Mount Hope, there is a lot to be proud of! As we celebrate you during Mission’s Launch, we want to share with you all of the amazing things that you were a part of in 2016. Here’s what we, together, accomplished:

• We have made financial investments into over 300 missionaries and ministries in over 100 countries. 
• Mount Hopers went on two mission trips to Guatemala to minister to orphans.
• We feed the homeless in Lansing every week. 
• Sent a team and funds to Cambodia to build a women’s ministry center for mothers with small children suffering from alcohol and drug addictions.
• Partnering with the Furnace Prayer Ministry to run a multi-use outreach facility on the edge of MSU’s campus.
• Provided 1,000 Arabic Bibles and 2,500 Arabic New Testaments in the Middle East.
• Provide monthly support to St. Vincent’s Children’s Home as well as funded renovations to the facility.
• Added 17 missionaries and ministries to our monthly support. This includes missionaries in countries like Senegal, Egypt, Iraq, Laos, India, Syria, Thailand, Central and Eastern Europe, Estonia and Zambia. In Michigan, includes reaching Muslims in Dearborn, campus ministry at UofM, and a Christian ministry providing food to the needy in Lansing.
• Sent a team of students to Detroit for outreach ministry with Courage Church.
• Supported church planting initiatives in the Middle East including Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Oman, Tunisia, and Morocco. 
• Provide monthly support to the House of Promise ministry focused on rescuing and healing girls trapped in human trafficking in Michigan. 
• Minister to children through schools in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the Gaza Strip.
• Working with the State of Michigan to find ways to place every foster child in a Christ-centered home.
• Pastor Kevin and Pastor Joe ministered at a crusade in Cuba with one of our missionaries.
• Provide monthly support to biblically qualified widows at Mount Hope.
• Our very own Amanda Miller ministers to the deaf in Mexico.
• Partner with Soundsgood Ministries as they reach students through music and God’s word.
• Provided relief efforts and the Gospel message to Syrian refugees. 
• We are the primary supporter of New Directions ministry providing over 40 services a month in jails, prisons and nursing homes.
• Provided evangelism materials in Europe as they see a sea of immigrants passing through their country.
• Provided monthly support to campus outreaches at MSU, U of M, Eastern Michigan University, and Western Michigan University.
• Helped plant a church in Japan that was impacted by the hurricane and earthquake in 2011. 
• Helping drug addicts recover through Teen Challenge centers in Lansing, Muskegon and Saginaw.
• Supported church planting efforts in Albania.
• Helping to reach Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. 
• Feeding a community of orphans in the Philippines.
• Partner with the Pregnancy Services of Greater Lansing giving pregnant teens options other than abortion. 
• Providing medical care with a gospel message in Haiti.
• Reaching disadvantaged children in Detroit and Pontiac through the Power Company Ministry.
• Caring for orphans in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe.
• Reaching the Jewish people of our country through Rock of Israel Ministries.
• Planting underground churches in Asia.
• Partner with Dave Roever Ministries as he reaches out to wounded veterans. 
• Helped with repairs and expansion of a ministry center in Lithuania that helps women get free of alcohol and drug addiction.
• Provided three tons of food to the Lansing Rescue Mission during Bless the City.
• Helped provide Bible School curriculum in Africa.
• Provided funds for relief efforts related to the flooding in Louisiana, earthquake in Ecuador, and flooding in Texas.
• Provided funds for renovations to a refugee house in Africa. 
• Supplied safe drinking water to residents of Flint, Michigan. 
• Donated the funds needed to build a church the Muslim area of Benin.
• Provided funds to a Lansing-based ministry to purchase a vehicle.
• Provided a generator in Gabon to allow for evangelism crusades.
• Started a ministry outreach to international students at Michigan State University.
• Provided Kindles containing ministry resources and tools to Bible School students in Egypt.

Thank you, Mount Hope, for your prayers and contribution in Missions—helping to make an impacted both globally and locally.