Global Outreach
The Love the ‘Ville Movement knows no boundaries as
we seek to unleash love in all parts of the world.
We partner with global organizations to empower locals and meet the unique needs of their communities by building sustainable ministries. They show what it means to Love the ‘Ville right where they are.
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One of the ways we can engage with our global partners is by going on a trip with them. This is a great opportunity to witness the work they are doing firsthand, assist in furthering their ministry, and grow in your faith. We hope you join us on a trip and experience new ways to Love the ‘Ville.
Neverthirst Ethiopia Story
Discover Our Global Partners
Jerry & Aleta – Cape Town Story
Our Global Partners
Earth Mission
The Karen are a minority people group concentrated along the Thai-Myanmar border. As a whole, they are well acquainted with the hard side of life. Although deeply community-oriented, one of the world’s longest civil wars has forced many to flee their homes to distant countries. Even as peace in Myanmar struggles forward, many of those Karen who stayed still struggle to scratch out a living as farmers. In mountain and jungle areas, little is left over for education or healthcare. Earth Mission’s programs are focused on developing a sustainable training program for indigenous healthcare teams to serve these marginalized areas. Earth Mission works at several levels to ensure solutions are efficient, culturally sensitive, practical, and permanent. They’ve developed a clinical training curriculum that aims to empower students, whose educational backgrounds are incomplete, to reach the functional equivalent of a Nurse Practitioner/ Physician Assistant, over the course of five years. Other educational programs, needed for healthcare support, are in development (i.e. engineering technology, etc.).
GO Ministries
GO Ministries empowers local leaders to make disciples through church planting, medical care, and sports ministries all in the name of Jesus. Their efforts are based in Santiago but are quickly spreading throughout the Dominican Republic and around the world. They are a great partner with Northeast because they lead with a simple question, “How can we help?” and then they help. They serve the people in their care through mutually transformational group trips that you can experience. They have a 10-year goal to plant 1000 churches and two years in they have started 124! From a large group to a family trip, you can be a part of building the local church in the Dominican Republic and making disciples.
Lifeline
Lifeline Christian Mission operates in 11 different countries and across the United States, dedicated to building self-sufficient, sustainable communities. Their efforts focus on strengthening churches, empowering youth, improving health and nutrition, and promoting economic empowerment. Locally, Lifeline runs a meal-packing facility that provides meals to community partners and supports global hunger relief initiatives.
Neverthirst
Neverthirst is a faith-based organization that transforms unreached communities with clean and living water. Currently working in seven different countries, they partner with indigenous Christian leaders to deliver clean water solutions. New wells, bio-sand filters and rain tanks are installed and the community is trained how to raise funds and repair their system giving them ownership. At the same time, the Christian leaders are given the opportunity to build a Christ-centered community in these locations. It is amazing to see the Gospel take root in areas it was never allowed in before because of the gift of clean water. They are currently making a difference in Cambodia, India, Nepal, Chad, Uganda, South Sudan & Myanmar.
Missionaries We Support
Audrey Niehaus
Kentucky, Christian Student Fellowship
Audrey is an associate staff member at Christian Student Fellowship (CSF), where she serves on six different teams. On the Communications Team, she assists in managing social media accounts and planning promotional content for the ministry. She is also a member of the Prayer Team and the Pancakes Team. Every Friday night, the Pancakes Team hosts CSF’s largest campus outreach event of the week, serving free pancakes to hundreds of students.
On the “30-Day Journey” Team, Audrey helps guide students in developing spiritual discipline practices over the course of 30 days. She also co-leads a co-ed small group that meets weekly, emphasizing the power of discipleship. In addition to these roles, Audrey intentionally disciples three girls, walking alongside them as they grow in their relationship with Jesus.
Bramer Family
Thailand and Myanmar/Burma, Earth Mission
Danny & Jeanne Bramer are both physicians who have worked with Earth Mission for over a decade, but felt led to serve alongside them in Southeast Asia beginning August 2024. Earth Mission has a 5-year Physician Associate training program for locals in the Karen State of Myanmar. This provides healthcare to thousands in the region who have no other access, as well as expanding access to healthcare in many villages as the graduates start clinics throughout the country. There are also training programs for engineering technicians and sustainable agriculture. Danny is developing collaborations with several healthcare systems in Asia & USA to continue to improve the Burmese physicians’ training & education. He is also developing safety protocols & procuring much-needed equipment for better outcomes. Jeanne is developing an ultrasound simulation curriculum & working to implement an electronic medical record system to help with patient care, disease tracking, and data collection. They both enjoy teaching the students and encouraging them to become lifelong learners. Their daughter, Isabella, is in her senior year of high school in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at a Christian international school for missionary kids. Their 3 older children (Elizabeth, Max, & Sam) are in college & post-graduate programs in the USA at UofL, Asbury, & Regent University.
