Missions

Beginning with the first Seeds of Hope home in Thailand, John and Susan Chalkias have been involved in bringing aid to children in several countries. Their biggest projects are in Ndola, Zambia. The Buseko Children’s Home is the first, and currently only, home in Zambia specifically for HIV/AIDS affected or infected children. To ensure that the children have a good education and the tools to succeed in life, they have built their own school, Grace Academy, to continue in this innovative and pioneering ministry. Grace Academy is the only boarding school in the world today that caters specifically to HIV/AIDS affected or infected children. They are able to provide excellent medical care and anti-retroviral therapy (ARV’s) for all their HIV positive children. The vision is to raise leaders and the way to do this is through education and opportunity. Their aim is to save the lives of children by the care provided and to give sustainable hope for the children and their communities by the programs put in place

Shige and Luann lead the Tokyo Small Church Network. It’s a network of house churches that meet in homes of Tokyo. Tokyo is expensive to build a large church building, but there are a lot of small spaces, either homes or cafes or karaoke boxes, that can be filled with the life of Christ. Their vision statement is for God to transform Tokyo through an ever-increasing presence and influence of people who treasure Jesus above all else. 

GAiN is the humanitarian partner of Power to Change Canada, dedicated to bringing hope and tangible help to the poor and suffering through a demonstration of God’s love. GAiN works in 11 countries in three strategic areas:

1) Water For Life Initiative – an integral mission initiative that not only provides water wells, but plants churches in the same communities to provide people with the water for life and the water of life. 2) Economic Empowerment – partnering to provide financial resources (micro loans) as a catalyst to various economic opportunities in developing countries. 3) Disaster Relief and Preparedness – responding to disasters both natural and human caused.

In 2020, after 30 years of pastoral ministry, Lyndon accepted the call to join the team at GAiN. His role is to invite churches into the mission and work of GAiN and is involved in leadership development both in Canada and abroad. He, along with his wife, Suzanne, live in West Kelowna, and are grateful for the partnership of LHBC.

Walter and Florence minister in Cameroon as career missionaries.

Walter’s responsibilities include the position of Comptroller for the Cameroon Baptist Convention, a huge organization and responsibility.

In partnership with Moscow Theological Seminary NAB missions trains pastors for vocational ministry in ten different locations across Russia. Many of these men and women are already pastoring without the training necessary for sustainable ministry. They also come from impoverished areas with little or no financial support to sustain their families. Yet, they minister in faith. They come to the Bible School to earn a degree in a condensed, one-year format so as to minimize the cost, reduce the impact on their family life, and to ease the burden on their churches that are often without a pastor during this time. Qualified North American Bible teachers and professors do the teaching through translators, on their own time, and at their own expense. The Bible School is organized and facilitated by Gary Clatterbuck. He coordinates the activities and personnel of the schools. We are glad to be supporting this mission work, the growing hunger for God and the growing zeal of the evangelical Christian church in Russia, often in the face of much resistance if not persecution.