APRIL 2024 MISSIONS UPDATE: Gary & Michele Gallina, Commission to Every Nation
An update from Gary & Michele Gallina:
We are Gary and Michele Gallina, fully funded missionaries ministering to other missionaries full-time. What does this mean?
We are a Pastoral Care Couple with Commission To Every Nation (CTEN). CTEN is an inter-denominational missionary co-operative serving 656 missionaries in 68 nations! You can learn more about CTEN and the missionaries that serve with them at
their website: https://www.cten.org/
We served as missionaries to the Albanian Muslim people living in Kosova, Macedonia and Albania for over 18 years. In 2019 the Lord called us to return to the USA and to serve missionaries who are living overseas. As missionaries ourselves for so many years, living in a foreign country and raising our 3 daughters there, we found that we really could have used more personal careand visits from folks in the USA. We went through many personal challenges and struggles that we know the Lord helped us through, but we really appreciated when we had someone who cared for us and gave us counsel and visited us in those times
of challenge and struggle. We so appreciated the visits in the good times also!!
As a Pastoral Care Couple, we have the privilege of doing just what we felt we needed as on the ground missionaries; visiting our missionaries regularly, giving them counsel and encouragement and praying for them regularly.
All CTEN missionaries serving anywhere in the world have a Pastoral Care Couple like us that pray for them, text them, email them, Zoom call them and visit them at their place of serving once every 18-24 months! Isn’t that an amazing way to care for missionaries? That is the heart of the founder of CTEN, helping ordinary people partner with God to accomplish the extraordinary. That is what we do!
To be more specific, we personally care for about 56 missionary families serving in 21 countries. The missionaries we care for are serving in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, South America and Europe. Other Pastoral Care Couples care for those serving in other regions of the world. Our missionaries are doing a variety of different things to reach people and share the gospel; school teachers, church pastors, evangelists, civil engineers putting in water systems, outreach to human trafficking victims, those working with orphanages and foster care programs, church planters and children’s outreach workers, and ministry to the indigenous people of South America.
Some of the concerns and struggles that missionaries have are; marriage issues, issues with their children, getting along with team members, raising funds/support for their ministry, how to educate their children, how to learn a second language, how to live in a different culture or different climate than they are used to, and missing family and friends that live a continent away. We are missionaries called to missionaries!! You are supporting us and by supporting us financially and through prayer, you are also serving missionaries around the world!
- Gary Gallina