KINGDOM EXPANSION
Missions
GO ON MISSION
2025 Mission Trips
Chapel Pointe is on mission and we are inviting you to join us!
From Boston to Brazil to Romania, we are sending teams to share the Gospel throughout the world. We want to deepen relationships with current Chapel Pointe missionaries and partners, engage with God’s presence in a different cultural setting, and participate in events to make disciples and multiply transformed followers of Jesus.
Check out the trips listed below for details and links to sign up.
TRIPS
Current Mission Trips
REGISTRATION OPEN | Boston Big Move Trip | August 30-September 2, 2025
- When: August 30 – September 2, 2025
- Where: Boston
- Team Leader: Pastor Andrew Honeycutt & Michael Spagnuolo
- Cost: $750
- Trip Focus: Partnering with King’s Hill Church in central Boston to engage people in gospel conversations through serving the community. Each year on September 1st, the majority of apartment/housing leases end and begin. Teams will be helping the Boston community move out of and into apartments. Through this, there is opportunity to engage in relational connections that lead to prayer, gospel conversations, and invitations to King’s Hill Church.
Registration Ends: July 10, 2025
REGISTRATION OPEN | The Philippines | October 24 - November 7, 2025
- When: October 24-November 7, 2025
- Where: The Philippines
- Team Leader: Nathan Potter
- Cost: $2,500
- Trip Focus: This is an exciting two-fold trip! The team will do ministry in the remote Aurora Province where the Potters are serving, including discipleship with believers and prayer with pastors and leaders. We will also serve our partner seminary in the capital city of Manila, Baptist Bible Seminary. This is a highly relationship-driven trip with spiritual depth as we pour into the ministry of Be The Church Philippines through kingdom expansion.
Registration Ends: August 31
REGISTRATION OPEN | Kampala, Uganda | October 30 - November 9, 2025
- When: October 30 – November 9, 2025
- Where: Kampala, Uganda
- Team Size: 12 People
- Team Leader: Pastor Steve Harrington
- Cost: $3,000 (best estimate before purchasing airline tickets)
- Trip Focus: Working with Ben and Kari David at Hope Speaks serving the children and families they work with, as well as assisting with evangelism and discipleship as they plant a new church in the region.
Registration Ends: July 27, 2025
REGISTRATION OPEN | Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic | February 13-21, 2026
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When: February 13-21, 2026
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Where: Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
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Team Size: 8-10 people
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Cost: $3,000 (best estimate before purchasing airfare)
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Trip Focus: Partnering with ABWE and Live Global to work alongside a local church to provide medical care to Haitian refugees in order to engage them relationally with the gospel.
Registration ends October 15, 2025
Florida | February 1-8, 2025
- When: Mid-January
- Where: Hope Children’s Home, Tampa
- Team Leader: Gary Scheppers
- Cost: $800 (best estimate)
- Trip Focus: Helping with campus housing building/renewal projects; working with residents and resident parents; evangelism, discipleship, building (painting, electrical, plumbing, trim)
Registration for this trip is full.
Brazil | February 28 - March 8, 2025
- When: February 28 – March 8, 2025
- Where: São Paulo, Brazil
- Team Leaders: Steve Harrington and Andee Mesman
- Cost: $2,500 (best estimate)
- Trip Focus: Working with missionaries, Dave and Jan Santos, in local schools, churches, and gatherings; evangelism, discipleship; church planting
Registration for this trip is full
Dominican Republic | March 21-29, 2025
- When: March 21-29, 2025
- Where: Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
- Team Leader: Mike Wood
- Cost: $2,500 (best estimate)
- Trip Focus: Partnering with local churches to engage relationally in gospel conversations with Haitian refugees through providing medical care and community health education.
Registration for this trip has ended
Boston | April 4-9, 2025
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When: April 4-9, 2025
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Where: Boston, Massachusetts
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Cost: $800 (best estimate)
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Trip Focus: Partnering with King’s Hill Church in Boston to assist with evangelism, church planting, and events leading up to Easter.
Registration for this trip is full.
Ecuador | Spring Break 2025
- When: High School Spring Break
- Where: Riobamba, Ecuador
- Team Leader: TBD
- Cost: $2,000 (best estimate)
- Trip Focus: Working with missionaries Dave and Cyndi Jenkins to assist with church planting efforts, evangelism, discipleship, ministry to school kids and families.
Registration for this trip has ended
Detroit Students Trip | June 9-13, 2025
- When: June 9-13, 2025
- Where: Detroit
- Team Leader: Ryan Huizinga
- Cost: $250 (best estimate)
- Trip Focus: Working with LifeBuilders in Regent Park on neighborhood revitalization, gospel sharing with community members, and hosting a neighborhood event in the park to interact with kids.
Registration for this trip has ended.
Brazil Trip with The River Church | June 17-28, 2025
- When: June 17-28, 2025
- Where: São Paulo, Brazil
- Team Leader: Pastor George Lim
- Cost: $2,000-$2,500 (best estimate)
- Trip Focus: Working with missionaries Dave and Jan Santos in local schools, churches, and gatherings; evangelism, discipleship, and church planting.
This trip is in partnership with our Family of Churches and led by Pastor George Lim of The River Church.
Registration has ended for this trip.
Thailand | June 24 - July 6, 2025
- When: June 24 – July 6, 2025
- Where: Udon Thani, Thailand
- Team Leader: Eric Palmer
- Cost: $3,000 (best estimate)
- Trip Focus: Partnering with Campus Outreach to participate in building relationships and engaging university students with the love and truth of Jesus, as well as serving alongside the local church with outreach opportunities. Encourage new Thai believers and be an example of a Christian community that is excited about the gospel.
