West Sayville Christian School

WSCS

West Sayville Christian School exists to assist Christian families by providing a Christ-centered, Bible-based, academically strong education that encourages each child to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We believe that this will equip and inspire them by laying a solid foundation for living a life of obedience to God and service to others.

Mid-America Reformed Seminary

Mid-America Reformed Seminary

Mid-America Reformed Seminary is wholeheartedly committed to the biblical gospel, the infallibility of the Word of God, and the biblical riches of the Reformed confessions. The mission of Mid-America is to provide the best training possible for students who are preparing for the gospel ministry in the church of Jesus Christ. Mid-America also welcomes ministers and lay people seeking to enhance their practical ministry through continuing education or their theological knowledge through certification.

United Reformed Churches of North America

URCNA

This is the official website of the United Reformed Churches of North America (URCNA).  We voluntarily belong to this federation of like-minded, believing churches.  We share one faith and confession as we proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.

Messiah's Reformed Fellowship

MERF

Messiah's Reformed Fellowship is a URCNA church plant in New York City, the crossroads of the world.  MeRF is pastored by Rev. Paul T. Murphy whose ministry is supervised in part by the Consistory of the West Sayville Reformed Bible Church.

Reformed Youth Services - RYS

RYS

Reformed Youth Services (RYS) is an organization dedicated to ministering the timeless truths of the historic Reformed faith to today's youth. We believe that both the content and form of youth ministry are vitally important. As the media and our post-modern culture gather their forces to capture the souls of our young people, the Church must do everything it can to counter these attacks. We are committed to the social and spiritual nurturing of our covenant youth.

Lighthouse Mission

Lighthouse Mission

The Lighthouse mission is a christian mission reaching out to help the poor and the needy on Long Island.

Reformed Mission Services - RMS

Reformed Mission Services

Reformed Mission Services is committed to the spiritual growth of our covenant youth through life-transforming, God-centered mission opportunities.

Long Island Youth Mentoring

Long Island Youth Mentoring

Long Island Youth Mentoring has been partnering in ministry with God's Church to mentor at risk youth for a quarter century. The heart of the at risk mentoring ministry is seen in our Mission Statement.

           Mission:

To assist the Christian church on Long Island in the responsible evangelism of at risk youth and their families, providing them with hope through caring relationships and developmental opportunities for the whole person (spiritual, mental, physical, social).

Bethany Christian Services

Bethany Christian Services

         Who we are:

Bethany Christian Services is a global nonprofit organization caring for orphans and vulnerable children on five continents. Bethany is recognized as a prominent leader in social services worldwide, and we are the largest adoption agency in the U.S. Founded in 1944, our mission calls us to demonstrate the love and compassion of Jesus Christ by protecting and enhancing the lives of children and families around the world.

Bethany envisions a world where every child has a loving family.

ITEM - International Theological Educational Ministries

ITEM

ITEM is a religious, charitable, educational, non-profit corporation serving in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.  It is tax exempt and donor deductible.

ITEM assists denominations and local churches by offering pastoral training at no cost to nationals.  

ITEM sends professors to teach at local institutions at regular intervals to equip pastors, teachers, and laymen and women to accomplish their God-given callings. 

Our Mission:  to take God’s Truth to teach, train, and transform God’s leaders in Eastern Europe today and tomorrow.

Our Purpose:  to provide biblically-based Reformed teaching and training of national church leaders for service presently in the churches of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe.

Our Philosophy:  believing that the most effective evangelism, discipleship, and church planting will be done by nationals in their own cultural context, we send pastors and professors to the students to minimize cost and to maximize learning opportunities in their own contexts near their families and ministries.

MINTS - Miami International Seminary

MINTS

An Overview of the International work of MINTS Global

Purpose: To reach the world for Christ by preparing Christian leaders for ministry. MINTS is a mission organization that uses higher education as its primary tool toward fulfilling the vision of the Great Commission.

Method: The heart of our ministry is to establish financially self-sufficient, indigenously owned and operated training centers/seminaries in the language and culture of the local people. We work with national believers to develop a regionally sensitive curriculum in their language, develop future professors from among them, and then work to share the educational results internationally throughout our interconnected global system. Key to the MINTS missionary aspect is the requirement of the centers to multiply in their region, language, and sphere of influence.

Need: One of the biggest needs in the Christian faith is the need for trained, motivated and educated leaders. For example in 2000 there were 2,000,000 third world pastors and less than 5% (100,000), had any Bible training at all. From 1960 to 1980 the church grew from 25 million to 425 million, a 17 fold increase. (From the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism.) For years the answer has been to bring leaders to the USA for training….but 65% remain in the West and all are trained in a language and culture that does not easily transfer to their homeland. There is a need for quality, degreed, and biblically based ministry training in the language, culture, and homeland of the indigenous believer. We equip them to lead churches, plant churches, do mercy ministry and to duplicate the training with other believers in a way that can be recognized by denominations and governments.

Who: We work with indigenous leaders who are already motivated to develop their own people and are seeking both a short term and long term structure for accomplishing it. It is also our desire to work with people group movements and assist the mass training of leaders for ministry in areas where the faith is growing over 100% per year.

MINTS Solution: To train and equip national believers to develop one another in a duplicable format, with little or no cost, high educational quality, and give a recognizable degree.

We do this by:

• Starting with existing national resources, both human and material.
• Providing curriculum, and by using nationals to write curriculum with our professors.
• Teaching their teachers and involving future professors from the beginning giving them ownership and leadership responsibilities.
• Teaching a different philosophy of education, i.e., a view to take the education out to the people, to make new schools, and to raise up new instructors rather than having the school be the central hub where people gather to listen to visiting scholars. We make the student not the institution the focus. We encourage them to not own buildings but to go out to the field, and use churches and other available spaces for training the people.
• The nationals can charge a small tuition but all the funds stay in the country under their jurisdiction and none comes to the USA or MINTS. Half is to be used locally to develop their study center and the other half to start new centers when they are ready.
• We provide degrees programs. Certificate, AA, BA, MA, MDiv, DMin, and PhD all in Theological Studies. Degrees with academic standards from a US based institution are of great value in the church in emerging nations by giving quality training and credibility.

Gideons International

Gideons International

Distributing Bibles and New Testaments Around the World

International Bible League

International Bible League

Mission

We provide scriptures and training worldwide so that people prepared by the Holy Spirit will be brought into fellowship with Christ and His Church.

We accomplish our mission effectively by:

1. Planting Bibles, Bible study materials, and training local Christians, so they can lead people to Christ and disciple them toward spiritual maturity.
2. Equipping indigenous churches with Bibles, Bible study materials, and discipleship training, so they can establish Bible studies and new churches where there are none.
3. Planting Bibles among persecuted Christians, to strengthen their faith and empower them to share Christ with more people.
4. Fostering partnerships with national churches, Bible and translation agencies, and other missions worldwide to help meet the critical Bible need.

WHAT WE BELIEVE -- STATEMENT OF FAITH

1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.