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Align Life Ministries

We align with God to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and champion the sacredness of human life through pregnancy services, strategic partnerships, and equipping resources.

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Church World Service

Church World Service Lancaster is committed to welcoming refugees, immigrants, asylum-seekers, and other uprooted people within the United States who are seeking safety and the opportunity to rebuild their lives. We believe all families deserve safety and dignity.

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CrossFire Youth Ministries

Crossfire Ministries works to introduce Jesus Christ to hurting youth and their families by providing a safe haven where they can develop life-giving friendships, experience renewal in their lives, and connect with the greater church body.

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Ephrata Area Social Services

EASS is a non-profit organization supporting neighbors in need throughout the Ephrata and Cocalico regions of Northern Lancaster County. Our mission is to empower and connect neighbors in order to build a more vibrant community.

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Global Disciples

We live in a time when many of those least-reached with the gospel are within reach of a local church. Through our simple and effective strategy of training and coaching, Global Disciples helps believers share the gospel in their own nations and cultures among unreached people groups.

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HarvestNet International

HarvestNet International is a family of churches, ministries, and businesses that exist for the harvest. We are a relational network that provides networking, guidance, and training to equip laborers to fulfill their God-given destiny.

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Stevin Hoffman Ministries.

Healing Wounded Hearts

Healing Wounded Hearts has a vision to see transformation come by building relationships through open-air gospel outreach, pastoral seminars and conferences, leadership training, short-term trips, church planting, and humanitarian aid to the nations.

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House of His Creation

House of His Creation, as a life-affirming ministry, provides women a place to heal, to grow, and to learn through housing and ongoing support. We offer Christ-centered housing providing a safe, loving, family environment to walk through their pregnancy and single parenting or adoption decisions.

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IMMERGE

IMMERGE is a nonprofit that wants to see workers thriving in their calling, and for that, they need the equipping and experience needed to accomplish God’s purpose. To that end, IMMERGE trains individuals and groups through cross-cultural apprenticeships, refugee connections, and pre-field training.

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InFaith

InFaith is moved by the call to reach locally and spread God’s kingdom right here in the United States. Melvin Sensenig uses his urban church-planting and academic experience to train urban pastors and leaders in Reading, PA.

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OnFire Youth Ministries

The mission of OnFire is to provide restoration to students and families through nurturing relationships and life-changing opportunities in education, counseling, and experiences that promote Christian faith.

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She's Somebody's Daughter

Our mission is to erase the lines of separation that isolate women who have been exploited or sexually abused through awareness, intervention, and surrounding women with a support group dedicated to walking beside them through their journey.

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The Bridge Youth Center

The Bridge Youth Center exists to bring joy, faith, hope, and love to the community of Ephrata, PA. We provide a safe, enjoyable environment for each person to feel loved, appreciated, cared for, and valued.

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TNT Youth Ministry

TNT is a youth outreach dedicated to reaching as many local kids for Christ as possible. We reach out through community events, serving in the public schools, hang out nights, and Bible studies.

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YWAM Lancaster

YWAM Lancaster is dedicated to fulfilling the Great Commission by empowering and equipping individuals to share the gospel in hard-to-reach places. Our mission is to help you live your life boldly while being radically in love with Jesus and catalyze movements across the face of the earth.

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Learn about our International Partners

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Eurasia

Kevin & Kristin

Our mission is to foster church-planting movements among unreached, unengaged people groups along the Silk Road. We are part of a team-of-teams committed to reaching the last people groups in the world to hear the gospel.

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Parika & Chinoweing, Guyana

Kim Cook

Kim Cook has been a part of YWAM Guyana and Caribbean area leadership for thirty years. She is heavily involved in community outreach, discipleship of youth, and ethnic reconciliation. She is also pioneering deep into Guyana’s Amazon interior, discipling believers while building a skills training center.

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Montego Bay, Jamaica

John & Danya Hess

Our deepest desire is to cultivate a place of God’s presence where everyone can encounter him intimately. We do evangelism, discipleship, and mercy ministry to engage youth, reach our community, and empower the needy.

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India

Manny

Manny overseas a network of village and house churches among the unreached people groups of India.

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Middle East / North Africa

The Martins

Our mission is to develop people, design structures, and construct facilities which serve communities and the church.

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Oscar and Sharon Perez missionary family.
San Lucas Sacatepéquez, Guatemala

Oscar & Sharon Perez

Oscar & Sharon serve with Centro Educativo Getsemani, a school where they point students and parents to Jesus on a daily basis, as well as Ministerios Cristianos Luz y Vida Church, where Oscar is a deacon and Sharon serves in worship and children’s ministry.

