GLOBAL Partnership

Dan & Meehan Shannon

Dan and Meehan work with Youth With A Mission in Kona, HI. They share a passion for the church worldwide and work to create communities centered around following Jesus with people who have never done so before, primarily with college students.

Michael & Naomi Woo

Naomi and Michael Woo Naomi and Michael Woo serve as Candidate Directors at OMF International USA in Littleton, CO. Previously we served among the Shan Dai people group in China for 13 years. Our current role is getting USA missionaries to the least reached people of South East Asia. We have the privilege to process, disciple, screen, and train people who are willing to serve in Church planting and discipleship. Our goal is to place 30 missionaries a year in places where less than 1% of current missionaries are now serving.  

Scott Klingsmith

Scott equips global missionaries in partnership with Denver Seminary. With over 25 years of experience in the field, Scott helps students see that they can be a part of God’s plan for reaching the nations, whether in cross-cultural ministry themselves or as church leaders.

BRUCE & LAURA

Our Global Partners reaching out to Afghan refugees in the Denver area through ESL programs and reaching Muslim visiting scholars from ten middle-East nations who are studying at the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Denver.

Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child is a way to provide God’s love to children in need around the world. We pack boxes for Samaritan’s Purse to deliver, and with it share the good news of Jesus. You can pick up boxes at Waterstone to pack, or you can pack a box online. This is a great opportunity for families to serve together, and if you're interested in helping with drop-off, you can sign up by clicking the link below.

Plant With Purpose

Plant With Purpose exists to break the cycle of poverty in rural communities through reversing deforestation, sustainable agriculture, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal. They address the most common form of poverty at its root, through local leaders who have been empowered to create the change their communities need. 

Chris & Joi Copeland

Chris & Joi Copeland are facilitating a church-planting movement in Ireland by developing leaders, fostering spiritual growth, writing, leading worship, counseling pastors, preaching, evangelizing, discipling, studying the Bible, neighboring, and helping strengthen marriages and families through men's and women's ministries. Our vision is that Galway City Church, where we work, will be the healthy hub that will create offshoot churches throughout the West Coast of Ireland.

LB

Our Global Partner to the Middle East leads a global library consultant ministry that exists to see people in forgotten and overlooked communities grow in imagination and curiosity, expand their intellectual horizons, and find hope through access to quality information and transformational literature in well-developed libraries. Through the work of this project, families, schools and neighborhoods have been transformed.

MAUD HANSON

Through her work with Paris Ensemble, Maud is working to help see Paris transformed through prayer ministry. 

Nathan & Becky Kendall

Nathan and Becky Kendall live in Dakar, Senegal serving in ways that help grow the church including through educational institutions, media ministry, and training. In all aspects of their lives, they seek to glorify God, grow everything around them, and delight in the life God provides.

Rodger & Lynne Schmidt

Rodger and Lynne serve in church planting and leadership development in Mozambique through their business Rickshaws, a restaurant and guest house on the Indian Ocean. They day to day operations of their business, provide ample opportunity to disciple their predominantly Muslim employees in the way of Jesus.

Compassion International

Compassion International is a child-advocacy ministry pairing compassionate people with children living in extreme poverty to release the children from spiritual, economic, social, and physical poverty. Through partnership with Compassion, Waterstone has sponsored over 500 children, in hopes that they will discover their deep value in Jesus.

David & Lauren Bass

David and Lauren Bass have been serving in Cambodia since 2015. As Cambodia’s church planting movement matures, David and Lauren have aimed to walk alongside Cambodian pastors and church leaders as they, their churches, and their faith go from new and dynamic to deep and sustainable. Since 2024, David and Lauren have partnered with the Phnom Penh Bible School to train pastors and ministry students. Overall, their goal in Cambodia is to find where God is working and to join in.

Michael & Christie Stalcup

Christie & Michael are living and working among the Central Thai people, one of the largest unreached people groups in the world. Michael, whose mom is Thai, disciples and trains Thai leaders in holistic, Kingdom-minded ministry. He primarily does this through his connections with City to City and IFES. He is currently pursuing an MDiv at Fuller through their online program. Christie uses her legal training to address justice issues. She primarily does this with Step Ahead, a local, Christian nonprofit that is working collaboratively with NGOs and the government to pursue better care options (family strengthening, foster care) through national policy change for at-risk children in Thailand. Christie and Michael also develop witnessing relationships with Thai Buddhists around them in their neighborhood, at their kids’ schools, and they are involved in a local Thai church.

P & S

Our Global Partners serve in Central Asia serve an unreached people group through their small business, hiring indigenous artisans to create ornaments, nativities, stuffed animals and other fair trade treasures.