Missions We Support
Your giving allows us to regularly support the following missional endeavors:
- James and Dorcas have four children: Maggie, Tina, Iman, and Leasa
- James is the pastor of Jubilee Fellowship church
- Through disciple-making and intentional church ministries, James has answered the call of God to minister to the communities directly surrounding the church.
- Background of Jubilee Fellowship: Jubilee Fellowship Church was started in September 2008, with a church plant in Bukaya West village in Njeru Town Council, Buikwe District. Since the initial activity a number of programs have been started by the church and these include friendship evangelism initiative, a Nursery school and day care, a Primary school, youth ministry, and a community development program. Of recently the church ministry is planning a new direction in which there will be a leadership development training incorporated into the church programs. Currently there are 23 children on education support by the church in the initiated schools in two neighbouring communities of Njeru Town Council. These supported children come from needy household especially in Kiryowa village where the church wants to concentrate a community transformation program.
This church initiative was started as a unique contribution to the national challenge of the Uganda situation where in 2010 there was an estimated 2.5 million HIV AIDS ‘orphans’; a very fast growing population with over 68% below the age of 24; a nation where Primary education is meant to be freely provided by Government but there is inadequate capacity to provide quality education due to poor facilitation and class sizes of over 160 pupils; secondary education very costly that many families cannot afford it; and tertiary/university education even more costly.
The church also set up a benevolent arm known as Supportive Initiative for Development (SID) which is registered as a community Based Organization with the government of Uganda. SID is responsible to coordinate and manage all church related social actions and projects aimed at community development and empowering of beneficiaries.
- The Cokenour Family (Terry, Christina, Grace, Emma, Amelia “Joy”)
- Missionaries to Budapest, Hungary
- Focus: Church planting and leadership development
- Website: http://BudapestAlive.org
- Email: cokenour@WorldVenture.net
- Bio: Terry and Christina have been married since 1999 and since that time have served in two church plants in Ft. Bend County. Along the way they were blessed with three daughters. Terry is a graduate of the College of Biblical Studies and Western Seminary. Christina is the only child of Hungarian parents who fled their home country due to revolution in 1956. Terry is web developer and also teaches Bible and theology at various churches, Bible institutes and colleges in the Houston area. Christina already speaks the extremely difficult Hungarian language. In 2009, during a vision trip to Hungary, God called them give up life as they knew it and serve the Hungarian people in gospel ministry. They plan to return in 2011 as long-term missionaries partnering with WorldVenture, The Sanctuary, and other churches and individuals.