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Mandaluyong, Philippines

Melanie Weaver

Melanie and her team serve in Metro Manila, one of the largest cities in the world. Through training in the preforming arts, Melanie raises up local artists who use their talents to bring hope & healing to the nations. She also serves her community with practical necessities of food, clothing, and the gospel.

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Salem, India

Glory Dhas

Glory Dhas leads a work that exists to bear witness to the reality of God. Through church planting, evangelism, practical service, and social service, we bring change to thousands of lives.

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Hyderabad, India

Mohan Babu

Our mission is to plant kingdom churches in each city to cover their surrounding villages, sustain church-growth training, and equip pastors and leaders. Our goal is to plant over 3,000 church in the next ten years.

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Tirana, Albania

Steve & Rachael Beiler

One of our main focuses is to oversee the Tirana House of Prayer. This ministry includes gathering the body of Christ from different churches to minister to the Lord. We seek to pray strategically for Albania and the nations, leading us together in His mission.

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Lima, Peru

Jacoby & Melissa Codina

Jacoby & Melissa serve with Via in Lima, Peru, supporting and mobilizing missionaries across Latin America. They are involved in coming alongside churches and sending agencies as missionary candidates prepare to go to the field and creative storytelling and brand coordination.

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South Asia

Michaela Rose

Michaela has been serving in South Asia for over ten years. She helps serve with discipleship schools, running youth gathering events, training and encouraging young local leaders, and reaching the lost with the gospel.

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Saint Marc, Haiti

Ingvild Snow

Ingvild Snow currently serves with Love Mercy International. LMI responds with God’s mercy to people in need and inspires others to do the same. Their ministries help exploited women, care for the local community and mobilize Relief Teams and essential resources in times of crisis.

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Berbice, Guyana

Ovid Schultz

Ovid leads Balm of Gilead Ministries, which exists to initiate conversation, provide discipleship, and promote healing and wholeness through the gospel. Ovid is involved in church planting as well as church leadership and eldership.

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Albania & Hungary

Pál Katona

Pál serves the European Council of HarvestNet International. He is an apostolic father to many church leaders in Albania, providing oversight to many pastors, missionaries, and church planters.

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Nepal

Confidential Partner

Our mission is to bring reformation in the teaching and practices of Nepali-speaking churches and to create gospel-centered Nepali resource materials.

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Testimonies of the Gospel

Hear testimonies of what God has done in the nations.

Heidi Zimmerman

Hear from Pastor Heidi's experience with Global Awakening in Brazil

Abby Beatty

Hear Abby's testimony from her mission in Guatemala

Caden Weaver

Hear from Caden who went to Albania with our student ministry

Ryan Zimmerman

Hear Ryan's story from his mission to Guatemala

Mobilization

Connect Purposely

At ECC, we have connect groups that revolve around people, passion, or purpose. Our purpose groups are outreach and mission-focused. We can help you launch a group centered around the issue that is close to your heart. Reach out to missionconnect@ephratacommunity.church. You can also join a group serving in a specific cause or region.

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Go Globally

June 28-July 3, 2026

Spruce Lake, PA

Joni And Friends have been bringing practical help and Gospel hope to people with disabilities around the world since 1979. Volunteering at a JAF family camp is an opportunity to grow in skills and comfort interacting with those that have various developmental challenges and disabilities, making it easier for them to be included into the life of the church.

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September 7-15, 2026

Brazil

For more than 20 years Global Awakening has been taking ministry teams to Brazil to catch the revival fire that is falling all over the country. The ECC Brazil team will join many others from around the world to be the Global Awakening ministry team for Dr. Randy Clark and others.

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November 2026

Montego Bay, Jamaica

In October 2025 Category 5 Hurricane Melissa devasted the YWAM campus in Montego Bay, Jamaica home to ECC missionaries John & Danya Hess. Join us on a work trip to help with rebuilding on the campus and ministering to the staff.

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Mobilize ECC Internships

From teaching English in Guatemala, to church planting in South America or Asia, you can work alongside one of our international partners and see what long-term field work is all about. Email mobilize@ephratacommunity.church for more information about an overseas internship.

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Care Actively

Impact the world from home! We have created care teams for our ECC missionaries that keep their connection with their home church thriving. These teams provide relationship, pastoral care, encouragement and hospitality to mission partners as they serve on the field and visit home.

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