KINGDOM BUILDERS
Who is a Kingdom Builder?
Dear RiverCity Church,
We have a lot to be proud of! We have done a lot for missions in the past 10 years of our mission’s program. We have supported career missionaries, sent out many of our own missionaries on short-term trips, built four homes in Mexico, supported humanitarian projects, cared for the homeless and supported prison ministry. In the past 10 year RiverCity has given over $430,000 dollars to missions.
The goal of Kingdom Builders is to hit 1 million dollars given to missions and building expansion by 2025. Kingdom Builders is inclusive of anything we do to expand the kingdom of God, at home or abroad. We have combined our missions program and our building program because the two are inseparably connected. As we grow at home our missions impact also grows.
A Kingdom Builder is someone who:
-Understands the importance of Kingdom expansion
-Desires for their life to count for kingdom purpose
-Is willing to strategically, consistently & sacrificially commit to give to kingdom advancement
On this page, is a list of all our Kingdom Builder projects. The only way to meet this goal is through your ongoing giving. On the offering envelope, you can choose the Kingdom Builder option to contribute. You can also designate to missions or building fund to specifically direct your money. I encourage you to commit to be a world changer and Kingdom Builder as we impact the world together.
Pastor Andrew Huson
KINGDOM BUILDERS
Todd & Amy Churchill
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Todd & Amy Churchill have served as missionaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2000. They focus on leadership training and development throughout the country’s vast, war-torn interior. In 2005 they helped launch a strategic initiative to bring Bible School training into every province. Today, there are hundreds of pastors and church leaders being trained in Bible School’s across the country.
Jeff & Tanya Devoll
Student Reach
Jeff & Tanya Devoll are the founders of StudentReach. Their mission is to help at-risk youth in the both the US and overseas. They do widespread work with homeless teens, human trafficking victims and refugees. Jeff has built nearly a hundred homes in Mexico for needy families. He is currently building “Hope Village” in Mexico to provide housing and job training to single mothers.
Henry & Ivonne Smith
Equador
Henry and Ivonne arrived with no more than a prayer, two tarps, and a few volunteers to one of the unreached slums of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The slums are the fastest growing unreached people group on earth. As with most slums, there is no running water, electricity is stolen, rampant crime and drugs, extreme poverty, and the majority are single parent homes. In an effort to counteract the overwhelming sense of hopelessness, they planted and pastor “Un Lugar de Esperanza” a now thriving church in the slums of Ecuador.
Teen Challenge
Drug Rehab & Discipleship
Teen Challenge is an Assembly of God ministry designed to help teenagers, adults, and families with problems such as substance abuse. It was founded by David Wilkerson
in 1960. Teen Challenge is now in 110 countries with 1,100 centers.
Terry & Beth Johnson
Brazil
The Johnson’s are 3rd generation missionaries to Brazil. They lead Brazil Extension School of Theology which was started by the late Bernhard Johnson. It has grown to 20,000 students in 12 countries that are actively being trained for pastoral leadership. Many of the students are being sent out of Brazil to Muslim countries as missionaries.
Steve Edwards
Global Passion
Steve Edwards is the founder and president of
. Steve recruits teams that travel worldwide to help with medical clinics, church plants, food distribution, construction, orphanage visits and evangelism. Stave has sent thousands of people to countries such as Ecuador, Fiji, Poland, Ireland, Nicaragua, Haiti, Cambodia and Zimbabwe.
Tanya Aderman
Cambodia
Tanya Aderman is a veteran missionary serving her second term in Cambodia. She has a heart to see Cambodian leaders raised up to lead a spiritual revival which leads to systemic changes in the Cambodian community. She believes that true and lasting change in Cambodia will come through individuals encountering the living God in healthy, life-changing, Holy Spirit filled churches. Her ministry focuses on pastoral and leadership development and planting of local churches.
Sensitive Country
This missionary family has served their second term in a sensitive nation in East Asia..They are actively engaged in humanitarian relief, church planting and leadership training. Their heart is to spend their lives planting the gospel seed in this dark region of our world.
Healing Hands Ministry
Prison System
Albert Sanchez, a member of RiverCity, felt a call to be a missionary to the prison system. He serves as a chaplain and conducts weekly services and mentoring at Folsom, RCCC and Sacramento County Jail. With over 2 million incarcerated in the US the need is great. We support Al by covering expenses and supplies to reach out to those incarcerated in our county.
