Commissioned Beyond Borders

A name change and a fresh start!

Published on Aug. 18, 2010 by Buddy Walker and tagged commissionedbeyondborders, logo, name

One constant with any thriving ministry is change, and Missions Without Borders is no different. God is always at work redeeming and reconciling humanity to himself and He has commissioned us to extend His work beyond all borders.

To celebrate this, and to lead us into the next season of ministry, we'd like to announce that we're officially changing our name from Missions Without Borders to Commissioned Beyond Borders.

Along with our new name we have a new logo that you can see below

Video of work going on now in Haiiti

Published on July 12, 2010 by Buddy Walker and tagged dcpi, haiti, video

Check out this terrific video of the work that God is doing in Haiiti through MWOB and our partners DCPI.

Good News on Haiti Relief

Published on Feb. 25, 2010 by Ted Lyke and tagged haiti, relief work, reports

As the large News Agencies coverage is tapering down regarding Haiti, the USA Ministries and Churches are continuing to step up.

Missions Without Borders works in partnership with many different organizations to optimize relief funding and distribution efforts.

Thank you to the many individuals and organizations which have contributed financially towards the following initiatives:

• Feb 20th Engaging Life in Umatilla, FL, pastored by Shawn McCracken, and MWOB held a workday to pack 125 buckets with water purifiers and medical supplies. Tarps, tents and power tools for concrete demolition were also included and placed on a shipping container bound for Haiti. 71 people worked on the project and interestingly 41 of them came from the local community thanks to (Disney’s, Give a Day Get a Day Project). Family Bible Church of Eustis, FL also purchased tents and made financial contributions towards shipment costs.
• Feb 23rd We have confirmation that the shipment of 30,000+meals that Christian Life Fellowship got from Kids Against Hunger (Thank you Steve Popper) arrived at the distribution center just north of Port Au Prince at a ministry called Global Outreach. Another USA based ministry that we partner with called Living Waters Haiti led by Fred Chalker, has one of their pastors, Etienne, present at the center coordinating the delivery and distribution of the shipments. Pastor Luc, a leader of the local ministerial association was on site today picking up the first shipment of food which will be distributed through local churches.
• Josh Neese from On The Go Ministry in Nashville reported they have acquired 200 of the water purifiers, along with other medical and housing materials to ship into Global Outreach ASAP.
• Feb 27th Buddy Walker of MWOB will be going into Haiti for 5 days, this is an advance trip with Dr/Pastor David Wilson of Cornerstone Fellowship to plan for the arrival of medical and ministry teams during the month of March. Arrangements for the making of a documentary video of how Haitian churches are ministering to their local communities will be made through the help of Dynamic Church Planting Int. and Youth With A Mission.
• March 6th at Christian Life Fellowship in Cape Coral, 3 teams of 300 people will come together to pack 285,000 meals purchased from Kids Against Hunger and volunteers from several other MB Fellowship Churches in Florida with the help of many other churches from SW Florida. The container will start its journey with food, tents and other supplies to Haiti on the 8th of March.
• March 13th the next large team of 70, led by Dr David Wilson will travel to Haiti. Some of our friends from Keith Cooks’ On The Go Ministry will be on this trip as well to start planning trips in May – Aug 2010

What you can do:

• Continue to pray for Haiti and the people of Haiti. May 1st the hurricane season starts and they will need protection.
• The top requested need right now is tents for some of the 2+million homeless to live in for the near future.
• Maybe your family or you along with a few friends could come up with a way to buy and send a tent as a love gift to Haiti (Best recommendation is 8+person tent)
• Think big and search for corporate contributors on line that could donate things like dump trucks, front end loaders, other tools for demolition or big circus type tents that churches can set up to meet in for the next few years while they serve people first and build buildings later.
• Look for a place to lay down your life by giving of your time Like March 6th at CLF packing food.
• Contribute money to help with the Shipping and purchase of food, medical supplies and tents for Haiti.

Ongoing Haiti Relief Work Update

Published on Jan. 30, 2010 by Buddy Walker and tagged details, haiti, relief work

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Haiti Update: In the midst of widespread devastation and pain, another story seems to be emerging: a story of unwavering faith. BBC has reported on thousands of people participating in open air church services. Though churches throughout the capital city have been destroyed, worship services are in motion everywhere.

