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Courtnee has been a member of the Cru staff for almost 27 years! In the fall season of 2025, she attended a National Staff Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with more than 3,000 Cru missionaries. Included was a strong focus on Transformational Prayer, which assists in taking the gospel to the innermost parts of a person’s heart.  At the conference, prayer rooms were offered for quiet reflection, and one was available for Transformation Prayer appointments.  In the middle of this formation was a garden to plant “prayer seeds” and write short prayers on garden stakes.  Their keynote speaker was  Beth Guckenberger, a…

Our retired missionary Ethel Nelson lives in Painesville. She loves all people and that includes her family at Leroy Chapel. Her heart is for the lost people of the world. Ethel served with her husband Roy for over 50 years through United World Missions as a church planter, teacher and discipleship trainer. Beginning in 1949 she served in Cuba until 1959 when the Castro regime took over the country and it was unsafe to stay. The remainder of years were served in Guatemala City. Many of their church plants are still carried on by those they discipled and their families. The church they began in…

John and Sue Cutlip are missionaries with Open Air Campaigners, OAC, in Nazareth, P.A. John spent a week, last July, participating in a children’s  ministry outreach in Rochester, New York. This was a ministry outreach to children whose parents had immigrated from Nepal and Bhutan,  Asia, to Rochester, New York. John was grateful not to have to travel  7,000 miles and 30 hours on a round-trip journey to South Asia. John has also been working on compiling a history of OAC’s mission’s work that covers 1983 to the present. John says, “It is important to record what God is doing…

Haiti has been home for Ginger much of her life.  Her parents were missionaries there when she was a child; Ginger married Dave and they ministered on the Plateau area of northwestern Haiti while raising their children. Their daughter Judy married Manis, and they continue to live and minister there while raising their daughter, Ani. Three generations of missionary work in Haiti from one committed Christian family. Praise God!   Dave and Ginger presently reside in Pennsylvania as they care for Ginger’s dad who is 96; however, they still are actively involved with the mission work named Lemuel Ministries that…

Hannah’s Home Mission Statement: We are a Christ centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis. Hannah’s Harbor Thrift Store It’s official opening was on September 5th. It provides job skills training for the moms with paid employment & experience that will help them gain long-term jobs. It is located at 8664 Lakeshore Blvd., Mentor. The hours are Thurs. & Fri. 9 – 5 & Sat. 10 – 2. Donations are gratefully accepted. The Annual Baby Bottle Campaign With the contributions from 106 churches & busineses the total collected this year was $134,939.85! This faithful support makes a…

Rod and Mayra Fry have been church planting in Mexico City since 1997. They began their third church plant in Ixtapaluca in 2016. In September, Rod and Mayra spent 3 weeks in PA visiting three of their supporting churches, Elizabethtown Grace, Mt. Joy Church of God, and Word of Life Chapel. Some of their interaction with these churches is related to plans for next summer short term team missions planning. Over the past 21 years living in Ixtapaluca, they have received hundreds of visitors (including Leroy Chapel teams) engaging them in ministry varying from construction and electricity to English classes, volleyball tournaments, spa…

We identify Frank with the keyboard on Sunday mornings, but the fact that he is an “audio artist” may not be evident to many here at LCC.   Frank’s audio drama series “Nick Guy, Private Eye” is currently airing on over 200 stations throughout the world plus multiple streaming services.  He currently has enough 30 minute episodes to air one a week for over seven years, before having to repeat one! These are exciting dramas that focus on Christian Apologetics in a variety of settings.  Kids and adults enjoy and appreciate these dramas.  He is now a part of Audio Drama Alliance (ADA) which has allowed him to…

Leroy Community Chapel supports an array of both foreign and local missions.  Project Hope is a local mission, and the only emergency homeless shelter in Lake County.  It has expanded its services to the homeless greatly since 1993.  It now operates 4 major programs:  Project Hope relies on help from the community for needed supplies.  For a current needs list, look at their website:  projecthopeforthehomeless.org. Donating tangible items that children can help pick out and buy is an excellent way for parents to teach their children to care for others by providing for others’ needs versus focusing on their own wants. Other ways…

IJM’ S proven Community Protection Model Worldwide: January was Human Trafficking Awareness Month. For more than 25 years IJM has been unified in hope for action worldwide. Their teams have relieved and protected millions of people from violence – 93,000 survivors!  50 million people are victims of human trafficking around the world.  1 victim of  modern slavery is abducted every hour.  People in power prey on the vulnerabilities that poverty creates. IJM’s focus is to partner with local communities to build a more just world where everyone can expect to be safe and protected. As millions watched the Super Bowl, keep…

The month of February was extremely busy for Dave & Jen as the son Josh, a professional filmmaker, flew in from the U.S. to film a documentary entitled “The Father’s Heat”. There is a preview posted on YouTube with this description:  Journey with us as we make a powerful movie in Africa about the theme of God as Father. “The Father’s Heart” weaves five powerful true stories into an immersive, cinematic movie that invites you to experience the life-changing truth that you are loved by God; a love that not only transforms your destiny but the broken world around you….