Meeting needs in Colombia
Our Fellowship has been ministering in Colombia for over 60 years. Fellowship International missionaries have served particularly in Medellín, Colombia for over six decades. The spiritual needs are great.
Fellowship International and FAIR are helping to establish partnerships with Fellowship churches to plant churches among an association of Baptist churches in Colombia called El Redil (meaning “The Sheepfold”). Fellowship pastors and church leaders can visit the field and discover the partnering opportunities.
As National President, I host an annual eight-day tour to visit Medellín, and the available church plant partnerships. Our next tour is in the Fall of 2025. Let me know of your interest.
The physical needs are also immense in Colombia
The FAIR Winter appeal (January to April 2025) is an opportunity for our churches and donors to give to the “Momentum” appeal. FAIR director, Norton Lages, explains about this exciting opportunity:
“Medellín, Colombia was once synonymous with violence and darkness—a city plagued by one of the most powerful drug cartels in history. The shadow of terrorism and corruption left its people in profound physical, emotional, and spiritual poverty. While progress has been made, many still live without hope for the future. But in the heart of this city, the light of the Gospel is breaking through.
The El Redil network of churches and church plants is bringing Christ-centred hope to Medellín. Like the Good Shepherd caring for His flock, these churches minister to the most vulnerable, the hurt, and the lost, through life-transforming programs that meet physical, emotional, spiritual, and social needs. They are bringing Gospel hope to those in need! The transformation is undeniable. Praise God for the 10 FAIR projects that are opening doors, providing greater opportunity for Gospel proclamation. Lives are being restored, leaders are rising up, and Colombia, who once welcomed Fellowship missionaries, is now sending missionaries to share the Gospel in places like Québec. What God has done is amazing!
Yet the need is still great. Poverty, gang influence, and brokenness persist in many of Medellín’s barrios. FAIR’s Momentum Winter 2025 special appeal seeks to help your church fruitfully engage with this missionary opportunity while we together raise $200,000 to strategically empower El Redil churches to serve their communities. Your support can provide food for families, healing for abused women, mentorship for youth, and safe refuge for girls rescued from the streets. And all of this is happening from, with, to, and through the El Redil churches and church plants. We want this to also support the disciple-making efforts in your local church here in Canada. This is a perfect opportunity for planning a short-term mission trip to work with a church in Colombia and see great fruits of evangelism and disciple-making in Colombia but also in your church here in Canada.
Together, we can strategically join in what God is doing in Medellín. Let’s be the hands and feet of Christ, helping His light shine brighter in a city longing for restoration.
Learn more fellowship.ca/Momentum about how to engage, give generously, and encourage your church to pray earnestly. We are here to help you in any way we can. Thank you for partnering with FAIR to meet these urgent needs!”
Please prayerfully consider giving to Momentum as together we bring care to those in need in Colombia.