MWOB Relief Efforts:

• Funds have been wired to Pastor Luc St. Felix and Pastor Ignace Augustin (leaders of local ministerial associations) for immediate aid to refugees. (Some supplies can be purchased in country but are expensive and we will continue to assess the best use of available funds)
• We partnered with two ministries, [Kids Against Hunger](](http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/) and Living Waters Haiti that had room on a container for 26,000 fortified rice and protein meals which were shipped to Haiti to be distributed through local churches.
• Ted Lyke VP of MWOB will be leading a small team to go into Haiti, to Peition Ville, on Feb 3-7. He will meet with Pastor Luc and with the Pastors of the Peition Ville Ministerial Association to assay the damage and assess the best way to carry out long term support.
• We have acquired 150 water purification systems that will each deliver 300 gallons of safe drinking water per day (Each purifier can keep 600 people alive) and will be good for 1 million gallons each. The first 50 will be delivered to Pastor Luc when the team arrives in Peition Ville. The remainder is being packed into emergency relief buckets to be shipped in the next few weeks.
• Visions Beyond Border has donated 2000 lbs of powdered Baby Formula and we need funding to pay the shipping from Wyoming to Haiti ($1,200)

• Feb. 20 a relief bucket packing day at Engaging Life in Umatilla, FL. Buckets will be pre-drilled and packed with a gravity fed water purification system, first aid and hygiene products. For more information contact Shawn McCracken at 352-551-0010 or shawn@engagelakecounty.com.

• We have set the date of March 6th at Christian Life Fellowship in Cape Coral to pack a 40’ container with 285,000 meals.

• If you would like to contribute to the $40,000.00 net cost to pack and ship this, you can give online here.
• If you have a team that wants to come to Cape Coral and help on March 6th contact Christian Life Fellowship at 239-283-2299 and get signed up on the help list.
• March 13th, preparations are being made for Dr. David Wilson of Cornerstone Fellowship in Oneonta, Alabama to bring a medical team to Haiti.
• Family Bible Church in Eustis, FL has expressed a desire to help fund and organize the packing of another 40’ container of food as soon as a date can be set with Kids Against Hunger.
• Opportunities to assist with team outreaches are being planned.

Be sure to ask your relatives, friends, co-workers and people you do business with if they have done anything to help the people of Haiti yet, if not, recommend that they give online. 100% of designated Haiti relief support is used to provide resources for local Haitian pastors and churches to minister to those in greatest need.

Haiti Relief Update

Published on Jan. 20, 2010 by Robert Williams and tagged Haiti, food, shelter, tax deductions, water

We are all hard at work organizing our response to the earthquake in Haiti. Our strategy includes: 40,000 lbs of nutritious food, 150 water purification systems, shelter in the form of 8-10 person durable tents, first-aid/medical supplies for personal and professional/clinical use, hygiene supplies. This will be phase 1 with an initial budget of $50,000.00 We have pledges of $25,000.00 on the way. We need you to help us raise the next $25k. Please pray and make a sacrificial gift. Congress is passing a bill to allow donations to Haiti Relief to be deducted on 2009 Federal Tax Returns.

Tax Relief

Please share this with all of your real friends, FaceBook friends, relatives, co-workers, and anyone else who may be able to help.

The following YouTube Video tells the story of Kids Against Hunger, which is the food source/plan that we are working with:

Help for Haiti

Published on Jan. 15, 2010 by Buddy Walker and tagged donations, haiti, relief work

As many of you are aware, my Father and Mother began working in Haiti almost 30 years ago. Many of your have heard the stories of how Dad would give everything he had, even the shoes on his feet to help the poor in Haiti. When he went home to be with the Lord, I felt a burden to continue the work he had begun with the Haitian leaders. During the last 5 years we have formed partnerships with diverse organizations for the purpose of training leaders, ministering to the poor and building momentum for evangelism and church plantng.

As you listen to the news reports, you will realize how much confusion, disorder and chaos hinders international relief efforts. The best intentions to help the people can create a public riot resulting in even more injury and death.

Together we did a major food relief initiative after the hurricanes of 2008 and all of the distribution was done through local churches. There was no media coverage and no community publicity, just local ministries being provided resources to minister to their communities. This approach provides a double blessing by meeting the physical needs of the people in an orderly way and empowering the church to share The Good News within their communities.

