

On the second day of refugee camp visits, we started in Tierkidi (Kule 1) camp. We visited the congregation at Pagak where the Bible school (Pagak Mercery Institute)  is located. Rev. John Chuol Duel is the Principal of the school. Earlier this year they graduated 17 students in their second class, including 8 women.

On June 5, we traveled to the first refugee camp to visit the preschools and a Bible school, and to meet hundreds of refugee children (some who were born and raised in the camp that opened in 2014). We started at the school at Center One.

Sunday, June 4 in Gambella, Pastor William Deng Tut (San Diego) and I attended the Newland church at West Gambella Bethel Synod compound. West Gambella Bethel Synod President, Rev. James Gadet Tang, has helped to host the visiting Outreach Foundation teams for the past 5 years.

On Saturday, June 3, I had the opportunity to visit with John Jock Gatwech, refugee camp coordinator for education and trauma healing for the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan, and his family. Since 2015, John, a trained teacher, has helped to direct the projects in 6 camps supported by The Outreach Foundation. His wife has recently completed her nursing training.