Registration for this trip has ended
England Student Trip | July 4-12, 2025
- When: July 4-12, 2025
- Where: England
- Team Leader: Drew Vos, Carolyn Norkus
- Cost: $2,500 (best estimate)
- Trip Focus: Working with UKUSA to help minister to the youth in England through evangelism, discipleship, working in schools, and helping to run a sports outreach camp. This trip is for students.
This trip is full.
Romania/Bulgaria | July 10-21, 2025
- When: July 10–July 21, 2025
- Where: Bucharest, Romania & Bulgaria
- Team Leaders: TBD
- Cost: $2,500
- Trip Focus: Join a team from our partner church in Bucharest, Romania, to participate in a joint mission trip to Bulgaria. This trip will include a diverse range of ministry opportunities, including evangelism, discipleship, kids ministry, and sports ministry.
Registration for this trip is full.
Kosovo | July 24-August 3, 2025
- When: July 24-August 3, 2025
- Where: Pristina/Mitrovica, Kosovo
- Team Leaders: Chris Mack and Mike Warren
- Cost: $2,500
- Trip Focus: Partnering with ABWE missionaries and a local school to engage kids and adults through a basketball camp, science camp, and teacher professional development; sports, education, evangelism and discipleship.
Registration for this trip has ended.
MISSIONARY PARTNERS
Missionary Partners
KINGDOM EXPANSION
Pray for Our Missionary Partners
Nancy Berends | Serving in Togo, West Africa
Serving primarily in Togo, West Africa, based in West Michigan
Nancy serves as the Director of International Healthcare Ministries (IHM) for ABWE. IHM personnel care for the ABWE missionary family and provide support to the various healthcare entities around the globe.
The Caudill Family | Based in Pennsylvania
The Caudill Family | Director of Live Global, based in Pennsylvania
Prayer Requests:
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This summer is full of activity: orienting new team members, training, conferences, and hosting interns. Pray for wisdom, energy, and fruitfulness in all of it.
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Pray for an unbeliever the Caudills have been sharing the gospel with—that ongoing conversations and relationship would lead to salvation.
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Live Global has recently undergone major structural changes to enable greater kingdom impact—pray for ongoing wisdom and that God would bring momentum (“tailwinds”) from these shifts.
Praises:
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Our team continues to grow—an answer to prayer and a sign of God’s provision.
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Summer has been a sweet and meaningful time with our kids.
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God is using Live Global in powerful ways for significant global impact—we are grateful to be part of it!
Saeed and Saida | Serving in Central Asia
Saeed and Saida | Northern Caucasus of Central Asia.
Praises:
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God is blessing our church with spiritual growth.
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New people are attending—one person came for the first time last week.
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I recently helped a young girl get into university and shared Jesus with her. She had a dream of Jesus, we prayed together, and now she and her mother plan to attend our church.
Prayer Requests
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Pray for those who have recently started coming to church, especially the young girl and her mother—that the Lord would bless them and draw them to Himself.
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Please pray for the financial provision needed for car repairs and insurance (approx. $1,000), which are critical for ministry.
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Pray for my wife’s dental treatment and healing.
The Jenkins Family | Serving in Ecuador
David & Cindy
Serving in Riobamba, Ecuador
David and Cindy are church planters with an emphasis on home Bible studies serving in Ecuador. Their method is to evangelize, disciple, and then train local church leaders in order to accomplish the goal of establishing autonomous local churches.
The Sanford Family | Serving in Papua New Guinea
The Sanford Family | Serving in Papua New Guinea
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Progress is being made in resolving land disputes; leadership is stepping in to help.
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After 4.5 years, we are finally returning to see family—grateful for the time ahead!
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God has kindly provided a vehicle and an apartment for our year in the U.S.
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Pray for smooth travel as we return to the U.S. for our first furlough.
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In early August, leadership will travel to the Emegari community to ensure unity and clarity around a new land agreement—pray for openness, honesty, and resolution.
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Pray for our family’s transition: that we would balance rest, family time, support raising, updates to churches, and staying connected to the ministry in Emegari.
The Santos Family | Serving in Brazil
Dave & Jan Santos | Serving in São Paulo, Brazil
Praises:
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VBS was a huge success—overflow attendance at the closing night!
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Kids joyfully participated, singing in English and Portuguese, and clearly understood the gospel message.
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Ênio shared how God used Dave’s encouragement to reignite his gift for children’s ministry.
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Team testimonies (based on John 3:16) were deeply impactful in schools and churches.
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A returning couple felt called to full-time ministry after last year’s trip—Arthur is now training to plant a church in Connecticut!
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Another couple is sensing a call to serve in this region.
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We received a generous gift to upgrade the church’s sound system.
Prayer Requests:
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Pray for us as we fly to Ohio on Friday—logistically we’re not ready and emotionally it’s difficult to be away for 14 weeks, but this annual trip is essential to our ministry.
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Pray for Dave as he jumps into a busy three weeks of new missionary training, the BMM annual conference, and a strategic planning retreat.
The Stevens Family | Serving in England
The Stevens Family | Serving in England, based in Oxford
Praises:
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Great response to the Faith Sharing Fast Tracker tool.
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Upcoming partnership with The Way, which reaches 1.5 million people (mostly young) on social media.
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Several baptisms and faith commitments recently when Joy and I spoke at church.
Prayer Requests:
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Pray for God to move powerfully at our youth retreat (July 4–6) with 35 youth attending (Christian and non-Christian).
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Ask for God’s direction for Ella (just completed 2nd year of university) and Kiera (starting university in September).
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Wisdom and open doors in a series of meetings with potential investors for Start to Stir (3 meetings in July, 1 in August).
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