Global Help

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      Greg started doing Missions while in Bible School in the late 70's early 80's. He eventually used Global Help to help describe what he was doing. He worked in local Churches as a Pastor and other roles like Counseling and Church Planting. He started going to Michoacan Mexico to work with Bill Valley. Bill started close to 50 churches there. He met Karen, Bills Daughter, and her soon to be husband Howard in the 1st yr. He met many people from around the globe in those first 4 yrs and a real passion for Church Growth was born. He met Margaret from Taiwan and ORTV. He went there and Hong Kong to check it out thinking he wanted to join that ministry. While at ORTV he met with the Assistant Director who advised him to get a higher education in order to effectively reach the Chinese. It was hard to swallow but he took her advice and went to NW College to graduate w/ an accredited degree so that he could attend Fuller Theological Seminary. At the same time a few significant things were happening in the world and at Fuller for Greg. He enrolled in the School of World Missions at the same time John Wimber was teaching MC-510 w/ or instead of C. Peter Wagner. It was an International Phenomenon and propelled the beginning of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship. Greg's Pastor at the time was from the same Calvary Chapel movement in S. Calif. that Wimber had left to go to Bothell Wa. to plant a Calvary Chapel.  A yr later or so a few Men from the Vineyard came up for a meeting that officially changed us from a Calvary Chapel to Vineyard. That is where the Vineyard 'DNA' was transferred. Greg was Ordained later in a Vineyard Church by Bob McGee in Everett Wa. The other most significant & life-defining thing that happened in Greg's life happened in the Summer in the first class he took at Fuller. He met James Torrance who came to teach at Fuller every 2 yrs in the summer from Scotland. Greg eventually took 4 courses from James over 7 yrs before he went to Heaven. Most importantly was the Grace Theology that was taught and became a defining, directing, motivating part of Greg's life and ministry. 

      8+ yrs after meeting that gal in Taiwan Greg he graduated from Fuller w/ what he calls a Masters in Grace Theology. Not the real name but more importantly a definition of a life mission. Before and during his educational yrs. Greg was an Entrepreneur and Contractor. Good training for what was to come, which was a life of creating businesses and taking many mission trips to Asia and some in Europe. The entrepreneurial, pastoral, Church-Planting Heart began to blend and define a future ministry or calling.

      Skipping to around 2010 Greg, Greta, Sugar, and Cookie moved to China for a yr. While there (at the beginning of the worldwide recession) Greg asked our Father ' is there anything I can do to help the 'Church' continue doing Missions Internationally?' He had observed a number of people going home from China and other places because there was not enough money in their churches to support them. Greg came from a mentality where his businesses had paid for most of his ministry and traveling. He spent the next 10 yrs studying Private Equity Funds and what it could mean to the Church and Missions Funding. He was introduced to an International Mission group of Business minded people that are loosely related called Business as Mission. That was another defining point around 2018. They also introduced him to the solution to and the problem of Human-Trafficking. He learned there are 50 Million Slaves in the World Today. There are many good people working with, searching for, changing laws to control these crimes. The real problem has very little effort being directed toward it. The Problem is how to Stop the Process! I am convinced the Only Solution is to Assist in the Creation of Wealth. Creating Businesses and Jobs create Wealth & Community. These are the things we All need to be protected from those that are Stealing Millions of Lives. Greed and Murderous hearts are the driving factors that make drive the Problem. Love and a Selfless Compassion that uses God's Resources is the Only Solution. The best Tool available to actually Change the Process starts inside our own hearts and uses the Wealth God has Given us to Grow His Kingdom.

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