Ministry Partners
We partner with organizations and missionaries that advance the gospel to the corners of our community.
Located in the heart of Johnson City, TN, Agape Women’s Services is staffed by state licensed medical professionals that are available to provide accurate information, free services, and practical support with a holistic and compassionate approach.
The name, Agape, means unconditional love. We are devoted to loving and serving all our clients before, during, and after an unplanned pregnancy. We are a resource for you.
Rise Up’s foundation is centered holistically by embracing our youth, teaching the importance of education, servant leadership, community involvement, successful relationships, healthy living and the love of Jesus Christ.
Acts 29 exists to plant churches worldwide by recruiting, assessing, training, and supporting church planters. We offer church leaders decades of experience-proven training, guidance, and tools for planting churches designed to grow and thrive. The call to make disciples is answered most effectively through gospel-centered churches.
Juan Carlos & Courtney Cevallos | Missionaries to Latin America
Juan Carlos & Courtney Cevallos serve under Nexus International developing local influential youth leaders throughout Latin America. They use outdoor/experiential activities to disciple and empower next generation leaders on a continent that is shaped by youth. Juan Carlos & Courtney are invested in over 8 countries in Central and South America and regularly disciple over a dozen local leaders. They live with their 3 children in Johnson City.
Bruce & Neide Colson | Missionaries to Mozambique
Bruce & Neide founded Vision 360 Ministries, a cross-cultural ministry providing a listening ear & encouragement to other missionaries around the world. They help the Makua people in northern Mozambique, one of the world's poorest countries, escape extreme poverty by meeting basic needs such as food, water, health & education as well as providing necessary training for leaders in local churches.
Arabu is a community center located in Atlántida, Honduras and is lead by Carlos and Anita Graugnard. They have cultivated a space within the community for children and youth of the community to come, have fun together, learn God’s word, and also be taught skills to help them develop into mature adults, empowered by the gospel. Their mission is that the people in the community would experience more dignified living conditions and to disciple leaders to make a change in the ways of living within the community for a gospel impact.
The Penneys | Missionaries to Liverpool, UK
Joe and Shelby Penney, with their two boys, Silas and Forrest, have joined in the mission of Hope Church Kensington to see the people of Kensington rejoicing in the living hope of Jesus. They are serving on staff with Hope Church in a variety of ministerial roles, including preaching and teaching, discipleship, community outreach, church administration, women's ministry, work in the mom's outreach group and Hope Community Fridge on Thursdays, and assisting in the weekly Gospel Community Groups.
The Penneys are also receiving further training and support on a regular basis through the Cornerstone Collective, which Hope Church is a member of.