Our missions works
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Pastor Steve and Ginita Thomas
Pastor Steve and Ginita Thomas have served in Christian Fellowship Ministries for over 25 years. In 1994, Steve was a young soldier in the U.S. Army, stationed in Schofield Barracks, HI when he was invited to our fellowship church. It was there that he gave his life to Jesus and began to have a love for the harvest field. In 1996, as a senior in high school, Ginita stepped foot into the same church and surrendered her life to Jesus. In the summer of 1998, they were married in The Potter’s House Church in Waipahu, HI, and God’s love continues to sustain their marriage and their love for the harvest field.
The Thomas’ are so grateful that our fellowship is worldwide. Being a military family they moved around a lot. They were stationed in Fort Carson, CO (2000-2006) where they attended our fellowship church in Colorado Springs. After that assignment, they returned to Hawaii from(2006-2008). In 2008, they were assigned to Fort Bragg, NC. This is when they became part of the Spring Lake, NC congregation. In 2010, Steve decided to leave the U.S. Army after serving a total of 16 years, to root himself and pursue God’s calling. It was one of the biggest life-altering decisions he ever made and could not have done it without the faith and support of his wife.
In 2013, Steve was asked to take over the role of pastoring in one of our fellowship churches in Greenville, NC. Steve and Ginita were there for 4 years when they felt God begin to challenge them to go overseas and become missionaries. In 2017, Steve and Ginita left the U.S. to pioneera church in Whitefield, Bangalore, India. In 2020, they were forced to return to the U.S. due to the Covid pandemic and eventually nationalized the church in India.
Today, the Whitefield, India church is doing amazing things and growing stronger each year. In 2022, Steve and Ginita felt pressed by God to return to the mission field and God opened the door to go into the nation of Bangladesh. The Door Church of Farmgate, Dhaka, Bangladesh has been open since November 2022. God is using the Thomas’ to reach this desperate nation. Both, Steve and Ginita would agree there is nothing better in this life than taking the world for Jesus!
Georgetown, Guyana
Pastor Trevis and Tiffany Simon
Pastor Trevis and Tiffany Simon have been saved for 18- and 17 years respectively. Trevis Simon was ordained as a Pastor in 2014 to minister the gospel in their home country Guyana, South America.
Trevis’s Testimony: Out of a broken home, with no father, my mother passed away when I was 10 years old, and being surrounded by the influence of a hopeless community. I received an invitation from my aunt but attending the services merely meant to me a way to pass time and to be out of the house.
Knowing God, he has his ways of getting our attention so at the age of 16 years old, six months into attending church, I accepted him in my life, had a desire for him and I just wanted to be used by him. Fast forward 18 years later and I am still running the race faithfully and proclaiming his name through ministry in my home country.
Tiffany’s Testimony: As a child, I had some awareness of God as I would attend a catholic church with my family periodically. The things of God were never spoken about in depth at home, we simply attended church as a routine thing to do.
In April 2006, one of my aunts died and the pastor at the time from the Potters House Church did the funeral service for “free”, even though we were not members of the church. This was different to us since there was and still is by many preachers a known fee to conduct a funeral service in Guyana. As a form of appreciation, some of our family members agreed to attend one church service. That service planted a seed and created the desire for wanting to be in the presence of God, to be involved completely, as it was entirely different from our customary routine of being catholic. For me salvation did not come right away, although I enjoyed going to The Potter’s House, I was comfortable being a catholic and not being challenged about changing the way that I was living. Nevertheless, my back and forth between churches ended in Sept 2006 as I fully surrendered my heart and accepted Jesus Christ as my personal lord and savior. I have been on the path of righteousness ever since and even though life can throw some hard ones at me from time to time I will forever be grateful for all that God has done and I will forever serve him.
The couple has been faithfully married for almost 12 years and has three kids Trinity, Skylar, and Caleb, ages 9, 6, and 2. Trinity had decided to be baptized at the age of 6 years old, has a heart for the things of God and she has started projecting the lyrics for songs during our praise and worship.
As they continue to pray for their kids to remain serving God, they minister so that souls in the nation of Guyana can be reached and added to the kingdom of heaven.