Merry Christmas from Chris and Heather Sawdon

“To demonstrate God’s love by connecting to and positively impacting our neighborhood.”

We don't just believe in Knowing Jesus and Growing in the Holy Spirit, but that Christ saved us for a purpose. "For you are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works which he prepared in advance for you to do." Ephesians 2:10.

So as disciples, we follow Christ outside of the church and into our neighborhood to do what He did when he was on earth. That is He healed, He freed the oppressed, He brought forgiveness and grace, and preached the good news of the God's reign on earth. The GO Ministry's goal is to bless our community in Christ's name.

Beyond our immediate community New Hope is also called to make an impact in the world at large. So every year we send people on cross-cultural mission trips, and we support three overseas missionaries. We believe that the more we reach beyond our own circles the more we live out the call of Christ's incarnational ministry.

Organization: RCA Mission Service & Mission Aviation Fellowship
Mailing Address:
Jalan MAF #1
Tarakan, Kalimantan Timur 77111
email: CHollander@maf.org
website: www.maf.org

Craig and Christa Hollander serve with Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) in Indonesia. Both Craig and Christa have been interested in mission work since they were young. They met at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, where Craig studied mission aviation and Christa studied Bible and theology. As a pilot and mechanic for MAF, Craig serves by "flying pastors, missionaries, doctors, the sick and injured, government officials, food, animals, Bibles, educational materials, building supplies, and anything or anyone you can imagine in direct support of MAF's reason for existence--to multiply the effectiveness of the church by using aviation and other strategic technologies that conquer barriers in reaching the world for Christ."

Craig and Christa have three children, Faith, Sean, and Mercy.

Organization: New Tribes Mission
Mailing Address:
Faith Academy, PO Box 81305, Davao City , Philippines
email: chris_sawdon@ntm.org heather_sawdon@ntm.org
website: www.ntm.org

Chris and Heather serve Faith Academy Davao which is a school for the children of missionaries Philippines and Global Business leaders. Chris serves as the business manager of the school and Heather is one of the schools teachers.

Chris and Heather have two children, Sierra and Joseph.