global outreach

We offer conversational ESL classes on Saturday mornings for a 10-week Fall and Spring Session, and a 10-week Winter Session Bible Study between regular sessions. The Fall 2024 Session will run from September 21 – November 23, 9:30 - 11:30 am.

Our students have represented around 30 different nationalities from a wide variety of backgrounds, and are placed according to beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels of language ability. Each semester ends with a celebratory potluck, and several social events take place throughout the year in addition to class.

Are you a newcomer to the USA or do you know people who would be interested in polishing their English skills while connecting with other internationals? Sign up!

Our GO Prayer Team knows that all movements to Christ have at least one thing in common: extraordinary prayer. If we want to reach the nations, we need to be committed to prayer as our foundation. Consider joining our prayer team, which meets the third Sunday of the month in the Prayer Room (B216) following 2nd service.

Upcoming Prayer Gatherings:
December 15
January 19

The Witmers serve at Shalom University in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ted in Old Testament and Dana in Medicine. They also lead the university’s office of development to help meet the needs of a university that is raising up Christian leaders. 

Christi serves as a Special Education teacher in the Balkans sharing the love and hope of Jesus Christ through training families, teachers, and professionals who care for and work with children with disabilities.

Timur serves as a pastor in Istanbul, Turkey, and is the chair of the Istanbul Protestant Church Foundation. His strategic role allows him to cast vision during a time of changing dynamics in this Muslim majority nation.

Tricia works in Albania as an audiologist and patient advocate. She helps those in need receive low-cost hearing aids and state-sponsored cochlear implants. She also helps parents develop their deaf child's speech and language post-implantation.

Mades serves as the pastor of a Cambodian church in Santa Ana, California, which has the largest population of Cambodians in the United States. They also provide support and mentoring for student ministry leaders in Cambodia.

Jillian grew up at COS and felt called to serve in Montreal on a student ministry trip. She and Geoff have been church planters and leadership developers in the highly diverse Montreal metro area of French-speaking Quebec since 2017.

Bill & Kristie are originally from Philadelphia and have been based in Paris, France, as church planters since early 2011. They pray and labor to see a great move of God in Europe, where they also reach out to the immigrant community, especially North African Muslims.

Scott is the pastor of a very diverse church in Warsaw, Poland. The church has developed leaders to pastor churches back in India, and is launching a Hindi-speaking church plant in their city to reach Hindus within the next year.

Todd helps international students at Penn, Drexel, and Temple discover who Jesus is and how to follow Him. Sue provides conferences and discipleship training for women from impoverished and unreached nations to find their identity in Christ.

The Rodemanns serve in Spain teaching and mentoring through various media which reach hundreds of homes. Nancy leads the musical outreach, Coro Gospel de Madrid, and teaches gospel music at a school. 

These Global Partners are committed to sharing the good news with and discipling locals in the Middle East.

Pastoring a church in the Balkans, these Global Partners are reaching out to their Muslim community and encouraging minority believers to do the same.

Steve is the President of Pioneers, with 3,100 global members working among 500+ unreached people groups, and a bold vision to see 250 more unreached people groups engaged with the gospel by 2034.

Frank equips and mentors national leaders who are using Media to Movements for church planting in closed countries, and Linda offers pastoral counseling, transition coaching and debriefing at critical times of need in cross-cultural workers’ lives.

Keith leads Encountering Muslims, teaching Christians to lovingly engage Muslims and introduce them to the Jesus of the Bible. 

Michael Oh is global executive director/CEO of the Lausanne Movement, which connects influencers and ideas for global mission. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors for CBI and chancellor of Christ Bible Seminary.

Serving with Saturation Church Planting International, this Global Partner develops training materials for national church planters in Hindu South Asia, often visiting them on the field.

The Patts work with Frontier Ventures, formerly the U.S. Center for World Mission. Fran is the Legal Manager for the mission and Sue is the Chief Strategy officer.

The Bradleys serve with Crossworld to improve the quality of education in Haiti’s Christian schools. Through equipping school leaders, the Bradleys seek to strengthen Christian leadership and make Christ the center of every classroom.

After many years serving in the Balkans themselves, these Global Partners provide leadership with Greater Europe Mission, supporting cross-cultural disciple makers across Europe.

Elisabeth serves as the VP of Community Life at Crossworld, leading the training, orientation, and preparation for new cross-cultural workers who are bringing God’s love to life in the world’s least-reached marketplaces.

Sharon supports, cares for, and coaches global workers strategically laboring where the worship of Christ does not yet take place. She is a lifeline for people serving in isolation and deep spiritual darkness.

Deb trains cross-cultural workers in conflict resolution, peer counseling, and provides care to Crossworld's international staff.

Lynn served cross-culturally for many years in Africa and Asia. Today, she provides spiritual formation training to cross-cultural workers, helping them stay strong and grow in their own spiritual lives so that the love of God overflows into the lives of those they serve.

The Horns serve with the Navigators in a shepherding role for staff living in eight Asia/Pacific countries. Through onsite visits and regular communication, they seek to help workers thrive in their personal life and ministry.

The Smalls are the founders of Spanish with a Vision, which seeks to share the gospel across the Dominican Republic through educational and evangelistic activities, specifically amongst domestic housemaids and Haitian immigrants.

The Coglianos work at Ethnos 360 Bible Institute, training cross-cultural diciple makers to work where there is no church, nor any work being done to establish a church.  

Jim and Sterling serve with Frontier Ventures, where they provide conferences and training for the Next Generation of cross-cultural disciple makers, including national church planters.

Leah serves with Cru, working with women who have suffered betrayal and/or abandonment, giving them hope and help in a safe space. She trains people how to write their life stories, inviting them to co-write the rest of their story with the Holy Spirit.

Dave works with Cru in The Coaching Center to help launch and build new ministries on high school and college campuses where no gospel centered witness for Christ yet exists.

Lisa serves with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes on the campuses of Eastern University and Conestoga High School, with the goal to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His church.

Emily serves as a graphic designer for Cru's in-house creative team, Creative 1 Media. The mission of C1M is to use imagination, creativity, and beauty to proclaim the truth about Christ to the world.

Jeff serves as State Minister with Capitol Commission Pennsylvania, with the goal to intentionally develop disciples and disciplers of Jesus Christ in the political arena through group and personal bible study, prayer initiatives, and various forms of service.