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Ray Schellinger ministers to victims of domestic violence, strengthen-ing the work of Deborah’s House in Tijuana, Mexico. This ministry includes counseling services for families in crisis, as well as a shelter for women and children. Ray and his wife, Adalia, helped found this min-istry and now Ray is shepherding it through a transitional period toward self-sufficiency. In this time, Ray will be reaching out in support of IM partners and colleagues around the world who would like to strengthen their witness to families suffering from violence. Ray is also working as part of a denominational task force on immigration to help churches see beyond the difficulties and begin to embrace the possibilities of mission to and partnership with immigrant individuals and communities.
Ray Schellinger | Iberoamerica & the Caribbean
Email: [email protected] Areas: Immigrants & Refugees and Peace
& JusticeSpouse: AdaliaChild: MelissaAdult child: Michelle
I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy … being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to comple-tion until the day of Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 1:3-4, 6
For the much of the last year, I have been bragging about Deborah’s House’s first engineer. The ma-
jority of the women who come to us have never completed elementary school; most have believed it when their abusers have told them that they couldn’t learn anything. Carmen
Birthday: Nov 16
Locations: Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Mexico
Language used in ministry: Spanish
Ray Schellinger ministers to victims of domestic violence, strengthen-ing the work of Deborah’s House in Tijuana, Mexico. This ministry includes counseling services for families in crisis, as well as a shelter for women and children. Ray and his wife, Adalia, helped found this min-istry and now Ray is shepherding it through a transitional period toward self-sufficiency. In this time, Ray will be reaching out in support of IM partners and colleagues around the world who would like to strengthen their witness to families suffering from violence. Ray is also working as part of a denominational task force on immigration to help churches see beyond the difficulties and begin to embrace the possibilities of mission to and partnership with immigrant individuals and communities.
Ray Schellinger | Iberoamerica & the Caribbean
Email: [email protected] Areas: Immigrants & Refugees and Peace
& JusticeSpouse: AdaliaChild: MelissaAdult child: Michelle
I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy … being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to comple-tion until the day of Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 1:3-4, 6
For the much of the last year, I have been bragging about Deborah’s House’s first engineer. The ma-
jority of the women who come to us have never completed elementary school; most have believed it when their abusers have told them that they couldn’t learn anything. Carmen
Birthday: Nov 16
Locations: Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Mexico
Language used in ministry: Spanish
To learn how to join his network or to give to his ministryvisit www.internationalministries.org today!
You’ll also find the latest stories, journals, videos and prayer needs.
HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED
¨ Join his Mission Partnership Network
¨ Share information about his ministry with others
¨ Go on a mission work team to his country
¨ Give to his ministry individually or through your church
¨ Send emails and birthday and Christmas cards
¨ Pray for his ministry
¨ For strength and direction for Carmen, and for all of the Deborah’s House graduates, who are discovering for the first time the gifts and possibilities that God has given them.
¨ For Deborah’s House: for strength, rest and direction for our staff; for the resources needed to give the best care possible; and for Deliris and Moise, as they come to hold this ministry in their hearts as we have all tried our best to do.
¨ That I would have vision and courage as I begin working with issues of domestic violence with our partner congregations around the world.
PLEASE PRAY
Our director, Caritina Ruiz, helping a new generation of women at Deborah’s House learn that they can do all things through Christ Jesus
was no different. She hadn’t finished second grade when she came to the shelter; she couldn’t add 12 and 31. She had been told that she could never learn anything and could never hold down a job. Then she learned the truth. At Deborah’s house, she finished ele-mentary school and got her first job, mopping floors in a pharmaceutical company. Her bosses praised her work ethic. When she left the shelter she continued working there, com-muting three to four hours daily. On Saturdays, she studied. She kept studying—junior high, then high school. She moved up at work, eventually becoming the assis-tant to the director. And then a year and a half ago she began university, studying industrial engineering. We were so proud, until …
Last month Carmen told us she quit school; her heart wasn’t in it. For the first time, the sacrifice wasn’t worth it. She felt she had taken the easy way out, studying what was ex-pected of her, not what God wanted. So this past September she started over, studying education. God is call-ing Carmen to become a teacher—to inspire others so that they know that they can learn anything, before the world tells them otherwise. We are now prouder than ever.
To learn how to join his network or to give to his ministryvisit www.internationalministries.org today!
You’ll also find the latest stories, journals, videos and prayer needs.
HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED
¨ Join his Mission Partnership Network
¨ Share information about his ministry with others
¨ Go on a mission work team to his country
¨ Give to his ministry individually or through your church
¨ Send emails and birthday and Christmas cards
¨ Pray for his ministry
¨ For strength and direction for Carmen, and for all of the Deborah’s House graduates, who are discovering for the first time the gifts and possibilities that God has given them.
¨ For Deborah’s House: for strength, rest and direction for our staff; for the resources needed to give the best care possible; and for Deliris and Moise, as they come to hold this ministry in their hearts as we have all tried our best to do.
¨ That I would have vision and courage as I begin working with issues of domestic violence with our partner congregations around the world.
PLEASE PRAY
Our director, Caritina Ruiz, helping a new generation of women at Deborah’s House learn that they can do all things through Christ Jesus
was no different. She hadn’t finished second grade when she came to the shelter; she couldn’t add 12 and 31. She had been told that she could never learn anything and could never hold down a job. Then she learned the truth. At Deborah’s house, she finished ele-mentary school and got her first job, mopping floors in a pharmaceutical company. Her bosses praised her work ethic. When she left the shelter she continued working there, com-muting three to four hours daily. On Saturdays, she studied. She kept studying—junior high, then high school. She moved up at work, eventually becoming the assis-tant to the director. And then a year and a half ago she began university, studying industrial engineering. We were so proud, until …
Last month Carmen told us she quit school; her heart wasn’t in it. For the first time, the sacrifice wasn’t worth it. She felt she had taken the easy way out, studying what was ex-pected of her, not what God wanted. So this past September she started over, studying education. God is call-ing Carmen to become a teacher—to inspire others so that they know that they can learn anything, before the world tells them otherwise. We are now prouder than ever.