God has placed us as a church in Gulf Breeze. It is our heart's desire to reach out to our local community with the love of Jesus Christ. We do many outreach oriented events every year in Gulf Breeze and Pensacola and also support the ministries listed below. We believe that God never told the world to go to church, but He has told the church to go to the world!
Brian & Warrie Blackburn
Brian and Warrie have been serving full-time with Mercy Ships since 1994. Mercy Ships in an international organization that provides free medical care to the poor and needy of West Africa while sharing the Gospel. Mercy Ships operates a hospital ship that has a crew of 450. Mercy Ships began in 1978. While on the hospital ship, M/V Anastasis, Brian served as a teacher for 50 missionary kids and then as principal. Warrie has served in many administrative roles including the Chief Operations Officer of the Anastasis. Brian and Warrie currently serve as volunteers in Texas at Mercy Ships International Headquarters. Brian oversees to school for missionary kids and Warrie takes care of their two adopted daughter Addison & Alyssa.
Bruce & Deb Robinson
God has us working in Northwest Haiti among some of the poorest people in the hemisphere. We are involved in helping local churches that the Haitians have planted get to critical mass. This means helping with get a trained leader into these churches, helping build a place for him to live, building church and school buildings, helping with water needs since many people still walk miles for water, and anything else we can help with to help the churches be able to stand on their own. With Calvary Chapel Gulf Breeze, we have built a combination church and elementary school building at La Corne. This recently planted church is reaching out to this unevangelized area.
CCGB: Haiti Mission Trip
This Mission to Haiti is designed to support Bruce and Deb Robinson in the work God has called them to do in Haiti. We partner with them to serve the Haitian people through church projects, construction projects, and support of the church in Northwest Haiti.
CCGB: Mexico Mission Trip
Each summer our Focused Youth High School ministry partners with Calvary Chapel Ensenada to serve the Mexican people through local outreaches. The purpose for the Mission to Mexico is for all team members to experience the value in ministering, and being ministered to by others through: hard work, service, and team work.
Charlie & Julie Hodges
We are serving the local Chinese community by being tangible representatives of our Father to university students and faculty. Through teaching English and immersing ourselves in the culture we are building intentional relationships with eternal value and significance. The need for more workers here is great. We encourage anyone that is interested in partnering with us to examine this opportunity and see if it is something you are being called to do. If you are being called in a different direction, you can still partner with us. Ask the church staff to be placed on our newsletter mailing list and we will update you on how you can best support us both prayerfully and financially.
Cheri Thompson
Cheri Thompson went to Kenya in 1987 with her husband, Rick, and three children. In 1992 she began working with street children, and started the challenge ministry in the slums of Nairobi. In 1999, they moved to Kitale, Kenya. And started a Sunday morning Bible & soccer club. They expanded to a drop in center where over 50 street kids would come to get a hot meal, medical care, and learn about the love of Jesus. In 2000, they bought the Challenge farm. Rick was later diagnosed with cancer and passed away. Cheri continued the work and opened the farm in 2003. Currently over 60 children are residents of the center.
Chris & Nada Waldrop
Chris is originally from N.W. Florida and attended Calvary Chapel Gulf Breeze; Nada grew up in Siegen, Germany. They met in the fall of 2005 at the Calvary Chapel Bible College in Siegen as Chris was serving on staff and Nada was attending as a student. In May 2007, Chris and Nada married; Chris remained on staff at CCBC-Siegen until the fall of 2007 teaching classes and serving as the dean of men. The Waldrop's are now living and serving the Lord in at a church in Split, Croatia.
David Guzik
We lead the work of Calvary Chapel Bible College, Germany. Each semester we have between 50 and 65 students from many different nations (20 or so thus far) and we prepare them for lives and ministries that can change the world. Classes are taught in English, in German, and sometimes translated between the both. We work with pastors, leaders, and churches all over Europe and the World. In a normal year, apart from our work at the Bible College, we minister in 20 to 25 churches, in 7 to 10 conferences, speaking from 75 to 100 times yearly in up to 15 different nations. We love encouraging pastors and leaders and we go to and host conferences for pastors, pastors’ wives, and church leaders.
Harvest Christian Fellowship
Harvest Christian Fellowship is a Calvary Chapel Fellowship that meets in Canberra, Australia. Pastor John has been to Australia a number of times to lead pastor and leadership conferences. On one of his visits he connected with the pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship and we as a church have been supporting the work God is doing there since.
Jim Stretchberry
Jim Stretchberry is the executive director of the American European Bethel Mission. The Bethel Mission statement is to Preach Christ Jesus as the promised Messiah, the Savior of the world, proclaiming the full plan of salvation laid down in the God-inspired Scriptures, the Old and the New Testaments. AEBM is dedicated to educating all Jewish people about who Jesus is and about the salvation and redemption Jesus has for all mankind. The primary focus is evangelism among world Jews and bringing Jesus to Israel through the distribution of literature, radio ministry, small group fellowships and the training of Jewish believers to be sent out as tent makers and missionaries.
Kevin Lynne
My ministry with MAF involves using my skills as a pilot and mechanic to partner with the evangelical Christian missions and growing indigenous churches in Papua. My flying primarily supports local/national and Western missionary families living and working interior. And further, in support of the growing churches where planted, to help them send their missionaries and support them as they catch the vision to "go and tell". An important part of my ministry is the relationships developed with the missionaries and nationals we work with as well as those we serve. They need to see Christ living in me as my reason to come and work here - more than meeting their flying needs, they need a Christian brother to work alongside as the Gospel goes out, to love them and to encourage them. It's at times very rewarding and enjoyable, but can be draining as well.
Maureen Menard
Maureen is the Vice President for Leadership and Staff Development for YWAM/University of the Nations. Most of her time is spent training missionary leaders and staff to be effective in their work on the field. She helps train leaders to run the Disciple Training Schools. Part of the course is teaching them how to lead effective outreaches. She travels to all continents, and has a special interest in mobilizing people in extend the ministry of Jesus to women and children at risk.
Potter's Field Ministries
Potter's Field Ministries has been traveling around the United States of America for the past sixteen years proclaiming God's grace through the message of the Potter and the clay. Potter's Field Orphanage, located in San Martin, El Salvador houses eleven precious boys. In addition to the orphanage, Potter's Field Kids is an afterschool program offering several hundred El Salvadorian children a safe place to study, play, snack, and attend Bible studies five days a week. The Montana Bible School located on our campus in Northwest Montana offers a unique practical ministry training time for young men and women serious about their faith and seeking a life of service. Anyone interested in partnering with us can easily look us up on the web and request a monthly sponsorship packet.