Other Missions
Countless people today need to hear Jesus say, “Will you let me heal you?”
But what if there is no one around who can tell them? If God is pursuing them, isn’t it worth it for us as the church to send someone into their culture to speak and live out the gospel? Across our world, entire nations, people groups, cities, towns, villages, refugee camps, and informal settlements still have little opportunity of knowing Jesus.
We must go.
Renée grew up in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York. She felt called to serve Jesus as teenager in summer camp before attending Cornell University where it became more clear that serving Jesus would be in medical missions. She went to Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey and did a combined residency in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics there. During her training she did short term missions in Romania, the Philippines and Kenya.
Paul and Elvie Barner have been faithfully serving as missionaries in the Philippines for nearly three decades. Paul first felt called to missions at age 10 while attending Delta Youth Camp in the U.S., and Elvie received her calling around the same age during Vacation Bible School in the Philippines. They were married in Davao City in 1996 and planted their first church in 1997.
In 1998, they founded Barner Christian Academy, a free Christian school aimed at reaching underprivileged children and drawing families to Christ. Since then, the school has provided a values-based Christian education to over 4,000 Filipino children, and their ministry has expanded to plant over 30 churches throughout the country.
Fulton Alliance Church is proud to support an adopted missionary kid (MK), who currently lives with her family on the mission field. As part of our extended ministry family, we remain committed to praying for and encouraging her as she grows in faith and continues to experience God's work around the world.
