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Our Office

Gospel Furthering Fellowship World Headquarters

221 Hamiltion Ave.
Myerstown, PA 17067

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Our Missionaries Serving the Home Office

Rodney Myers
General Director

Office:
Gospel Furthering Fellowship
221 Hamilton Ave.
Myerstown, PA 17067
(717) 866-1964
Fax (717) 866-8527
Email: gffdirector@comcast.net

Ministries:
Administration

Rodney & Lynn Myers served as church planting missionaries in Tanzania, Africa for 13 years before relocating to the United States in May, 2017. Rodney assumed the role of General Director on January 1, 2018. They have four children: Shawn, Jamison, Moriah & Cherith. You may contact Rodney at gffdirector@comcast.net or at 850-450-8778.

Chris and Nancy Luppino

Chris joined our GFF team in December 2019 as the Director of Missionary Care where he ministers to our serving missionaries as well as helps train new recruits. In addition to these important ministries, him and Nancy also travel hosting Table Talk discussions about missionary care with pastors and directors of other mission boards. You can learn more by visiting www.gfftabletalks.com or write gfftabletalk@gmail.com as well as cluppino313@gmail.com

Ted and Sandy Ball (Ted is with the Lord)

Ted and Sandy Ball
Home Address:
4926 Governor Holt St.
Efland, NC 27243 Email: tedball@juno.com

The Ball family is both current and former GFF missionaries, having served with the Fellowship in the 1980s & 1990s, and then serving in another ministry for twelve years before returning to the Fellowship. They have been active church planters all of their adult lives, having planted six churches in the United States during their years of ministry. Ted served as Assistant Director until his passing in 2017. Sandy remains extensively involved in mission correspondence and encouraging our GFF missionaries.

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WHAT IS G.F.F.?

THE GOSPEL FURTHERING FELLOWSHIP is a fundamental Baptist Mission incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 1935. The meaning behind our name is as follows:

GOSPEL. We believe in the “the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” Romans 1:16

FURTHERING. We believe that those who have not yet heard the gospel can indeed hear and believe it if it is preached to them by those who are sent. “As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” Romans 10:15

FELLOWSHIP. We believe our role is to provide help to local-to-us local churches to facilitate the training and transfer of their missionaries, that “… their sound [may go] into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.”  Romans 10:18

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WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF G.F.F.? (from our webpage)
We believe the top ministry priority that God has given to us is to assist local, fundamental baptist churches in the primary mission of the church which is exalting and glorifying God by planting independent and indigenous local-to-them local churches.
By “independent” we mean that they are self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating– self-supporting being the key factor in establishing the other two. Meaning, without relying on their own faith and finances for the work of the ministry, there is no true claim on the local church governing itself or propagating itself.
By “indigenous” we mean that the evangelistic means by which nationals come to Christ targets their sinful condition before God rather than the suffering of their societal circumstances. The first fosters motivation based on their spiritual need to repent humbly from their sins while trusting in the Savior for eternal life in heaven. The second fosters motivation for following Christ based on their physical desire for relief from suffering and puts trust in the gaining of provisions for earthly benefits. Thus, a spiritual church being planted through spiritual means originates organically from God via the first rather than being manufactured by the homeland of the guest missionary via the second. This means our missionaries take the time to learn the language and culture unique to the people he targets for evangelistic church planting that communicating the message of repentance might foster the first clearly.

WHAT MAKES GFF DISTINCT FROM OTHER IBC MISSION BOARDS?

Because GFF believes in planting independent fundamental Baptist churches in both NAME and NATURE, these six philosophies together often distinguish us from others:

  1. PARTNERSHIP: We pair new missionaries with mentors for deputation, deployment, and debriefing.
  2. PLANTING: We purport starting churches that are independent and indigenous from inception rather than as an eventual aspiration.
  3. PROPAGATION: We practice evangelizing by targeting the sinner’s conscience rather than his societal circumstances.
  4. PATTERN: We participate in modeling an autonomous ministry which can be replicated through the faith and finances of national believers themselves.
  5. PROMOTION: We purpose to target the unreached, underreached and misreached in the “uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
  6. PROACTIVE: We provide a proactive rather than a reactive approach to full range missionary care.

WHAT KIND OF WORKERS IS G.F.F. LOOKING FOR?
G.F.F. is trusting the Lord for His choice of saved and dedicated workers to help build church planting teams to carry the gospel of Christ to three kinds of people groups:

  1. Unreached people groups: those tribes or societies with no true Gospel witness in either their language or culture or in a similar language or culture.
  2. Underreached people groups: those tribes or societies with no true Gospel witness in their own language or culture but may be represented in a similar language and culture.  However, those believers are not reaching out to their Judea or Samaria.
  3. Mis-reached people groups: those tribes or societies which have been reached with a false Gospel and which cannot save, effectively having traded their bonds of heathenism for the sophisticated shackles of a Christianity that cannot save.

CURRENTLY WE NEED:

  1. People who are burdened to reach the lost, discipling them in individual or small group Bible studies that could lead to new churches being established on all our current fields or on new ones as the Lord leads.
  2. Young married couple who are new to ministry and sense God’s leading into full time missionary service.
  3. Pastors who are serving in a local church who feel God’s redirection to full-time overseas missionary service.
  4. Active missionaries serving overseas whose mission has either left them fundamentally or the missionary himself has come to an independent and indigenous mission philosophy position which no longer aligns with their mission board.
  5. Like-minded ministers who could add to the experience and expansion of GFF staff in our services and ministries to local churches and their missionaries.

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221 Hamilton Ave.
Myerstown, PA 17067

Phone: (717) 866-1964
Fax: (717) 866-8527

Email: gff@comcast.net

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