Missions

Since 1993, nearly 10,000 children and adults experiencing homelessness in NE Ohio have received shelter, care, and guidance through Project Hope for the Homeless. Within 31 days on average, an amazing 76% of their guests break the cycle of homelessness and transition to their own housing or enter an in-person behavioral health treatment facility. Volunteers…

Local businesses & churches have been faithful supporters of this year’s Baby Bottle Campaign. Leroy Community Chapel was recognized in 2025 as the largest church contributor of $11,220.36! This year’s goal is $160,000.  Under the leadership of Elisabeth, the Job Skills Training Coordinator, residents are gaining hands-on workplace experience in the supportive & encouraging environment…

John and Sue Cutlip are missionaries with Open Air Campaigners, or OAC, in Nazareth Pa. They share the gospel with people who cannot or do not attend church. John and Sue are involved in discipling missionaries to share the gospel out of doors, in parking lots, in parks, and in all sorts of public spaces….

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…