Global Partners

We are well-acquainted with GP, a Wesleyan hub for sending and supporting Christian workers around the world. Two specific needs that GP coordinates are especially important to us.

This post is part of a nine-part year-end giving series on organizations we love.

GP: Kevin and Cindy

*Kevin and Cindy with our son Pete in the Czech Republic, 2023*

These dear friends have served in Europe for decades. They even had a stealthy role and a front row seat to our engagement in Munich back in 1992. They are precious to us–not only as consummate experts in overseas ministry work but as loving, generous servants of Jesus with impeccable character. Many have come to know the Lord and have connected with the family of faith through their loving influence and hospitality. We adore them!

Recently, they moved back to the US to continue GP work from a distance on a gradual transition to retirement. Cindy supports Europe teams remotely with administrative support. Like others who have served abroad at great sacrifice for their entire careers, they are very grateful for ongoing financial support for their stateside roles. It’s our joy to continue support for them now that they are back in the US. You can give to their monthly support at https://wesleyan.my.site.com/donorportal/s/fund/a1s3t000005PDjIAAW/kevin-and-cindy-austin

GP: Manipur Conflict Relief

*Church community in Manipur*, *India*. *Photo from* *TWC*.1

Global Partners and Wesleyan Emergency Relief established a relief fund to provide care and basic necessities for the community of Wesleyan believers in Manipur, India, which has been facing unthinkable persecution for their faith in the crossfires of rivalries between other groups that otherwise have nothing to do with them.

**Be forewarned that this paragraph is graphic and very disturbing.** As just one example from last year, a female teacher at the Wesleyan school was assaulted, tortured, and burned alive by armed militia, who then removed her brains and desecrated her body in front of the community before they burned down homes and churches and slaughtered hundreds of others.

We have full confidence in the reports, having heard them initially from two trustworthy sources whom we know personally and who know the community first-hand. Then, after we contributed to the relief effort organized within that community, their local church leaders sent us a letter that described in great detail exactly how they had put the funds to use (detailing purchases of X kilos of rice, X number of hygiene products, X number of blankets, and so on). While they are trying to survive, they are also reaching out to their neighbors, sharing their resources with other struggling families, and expressing in word and deed the love of Christ.

*A Wesleyan congregation in Manipur, India. Photo from TW*C.2

When Scott and I opened their letter in our living room and read it, we were moved to tears by their sincerity and vigilance and by how immediately and personally our modest gifts were being used to feed and clothe people who had lost not only their loved ones but also every material resource. You can support this ongoing relief effort here: https://wesleyan.my.site.com/donorportal/s/fund/a1s7V0000091pelQAA/manipur-conflict-response-project-india