Chad Rehnberg
Kentucky, Team Expansion
Chad and Jennifer Rehnberg serve right here in Louisville, KY. Chad is a missionary with Team Expansion, and he is focused on starting disciple-making movements in our city in hopes that they will multiply to the ends of the earth! They live in the Shawnee neighborhood of Louisville’s West End where Chad has lived for 19 years. Chad trains leaders across the city and around the world in fruitful practices that multiply disciples, and he invests in local refugee and immigrant communities, sharing the Gospel and serving families as they make Louisville home. If you ever want a taste of evangelism and discipleship with those in the margins of our city, give him a call and join him for a prayer walk! It’s simple boots-on-the-ground training for people of all ages.
Gracesqui Family
Dominican Republic, 8:28 Ministries
Amaury and Catherine founded 8:28 Ministries (Fundacion Ministerial 8:28) in Santiago, Dominican Republic, in January 2010 as a teaching ministry dedicated to sharing the love of Jesus with the people of the Dominican Republic through Drama Ministry, Edification Ministry, and work with a Christian school. Their Ministry Objective is to offer training and education as outreach ministries in order to utilize the skills God has given to them and their volunteers to glorify Him and lead others into relationship with Jesus Christ. Their ministry verse is Romans 8:28, and their lives are testaments to how God does indeed “work all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.” They also now have a YouTube channel where their Drama Group, 8:28 Productions, posts videos and short films with family-centered Christian content.
Joey Keck
Kentucky, GO Ministries
I’m a missionary with GO Ministries, serving in Louisville, KY. My vision is to train local leaders to be disciple-making missionaries in the places where they live and work.
Justin & Allison
Spain and Africa, TeachBeyond
Justin and Allison serve in ministries of teaching, mentoring, coaching, and counseling in Africa and Europe. It is their hope and prayer to see the Church strengthened and Christ exalted among the nations. Due to their areas of work and partnership, Justin and Allison are able to provide limited details about location and people group focus, in order to help ensure long-term access for ministry effectiveness. They appreciate your prayers even in the absence of these specifics.
Klass Family
Chile, El Oasis
Greg and Eli serve with the Globalscope campus ministry, El Oasis, in Viña del Mar, Chile, where they help create a welcoming Christian community for university students. At a pivotal time in their lives, students are invited into a space where they can explore questions of life and faith freely and authentically—no matter where they are on their spiritual journey. El Oasis is especially committed to reaching students who might never set foot in a traditional church setting, offering a safe, inclusive environment where Christians, atheists, agnostics, and seekers of all kinds can come together, be themselves, and experience the love of Christ.
Ogle Family
Florida, CRU
Eric is a Senior HR Business Partner for our IT, legal, and talent management teams (about 150 staff). He focuses on workforce planning, leadership development, recruiting, people strategy, and staff care. Lauren is primarily at home with our three daughters, Cora (7), Lydia (5), and Emma (2), but also coaches Cru interns through a two-year discipleship and evangelism curriculum.
They previously served 10 years in direct student ministry, including 5 in East Asia. Now, they serve behind the scenes to ensure Cru missionaries are equipped to reach people everywhere. When missionaries are well-supported, the gospel moves further, faster, and deeper.
Olivia Ferriell
Netherlands, YWAM
For the past couple of years, Olivia has had the privilege of working with the Discipleship Training School (DTS), a missions-focused program centered on first knowing God and then making Him known. In Amsterdam, DTS students spend 12 weeks in lectures on topics such as God’s character and nature, the Holy Spirit, and Biblical worldview, while also living in community and engaging the city through prayer, evangelism, and service. Following this, students participate in an 11-week Outreach Phase in another country, where they put their training into practice.
As staff, Olivia walks alongside students through mentorship, leading small groups, and supporting logistics such as hosting speakers, managing media, and planning or leading outreach. She especially loves going on outreach and witnessing both locals and students grow closer to God.
Wayne Meece
Kentucky & Beyond, Team Expansion
Wayne is a field coordinator for teams residing in the US, specifically in Oregon, California, and Tennessee. He serves the teams as a coach, advisor, strategy coordinator, and encourager. He also assists with new team training, application reviews, and serve as a project coordinator to churches seeking to increase their involvement in mission support.
Weiss Family
Spain, Team Expansion
In August 2024 Brandon, Maleah, and their two sons moved to Granada, Spain, along with their friends/teammates JC and Carla Williams, to be a “Fielded Support Team.” In addition to working in local ministry opportunities alongside the field team in Granada, their desire is to be more strategically placed to partner better with Team Expansion’s workers (over half of whom live within 3 time zones of Spain!), tell God’s story, and be a bridge between the Home Office in Louisville and our fellow field workers around the world.
Brandon is the Media Production Specialist on this Fielded Support Team branch of the Communications Team. He’s essentially in charge of all things audio, video, and photography. He plans, shoots, and edits videos for the organization as a whole, but also collaborates with the field workers on projects for telling stories, reporting to churches, and helping further their media ministries. Maleah is the Third Culture Kid (TCK) Care Coordinator. She works with our TCKs (kids growing up in a blend of cultures) to ensure they are cared for, healthy, and heard. She and her TCK Associates work together with Member Care to make sure families are thriving (not just surviving!) in their time overseas.