CREATIVE UP CLOSE

Sometimes the greatest mission field is in your own backyard.

I took Andrew Gamble on his first mission trip to India when I was a pastor in Nebraska. He later returned on his own for a second trip. Now he and his wife Megan have become part of a missionary endeavor in their own backyard as it were, right in Nebraska.

Andrew and Megan Gamble are working with Juniper Refuge. Andrew serves as a mentor for refugee families and Megan helps with the English Program. The largest Yazidi refugee population in the United States lived in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Yazidi come from northern Iraq. Their goal is to establish cross-cultural relationships and proclaim the Gospel. To do that, they will cooperate with already established ministries to refugee populations in Lincoln as well as ministry in the local church.

The Gambles serve under CMN, the Commission Minister’s Network, founded by Rick Malm.

The influx of refugees to the United States has created many opportunities of ministry in our own backyards. It is exciting to see what God will accomplish through the Gamble family in the years to come.