Missions

IJM (International Justice Mission) is a global organization that helps protect people living in poverty from violence in 20 different countries. They rescue, rehabilitate survivors, hold perpetrators accountable & help strengthen public justice systems. Laws exist, but they are not enough. In Lima, Peru, those who have survived and have been rescued have joined together…

LCC is one of several area churches that support the Jail Ministry through funding, visitation, discipleship, hope for restoration, and trained volunteers who bring the life-changing light of the gospel. Our Tom Chapman is on the board of the Jail Ministry serving previously as Chaplain for 25 years, coordinating church services and mentoring inmates. Greg…

Mike and Becky Crandall are missionaries with Cru Ministries in Orlando Florida.  Cru stands for Campus Crusade for Christ and is a ministry that focuses on university students around the world.  Mike states that there are currently 18 nations that have strong local leadership, multiple strategies through which to share the Gospel, self-sustaining finances, and a passion…

 Dave and Jen are well-known and loved here at Leroy Chapel. They have ministered in Uganda for the last 28 years. God is using their lives and ministry in numerous exciting areas. Presently they are in the U.S. During this time stateside, they have been very busy.  Dave is hoping to finish the revision of…

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. …

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…