We have begun to make contact with the Haitian pastors and are getting information concerning their families, homes, congregations and buildings. We are coordinating a trip for a small advance team to organize our relief and team efforts.

Ted Lyke, VP of Missins Without Borders and Missions Pastor at Christian Life Fellowship sent this message out earlier today:

By now you know about the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on Tues. Jan 12th. The center of the quake hit very close to Peition-ville, a sub city in Port au Prince, the capital.

We have done much work in that area. We have trained more than 100 leaders through Dynamic Church Planting Int. and last year we did a large Crusade Festival with On the Go Ministries and the Luis Palau Association in Peition-ville. Leaders from Master Builders have done numerous leadership training conferences over the years and Christian Life Fellowship in Cape Coral, FL has organized major food relief and other team efforts. We are connected with a couple of networks of over 100 pastors with churches in Port Au Prince that are in crisis and can use our help.

In the next 1-10 weeks, the most urgent need will be for clean drinking water, food, medical supplies and temporary shelter. This may be our best response. In Nov of 2008, with the help of several other churches and ministries, we were able to pack a 40' shipping container with 285,000 meals and then shipped it to Haiti to distribute to those who where devastated by 4 hurricanes. We would like to ask for your help to do the same thing right now ASAP. The container will weigh 40,000 lbs and it will cost about $1.00 per pound to buy the food, pack it and ship it. When cooked each pound of food will become 3 pounds. A gift of $10-100.00 will really help here.

We also have a resource for water purifiers that can be used to produce several gallons of clean drinking water per day for up to 2 years. The cost for each unit is about $65.00 plus shipping or delivery, so net about $80.00 each. This will keep 100 people alive with water for 1 year. We have a resource for medical supplies, a gift of $300.00 will buy $10,000.00 of key emergency medical supplies pre packaged and ready to take as a checked bag on a plane.

So here is the request. If your heart is moved and you would like to help, the first and fastest way is to donate money. If you would like to do this, you can send it to:

Missions Without Borders

c/o Ina Walker

1068 Vanderbilt Dr.

Eustis, Florida 32726

Write "Haiti Relief" in the memo field to dedicate the funds to this specific need. Please pray about what you can give and then respond. The gift will be tax deductible. If you would like follow up information about how the impact of your gift, please include your email address as well.

You can also donate online:

Thank you in advance for anything you can do and please keep praying for the people of Haiti.

Missions Without Borders is a 501C-3 not for profit organization. 100% of designated funds are used for the purpose for which they are given and donors receive a tax deductible receipt.

We will keep you informed of opportunities to participate with team relief efforts.

I want to thank you with all my heart for your compassion, giving and willingness to serve.

Contact Information

Bob Walker bwalker194@comcast.net 352-978-0509

Ina Walker missionswob@aol.com 352-589-1120

August through December Newsletter

Published on Jan. 7, 2010 by Buddy Walker and tagged newsletter, updates

Thank you so very much for your friendship, prayers and support.

Download the August - December 2009 Newsletter

Innovative Evangelism Conference

Published on Nov. 16, 2009 by Robert Williams and tagged Luis Palau, NGA, Portland, evangelism, ieconf09

Buddy Walker and Robert Williams just returned from the Innovative Evangelism Conference hosted by Next Generation Alliance of the Luis Palau Association.

Held in Portland, OR, the conference was attended by 350 international world changers who proclaim the gospel in word and deed. Dynamic speakers like Dinesh D'sousa- an outstanding apologist, or Miles McPherson - former NFL running back turned pastor and community developer inspired and encouraged us with powerful messages. Uplifting worship was led by Matt Redman on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. From extreme sports to hip-hop music to internet evangelism they were all represented. Of course Luis Palau gave some challenging and inspirational talks as well. The entire staff of Luis Palau Evangelistic Association, Portland did an outstanding job of hosting the event, sharing their gifts and talents openly.

MWOB is a partnering member of Next Generation Alliance. We have worked together on festival evangelism/church planting projects in Port au Prince, Haiti last December, and our upcoming event in Le Cayes, Haiti in January 2010. We encourage our team members and young leaders to plan to attend this conference next year; you won't be sorry.