Joyce Baergen
Sensitive Country
Joyce is a veteran missionary to Southeast Asia. She is engaged in ministry to children-teaching English and gospel concepts. She is also working on college campuses bringing a gospel witness to a nation that is 90% Buddhist. Joyce is believing for a great awakening in a country filled with demonic strongholds.
Joy Krajicek
France
Joy works with students and immigrants in France a now spiritual dead nation with very few vibrant churches. She and her team have planted a thriving church, are involved in University outreach and human trafficking ministry. She is also very involved working with Muslim refugees and at-risk students.
Adam & Raquel Shipp
Student Reach
Adam & Raquel served as missionaries to Somalia prior to moving back to Sacramento to work with Student Reach. Adam has a ministry working among the 100,000 Muslim refugees in settled in California. Adam spends much of his summer in Vicente Guerrero overseeing the building of homes for poor families.
Calcutta Mercy
India
Calcutta is home to 14 million people. It is a place filled with poverty, malnutrition, and disease. Calcutta’s most pressing needs are basic, but incredibly important: People are hungry, people are sick, and children lack access to education. 60 years ago, Calcutta Mercy’s founders, Mark & Huldah Buntain, witnessed Calcutta’s suffering and resolved to do something about it. Today, there is a church, hospital, feeing program and school that are changing the landscape of this impoverished city.
Missionary X
Very Sensitive
This missionary family serves in one of the most dangerous regions of the world. It is a part of the world 100% closed to the gospel. Their names and country are unable to be published. They are working to evangelize and plant a Christian church. Please keep their family and ministry in prayer.
Earl & Tammie Shorrock
Poland
Earl & Tammie Shorrock assist in training and equipping national workers to reach Poland. Poland is nearly 40 million people and has only .3% Evangelical Christians believers. It is a country in need of churches and trained pastors. The Shorrocks are focusing on birthing new churches and leaders.
Missionary X
Eurasia
These missionary serves in a very sensitive counties in Eurasia. They are part of a team working to share the Good News with the millions of unreached people– most whom identifies as Muslim. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, it is their prayer and God-given vision to help initiate a church planting movement amongst the nearly 100 unreached people groups residing in these counties..
David & Holly Gilbertson
Comoro Islands
David & Holly Gilbertson serve on a church planting team on the Comoro Islands. The Islamic island nation in East Africa is unknown to much of the world, but certainly not forgotten by God. David and Holly are working to help plant the first Comorian church in a place that has only known Islam for hundreds of years.
Equip Pastors Training
International
Equip Pastor Training is a new ministry based out of RiverCity Church. Pastor Andrew Huson has felt a growing burden to educate pastors around the world who have no access to Bible training. Through EPT pastors have received a 2 to 3 day crash course on church leadership through the book of Acts & Judges. EPT held its first training in the Ukraine in February of 2018.
Missionaries of RiverCity
International
This fund exists to help send young adults from RiverCity who feel called to go on a short-term mission trip. We have sent young people to Africa, the Middle East, Mexico & Asia and plan to continue to invest in those who feel called to fulfill the Great Commission though short-term service.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is touching millions of lives…one heart at a time. Since 1954, FCA has been challenging coaches and athletes on the professional, college, high school, junior high and youth levels to use the powerful platform of sport to reach every coach and every athlete with the transforming power of Jesus Christ. FCA focuses on serving local communities around the globe by engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to unite, inspire and change the world through the gospel.
RiverCity supports FCA by providing pizza at the local school lunch huddles.
BGMC is the AG missions program for kids that instills a heart of compassion to reach the lost through praying, giving, and going. All funds raised through BGMC go to meet critical needs around the world such as feeding programs, water wells, Bible schools, curriculum, and whatever else a missionary needs in their part of the world.
RC Kids collect a BGMC offering on the last Sunday of the month.
UNION GOSPEL MISSION
In 1962 a group of concerned Christian men came together to address a growing problem: the plight of Sacramento’s many homeless men and women. These founders wanted to feed the hungry, provide clean clothing and shelter, and give every person with a willing ear a chance to hear the word of God. To accomplish this they established the Union Gospel Mission.
For 56 years now the Union Gospel Mission has supplied food, shelter, clothes, and a life-changing Gospel message to the homeless.